skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Co-authoring the XML spec probably didn't make him a household word, but I knew who he was from that.

People choose "quality-of-life" over "job" all the time, especially when you remove the need to make money from the equation.
Surprising, astonishing, disappointing, and sadly, it's absolutely true...
If they messed up your cheeseburger, I could see this. How does this help this situation? It doesn't. Namecheap should take that money and invest in their infrastructure.
> In America you shop for the month since you can fit it all in the trunk.

That is absolutely absurd no one shops at the grocery for a whole months worth of food. Most perishable items like meat and produce will barely survive a whole week. Everyone I know usually goes once or twice a week.
The private pilot is a dying breed. Skyrocketing costs make it all but impossible for most people to get into. Even getting your private pilot's license often costs $8k-$10k. And then you are looking at $150/hr to fly a 20-30 year old C172.

These skyrocketing costs make it so the fleet ages and becomes less reliable. So people get out. Or they die because they can't fly enough to get experience or the aircraft has a problem because it isn't flown enough.

And costs rise further because there is no market. It's a downward spiral. And it seems that the FAA is completely happy with the situation.

I've been out on beautiful days (low 80s, calm, 10 mi vis) and the CTAF is all but dead. Even 5 years ago there would have been 2-3 in the pattern and I would have heard a steady stream of traffic around the other 5 airports in the same frequency.
Can't speak for Germany, but for Switzerland.

In Switzerland, it's okay to not tip. You would usually tip at a restaurant though if the service was good. At a bar, you might opt to tip to round up the price, so say a beer costs X.70 CHF you'd pay X+1 CHF. If service was bad, I wasn't happy with the food, or anything else bothered me, I won't tip.

I wouldn't tip anywhere else other than a bar or a restaurant, except very occasionally a taxi driver if they did an absolutely amazing job (this happened maybe once, twice in my life).
Where's the privacy policy?
Feel free to give our IRC bridge a go to. It's very new and still very much in test phase.

https://irc.gitter.im

Let us know you get along with it: https://gitter.im/gitterHQ/gitter
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Mike
Oh my, that is quite a difference in meaning. Thank you!
What was the timing for the html5 vs native decisions and corrections?

I'm assuming you're talking about the mobile applications running slowly for the first few years. I uninstalled a year ago and haven't checked back. I'm curious how things run these days.

And is the debate mainly focused on when webapps will take over? Or is it debated if it will occur at all?

I think with mobile hardware gaining so quickly we should see webapps equaling native within five years.
If the government doesn't want to protect my interests, fine. Don't take my taxes either.
Mobile A/B Testing at LinkedIn
Xbox One Media Remote
Cable lobby rebuffed in attempt to ban public broadband networks
Skinny Models and Skinny Controllers with the Ruby State Machine Gem
Yes, Individual B is probably the only one hosed in that scenario.
Google Unveils Turbo-Charged Nanny Cam for Forests
I have friends at Google at remote offices who are experiencing increasing pressure to move to Silicon Valley (which the cost of living rules out) as they consolidate distributed teams. Add in Google's disdain for telecommuting that I experienced myself during my stint there and their rope cutting here does not surprise me.

Sure, Google's culture favors the young. But their futurist agenda is being driven by Ray Kurzweil and Geoffrey Hinton, both old fogies by Silicon Valley standards.
I live in Vienna. I don't understand how this is the most liveable city in the world - unless by liveable, it means "concrete jungle monstrosity - with good public transportation".

I honestly think this is one of the most oppressive cities in the world, and I just don't get how it managed to gain this acclaim, every single year. I guess things must be really bad in a majority of the western world.

The thing is, the city is really not beautiful. A majority of the population live in apartment buildings that were constructed in the 1870's, where the primary requirement was "pack as many people into the city block as possible but don't go over 6 stories". This means that for a majority of citizens, the sky is but a thin, dull strip.

