skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But bookmarklets execute via the URL bar, that's all they are...
Having had to learn this in our "ethics training" requirements at work (what a joke), I was astonished that they actually intend it to be illegal to have any commerce whatsoever with anyone on with a name on this list. I also realized that no US company actually filters their sales and order forms against this data (to my knowledge) and thus everyone is essentially guilt of trafficking illegally with anyone who has a name on this list. Order a trinket from Amazon and use a name on the list? Amazon is breaking Federal law. Rent a hotel room to a name matching one of this list, your OTA is violating a Federal Law. Other than customs and maybe banking I doubt anyone is even aware of this much less actually spends any time filtering their customers this way. Despite the addresses being on the list, like the no-fly lists, the name is the only requirement to match.

I've always wondered if the President matched a name on the list, would they hassle him/her as well?
People drive electric cars in Toronto? I can't imagine they get much range in the winter...
RxJS advocates are unhappy with this comment so I'm going to qualify it a little. Apologies for any misunderstanding...

Rx doesn't handle automatic back-pressure (like Node Streams) but does have mechanisms to avoid overwhelming slow consumers. Rx also has delayed subscription which you can call lazy, but not by turning the stream into a pull-stream (allowing you to sequence actions in the way Highland does).

If any of the above needs further qualification or comment please weigh in on the issue by commenting here... but for now I'll leave it at that. I actually list RxJS in the blogpost because it's a good example!
You are correct that there are some hosts that list multiple properties, thus skewing the listing breakdown. It depends on the city. In most cities, room nights and revenue for "primary dwellings," meaning the homes people live in, are around 70-80%. We are in 34,000 cities, so this really varies quite widely. I would like to see the breakdown to be skewed much closer to primary dwellings for two reasons - (1) they have much higher review scores from guests, and (2) they don't typically enrich cities the way ordinary hosts do (though there are always exceptions. We are actually working with cities and our community to remove corporate rental companies that don't meet the above.
looks fine on my screen. maybe your contrast is set wrong. or your gamma.
Seems like they're taking the right approach: offer compensation, figure out what went wrong, then fix it.

New technology will always have problems; how you approach those problems will determine how successful you ultimately are.
Ironically, classic "desktop" apps solve most of this. Even if Microsoft went out of business, Microsoft Word would still work.
One of the social safeguards for preserving pseudonymity (your advice) in the face of a future you cannot control is giving your child a common name, so that their activity cannot easily be discerned from that of many others. As hard as you work, you may not be able to prevent future technical and legal changes from occurring.
s/competitors/neighbors

it's like saying, yeah it's totally ok to host a bunch of violent gang members in our town, since they only attack people in the next town over.
I've had rebate cards blocked because my name "Omar Ali" matched the alias "Ali Omar" of someone who is in detention in the Philippines but still on this list http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/AQList.htm

Adding a letter to my last name was enough to not match anymore.
Reminds me of pixelist: http://www.pixeli.st/
Hi, Chris - It seems that like.fm is drastically different. What made you pivot from sharing songs to selling paintings? I'm sure it's an interesting story.
How many of those are spontaneous? The concern over Tesla is understandable if you consider the voltage and currents associated with running the motor.
I work for a company that combines wearable technology with iOS brain training games (with neurofeedback and cognitive techniques) and which has yielded similar results in high performance athletics. Like Cogmed, clinical trials will take years to validate - but our early stage adopters, organizations like Red Bull and sports franchises like the Seattle Seahawks, continue to see meaningful results and are very upbeat.

http://www.senselabs.com
I was asking about their original home area, surely something there has figured out how to limit their numbers.
I noticed that USA media is mostly trying to undermine Tesla for some reason. Almost every article only mentions the fires and distorts the circumstances they were in.
Where would they find a secure way to store BTC? They've probably heard about the recent difficulties....
> small steps first, letters, then words, then sentences, then ideas. And finally, after mastering reading, one can try writing one's own ideas.

Just a nitpick. You say one should first master reading, then master writing. But I think both go together; I would just reverse the logical order of the two concepts (small steps and reading-then-writing):

