skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in hast, my wording wasn't as specific as it should have been. My point is: I don't value the opinion that it is not important. Not when you see what happens without it. It's pure fallacy to suggest that web fonts are the problem - when the pressure should be on finding a creative way to resolve the issue (i.e. just display the next available in the font-family list until downloading is complete, or read-ahead meta data that includes kerning, width, height and size, so the layout can modulate well).
In what way is this a guilt trip?

When you compare the US and the French system, you don't get to just say "well, they did it why can't we?" as if that question exists in a vacuum. We have a defense program which is a massive government expenditure -- which pre-empts other government expenditures such as single-payer health care -- so a fair comparison would have to look at the fact that the French had a de facto defense subsidy.

If each country in Western Europe had been responsible for building up the kind of deterrent force which we were able to present, the calculus for a single-payer program would change. Certainly Force de Frappe was a strategic asset. Can you concede that without NATO (dominated by the US) the French investment in defense would have needed a drastic increase in order to fill that vacuum? If there were no NATO, at the least I think you can acknowledge that all of Germany would have been a Soviet client, putting France on a front line against the Warsaw Pact countries.
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I've not had good success with this. Too often the delivery service really really wants to use the name for actual delivery. However it would be entirely possible to start receiving mail for your fictional and non-blacklisted friend to train up the various delivery people. In the article there was also an issue with bank transactions and using an arbitrary name for those is generally frowned upon.
Yes. This comment is much smarter and better informed. I mean, it's not like you had things like this happening during that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
Ideas aren't worth anything.
That depends on the state.

Often that licensing is done at a statewide level, rather than city by city.

The franchise agreement is to actually offer service - not to place crap on the poles.
That is false, and now you are representing someone else opinion incorrecly. Would you like having other saying "according to stephenr and people like him, he thinks ..."

"Releasing your code under one of the BSD licenses,
or some other permissive non-copyleft license,
is not doing wrong*"

- last sentence at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.html

"Is not doing wrong", the Exact word for word opposite to your claim.

Now please tell that you are sorry for misrepresenting someone else opinion and promise never to do it again. It is a shameful act.
As someone living outside the United States, I'd like there to be protections for foreigners as well. The U.S. government should not be permitted to spy on or intercept the communications of any person without due cause (or suggest an ally do the same).

This is of course different when the U.S. has issued a declaration of war and is openly hostile towards a country or organization (such as Al Qaeda).

Really, I'd like this to be a proposal at the UN level, ratified by all civilized countries.
> Just go to plus.google.com/settings and disable everything and be happy

Until they add more things that are checked by default like that "let any random yahoo email me" feature.
Yes, I'm trending toward "it leads nowhere". To me, it's like trying to prove a negative: "prove you aren't a brain in a jar, receiving electrical//chemical inputs instead of walking around in a body". Well, right down to it, I can't just as much as you can't.

> So truth is subjective, knowing that is worth it, and getting that far is awesome.

Agreed.
> How'd you get upvoted so fast?

Because it's the perfect HN post: "Show HN: An HN clone"
China didn't kick out Google, Google left. Google is not even blocked like Twitter and Facebook are (though plus and youtube are blocked). The Chinese government is 100x more aggressive than the US government when it comes to monitoring internal Internet activities.

As a side non-benefit of being protected from international services, China's homegrown internet industry is unable to innovate and compete outside of China, where their international competition has no such disadvantage. Services like Baidu and Sina Weibo are just acceptable local copies of successful international services. Europe is capable of becoming like China, but would be crazy to go down that route.
Ah, that makes sense, the version on my machine runs off the local apt/dpkg database, so I was wondering why why you'd consider it worse than sl. (It does spew several lines of noise, but that's less of a problem when you have a sixty-somthing line terminal and barely a problem at all when you've got scrollback.)
How hard would it be to solve this deterministically?

Can someone comment on the game's physics? I am assuming:

- constant horizontal velocity
- gravity
- flapping implemented via impulse
- collisions are handled with bounding boxes

Maybe someone who knows something about optimal control (ODE) say whether this is analytically solvable? Of course there's still the practical stuff (numerical integration, I/O lag) to deal with but I'm optimistic.
Are Cable Prices Rising Or Falling? Depends on who you ask.
That fan-art / random section is hilarious, thanks!
but a lot of software money is propped by copyright, patents, etc. also what if software companies could fly in any one they wanted to work on code. education is also pretty regulated by government.
Even if it's still "warming" at all - whether it is depends on what timescale you look at and how you average the data points - it's certainly not continuing as predicted, but rather at a lower rate than expected. Breathless media stories notwithstanding, nobody thinks the amount of warming we've seen thus far is likely to have generated measurably "more extreme" weather. One of your links is about Sandy, but atlantic Hurricane activity has been unusually LOW over the last decade, with 2013 one of the lowest yet. You should perhaps balance your diet with more stories like this:

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/what-happened-to-the-2013...