Perhaps its the public transportation, the access to food (Billa's are everywhere) and .. the welfare state. In fact, I'm convinced its only because of the state of welfare that people think Vienna is so great. Remove the AMS from the equation, and Vienna is a barely suitable concrete jungle.
Good point. The status page is on another cloud but since this is a DNS issue, the subdomain is down. In the future, we'll investigate running this page on a secondary DNS.
This is inconsistent with the numbers I've heard about LTE rollout in the U.S. versus Europe: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/gsma-europe-trails-us-lt... ("The report also found that by the end of 2013, nearly 20 percent of U.S. connections will be on LTE networks, compared with fewer than 2 percent in the EU . . . . Further, the GSMA's report found that average mobile data connection speeds in the United States are now 75 percent faster than those in Europe--and by 2017 the speeds will be more than twice as fast. The report also found that mobile investment in the United States has outpaced that in Europe, with capital expenditure in the U.S. market growing by 70 percent since 2007 while declining in the EU.").

I wonder how much of the speed issue is related to higher load on LTE networks here in the U.S. From the above-linked article: "The report found that, on average, U.S. consumers use five times more voice minutes and nearly twice as much data each month than their counterparts in the European Union."

See also: http://www.gsmamobilewirelessperformance.com/GSMA_Mobile_Wir....

Maps of LTE rollouts: http://gigaom.com/2013/09/20/mapping-out-the-worlds-lte-cove....

U.S. investment in wireless is up by 2/3 since 2007, but down in the EU: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3240dc2-c852-11e2-acc6-00144feab7....
>>If they do get a job in the game industry, it's often as tester - bottom of the ladder.

Uh, is it really that bad to start your career at a junior job?

Besides, graphics/game developers in my experience know a lot about math, algorithms and fast implementation. They should be able to get jobs somewhere else?
Why correct him?
I personally appreciate your comment (and upvoted it too), Not sure about the downvote. Could be someone's mistake (those buttons are way too tiny on mobile.)
Thoughts on SMS in the developing world and beyond.
Do you get good interest rates anywhere? Last time I checked at banks I think checking accounts had .06% and even a long term CD was around 0.9%.

I'd be better off just playing the market at that point (or using something like betterment/wealthfront to hold most money).

Simple is nice because the interface/app are solid and they have incredible customer service. The only other thing I'd want from them is a decent rewards credit card.
A few minutes research shows mine is a common misconception in modern commercial flight [1] and "Autopilots exist that automate all of these flight phases except taxi and takeoff" [2].

I think this speaks further to the difficulties with driver-less cars. I was taught not to swerve when an animal ran out in front of the car, even if it meant hitting the animal, because the car might roll. If a driver-less car makes this calculation, there will be ramifications. Should a driver-less car destroy itself rather than hitting an animal?

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/24/travel/autopilot-airlines/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot
I was just referring to the native app. I know its apples and oranges.
The interest I receive for my day to day bank account is pretty meaningless. I use simple because of their budget tools.

I'm sure CapitalOne has "budget tools" marked off of some internal checklist but imagine it's pretty crappy.

Giving up a few bucks a month in exchange for a great budgeting tool is the reason I use Simple.
KakaoTalk is big in S Korea. LINE is big in Japan. LINE has 300 million users, with 50 million in Japan.

As far as I know, both are very profitable through sales of digital goods like stickers etc.
You're supposed to use the pre-tax amount, and doing what is normal, paying 15% of the pre-tax amount, doesn't make you a cheapskate, it makes you normal. You don't get bonus points for paying extra money to someone you'll likely never see again.
Was going to switch to route 53 while you guys were down and switch back, but the page says it'll take a day...Might as well just wait at that point. I know it's panic mode over there, but some kind of failover record would be awesome for when this happens in the future(or an option for one).
When did this attack start ?
Perhaps they are targeting specific markets? I don't think I have even seen a GM ad during my viewing of the Olympics.
Jim Weirich
He also eats babies for breakfast and in the spare time steals lolipops from small children.
So, www.simple.com is joining www.bbva.com/TLBB/tlbb/esp/index.jsp