- read letters

- write letters

- read words

- write words

- read sentences

- write sentences

- read ideas

- write ideas

Of course, it is not a fixed frame either, but it gives the main idea.
Different strokes. I find that spoilers make me more interested in how the story unfolds, personally. But yes, I understand that a lot of folks don't like them.
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There isn't actually evidence that this occurs that I am aware of.
That doesn't seem like an optimal solution. Ideally these lists should match against more data than just a name. Financial institutions seem to work this way. I share my name with a convicted Ponzi schemer currently sitting in federal prison, but I've never had a problem getting credit or opening bank accounts.
For all we know, they might be storing names as plain text files though.
Yeah, I saw it as well unfortunately. The "journalist" is trying to make Tesla look bad without actually coming to any reasonable conclusions.
Stephen Law is a fairly common, generic name though, returning plenty of names in a Facebook search, including one I went to school with. Indeed the sanctioned "Stephen Law", whose Western moniker is also often spelled "Steven" perhaps chose it precisely because it sounds so generic and difficult to infer nationality from.
I think you're missing the point of the article. Pretty much entirely.
I enjoy the fact that my name, Josh Wright, is reasonably common. Even if you try to make it a bit more specific by adding the city I live in, Syracuse, I'm buried under results for a guy who used to play basketball for Syracuse University.
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Cover your electronics vents with women's leg stockings. I believe I read the crazy ants are attracted to the heat, then when one dies it leaves an odor which attracts more of the crazy ants, until your electronics are full of dead ants.
yeah, ipinfo thinks I'm about an hour east on the other side of Atlanta.
Canvas actually has a context attribute to disable filtering in modern builds of Firefox and Chrome. mozImageSmoothingEnabled/webkitImageSmoothingEnabled, iirc.
and he should give a damn about whether you agree or not because... ??
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*Relative to other cars, Tesla car fires are quite rare.

is that true? do you know the stats on this because that would be interesting, obviously normalized for model year.
We're basically the same, except we have a gallery of licensed art to choose from as well, and we are much cheaper and faster.
These are good news. Thank you and good work!
Ah, I skimmed the article and didn't see that part - makes for a much more interesting writeup anyway.
I am not aware of any factual misrepresentations, but I am working my way through some of the comments.
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I'd argue thats called Pivotal Tracker
I think your sentiments and insights here are echoed in a longstanding practice in American law where minors are referred to by their initials only in case names and opinions (for example, New Jersey v. T.L.O.).
> In fact, most of the effort being put into understanding how to code properly is meant to make it easy for other programmers to be able to read someone else's code and know what's going on, simply because it's extremely hard to do as things currently stand.

Yes, and in that connection I want to mention narcissism, which I personally think is a big obstacle standing in the way of collaborative programming, in the way of seeing one's code as community property that must be understood by everyone involved.

Narcissists, more numerous than most people realize, think their code is much better than code created by ordinary people, to the degree that they see no point in making it comprehensible to mere mortals. Also, consistent with the true nature of narcissists, they're secretly insecure about themselves and their abilities, which is the real motive for making their code incomprehensible -- to do otherwise might reveal how perfectly ordinary their code really is, and they really are.

> Why is it a best practice to write functions that only do one thing? Because as soon as the function is doing multiple things, it can get very very confusing as to what exactly is going on, even for the best programmers.

That's a good argument in favor of OO programming, where one writes a class instead of a mere function, thus avoiding the trap of trying to create multi-purpose functions.
Why is Tesla, when it catches fire, the only car to make it on hackernews?
My government allows me to have multiple passports, because of various problems with visa. I think I should also ask for multiple identities because of all this spying and anti-terrorists.

BTW it costs a few hundred bugs to change name
I've worked with various online homework systems in mathematics for five years. They have not improved demonstrably in that time.

I've taken a couple MOOCs, and have not been terribly impressed with the mechanical grading algorithms.

Teachers may be replaced by software, but I don't believe the substitution is of equal for equal.
All countries with police are police states? Any arrangement with police officers of some kind will inevitably abuse their power?
You seem to have a particular set of skills
Right, but the point is that just because it doesn't show up doesn't mean the paid is better.

Why not check both rather than just one?
Thank goodness evil terrorists wouldn't stoop so low as to change the date of birth on their ID...
The JavaScript frame busting methods are not the right approach, you have no control over what his users see. There is no reason he can't filter out any JavaScript or other HTML. In fact he might not even display your live HTML. He might have copied it to make his page templates and it scraping just the data from your site, you just don't know. If he isn't doing this now, he will if he gets in an arms race with you.

You need to return bad data to his site by IP address and possibly user-agent. Don't make the data bad to mess with the users, just make it return unusable data, for example all numbers are zeros. Then what you do it make a scheduled task that scraps his website (using his domain name). If you start getting HTTP requests in your logs that correspond to the schedule job you created then you add the new requesting IP to the blacklist of funny data, then make a second request to his website validate the IP you blacklisted. You could setup your scrapping tool to use random tor exit nodes and cycle the user-agent info.

He could do the same (random ips) but might not... Really you need some type of accountability which you can never have on a public website but requiring registration/authentication would help some if it becomes that important to you.
Why are they "attracted to electronics"? Could one build a trap of sourts that lures them towards some junk electronics and then kills them there (electricity or whatever one can think of)
Anecdote alert! A friend of mine told me a story about how his car spontaneously caught on fire sitting in his driveway while he was sleeping. The fire department had to investigate. I don't recall the cause though. Wasn't anything too crazy.
I also have a very unique name.

