skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half of the argument in the parent article is a shoddy attempt to make it appear Musk's sole intent for business with a city in Texas is to squeeze money from the poor inhabitants. This is ludicrous.

Also where is the source for Musk stating loans are bad?
I have tons of respect and sympathy for teachers, but the argument I often hear for raising their pay ("they work really hard, they're super important, it's a difficult job") misses the central point.

It seems like we have enough teachers at the wages we currently pay. Teachers are willing to go into the profession despite the low wages, probably because they want a satisfying job with good benefits. If we didn't have enough teachers...we'd have to raise wages. Supply and demand.
I think with the system they are demoing for communication that is true. They seem to use non directional transmitters of about 5W which cover an area of 'four or five blocks' ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bO0tjAdOIw&list=PLbOnG9yNO5u... )

A system for transmitting power, which I don't think they have built on any scale, you'd probably want to focus a beam towards the receiver with the power loss being proportional to the amount the beam spreads out.
Looking at the direction of net migration, I think Latvia is currently losing that competition: people who attend university in Latvia go to pursue careers in Sweden much more often than the reverse. In fact I would guess that the "low-tax" strategy is partly motivated by an attempt to combat the brain drain. If they weren't losing so badly, they could probably afford to be a higher-tax, higher-service society, but right now they have to compete on price.
That's my thought as all of it sounds really shady.. time will tell.
I imagine it's linked to Win32 and .Net using UCS-2 internally, since then there's no need to convert strings before and after API calls.
Actually, from an SEO perspective, the #1 principle Google follows is preventing "release often" from being effective for SEO.

Talk to anyone who makes money at PPC and they will tell you one thing. You make a campaign, measure the results, change it a little, measure the results, and make incremental improvements to make a profitable campaign.

If you could do that with SEO, SEO would be a lot easier. Google, therefore, has a number of mechanisms (some patented) that cause all hell to break loose if you make the kind of changes to your site that you'd use to incrementally improve it's SEO.

It's one of the reason we are stuck with crappy sites like answers.com, w3schools, and wrongdiagnosis, because once a site like that is successful, the operators are loathe to make any changes lest their rankings drop.
Man, I burn with envy when read such stories of monumental technical achievements. For some reason have always been fascinated by scalability. But so far life has given me the opportunity in a very limited way.

Have been reasonably proud of scaling my own micro (in comparison) service. But right now feel very small and humbled.

edit: minor
Hey there, co-founder of ViralSweep here.

Liking a Facebook page was not a requirement to enter the giveaway. If you look at the section that shows the giveaway design, the only requirement was to enter your email address. The page they see after they enter contains the social options which are optional to complete.
Either Bitcoin or beanie babies, really up to you.
Many "font experts" consider Helvetica one of the best font ever created, and at the same time call Arial a "bad one". That side is supposed to show that in reality Arial is very close to Helvetica, and not everyone is capable of distinguish them.
Teaching falls into the same category as stage magic, stand-up comedy and writing - it looks easy and effortless when done by an expert because that's part of the expertise. Capturing attention, exciting young minds and engaging them is something that, when done effectively, is transparent because that's how it works best. The whole host of knock-on problems that are spawned by this apparent ease are well-documented in TFA.
That makes sense, it depends on JavaScript :)
I like that. "Prove you're not a drug dealer and we'll see if there's still money to return." It kind of gives the middle fingers to 3 somewhat-important US rights: the right to not self-incriminate (being coerced into providing new evidence that might be used against you), being considered innocent until proven guilty (assets seized without an active case against you), and that everyone is equal under the law (unless we say you're a drug dealer (or, going back 60 years, black)).
>The problem with teaching as a profession is that every single adult citizen of this country thinks that they know what teachers do. And they don't. So they prescribe solutions, and they develop public policy, and they editorialize, and they politicize. And they don't listen to those who do know. Those who could teach. The teachers.

Sorry, I cant take this seriously. The teachers unions are one of the most politically powerful entities in the US. They can make a candidate, and they can break a candidate. They can pass and tank ballot measures...even ones completely unrelated to their jobs. They can protect drunkards and criminals from getting prosecuted, let alone fired. They are fine forcing their agenda down our throats, but they cant take a little pushback?
Just because it's more satisfying does that mean that those in control of the company should get an even more disproportionately large amount of the profits/wealth?

Surely this argument should then count for Elon Musk too and he should be happy to disperse the profits amongst the workers without making such a large amount for the [other] shareholders and himself. Sorry I should probably have generalised this para. as I don't really know enough about the earnings of Musk's businesses to know if he only took a regular wage and dispersed profits evenly or not (I'm guessing it would have been big news if he had though).
For all these positive comments, this title sounds really spammy.
this is not open sourced?
From what I understand, tracing them is also hard because (generally) there isn't any annotation on the blockchain to indicate who actually had them or what they were used for. So its hard to tell what point is just another place they laundered them, or someone who just got them in a transactions and then reused them elsewhere.