I don't know, doesn't really look like an improvment.
They could use GeoIP targeting without tracking users with cookies.
> no startup scene etc

Dunno about that. i5invest? sector5? metalab? There's lots going on here in that regard, but you probably have to be a smelly student to have access to it ..
On Willpower: "An opportunity cost model of subjective effort"
Building AGI in Common Lisp if anyone wants to help.
You're the Ron Swanson of olive oil.
Three (Hutchison Whampoa) is rolling out 4G in the UK. It was turned on for me yesterday and I had 30 meg down in Central London today. Three is ludicrously cheap too (at least compared to the other carriers), £18/month for unlimited data.
Not a joke, but probably very unlikely. There was recently a motion to split Colorado into 2 states with very strong support internally, and it went nowhere.
Looking at the numbers, if you have $10,000 in your checking account, CapitalOne360 Checking pays .2% APR while Simple pays 0.01%. With $10,000 in your account, that's a difference of $19 / year. To me, that's negligible. Especially with inflation being an order of magnitude higher than both.

https://home.capitalone360.com/rates
https://www.simple.com/policies/rates/
You can compile the DFA exactly as you would with a single regex as input, just labeling each alternative's accept state differently. The subset construction would put a set of these labels on each DFA accepting state. When I coded this I had it break these ties by picking the minimum label in each set, so earlier alternatives win:

https://github.com/darius/sketchbook/blob/master/lex/dfa_nfa...
I don't want interest on my deposits. I want a simple bank where if I put X money in, I can take X money out. That's it.

I would use it, but I can't because I have a working US visa and they only let you make an account if you're a US citizen.
I think it's interesting to see which cities (and countries) continually feature in the top 10-20-30 spots in each different report - and which ones don't.
Yes, or just switch completely to Route53.
Discussion: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jan/kurzban_et_al_on_op...
This could be a great move for Simple. It could allow them to execute really quickly on the core product and user experience, while giving them access and expertise to backend banking support. Staying independent meant the latter was more challenging than any engineering/product problem they could want to solve.
How do this compare to HipChat? Seems interesting.
Well, they added the nice "feature" of bugging you sign up for partner offers, whether loans, credit cards, or whatever.

So: changes, yes. Improvements? No.
I use KakaoTalk occasionally and KakaoTalk also does the same thing, use phone # as acct, auto populate contact using address book and also suggests friends that you might want to add.
There is no way the other states would allow california to get 12 senators. Right?
Which they did http://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/231332
Tipping is a tax dodge for restaurants. It allows the restaurant to pay their employees a miserably low wage, like $2-$3 hour, and only have to pay social security taxes on that amount. If you're a little skeptical, check out who the big lobby groups lobbying against minimum wage hikes - restaurant lobbies.
Lol looks suspiciously like racism.
Email: don't feel guilty being a jerk, embrace it.
It's for a more strong separation between rich and poor California. This plan would create the nation's poorest state by per capita income (Central California), and I think Jefferson would also be in the bottom 10.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/02/05/rich-stat...
http://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-pci.htm (per capita income list as of 2012)
We looked at Route 53, but would that make a difference today if your domain is registered at Namecheap?

If Namecheap is down, it does not get redirected.
Their userbase uses the Whatsapp app that comes bundled with their phones on many intl carriers. I don't think they care about the 0.0001% of their userbase that uses third party clients.
Air-quotes would be understood as sarcasm in many other Anglosphere countries like the UK and Ireland.

Remember the USA produces a lot of TV & film that's watched in the rest of the Anglosphere, so we'd be familiar with US speaking patterns like that.
As usual, cui bono? What can the UA government gain from ordering to shoot the medics, and what can the rioters gain?
I couldn't disagree more.

First of all, Gerrit groups the related commits together in two ways:

1) As a list of dependencies: "This commit depends on; this commit is depended on by."

2) If you develop your feature on a topic branch (and you should), when you push the commits to gerrit you can (and should) specify the topic. The related changes are then grouped by topic. ("git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master/topic_name")

Second, the reason this workflow is superior is that it requires each commit to be individually reviewed (and hopefully verified), and what ends up getting merged is a clean topic branch, with no bad commits.

