skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Demand Progress, if after four years you are still talking about the same problems, don't you think your strategy might not be working out?

It's pretty common for any movement seeking significant change to take considerably longer than 4 years.
Interesting for the audience I mean. There is a fighting style in fighting games called turtling which is an extremely defensive position that waits for other player to make mistake and capitalize on it. It's a very good strategy but really dull one to watch.
Netflix is unusable on my Apple TV. I can't even get through a 20-minute TV episode without it dropping to sub-480p quality and/or stopping completely. I've never been able to figure it out. I have the latest generation Apple TV updated with the latest software. I have tried rebooting it, etc.

It's only a problem on my Apple TV. Netflix works flawlessly on my Playstation 3, iPad, iPhone, and PC. My ISP is a regional provider called Mediacom.
I'm amazed that nobody's mentioned the biggest weapon we have against the political class:

Primary elections.

Not the final elections - by then the incumbents are in place and it's too late ... for national office, incumbents resign / die more often than they're beat by an opponent.

Primaries are where the action is, for two reasons:

* it's the one time an incumbent is most vulnerable

* very few people vote in primaries compared to election time, so each person's vote makes a bigger difference

Want change in D.C.? If you primary just 10% of the critters there, you'll get their full, undivided attention.

Yes, emails, letters, and phone calls have an effect. So does K Street. Politicians care about their re-election and money / resources to make it happen, so in the game of influence, I (a normal taxpayer with neither the desire nor the ability to bribe them) will always have the disadvantage. That's why I'd rather fight outside their game - in the primary race.

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More info:

Yes, these links are from a tea partier perspective, but guess what? The tools they describe work for everybody just the same.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/09/13/storming-the-...

http://www.campaign4primaryaccountability.org/
One of the organizations in this space; there are others out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSib8MfaQLQ
Leo Linbeck describes the general strategy and how it can work.
NPM is one of the more interesting opportunities out there right now... And plenty of competition. Watch the throne.
If you look hard enough, you will always find correlation between stuff.

Never forget that's correlation doesn't imply causality!
There are plenty of middle class people left in the city of Milwaukee, on the East Side, and in Bay View, and the Third Ward, and Downtown, beyond.

MPS has an 81% student poverty rate, not 90+%[0]. Good students in MPS can access the magnet schools, where, to use my sister as an example, one can complete sufficient IB classes to get a BS and MS within 4 years, leading up to a PhD from MIT. Marquette University HS, the high-end Jesuit school, has tuition of $11,000. And the cost of private school is reflected in the lower home prices and property taxes in the city of Milwaukee.

Milwaukee isn't a shining city on a hill, but there's plenty of good living to be had there, and at a very low price compared to many cities. It has more than its share of problems due to un- and underemployment since its industrial fall, but it's nothing like Camden.

[0]http://www.milwaukeenns.org/2013/08/09/poverty-crime-contrib...
You can criticize the article about no making any proposals itself, but I don't think that's the point of the article. I think the following bit, talking about the effect of such events as "The Day We Fight Back", sums it up pretty well,

> They make people feel like they've "done their part", effectively killing their willingness to get involved in any more constructive future efforts.

Overall, I agree with the sentiment of the author. That said, I can't say that I have any solutions either.
Do you mind linking those headphones?
I was more addressing the country level directed attack with my post.

I try not to think about global pandemics, otherwise I'd have to live in the middle of nowhere in a sealed structure to feel safe.

If we have an extinction level event, it'll likely be a global pandemic or significant climate shift. In either case we are totally fscked.
I was thinking the opposite. Doesn't Bitcoin weaken the case for stripe?
Well buddy you just made me feel stupid but you do speak the truth. Point noted and lesson learned.
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Spoiler: the author performs a statistical analysis on three claims, concludes that for each claim there's not enough data for statistical significance or useful conclusions (correct), then draws conclusions anyway.
Talk about contrarian bullshit. I would ask joepie91 (the author) if he has even called his representatives. This kind of post isn't helping. It's hurting the cause. Everyone knows activism is difficult. Bitching about how everyone else practices their activism is easy.
> Compiler overhaul: the plan. Not a rewrite. Translate the C compilers to Go. Write and use an automatic translator to do this. Start the process with Go 1.3 and continue in future releases.

Aww. Transliterated C code does not sound like it will take full advantage of Go idioms. Plus, an automatic translator? Unless it is extremely disciplined C code, that sounds harder than just translating it by hand.
Seconded!

An alternative to www.nets.eu and PayPal would be great.
So much truth here. Especially the fact that you cared.

As someone who had his share of poor TAs and was a TA, caring is what sets apart the good teachers from the poor ones. Taking the time to sit and figure out the fundamental misunderstanding and then a good way around it is essential. It may look obvious to you, but the other person is obviously lost. The only way to solve that isn't by special power or teaching acumen, but taking time to figure out the core problem.