Let's assume eventually they will be 'spent' somewhere- its going to be damn near impossible to track them down unless they transfer all of them into a single wallet with their name/address in the comment.
In November of 2011 Mt. Gox demonstrated control of 500k BTC.

I followed the 500,000 BTC for a bit beginning at https://blockchain.info/tx/b269bf1b82dae8a61f7f91dbf7a9d807e....

The coins move around and small amounts are sent away, but the majority ends up back in Mt. Gox's main (hot) wallet. This repeats a few times until the majority is paid back to the main Mt.Gox address.

Here is the transaction where it starts to get interesting:

https://blockchain.info/tx/478ea915aa3a2e54503c43e1c5659722b...

What's left of the 500,000 (429.9k) is split into roughly half and sent to 2 new address. And then each of those address splits the coins in half and sends to two new address.

The end result is that the 429k was split again and again until the funds are split into many addresses, each of which now contain less than 1,000 BTC each. I stopped following the transactions there.

Why take 429k and split it into many addresses each containing less than 1,000 BTC each?

I'd like to see someone trace all of these coins and see if they end up coming together somewhere or show a pattern.
I can't believe all the negative comments on here. If you have enough tabs open that infinite scrolling starts to bog down your browser, you should probably find a girlfriend/boyfriend and get out of your mom's basement or replace your computer with one made after 2003. Infinite scrolling, especially as shown here, is fantastic because it doesn't require endless hitting of the back button to get to the original post. The only time I've had a problem with infinite scrolling is for facebook friend purging and even then, who cares!?! If you don't like sites that use infinite scrolling, don't use those sites. This hybrid pagination/infinite scroll option looked awesome to me.
When viewing a local .html file on your computer you should be able to edit the entire page as html and have the browser automatically update and you should be able to save to the file you opened.
"get their money back"

Lulz.
"Along with the new design, you may also notice that comments are no longer present. Don't worry. I love comments. They'll all be back. This is only a temporary state, as there's another notable open source project I want to begin supporting here."

He's just shifted over to a new platform, as you likely would've understood from reading the article. And he explicitly states, as quoted, that comments will be back... Unsure how irony computes in this circumstance.
I don't know what to tell you. All I can say is that for me, the benefits outweigh the negatives. But then again, maybe I care less about spam than a lot of people, as I lean pretty heavily towards the "no big deal, it's easy enough to ignore" worldview. Or maybe it's just normalized pain, who knows? I just know I wouldn't quit LinkedIn over spam messages, at least not as things stand today. shrug
I think this is more directed at C# users. The focus of TS is to let tooling (specifically Visual Studio) do the same stuff it does in C#. They tried and failed to make VS good for JS.
Indeed :). On which type of instance are you running it on?
What hardware do you have? I was very careful to use the hardware with for the path of least resistance. The installation took an hour. Then, I spent the next 3 days getting the RAID 1 for the boot drive working.
Awhile ago, I had a teacher for a roommmate, and one who was young and very passionate, and I hope, good at it, because we were best friends and I'd hate to think I'd be a poor judge :). But I rarely heard her talk about the pure joy of teaching, at least compared to the difficulties of dealing with the management (the principal) and other logistics issues...such as having to pay for her own classroom supplies, including books that she wanted if they weren't on the state-wide curriculum, and pencil and paper for her poorer students.

Her complaints about office politics were what really surprised me. Even though I know every bureaucracy is universally crushing (well, maybe I grok better now after watching The Wire), it just seems that being a great, passionate teacher, supersedes any kind of office bullshit...such as the way principal communicates with you. But then again, if you can't get along with the person who runs the place, and you're put in a shitty classroom and have to share a teacher's officespace with 3 other novices...how could that not affect your teaching performance and job satisfaction?

One memory I still have from high school was one afternoon when I had to stay after school to give a presentation to the teachers on their regular Thursday-school-wide meeting. The meeting was in the cafeteria...and you know how lunch tables reflect a sort of social-hierarchy among kids? It was no different for the teachers...and even more surprising, the social lines seemed to fall along with how I, as a student, expected them to (attractive young teachers sat with the other young teachers; cool popular teachers could sit anywhere they want; the weird chemistry teacher sat in the corner). I mean, it's one thing to have perceptions as a kid, but I knew I was a petty kid...so it was a surprise to see that things were not much different in the adult world.
So how is the Adobe suite on Ubuntu?

If you don't like Windows that is fine, but with a few check boxes Windows 8 isn't very different that Windows 7. Enable boot-to-desktop, disable hot-corners, set the Start button to take you to apps, change file associations to non-metro apps. Just last week I setup a Windows 8 computer for a co-worker that was using Windows 7 and he hasn't had a single question about it.