Contrast this to the other workflow, and I'll use GitHub's Pull Request as the example. Typically what's reviewed is not the individual commits on a topic branch, but rather just the diff between the tip of that branch and the merge base between it and where it's to be merged. In this workflow the individual commits are often not even looked at. So you can have this series of commits on a topic branch:

1. Commit A
2. Fixup to commit A
3. Commit B
4. Commit C
5. Fixup to commit B

When reviewing that in GitHub, you'd typically just review the total diff introduced by all 5 commits, and if it looks good, you merge all 5. Also, typically the CI system builds just 5 or the result of 5 merged into its destination branch. So now your history has the two fixup commits in it that don't belong there.

With the Gerrit-style workflow the fixups never enter the main branch, since instead you'd have squashed them into their respective commits. You'd also hopefully configure your CI system to verify each commit individually.

Further, on a decently sized topic, I find it easier to review a series of smaller changes, vs a huge diff.

It should be noted that this style of reviewing individual diffs is inspired by how reviews are done over mailing lists (Linux, Git, etc).

That said, once all the commits on a topic have been reviewed and perfected, it is often nice to be able to see the final diff of what is to be merged. With Gerrit you'd have to do that externally (via gitweb or by downloading the topic branch and diffing it locally against its destination).

Have this as a feature in Gerrit proper has been discussed and is somewhat contentious among its developers - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/FBJl5wW...
I'm not sure how Greenland got its name, but the climate hasn't changed that much in 1000 years.

Here is some ice core data from Greenland going back to 1800BC:

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/greenland/gisp/dye3/dye3-1yr.txt
I think he made the right call. It's hard for me to imagine him having trouble finding work with 4 years of Google on his resume. That's the tech industry equivalent of being a made man IMO.
What if Domain Investors Buy the Good gTLD Domain Names?
But you were just saying (or relaying the point that) the inflation tax is good because it changes people's behavior in the way of spending sooner. If "there's no evidence that modest inflation causes people to spend money sooner", then it fails by the very metric you suggested.

You can't have it both ways: either inflation (of a certain rate) is good because it makes people spend sooner, or it doesn't change behavior.

Edit: or there's some other way in which you operationalize the goal of "increased economic activity" that's orthogonal to "spending earnings sooner than you otherwise would".
This is a good thing. If bigger states break up then there will be better representation in congress.
I'm not sure I really see that. Firefox os apps are basically html5/javascript and you can run that on Android and iOS at the moment using phonegap and the like. The advantage of a Firefox phone over a cheap Android seems a bit marginal although it is proper open source which may matter to some people.
According to whois for namecheap.com, the DNS for that domain is hosted on dynect.net, and "host status.namecheap.com" resolves just fine (to 204.232.212.56), so it does not appear to be a DNS issue that is preventing your status page from working.
They are joining for exactly this reason.

Simple excels in their user interface and experience. BBVA is a huge bank with lots of cash and backing.

Seems like these are good partners.
> Hysterical articles about sticking our heads in the stand honestly don't really help at this stage, they just perpetuate the sense of controversy without contributing positively to the debate.

See, this is problematic. If we don't have articles documenting the problem, no one will care. Right now the possibility of the Keystone-XL pipeline is on the president's table, and for those of you who don't know, the Keystone-XL pipeline will double imports of tar sands oil, thus bringing climate change to even a bigger problem than before [1]. If we stop this, we have a chance of improving the problem.

I realize that you said we should "[cut] back judiciously on fossil fuel usage", but when things like the Keystone-XL pipeline are a serious consideration, not being alarmist is a problem. The idea that the fossil fuel industry's thinly veiled "jobs creation" argument (when in reality, the pipeline would create very, very few jobs in the larger scale [2]) could be one that gets this pipeline built, puts us in extreme jeopardy. It's time that people are scared about the world changing, because there are certainly too many people who don't really care.