Aptly, it often involves debugging the person! Figure out where the chain of thought broke down!
I had to use the Page Up and Page Down keys to navigate this; apparently either the mouse is not supported, or I couldn't figure out how to navigate this site with the mouse.
ZeroMQ takes care of the queueing. Though I didn't delve into it in depth in this example, you can create quite sophisticated broker-less distributed systems pretty easily with ZeroMQ.
I sometimes stay up to 15 minutes. I like the warm water. But then I usually take my waterproof notepad with me to jot down ideas or brainstorm stuff (relaxing shower works wonders for creativity).
Share your projects, and good things will happen
And now we're back in the "use the plural when talking to a single person to be formal" that started this whole thing.
Google Spreadsheet to JSON
> for people who want to feel like they are "changing the world", regardless of whether they actually are changing the world.

Is that really why people share/sign up for it though? I don't think so. Sharing the message to the nontechnical community is important.
Shorting the S&P500 in the hopes that a MarketWatch article will have a significant effect on the price despite the $14T market cap and high liquidity would be an absurdly risky and low-return way to make money. That's why people who run these sorts of scams focus on penny stocks with low market caps, relatively unsophisticated investors, and low liquidity.

Not that I disagree that the article is meaningless data mining--I just think stupidity is a better explanation than conspiracy.

Edit: I should have used the DJIA instead of the S&P500, since that's what's referenced in the article, but the same points hold.
If you look hard enough in a large enough data-set you will eventually find a correlation. It is just like the experiment where a dead fish placed in an MRI machine was asked to identify the emotional state of a person in a picture. Guess what happened.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2009/09/16/fm...
I thought the risk was if the data came from an untrusted source, as it might contain code?
I don't expect this event alone to have much effect, but let's remember that similar efforts did put a stop to SOPA, and the NSA is facing a bit of pressure from Congress already.
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CSS source map support, network performance analysis and more in Firefox DevTools
Thats interesting, I never heard of that. It sounds like it would technically apply to fortune cookies too.
Facebook blocks Developer Tools
Reminds me of Slavoj Žižek, who is fond of inverting the slogan ‘Don’t just talk, do something!’ to remind activists that sometimes it is more important to analyze a situation than chase after the instant gratification that comes from doing something, whether it is charity, protest, or consumer environmentalism.
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https://dealora.com/
Netflix moves into deep learning research to improve personalization
That might work short term, but it still won't prevent click farms from hoarding new accounts, and letting them 'mature'. Hopefully advertisers will become more savvy and stop paying for these broken metrics.
They list the currencies at the end of that page; there are only 22 there.
That's how democracy works! People voice their opinions! And yes, when it happens all at once, they can create a debate by getting the attention of others.

Anyone who thinks change comes easily or quickly is wrong. That's the downside to a democracy. As Churchill once said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Yes, the Multyvac launch has been delayed until February 19.

They are supporting much of the PiCloud functionality, but not function publishing, which I used quite a lot. (That was a way you could "publish" a function to PiCloud, and then call it from a RESTful interface. It was a nice way to decouple my computational code from my website, which has very different dependencies.)

I fear it is more oriented toward the use case of doing long running scientific jobs, rather than short Celery-like jobs. I hope for the best.
>The future is large, but I can pretty much guarantee that paying for access to open source modules is not ever going to happen. Not because it's evil (though, I believe is), but because it's stupid. It's just not a good model, and it's not hard to see why. No one wants to pay it, and rather than deliver value, you're making people go elsewhere. It is a case of the orchard selling lumber, burning down your value in order to get a short-term gain that can never expand.

>Many companies have been literally begging for me to figure out a way to take their money and add some features to npm. None of this impacts what any of you are currently doing, and in fact, it helps you, because it requires building additional high-availability systems that are robust enough for the next 10x increase we face.

>Like I said, all that is currently free will remain free, and all that is currently flaky will improve. There'll be some new stuff you can pay for if you want to use it, but if you're happy with the current status quo, you can just take it easy and maybe eventually get a job where you use npm for work stuff also :)
- Isaac Schlueter

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/npm-/pkMs24w7a4Q
I'm using it since v0.95 and it's getting better and better.

I made a yeoman generator for generating "phaser game" projects quickly (JS only sorry).
I'll preface by saying that the USA freedom act will pass because congress does not like finding out when an agency is going behind their backs, and also voting against it is electoral suicide in close districts. So, in my opinion a calling campaign is a gestural action.