Only on the Internet do I see people have these caustic reactions to Windows 8, in the real world but are just slightly annoyed that something changed or they aren't and then they just move on.
In my opinion this hits all the right notes to become an painfully addictive game - punishing hit detection, no recovery from a slight mis-step, death (and "next screen") animations that are just long enough to be frustrating after you die without doing any terrible psychological damage :) These are all compliments btw, you've made a spiritual successor to Flappy Birds and I'm sort of hooked.
My first attempt at a solution, were I to actually try something like this - say, with my hypothetical chrome/firefox extension called LikeMail - would be to send out a canned email with custom headers.:

"enobrev has read and 'liked' your message with the LikeMail chrome extension! Download it _here_ so you can do the same with your emails."

Then on the recipient's client, if they have LikeMail, consume that message and hide it, while showing the appropriate signaling in the inbox, etc.

Definitely a clunky workaround, and can easily be considered spammy, I suppose, although if that automated message were customizable, maybe less so. I think the reason for the email (as opposed to skipping it) is to convey the info the action of "liking" is meant to convey. Essentially if I hit "like" button in LikeMail I'm trying to tell the sender "I read and liked your email". Sending nothing would go against that intention.
RHEL and SLED contain some things that their community editions don't and are updated and tested more carefully. But yes, you're also paying for support.
No, it doesn't work like that, because it doesn't take the house's capital gain into account.

Given the ability to grow the housing supply, there is typically a fixed return for a property. That return will be split between capital gain and rent. Rent no longer covers the mortgage because it is the total return that determines if it is a good investment. There are also the tax benefits of renting out a house in some locations (maintenance and insurance would be deductible).

When we rented out our house, we were told that the typical return on capital was 8%, where 2-3% would be capital gain, and the rest in rent. We priced our rent at 5% to get a quick rental. Mortgage rates in that location are 6%.

If it is hard to gather a down payment, then rents can exceed mortgages because renters cannot easily swap between the two.
My wife teaches classes at a local high school as well as the university here she's successful because she works hard at it, has a natural aptitude to teach and she cares about her subjects and shows it. I think I had 3-4 outstanding teachers during my 13 years in public school and they all had these same characteristics. I had plenty of bad teaches too.
Lua scripting was cool. It was in v1 but hasn't made it into v2 yet. Before you get to the group of users that want scripting/macros on their tablet, there is an enormous group of users that want things like resizing columns and changing colors to work effortlessly. This second group absolutely dwarfs the first. On a tablet this is fairly cutting-edge stuff. So most of our attention has been there.
Is this technically possible for Apple to do?
You think you know what field workers do. Right? Wrong.

You think you know what factory workers do. Right? Wrong.

You think you know what farmers do. Right? Wrong.

You think you know what oil rig operators do. Right? Wrong.

You think you know what coffee shop owners do. Right? Wrong.

You think you know what lawn care specialists do. Right? Wrong.
keyword fodder is exactly what recruitment consultants seem to use judging from the crap I get in my inbox.
This is a very nice explanation of not only pCell but of what modern communication systems are like (802.11n has MIMO/diversity but also channel estimation, etc)

People may find this interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space–time_block_code
I believe that your cancer analogy is weak, in this instance. It may not have been your intent to be insulting, but I find it challenging to read your response without feeling insulted. Casting my response as "childish" strikes me as unreasonable, as well as linking me with the people "who have this thing in their psyche". These are not issues I have.

In any case, we're not talking about something irrefutable, like a law of physics. Income inequality has been on the rise in the US since the 70's and is, possibly, one of the causes contributing to the shrinking of the middle class.[0]

I am not advocating that anyone gets anything for free, rather that the majority of the employed receive equitable pay. The current distribution, were a nearly obscene amount is squeezed towards the top of the organization, is unsustainable and, I would argue, unhealthy for the economy.

Again, to reiterate, I am not arguing that the managers should no longer be paid or that they should make less than those they manage. I'm simply pointing out that, at present, the top tiers of management are making far too much and this effects the income of everyone further down the ladder.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United...
Can anybody follow one of these "branches" until the very last known transaction on the blockchain? Would that clear anything up?
Ever since Vista, every time I run notepad Win calls home to Redmond to let them know I did it(non-intrusive, granted). There are ~ 40 ways Windows phones home to an MS IP when I open something or other these days. They call it 'metrics', I call it none of their business(look how they manipulate the data to say 'most users don't use start menu, anyway'...bwahahaha). TG for 3rd party firewalls, careful what you block...
My only gripe - VS is way too expensive, for my pocket at least. And you need VS to program in TS, Intellisense is that good. Sure, you can go with Express edition but then you don't have node.js extension - which kinda make the whole endeavour bit pointless (again, for me at least).

