skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they aren't uncommon and therefore can't be outrageous.

Our definitions differ. I'm going with "very bad or wrong in a way that causes anger; too bad to be accepted or allowed; going beyond all standards of what is right or decent; deficient in propriety or good taste".

I'm aware of the phenomenon, and noted that it is plainly in abundance throughout the sociopolitical spectrum.
Are you able to take visa/mastercard?
But what exactly is "better and more delightful" that's possible now, relevant to education and wasn't 12 years ago? You're moaning about the fact that pen and paper has been around for a few millenia without actually suggesting why it's bad, still less what would be better.

A decade ago I did a liberal arts degree and managed to get through first year without entering the library because the online papers were more than enough, and had a professor who once cancelled a lecture because the projector was broken and she believed chalk was a health hazard. On the whole, I'd have preferred it if she'd carried on with her examples using the technology of the generation earlier. And you know what, sometimes dragging oneself away from a backlit screen to read an actual book, complete with the previous owner's annotations, was a good thing in later years too.

My parents went a generation earlier without the repository of information that exceeded the size of the library sitting on my desk in my study bedroom, which I also used to run statistical tests that would probably have been beyond the capabilities of the university's then computer, had the econometric tests being run been invented at that point. So things were actually pretty different then.

We didn't watch much video for the same reason my parents didn't watch much video: it's a way of glossing over the analytical concepts we were supposed to be studying. We didn't play around on interactive apps even though we all had laptop computers with Flash downloaded, for the same reason, no amount of touch-screen tabletry changes that.
Using Git with Visual studio
1) Take checks and wire transfers. It's not such a burden for something that's only paid once a year.

2) Google "high risk merchant account" and start contacting the providers. They have more freedom in underwriting and choosing what risks they find acceptable than 3rd-party processors, the kind of companies you've been contacting.
DigitalOcean banned me because I was using their server to fetch chromium's source code so that I could git-bundle/rsync it's 12 GB mammoth of a repo and download it to the third-world country that I live in (my network connection is really bad even though it's the best money can buy). Apparently I violated their TOS. As long as they limit their TOS to such narrow purposes as hosting a wordpress site or doing straight-forward things, I don't think they'll get too far. With AWS, amazon doesn't care if I spawn out a 1000 node render farm, as long as I'm paying, it's all fair game.

Good luck anyways.
> Everything about this smells of product placement and not a real, need based change.

Even if all this is doing is hastening Microsoft's demise, I welcome it. They won't be able to sell products at a loss forever.
Laziness, Ruby, reduce and the map that wasn’t
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Yes, the whole truthiness thing is bug-prone.

I think the history of Lisp is instructive. In traditional Lisp all the way through Common Lisp, the empty list, also known as NIL, is false, and everything else is true. This is a relatively benign form of truthiness, but even so, the type-punning it invites tends to make programs less clear (even though they're a little shorter).

Since Scheme was a clean sheet design, Steele and Sussman had the opportunity to change this, and they did: Scheme has explicit '#t' and '#f' literals, and no implicit conversions from other types to boolean. I think their reasoning was sound.
Or, you can make an actual simple Soylent alternative and do what I do:

- 8 oz Silk unsweetened original coconut milk

- 2 scoops (servings) of powdered Slimfast

- 1 Nature's Way Alive! Women's Multivitamin

- 8-10g (about 1 tbsp) of Potassium Gluconate*

Add protein at another meal and some omega-3 capsules and you're set. I hate to reduce my extensive research down to such a simple formula, but that's what I've done for a while now and it works great.
it exists; it's called Dwolla and almost no one uses it.
Not a bad approach by Microsoft, frankly. The Surface Pro 2 hardware is extraordinarily more capable than the iPad, but the third-party software ecosystem isn't there yet. Delta is big enough of a customer that people building professional aviation software will now have to target Windows 8 as a platform, which then opens all the other airlines to Surface Pro sales.
Yeah, I think this comes with experience. I started off testing everything but over the years you get a feel for which tests aren't going to add value over the lifetime of the project.
What if I don't want to be distracted by everything around me, but don't mind being interrupted if there is something they are wondering about? Then I might have to wear headphones with the usual volume, 'cause if I wear it half-way or something then I still get a bit distracted by everything around me.