(Regardless, even if there were measurable negative effects you would need to balance them against the measurable positive effects to determine if the NET externality was positive or negative. It's silly to add up just one side - even the IPCC doesn't do that.)
And Comcast is the only broadband provider available to me currently

In Tucson that was my experience, and it was frustrating. So frustrating that I sent letters to the president of Qwest Arizona. To Qwest's credit, his assistant did respond to my queries, and we kept trading e-mails about whether Qwest would roll out real services to my area. In the time I lived there, however, Qwest never did, and Comcast had a de-facto monopoly.

Now I'm living in New York and have a couple potential providers, including Time Warner and RCN. I use the latter.
Please, if I want to work 60 hours I'll work 60 hours. If you don't like it don't do it.
impressive work man!
This article is utter horse shit and I hope nobody believes it.

This article is not utter HS. It's an important warning to startups not to ignore one of the most basic principles of law in the US legal system (local regulation and taxation).

By the way, the Tax Foundation article is 4.5 years old. The legal landscape has changed significantly since then.

Most importantly, Amazon settled these cases after it became clear that the weight of jurisprudence was tilting toward overturning Quill (the catalog-sales case which created the substantial nexus doctrine for state sales taxes). Primarily, the major factors in the Quill decision--the impossibility of tracking the multitude of state and local taxes and the miniscule size of the catalog market--are no longer relevant today. Computer software and services make tracking state and local taxes effectively painless, and internet retailers like Amazon routinely outsell their brick & mortar counterparts.

This piece of trash article was written by a sack of shit with a stake in getting start-ups to spend money trying to be tax complaint. [1][2] Pandodaily would be wise to remove this article and revoke the authors posting privileges.

Watch your mouth. This is not reddit. And in the US, we have a federal system by design. Originally, all taxes were levied at the state and local levels--as these jurisdictions are the most affected by businesses operating withing their jurisdictions and thus have the right to regulate and tax such activity.

If you start a business in Texas you only pay sales taxes to customers in Texas.

Get your facts straight. No business pays sales taxes to customers. Customers owe sales taxes, which the business collects from the customer and remits on their behalf.
Don't be silly, everyone has already decided that these ideas are wrong. They're not very interesting and you don't need to see them.
See my github link for the latest source. The other page predates me uploading to github, so there's only a tarball source download from there. I should move everything over to github now, really.
Why do you feel Telescope is the best?
looks very promising!
To me, even if it's the same price or costs more, cutting the cord is worth it because a) you aren't giving all of the money to the cable company - some goes directly to the content providers and b) you get the same content without ads!

So yeah, I'll save the $10/mo on basic cable and pay Netflix $8/mo just because it's that much less for the cable company, plus no ads!
Simple and to the point. You could use Elasticsearch instead of an object for storage and than get search for free.
The security sold by college is an illusion. It will not necessarily translate into a job or a career or financial security. It doesn't help you figure out any sort of meaning in life, or help you figure out what to do with your life.
Stop citing outdated articles. Sales tax law has changed in the 4-5 years since these articles were written.

Several states already do levy sales taxes on online stores selling to their residents, and lawsuits challenging those taxes were dropped or settled because it became clear that they would either lose or instigate the passage of a federal law allowing states to tax internet commerce.
I agree with your point that paid products should be commercial free, though what about the insidious placement of commercial products embedded within the content (song lyrics or any item with a logo on it in a movie or tv show)? It seems like those commercial placements are much harder to avoid in pop culture and will likely only increase in frequency in the future. It can skew the creative process of the artisans producing content and unless true commercial-free content is rewarded in some way, this is inevitable.
VAC reads all domains you have visited and sends it back to their servers hashed
OPML please, I can't copy/paste/click 30 times before I decide whether or not I'd like to use this.

The weird randomized string URL is a hard pill to swallow too.
Traditionally, in state and international tax jurisdiction situations, the taxable jurisdiction of a sale is the jurisdiction in which the client/customer sits. However, jurisdiction may also extend to the jurisdiction of the seller (or even to a third jurisdiction) if the sale was negotiated and executed/agreed to outside of the customer's jurisdiction.