Wish they would bring prices to the level of, for example, those of Jetbrains, or made node.js extension working with Express.
You win the prize.
I recently tried switching to Firefox at the place I'm currently freelancing at. Not too much front-end stuff going on, just a bit of CSS here and a bit of JS there.

The two little things that annoyed me most:

When inspecting an element, the element is per default collapsed (i.e. it's children are not shown). Often, I want to see the children as well - one more unnecessary click. This may be a good design decision if the tools are running on a laptop screen inside the main browser window, but I'm using two monitors and the tools take a whole screen.

Related, my main monitor has a terrible (=no) contrast between white and light gray if viewed from some angles. Often, if I inspect an element, I'm missing the highlight (light gray on white)... Yep, I should probably play with the monitor settings, although FF seems to be the only tool I have this problem with.

These are obviously not big issues and I don't miss the Chrome tools too much, so I'm sticking with FF. Keep up the good work!
It depends on the type of startup you're trying to do. If it's tech heavy then yes knowing coding may be more important. If it's a light on the tech side, for example something you can slap up in a weekend or month, then I would say the business side is more important.
You're comparing what Google does to another extreme when you say things like "bottom-feeders that plagiarize for money"

Surely you don't believe that all "scapers" are bottom feeders? It's like saying every criminal is a murderer. There's a whole bunch of grey area in between, and this is where the criticism of Google's harsh penalties is valid.
It is highlighting the more important aspect - Google is the largest scraping site in the world.
Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s latest
Should you give startup advice? [Flowchart]
I think it will still run if your res is smaller than the minimum.

I installed 8 on a crusty old 2004 laptop, and it runs at roughly the same speed. MS did a surprisingly good job with Windows 8 in that regard.
I wonder, can this trace be automated?
In other words, teachers are human and have real lives. This may be news to an 18-year-old, but I'd really be surprised if it's really news to that many people above 30. I may not be a teacher but I could fill a very stylistically-similar paragraph or two with the woes that have befallen me, too. Most people can.

This strikes me as a variant on the You don't know what's like! meme... as a rule of thumb, you should never say that to anybody. You have no idea what they've been through. Everyone you pass on the street has a story, and no matter how bad you think yours is, you've got no guarantee that they don't have one worse than you.

What this essay describes is not specially "teaching", it's life.
Small tip: Numbers is also free on Mavericks, even if it was just an upgrade installation. You just install the iWork '09 trial, reboot the mac and then use app store to update it to the latest version.

However it doesn't read or write ODF/ODS files which is a pain for me at least.
I've watched House of Cards too, but I won't pretend that I understand the politics of teacher's unions.

But I can still take seriously the notion that people assume they understand something just because they've observed it from the outside.
Readline – Spritz for Google Chrome
Well, even if it's directed at C# by Microsoft, it's used by a lot of people that are not into Visual Studio or Microsoft. TypeScript is a lot more than "IDE tooling", even though proper intellisense makes it a lot of nicer to develop.

It's not like Microsoft somehow failed to make VS good for JS, it's theoretically impossible to make VS do to JS what TS can do for any IDE.
DDG is clearly attributing to Wikipedia and is not cloaking the link behind a redirect.
> If this was the action of a malicious government agency, then it was horribly hamfisted execution

If this was the action of a malicious government agency, you're the proof it was an awesome move, given your "Stop this nonsense".
Thanks for that list. In effect, windows 8.1 has lost very little functionality from windows 7. It puzzles me why there is so much hate for the windows 8.1 operating system about the modern UI when it can effectively be disabled and ignored. It's as it people are specifically looking for a reason, validity be damned, to hate windows.

I wonder if I will be accused of astroturfing just because this is my first HN comment.
HTML5, to me, is all the wonderful new JavaScript APIs, but I'm an idiot. I've never considered "HTML5" to be anywhere near synonymous with CSS3, but I'm an idiot.
Mavericks isn't really free -- you can't have it without the hardware to go with it and that hardware can be seen as a 'lifetime' license for OS X.

Ubuntu has paid enterprise services: http://www.canonical.com/services

I don't think I've ever seen Mint deployed in an enterprise environment, at least not in a standard 'big business'
Actually, they do link to the wikipedia URL.

href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraper_site" appears directly in the source code of that web page.

It also has an onmousedown handler that rewrites the URL to point at Google, so they can tell which link you clicked, to improve their ranking system. And Google works very closely with sites to make sure the sites know how to understand the referrals.
mega-laffo @ all this.
ArangoDB
"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there.'"

http://xkcd.com/552/
This kind of mistake is why I always use curly braces with if() statements when I write C, and double-check the results through Vim's auto-indentation.
that is #2
Did you not actually read it? He explains why in the post...