It's like leaving your door halfway open to signal that someone can come in if they want. I might not mind having a visit, but I might mind hearing all the noise, or curious looks from people passing by through the corridor. Hence the 'busy' sign to hang on the doorknob, when needed.
A good design is going to provide more value over time than a good test suite. A lot of developers spend a lot of time writing tests for terrible design on prototype codebases. Those prototypes eventually are thrown into production full of bugs and the answer tends towards "more tests!" instead of "better design!"

Most developers just keep building on top of the same codebase until it is a total mess, long after the team has learned a bunch and should refactor or throw away the code and build something designed for production use.

There is really not enough discussion about when he right time to do thorough testing and when a project transitions from prototype to production quality.

I realize things like software design, planning, and thoughtfulness are heresy in the agile world of 2 week sprints, but most of these things are our own fault due to a lack of planning and craftsmanship. Complain all you want, but in general it's our own fault.
Likely he didn't specifically mean tube worms and lobsters (excepting the case of convergent evolution) but if he had said something like "life" or "aliens" then the sort of imagery that comes to most people's minds are the classic Roswell Greys.
If "the public" doesn't have the means to assess it, do you really think that a handful of regulators will have the means? After all, the public is a superset of the regulators.

Didn't we already try the whole a-handful-of-experts-in-the-government-will-keep-the-system-safe thing leading up the last financial crisis? The portions of effort just aren't there to make that work. One single large financial institution can employ many more lawyers and accountants intent on skirting regulation than law makers and gov't agencies can employ intent on reigning them in.
Do you actually have evidence of this or is this an off the cuff statement?

Having worked for some big hosts myself, i know how hard it can be to make changes once you have people using your platform. I suspect DO are in a similar situation and are looking to make a big leap forward with new growth leveraging their existing brand. I have no real evidence of this, but it feels like a sensible course of action.

No one likes giving up equity and taking money unless there is a damn good reason for it.
Yeah he uses a lot of marketing speak.

But as you can see my article, I don't recommend any of his products. I don't really believe in his whole mycotoxin kick.

But it doesn't mean you can't learn from other things he's saying!

High fat diets have been heavily researched and are generally regarded as safe and healthy. See here: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/high-fat-diet-healthy-safe/
New iHearingAids?
Any chance of a web broadcast either live or recorded?
Do we really need more crapily to none researched dietary fads on HN?

Seconded. Between all the overreactions and slavish devotion that's being thrown around, it's starting to look less like a community of probing, thoughful, inquisitive thinkers and tinkerers, and more like like a religion full of sects.
The Shakespeare Hapax chart is fascinating, I have always wanted to build a program that has word analysis like this.
Wow, so many comments from people that clearly didn't bother reading the article (all the way through). I suppose its understandable, I too had to fight the temptation to hit the back button and angrily type out "its just a definition!". Luckily I decided to actually read the whole thing through, notice that the author is quite aware of this, and be treated to a really interesting history of math.
Fantastic! That's a great way to delight your customers.
Seconding 300bps's motion. I'd love to watch a stream but sadly am located on the opposite side of the US. Sounds like an awesome talk though. Good luck!
https://www.marmosetmusic.com/ has some great tracks.
Hard to argue with this logic:

1. Poorly designed unit tests are a waste.

2. Most code is poorly designed.

3. Therefore most unit tests are a waste.

To be fair, there's no shortage of high level advice on how to write good tests (e.g. "each change in the code should break just one test"), but it's hard to find examples of how to do so in practice (unless you're writing yet another calculator app)...
Yes it isn't prime by definition, thus the article.
ESA also has a planned probe going to Jupiter's moons - hopefully launching in 2022, JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer:

http://sci.esa.int/juice/
Seems like the Law of Small Numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Law_of_Small_Numbers
> " Moral rights are what you want, legal rights are what you actually have."