So in a nutshell...you shouldn't have nexus just because you sell on Google Play...but if you're really worried about it you should consultant with a lawyer or an accountant (because for some reason accountants can opine on tax law).

Why is there no nexus formed by the owner of the app store but just the independent dev selling the software? For example, why is the only nexus formed my state of Indiana(ie my location) and not Google's app store location?

That's not the case, whatever Google claims. Google is trying to claim to be just a service provider for your sale (i.e., just facilitating the transaction) but the store TOS, its policies, and Google's actions demonstrate that Google is acting more like a retail store than a sales service provider. Legally, and especially in the tax world, this makes a tremendous difference. (This ridiculous stance is also why Google Play's international market availability (in terms of countries) is so much smaller than the Apple or Microsoft store. Google knows its claims won't fly in most countries, so it has to stay out of those countries to avoid very significant fines and penalties.)
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Well done. Any plans for an Android app?
Best Party Trick. Throw fireball to light a candle
So wrapped up in projects that you can't sleep?
I am a bit confused about terms. It seems like the discussion is about two related but separate things.

First, there is lonelyness, the social state. This involves not talking to people, not going to meet new people, and not talking about things you find meaningful with those people. This is a set of actions: it is either done by choice (not a problem) or due to some other underlying problem, like a lack of time/effort, depression, fear of social vulnerability, anxiety, or a lack of interpersonal skills. The reason we call these things underlying is because they represent tangible actions that can be taken by the victim of loneliness or someone else to fix the problem

Then there is loneliness the emotion, which might exist separate of the actual lack of socialization described above... existential loneliness perhaps... but most often is cause by the above.
Is Persona dead? Why does the post say “did fail” instead of “has failed (so far)”? The latter would imply that ongoing efforts will be made.
But the thing is, there's plenty of evidence that if most people ran lifestyle businesses a lot of problems, like world hunger, would be a lot easier to solve.

Here in Indonesia for example 70% of the nation is self-employed and the per capita GDP is <10% what it is in the US. However, the poorest Indonesians in Jakarta generally have more secure access to food and housing than a significant chunk of Americans.
If you play the game, it's actually quite trivial to program deterministically. :-) Flapping is not implemented as an impulse. It's more like jumping in Mario - it instantaneously fires a canned "flap" movement that is always the same.

Set flap_height = bottom of next pipe + constant.

If bird height < flap_height, flap.

Done!
I just tried out the forum.islington.cc registration (without being logged in to Google). The way it redirected me to a Google sign in when I gave a gmail address made me think it was going to end up using OpenID at the back end, something I have never used Google for.

Personally, if I had to register for an account on a site that used Persona, I'd create a special barrkel.persona@gmail.com address (or something similar) to firewall it from my other gmail accounts.
It let's you trade tokens using bitcoin... i hope you understand that...
"however it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one."

Aaaannnnddddd I'm guessing they lost the salt >.<
How do you feel about going to the symphony or other theatrical events? It's pretty much the same - several people in a dark room not talking. But many people enjoy sharing the experience together because they can look at each other and laugh, smile, or cry at the same moments, and then discuss it afterwards. It's very social both during and after the performance, and is very similar to watching TV together.
Would be useful if you included screenshots without having to sign up.
> I can't request my peers to take down group photos that include me (or even photos with only me) because I'd sound like a dick if I did.

I have friends who have asked exactly this of me. Being a friend, I took the photos down.
2 virtual objects + secure peer to peer exchange of those objects.

what is so hard about getting that...
"Adding "security through obscurity" is only a net win over "published security scheme" if your engineers are substantially better than any engineers who might comment on your published scheme."

I think that overstates the case. Your engineers don't have to be better, just good enough know what's correct and safe, or do research until they know.

My approach is to just add things that are clearly correct to published and studied systems that are thought to be correct. In this case, we're talking about applying multiple or multiple runs of one way hashing functions; I'd actually do some research before trying the latter, but it strikes me as safe, and the former is by definition safe, right? Whereas it would never even occur to me to combine PRNGs ... or not use a hardware source of entropy to begin with in the first place (they aren't that expensive in the scheme of things).
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PGP keyservers talk to each other, if you send your key to GnuPG keyserver it'll end up on MIT's keyserver pretty soon.
I'm 31. I was 25 when I got married, which was also the same year the company I co-founded hit the skids and eventually a brick wall. That first year was really rough on us (we started with 1 child and had another in the middle of that year), but we survived and watching that company burn was one of the most valuable life lessons I've ever had. We've had another two kids since then, and I've learned a few other things along the way.