> I also don't think anything we do at this stage could slow down or stop the process, other than banning modern civilization.

This is just wrong, and part of why we're experiencing a problem now. Germany is installing tons of solar panels [3]. Buenos Aires is switching to LED lighting to cut down on electricity costs by as much as 50% [4]. We should also be investing in sustainable technology, because this is going to be a serious problem.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/23/tar-sands...

[2] http://www.livescience.com/38735-putting-keystone-pipeline-j...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/business/energy-environmen...

[4] http://www.treehugger.com/energy-efficiency/buenos-aires-swi...
Employers are always obligated to pay at least minimum wage in the US for tipped employee jobs. The employer can set a baseline like $4.00 per hour plus tips, but if the resulting wage is not at least minimum wage, then the employer must pay minimum wage regardless ("make up the difference").

Formulas for tipping can be used to raise a wage above minimum wage, but not drop it below minimum wage. Employers are consequently not paying unlivable wages (or not below the minimum). They are just advertising formula for how you can get a bonus beyond the minimum wage.

Source: http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/q-a.htm

(If employers are breaking the law then that is an entirely different matter.)
It's the high level of gun ownership that kinda freaks some of us out. And seeing police with guns walking around like normal.
I don't understand what you mean "trick".

SELECT date_column, count(*)
FROM tbl
WHERE a = @a
AND b = @b
GROUP BY date_column;

The "AND b = @b" causes the sql engine to access data in the table instead of solely relying on the index. GROUP BY has 0 to do with it. If you changed the query to

SELECT a, date_column
FROM tbl
WHERE a = @a

and

SELECT a, date_column
FROM tbl
WHERE a = @a
AND b = @b

The answer would be the same.
What's repeatedly surprised me is how I'll get results from DuckDuckGo and think that, "You know, I bet Google would have given better/more relevant results." And then I'm proven wrong! When DuckDuckGo gives nonrelevant results, Google often isn't any better, and when DuckDuckGo gives relevant results, sometimes they're often as relevant or more relevant than Google. I switched cold turkey a few months back, and I'm very pleased with how usable it is. I also really like the !word features, it's better than Google in that respect. I should mention that it's easier to do math in Google because Google infers more (such as inferring parens in an expression like: "2 + 2) * 4", outputting "16". DuckDuckGo can't handle that at the moment.
At first I thought the same. I went in to edit records, and I hit save. I checked again and it was working. I assumed there was just a delay of a minute or so and that clicking save was a coincidence.

My domain is on v1 now and its still working.
I'm a little sad he didn't say anything about Seattle, only a couple hours from Vancouver and with sizable and thriving Google offices. It is also has "greens and greys and unfussily variegated people" -- clearly it's not Canada, but in general it would be a much less drastic transition!
perfectly explained. By the time most people realize all the happenstances (er... personal requirements) necessary to be picky about the work they will perform, they have already made the decisions that have defined their potential work options.

There are the rare few that select service work over better paying work (CS/Engineering grads choosing to serve, bar-tend, barrista, etc. This is an accepted identity among people in Austin, TX and I'm sure other areas). Some of this may be under-performance, but I think it is more a respect for simplicity and a desire to appreciate life and people: they do it because the want to.

More often than not, service work is filled by people with a need for any job at all.
.. ist eh leiwand, aber es macht kein sinn auf dem wand den bild so mahlen. Was weisse ich, mir ist ein kangaroo ganz normal auf 'm tisch ..
Tinder Dating App Gave away exact Locations of users
Assuming that Timmy and Diane are simulating a universe identical to their own, they will not succeed at changing their future relative to their simulation (almost by definition).

One solution to this is that they never have the idea to try that in the first place. So one could argue the author has considered it ;)
The whole "tipping 15%" thing has always seemed nonsensical to me. I eat at a Waffle House and the bill is $7, I should tip $1.05. If I eat at Morton's and the bill is $70, I should tip $10.50. Don't the waitresses work the same amount? Shouldn't they be tipped the same? How about a shift to a standard $2/person tip.