BOOM, google front page for my name

Trying to fly under the radar, as you do, may be some solution, but it makes the mistakes like this one stick out even more boldly.

I've found that over the years, there's enough of a heap on the web that matches my name, that garbage like you mention is overwhelmed by the more meaningful stuff. A search for me typically turns up my LinkedIn profile, the product page on Amazon for a book I co-authored, some CodeProject articles, and stuff like that.

Just having a life's worth of stuff out there lets a smart search engine ignore much of the stuff that I'd want them to ignore.
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This is an amazing idea and sounds pretty affordable at less than 50 bucks. I wish it was posted on HN last month so I could have ordered something for Valentine's day. :-)

Anyway, best of luck with this venture!
possible explanations

- not sure about the over-abundance of energy. I remember several episodes where energy shortage was a plot point. It's also possible that assembling matter atom-by-atom takes a non-trivial amount of energy compared to warp travel.

- I also thought the replicators did have certain limitations - eg. you can't replicate living beings. If the "resolution" was limited at the atomic level, you would still need a certain amount of hydrogen and oxygen to replicate water.
I sense sarcasm here, but there actually isn't a good solution for the situation you're talking about. PCs are absolutely not standardized and universally compatible (even ones without ties to a corporation), and none of the ones we have are a good substitute for a cloud service in many respects.
All of the accessories run on a 12V system. Presumably part of this system caught on fire.
nitpick: all names are hard to infer nationality from.

you could be thinking of ethnicity, which might be easier, but nationality definitely not

see: stephen law. american? british? australian? new zealand? canadian? south african? dutch? french? danish? jamaican? bahamian? chinese? singaporean? HK?

nationality means citizenship, which means which passport you carry. it has nothing to do with names.
As much as I agree that the software should be open source, that's not nearly enough. There are large numbers of rootkits and vulnerabilities for Linux, for instance. There would be a huge incentive to modify the software of these machines in some undetectable way in order to influence elections.

There's been a lot of scholarly literature written on how to do secure electronic voting, and I understand the consensus is that some sort of voter verifiable paper audit trail is the only way to match or exceed the security of the paper ballot system.
So the French Revolution and the Holocaust/WW2 are interchangeable to you?

40 thousand deaths vs 70 million deaths...
Here is the link so you don't have to go back to the story: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/airb...
Exactly, code should be read like you would a math theorem, one symbol at a time. It's not a sentence where you read character after character and at the end of the line you know what those words mean. Every symbol has a deep meaning and expresses more than you probably think. In the same way, when you read a mathematical demonstration if you don't really stop and think about every single symbol you won't get the reasoning behind the whole thing.
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The big aspect you can't replace with software (yet) is the element of spotting the student's weakness and being a guide. It's a pretty general statement, and would require a tome to defend, but I think the spirit of the article is close.
Sure. Or if you know about kanban boards, which have been around for a long time.
Veering off-topic, your quote reminds me of Tom Lehrer's "Who's Next":

We'll try to be serene and calm

When Alabama gets the bomb.
Never is a strong word, though it's pretty close: http://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/01/police-involv... (not a great looking source, but obviously this is not a topic authorities like talking about). In general, I agree with all your points, and I favor a system were non-LEOs investigate LEOs.
This might be the core of the issue.

If businesses complain that they can't find any good developers for $60K/year, we say that they should be paid appropriately.

I hear a lot about teachers in the states being terrible, and I also hear a lot about teachers in the states being paid poorly (because it should be a calling or some other bullshit reason).

Is it the same with cops?

I live in Canada and feel like we don't have it nearly as bad. Teachers are paid very well, and it is a difficult job to get. Cops are paid reasonably well and it is a difficult job to get.
Microsoft sticks with their file formats for backwards compatibility, I'm sure they'd love to start fresh but it's not for the reason of stifling competition.
Yes, it is a strawman. Strictness annotations are not unidiomatic any more than using laziness is in ocaml. The ocaml code is effectively using unsafePerformIO all over, ocaml doesn't offer the safety you are complaining that the haskell example gives up. And both of your invalid complaints are completely irrelevant to the question at hand.

The question was about difficulty, not a subjective idea of what idiomatic code looks like. Are you seriously claiming that the average haskell example there is more difficult to write than the average ocaml example? If so, just say that. Trying to redirect the discussion back to your subjective preferences is not productive.
> I haven't seen the movie. Is that message typed out on the screen, complete with teletype noises? That has to be one of the weirdest anachronisms ever adopted as a trope.