This sounds like a purely philosophical disagreement, so I won't pursue it much. From a practical perspective, I partially agree with you. A right without any teeth to back it up isn't much use in practice. In constitutional forms of government, it's the law that provides the teeth (as law ultimately devolves into a question of how and when force can be used, and against whom). But a more cynical perspective is that the teeth are all that really matter, and the moral arguments are all justifications for getting teeth in the first place. It's that latter, more cynical perspective that I am opposed to.
Does preloaded cargo included?
What the heck is the point of trying to drink butter? Just drink cream or half and half.
Wonder how it would be "shipped"
Getting Real About Working From Home
Pinterest is down
> There's a huge information asymmetry problem that regulation alleviates.

How does regulation alleviate it?
Oakley Thump MP3 sunglasses review (2005)
"Our partner in the Ukraine have acquired an aircraft..."

Seems legit.
Fixed – The easiest way to fix a parking ticket
Are you familiar with the revolving door between the FDA and companies like Monsanto? It doesn't make me feel much safer about what is approved by the FDA. Not to mention the number of drugs that could be saving lives but are tied up in their bureaucratic processes.

Let people decide what they want to consume.
Yup. If everyone just had a Dwolla card.
I spent 12 years in the Air Force, the last 4 in an intel unit writing software to analyze radar signal intercepts. I've never heard the word tradecraft used to mean anything intel-related, although Google tells me that it is used that way. It may be more common in some intel communities than others, but I'd venture to guess that if you did a survey the large majority of folks in the general population will have no idea about the intel-related usage of the word.
Where's the protein? Sure you might loose some weight, but will it actually be fat your loosing or muscle tissue?

While fruit and fish oil are good for you, that amount of cream (4 tbsp all up) probably isn't the best. Cream/Butter is fine in moderation, but I don't think this much on a daily basis.
"Our partner in the Ukraine have acquired an aircraft of type the TU- 95MS"

Uhm.....

To be fair, it is a pretty fast prop plane if restored.
I too often buy military surplus hardware from ebay sites in Comic Sans.
Linguistically:

Prime is a word not a fact of the universe, just like Planet is a word and not a fact of the universe. Those words, unlike most words, have definitions put in place by authorities. The authorities might change the definitions over time as a new definition's usefulness exceeds that of an old definition.

Practically:

It's more useful to think of primes and planets as not including their recent ex-members than it is to include them.
An ad for a Soviet Bomber, with the description in Comic Sans, followed by a verbatim dump of the TU-95MS Wikipedia page.

But the seller has an excellent rating, so it's probably legit.
Stripe does exactly this. When you make a payment to stripe it does into your account which is an escrow account, which you can then use to make payments to others, like a marketplace setting.
What were you expecting, one of these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
I've been on DIY soylent on and off since last June, and had a few weeks of bulletproof while I was doing high-protein low-carb soylent.

Bulletproof is nothing like a soylent replacement, it's just like a crazy energy drink. Basically you just skip breakfast and have your coffee whisked with unsalted butter and MCT oil. My experience is that it accentuates the alertness feeling of drinking a lot of coffee but without the wiredness. However, it tastes like ass - coffee with theanine has very similar effects and tastes much nicer.