That said, fighting an information war against intelligence apparatus is a losing battle. This will only push the program deeper into the classified bowels of the massive US intelligence machine. They are currently operating through classified intelligence and loopholes, and once the FISA court loophole is closed they will find or produce another.
To avoid becoming part of the problem myself, here's my suggestion:

Find one Member of Congress who's been vocally supportive of these programs, and run them out of their job. Throw down a challenge -- "we're coming for Representative X" -- then form a PAC (or piggyback on the PAC of a supportive org, like EFF or the ACLU) dedicated specifically to turning that person out of office, raise money, and use it to nail their scalp to the wall.

Once you've demonstrated that you have enough support and money to do that, I guarantee the rest of Congress will start paying close attention to you. Most Members of Congress care a lot more about their next election than they do about issues in the abstract. And if one isn't enough, you'll have built infrastructure that you can use the next election cycle to go after two, or five, or ten more.

In other words, be the Wayne Wheeler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Wheeler) of individual privacy. He used these exact tactics to pass Prohibition. Prohibition! Imagine what you can do if you harness them to something that's actually worth passing.
Screwed by Square
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Check your routing, I'm on the east coast with Level3 and I get 250ms:

PING speedtest-sgp1.digitalocean.com (128.199.255.139) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 128.199.255.139: icmp_req=1 ttl=51 time=256 ms

64 bytes from 128.199.255.139: icmp_req=2 ttl=51 time=256 ms

64 bytes from 128.199.255.139: icmp_req=3 ttl=51 time=256 ms

64 bytes from 128.199.255.139: icmp_req=4 ttl=51 time=256 ms

64 bytes from 128.199.255.139: icmp_req=5 ttl=51 time=256 ms

--- speedtest-sgp1.digitalocean.com ping statistics ---

5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 256.248/256.456/256.851/0.211 ms
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In the world of grand political change, three or four years is nothing. Don't give up hope yet. The Demand Progress folks are committed and have a good sense of what it takes to bring about political change in a democracy. Please support them.

And believe it or not, legislators do watch those calls and emails––especially calls. All of them of them will tell you that the perception of a groundswell of support or opposition to an issue is enough to start to sway minds on Capitol Hill. Don't give in to cynicism.
This is very similar to the shape of the google trends graph of "fettucini".
yeah, it's using the present tool, so it's only really mean to be navigated by keyboard for presentations. No one seems really to eager to polish this beyond whats needed for giving live demonstrations.
Not the best from Australia yet either.

--- speedtest-sgp1.digitalocean.com ping statistics ---
49 packets transmitted, 45 packets received, 8.2% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 262.448/360.721/530.517/66.088 ms
The Graph That Changed Me
Why, is anyone using Go on 32-bit ARM and will miss this?
We can easily find the number of millionaires to be few hundreds. But it's probably only based on stock assets. There are hidden millionaires who own other types of assets, like real estate, gold, jewelry, foreign currencies (not legal anymore) or even cash. Some assets are not in name of the real owners but their relatives. Some people are rich thanks to corruption (which is sadly quite high). And all those people won't disclose their net worth. Thus, it's almost impossible to have an exact number of millionaires (http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/special-reports/2712/real-v...)

So yes, I don't have a reliable source either. Though I believe that there are no less than thousands or even tens of thousands. Buy it or not, your choice :)

Just a random story: three years ago, a 66 years old lady owned around 50 millions USD in various types of assets. The thing is no one, including her adopted daughter, knew that before her sudden death. Would her name be mentioned in the list of millionaires? I don't think so.

http://kinhdoanh.vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/vi-mo/khoi-tai-san-ng...

http://www.thanhnien.com.vn/pages/20120607/rac-roi-quanh-kho...
YUP. I've been on the verge of writing an blog post about how much this style of writing makes me want to vom, for some time now.
The way I see it is that once content providers start paying the ISPs, the end users become the product instead of the customer. And when that happens, a lot of perverse incentives tend to come into play and everyone suffers.

The customers (end users) are paying for access to content. Everyone is browsing in YouTube. If the ISP can't afford the connections to provide that, they need to raise their prices.
>This whole "Day We Fight Back" thing is an utterly pointless waste of time and efforts, and nothing more than feel-good armchair activism.

Actually, there is a ton of AFK non-armchair events going on for "Day We Fight Back": https://thedaywefightback.org/events/
There is no police force in city of Camden anymore. It is a county wide police force for Camden County.
Author here - explaining how technology works to the average person can be very difficult. Through lots of practice we can get better at it, but it's always an ongoing challenge as technology evolves. I think my series of posts is worth sharing since most of the folks here on HN have a business background and interact with sellers/marketers etc. Enjoy - I'd love to hear feedback!
I was gonna ask if there is a desktop friendly version. All I get is 1 slide and its off center half off my screen. Using FF26
This is exactly the correct strategy.
Within the past year I saw someone who was DD hunting; Trebek commented on it as well. The player did well, and I expected that more players would pick up on this approach. I think while this guy was winning his opponents also started doing it, but once he was beaten I did not see this again until Chu.