Lots of video games do that for dialog if it's just printed on the screen and there's no voice track.
From personal experience, I've tried all of these and none of them work well, or quickly.

I've used boric acid, baking soda, and everything else. Even chalk. And had ants just step over them, not care, nor disappear (at least not within 1 month or so).

Tried the sugar trick, too (different house). And nothing.

I didn't call an exterminator but I did lay down boric acid and baking soda and used white vinegar as well to deter them. It took a month or so but they did disappear eventually.

Also, my user name.
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I get what you are saying, but what about if we optimize not for equality but for happiness. Redistribution of value is a zero-sum game, while non-material value as happiness is not.

I was thinking how equality movemen failed to produced social change in short time as world is extremely unbalanced. I think post-scarcity economy will bring new solutions and new social contracts.
Gambling site, huh? I should probably figure out what's going on with that. Thanks for the heads up.
This reminds me of what Elon Musk stated in an interview (paraphrased): It's not enough for new technology to simply be as good or 2x better than incumbent technology; it needs to be 10x better to overcome industry standard inertia.
I don't know. If you actually care you can probably ask on the mailing list; it is an open-source project after all.

(This week I read about attacks convincing users to open the dev console and paste Javascript code in there. Users will do anything as long as it harms their account or their computer, it seems.)
They also have a blockchain explorer using Bitcore with AngularJS: http://insight.bitcore.io/
It's weird but I've seen a number of Tesla's on the streets of Toronto. A close neighbor of mine has one too as I see him pulling out of the street parallel to mine on most mornings.
Is there a dealership in Toronto or something?
Sounds great I was just having a bad 10days. So need a kick in the right direction that I'm hoping this sort of thing could offer.
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>>>> I know hip hop is treated as a disposable commodity by society.

This is really depressing because most kids think of hip-hop as music only. I was taught hip-hop is a culture. Breakdancing, music, and graffiti are integral parts of the culture. It has such a rich, vibrant history that's disappearing as more and more suburban kids gravitate towards rap. Sure they know Kayne and Jay-Z. Do they know about Sofles, Dondi and Phase 2? Doubtful. Do they about the Rock Steady Crew or the Super Cr3w? No way.

Too many kids just think hip-hop = rap which is depressing.

Insane video of Sofles - Limitless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-Do30-P8A
Reasons behind common aspect ratios (4:3, 16:9, etc.)
From what I can tell the biggest energy draw in the front is would be the power steering.
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Imagine the satellite images we could be looking at, if NASA had different funding priorities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Orbiter

[pdf] http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/38185/1/05...

tl;dr: A low-orbiting (100-200 km), 37-ton science probe, jumping from moon to moon using nuclear-powered ion rockets.

* 1.5 tons of science instruments

* 1 meter telescope (25 cm surface resolution)

* 100 kW power supply
Knewton.com claims it spots student weaknesses and adapts to it. And since it can offer full attention for each student it can offer better performance than teachers.

What do you mean by being a guide ?
I think a totally biased summary can sometimes help more than a slow "pluses and minuses" article.
Here are my biases (as an amateur who still does some reasonably large publishing and graphics projects in Linux):

Inkscape - Actually good program. It's not an illustrator clone but a reworking of CorelDraw but it's very logical on it's own terms, it's a program you can enjoy using once you get used to it.

Gimp - annoying, kind of awful interface but you use to get things done once you learn. It's a program only a mother could but which might have eventual tolerance of.

Scribus - craptastically broken. It will destroy your work and delay your project even after you've learned all it's pathological foibles. It's one program where I actually feel constant hostility towards the author while I'm using it.
This demonstrates the problem if our education material focused so heavily on micro problems and so little on the next step of building a (non-trivial) app.

If you want to learn programming I recommend having a project in mind. Learn a little bit and get to hacking on the app. Don't worry if the code is good or not.
might be due to the connections between media and congress politicians that have lobbyists betting against Tesla
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I don't know the frequency of incidents, but I did get this [1] recall notice once for my Explorer.

[1] Recall ID # 67472 at http://www.motortrend.com/cars/1999/ford/explorer/recalls/
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This is pretty similar to using RequireJS no?
Sorry about the typo. Sadly the update button does not appear to let me update the title.

Trying to get more people to actually try out crypto currencies, rather than blog about them.
It's worth pointing out the flip side of that cost-benefit equation, which is that the constant irritation of Western restrictions on their freedom to spend their ill-gotten gains is believed to be one of the main factors behind the Burmese military junta's relatively recent acceptance of reform.

Arguably Myanmar's 60 million mostly impoverished people deserve as much consideration as a pretty large number of innocent people with the name Stephen/Steven Law.