Also worth noting that Dave Asprey talks a lot of hype - like many non-scientists trying to interpret the literature he tends to find one or two papers that confirm what he was hoping for, and ignores the counterevidence. Talk to your doctor before you start having a stick of butter every morning.
It doesn't matter though. If social security were made of your actual money the end result would still be the same -- your money would go towards investments in the past, and you'd get paid back by people benefiting from those investments.
These independent sources will license music on a royalty-free basis:

http://magnatune.com/info/licensing
https://pro.jamendo.com/stock-music-licensing

Musopen claims to host all recordings that are in the public domain, but many are posted anonymously or semi-anonymously and I'd be leery of using them without doing some legwork first. (It's all classical music, which probably isn't what you want, anyway.)

https://musopen.org/
You don't want to do this kind of stuff in Excel. See http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mind1ess.pdf. It shows (a.o.) that adding parentheses around an expression can change its value.
"Our partner in the Ukraine have acquired an aircraft of type the TU-95"

Hopefully the auction ends before it's repossessed by its "original owners" who are closing in fast....
Desert combat was a fantastic mod! I remember helicopters being very tricky to control (you actually had to balance cyclic & collective controls)
Can this form be used for recurring billing situations? Like $1.99 a month?
Call me old school, but I love my mediterranean (italian) diet: a balance mix of all the nutrients in normal portions. I think nothing is really bad for you in right in normal quantities. Try to eat a 6oz steak with a nice salad (EVOO, salt, lemon juice for dressing) instead of a 16oz steak with a bunch of sauces. Afraid of carbs? Try eating 60g of pasta next time instead of a salad bowl of it.
Maybe this will become a new "zen" thing - calm and collected in the midst of chaos.

Though even though it might something that great programmers can do, they might be even more effective if they get to remove some of those distractions.
If this is what I think it is (a new layout engine that runs in JavaScript, so that CSS is used just for styling, not layout), it is what I've been waiting YEARS for.

Unfortunately, the site is deafeningly silent on specifics. What browsers does it support? Is there any kind of tutorial for getting started? When would this be appropriate to use, and when not? What is performance like with rendering times, both on desktop and mobile? Window resizing? How does it handle boxes that depend on the size of their content? What about non-visible boxes, when browsers often lie because they haven't actually rendered the text to be able to tell?

If anything ever needed a comprehensive FAQ, it's this.

But this has the potential of freeing us from the horrible disaster for layout that is CSS, and giving us a sane replacement, without waiting for browsers or the W3. If it really is what it promises, and works flawlessly, I wouldn't be suprised to see it become as ubiquitous as jQuery.
Your argument is ad hominem. The man who wrote this article has posted sources for each claimed benefit.
Dealing with time on Go, whether simply unmarshalling string representations of time or handling timezone/locale converstions, is so incredibly convenient. Gone are the days when I'd have to remember the difference between "%MM", "%mm", and "%m".

I have gotten incredibly spoiled in this regard, and it's incredibly painful now to deal with time in Python or (even worse) Javascript[0].

This isn't even getting at the synchronization/timing features, which Go provides amazing support for as well.

[0] My jaw hit the floor when I saw how difficult it is to get the name of a month from a Date object in Javascript: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1643320/get-month-name-f...
Since Europan life is separated from the sky by a kilometer thick shell of ice, could there be an entire global civilization down there we're unaware of? (Since they're aquatic, maybe low frequency acoustics have taken the place of radio for them, so we would not have detected them.)
Couldn't the same argument be made about zero?
Founder here, they're quite different in a number of ways:

- Telemetry is obviously a SAAS, not something you host yourself.

- Telemetry is real time and incorporates a push system that exposes an API where updates are immediately pushed to the dashboards.

- Telemetry has native apps on OSX, IOS and Windows

- Telemetry is drag and drop for arranging your visualization

- Telemetry supports the separation of the data and presentation layer as this blog post discusses.

- Telemetry has a much wider array of visualizations.