So there has been at least one other person doing this in angry Internet days yet this kind of deliberate playing still seems rare.
If I'm in the pool for 30 minutes, then sure it is interesting enough, but after that it gets boring.

Swimming a mile or more is a chore simply because it gets boring. I would absolutely love a cheap(ish) and reliable mp3player to swim with.
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I don't think its possible to discuss linguistics at any more than the most superficial level without encountering PIE. Or the history of Persian Empire-ish area where it developed. Or computer related linguistics. Or the history of linguistics or natural language processing, since this discovery was a "triumph" about a century or so ago. People living in indo-european geography with frankly weird languages not derived from PIE are usually inordinately proud of it and glad to tell you all about PIE and how their weird sounding language isn't related to PIE, even if simply don't care. Research results occasionally make it into popular journalism and invariably discuss PIE "This is what language sounded like 5000 years ago, it'll blow your mind" type stuff. There are also "easy read" popular science type books like the David Anthony Horse Wheel and Language. Those are all separate areas where I've independently run into it. It seems I'd have had to work hard to avoid it.

There are probably others. Archaeologists would probably run into it and people into old english lit are likely to roll the clock back, perhaps genetic analysis of migration would inadvertently discuss PIE.

Its like demanding we talk in detail about an obscure deep dark corner of the C programming language without confusing slang like "pointers" or "function". Well, good luck with that.

Even worse this isn't a discussion about lisp lambdas this is specifically a discussion about a weird corner of historical linguistics. Demanding that it be presented in "up goer 5" format isn't going to work.
I would want to see what happens to r2 when you drag the 1929 data across the last 80 years of the DJIA or whatever other index you want before I get excited about a 0.9 result.
Using this framework right now -- it is quite excellent.
Full of features, and with great, constant support.

Also, it runs ontop of the Pixi.js renderer, meaning it is super, super fast.
> You can hold physical gold, but it's not portable

Depends how rich you are. UK median annual income works out about 1 kg of gold, which is perfectly portable.

(Of course, the authorities might regard you with suspicion for carrying that much gold, but that's another issue.)
I don't think your provider has guaranteed you 10Mbit constant bandwidth to every host on the internet. Would you demand 10Mbit constant bandwidth to the Galapagos islands? Or to some site getting slashdotted?

If you check your contract, I suspect 10Mbit or whatever is described as a maximum possible speed which can be affected by a variety of conditions and is not guaranteed.
Our users are generally picking prices themselves (rather than having to render arbitrary currency/amount pairs), and so they tend to be aware of these subtleties, but we perhaps should start recommending good currency display libraries. (Or even including something in the official Stripe libraries.)
A very interesting and valid comparision between the EU and the American states.

What seperates them is that America is a defined country with the states already there and the EU model seems to be about borging anybody nearby who wants to sign up, least these days. Almost akin to office politics empire building. Then the whole cultural aspect as you rightly put it is maybe more varied than what the States have to accomodate. Could even look at language barriers on that one as a definition of cultural divides. Fact esperanto has not taken off would also indicate the types of issues any one rule fits all approach takes as being flawed.

It is also worth noting that the States has/does have a bit of a North/South divide and that is true of many countries and with that I see the whole EU evolving into a formal two-tier system in some form as the current expansion/change rate is not sustainable without many negative side effects.

Bit like developing on a green feild or upgrading existing buildings the end result and ideals are often two seperate results even if sold as being the same in the budgeting/planning.
I've been a doomsayer ever since the 2008 crisis (crises) exposed certain systemic flaws in finance and investing, and I've also been wrong while everyone else fed at the QE trough and did just fine.

While I don't believe that QE regimes and cooked statistics will necessarily end well, I also don't believe this chart proves anything. If you do, however, look into ultra-shorts like SDS and DXD, and if you happen to be correct, you can profit handsomely from such an elevator-shaft drop.
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If everyone tried to convert their savings into gold, gold would be quite a bit more expensive (and thus lighter).
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That is precisely my point. They were not considered "unsolvable" (i.e. impossible to solve), they were considered "unsolved" (i.e. not solved yet) and were presented as such. Do you really need me to explain distinctions in meaning here?
I'm a CEO who does his family's dishes as night. It keeps you grounded. It's a good message for your kids that in spite of their wealth they should clean up after themselves. It makes a connection to the millions of hard working people out there. Finally, if your wife cooks dinner (as mine does), it shows appreciation for her work and effort. I use a dishwasher (as does BillG most likely) but there is still plenty of work like pots & pans.
I wish I could upvote this 10x.
And what the hell is with expired links?