Before I was married, all of those fears and anxieties ruled my life. I think that's partly what attracted me to the startup world and ultimately to starting that company. I wanted to chase my ambitions and fight that feeling of loneliness. However, the great lesson I learned from that company, and ultimately from the last few years of marriage and kids is that you won't be alone when you choose to value the people you love over achievements you earn, stuff you buy, or even just stuff you work really hard on. I poured it on with the 90 and 100 hour weeks the last 6 months of that company and in the end the company crumbled and my hard work left me with nothing but bitterness toward my creation (I eventually got past the bitterness). Today I invest that time in my wife and my kids, and they are my world to me. They're my best friends. There's no earning their love, but the time I spend with them is never wasted. I don't get through the week, having prioritized them over other things, and think to myself "man, I really wish I'd spent an extra 20 hours on that personal project" that will never do anything for my personal fulfillment beyond some temporary ego boost.

Now. That's not to say I don't still love the startup and technology world. I do. And I still have those personal projects. And that professional community. I also love working hard on stuff that pushes the envelope. But the funny thing is that ever since I put that part of myself in a bounded box I've enjoyed it more and been more productive. There isn't the sense of having to keep up, and yet I'm still able to. Consequently I'm happier at work and since I don't draw my personal worth from it, I can take setbacks and move on and still enjoy it.

I don't know that everyone should get married, but it seems to me that, based on everyone I've ever known, that you best fight loneliness by surrounding yourself with people who will stick by you regardless of job, religion, social status , health, or anything else. To me, the question to ask is - if the world fell apart right now, would the people you prioritize still be with you?
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You can solve the live sports issue for the most part by getting free basic channels. You can do it in a lot of ways, one of an easy ones is get a $10 antenna. All local channels will be available to you for free, in HD. Then you can watch most sports:

- NFL: all football games with your local team, and a lot of others. You won't be able to watch Monday Night and Thursday Night football, but if it's your local team playing, they'll have that game on a free channel.

- MLB: depends on your market, but generally there should be at least one game a week on free channels. Plus, AL/NLCS and WS are on FOX.

- NBA: less available, but there's usually two games every Sunday or every two Sundays on ABC.

- NHL: usually one game a week on NBC.

Also, there's plenty of other live sports on free channels - golf, tennis, soccer, etc. For example, Olympics are going on right now and NBC has two hours of coverage every night.
Did not Cameron just apologize for several deaths?

I have no issue with NHS on its own. It is pretty much average European health care system. But I hate smuginess surrounding it and connection to fascist state.
Federalism was a flame by the founding fathers to guarantee full employment for lawyers...
Nice idea. Very clean looking website too.
I own my domain, and use distinctive user names for registering at sites like this. I'll have to start checking my spam folder for the address I used (which I hadn't just cleaned it out...).
You should come to Ohio. Here's a job listing for you. And you won't have to worry about most of those pesky taxes.

http://columbus.craigslist.org/mnu/4333315897.html
The highlights:
Must be available to work 7 days/week when necessary
Must be able to lift 80 lbs. consistently, Must be able to work in cold temperatures
There was an interesting post a while back, basically stating that the career page on company website is much more effective than job search engine since there are a lot of dead listing. They also went into how you can use google to search these career pages. You might want to look more into that.
> And you certainly have no idea to whom you are speaking.

I know exactly who I'm speaking to, Paul. It doesn't matter. Financial success is not authority, and age is not omniscience. You are mortal and fallible. That you would even play this card shows how pathetic you have become.
Yes, sometimes. The point of the article is that that is OK, as long as it is only some of the time. The main problem however is people who do it all the time, treat it like it is the norm, and try to deceive themselves (and others) that it is completely fine.
> No responsible practitioner in the field of psychology argues that the mind is a biological organ or an empirical part of physical reality

Huh? What psychologists do you go to, ones only attached to churches?

I'm not going to bother arguing against mind body dualism[0], I have better things to do with my time! I am however confused, you bring up criticisms of a field not acting scientifically, but it appears you are then arguing in favor of pseudoscience of the worst sort, unless I have misconstrued your position.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_%28philosophy_of_mind%2...
Well, why anyone thinks it's a good idea to base themselves East of the East River is beyond me, but different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
I understand your sentiment; what I have done is set up a separate media room. Of course this requires an extra room, but the TV cannot demand I watch it. I am only in that room, when I am meaning to watch some TV.