- Telemetry has 'viewers' allowing you to remotely control who can see what

- Telemetry's dashboards scale to any size dynamically

- Telemetry supports embedding individual widgets in a web page

- Telemetry has a number of integrations with third parties.
Did people raid the Poltava Museum of Long-Range Aviation? According to wikipedia it has the only Tu-95 in Ukraine (as well as a Tu-160, in case you want a supersonic strategic bomber)
when Tu-95 were flying out on patrol in Atlantic, the US underwater listening stations (for submarines) installed on the Greenland-Iceland-Norway line were registering the planes too.
Did you continue working for the government after forming said beliefs? If so, then I suggest that either your beliefs aren't that strong, or else you're a hypocrite. In either case, "unlikely" is not "impossible."
there is a reason why US and the others were rushing for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons 20 years ago :) See Lord of War too.

Interesting how recent developments continue to show the difference between how countries are treated when they have nuclear weapons vs. when they don't have, like North Korea vs. Iraq. Looking at Ukraine i wonder what Iran think :)
Ask Parents of HN: Would you use an "Uber for babysitting"? 
My daughter has been toying with the idea of an on-demand babysitting service. Unlike Care.com or SitterCity (which are more matchmaking) this would be more like Uber. Here's the rough overview she came up with:

- All sitters are 18+, have their own transportation, are CPR certified, and background-checked

- You pre-register with your contact and billing information

- You text a main number (Twilio) requesting a sitter at a certain day/time. A sitter is found who will accept the gig and we confirm with you

- Sitter brings a DropCam with him/her and we text you a secure link which allows you to view the camera feed while you're out (optional)

- Your card on file is charged. No need to get cash or write a check.

ADDED

- Strict review process. Similar to Uber, a couple strikes and a sitter is fired

- Video profile that is texted to you when confirming

- Similar to AirBnB, perhaps use Facebook to show that you have a X-degree of separation to the sitter

I thought I would ask the parents of HN for some feedback on her behalf. Would you ever consider using something like this?
* Eligibility for development licenses for GitHub products

Anyone have more details on this? The rest seem pretty clear.
Agreed. In particular, I found the "reference value" approach that Go uses for time parsing incredibly quirky, but ultimately intuitive and unambiguous.

http://golang.org/pkg/time/#Parse
yes please I "3rd" the notion I would like to see a web broadcast. Will donate!
That is a fine piece of hardware. what would restoration cost? How do you even restore it ? spare parts, technicians on the Tu-95MS are probably not in ample supply.
The relevant mission concept, still in flux as more observations of the plumes coming from the surface are taken (http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_...), is Europa Clipper:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/
There's nothing fallacious about using heuristics to judge credibility.

As for the sources given in the article, not a single one is credible.
CS 101 is one of those foundational classes, learn the basics using nothing fancy or flashy and you will come away with an understanding thats much deeper and more helpfull when working on projects in 300 and 400 level classes with the latest tools
The TU-95 is probably the loudest vehicle ever built that wasn't rocket powered. The prop tips are well into the supersonic range.
I've read this sort of sentiment before. Here is what is confusing you.

You are trying to over-simplify the complex political philosophy and worldview of a person.

To say that someone is a libertarian, for example, tells you almost nothing about that person.

I am one of those "all models are wrong" kinds of people, but if you were trying to model the beliefs of a person, I would say the minimum questions are:

1. In the ideal state of the universe, how is humanity organized?

2. In the ideal state of the universe, how are the humans close to you organized?

3. How should one act to aid the transition towards the ideal state?

To explain the individual you are describing who is anti-federal government but works for the federal government, there are a number of hypothetical people we can imagine.

For example, one could believe that in the ideal state there is no organization of power at the global or federal government level (#1). But they could also believe that (#3) there is nothing an individual can do to speed up that transition in any meaningful way. They may be waiting for some cultural evolution of humanity or a game-changing shift in technology (e.g. unlimited free access to power).

Or they could believe that the way to transition is by participating to ensure that it does as little evil as possible- or they could even be actively undermining the system from within. There are countless possibilities that could explain what you are describing.

On the other hand, they could just be big fat hypocrites. ;)
Google's Schmidt: Expect robots to roam among us
From what I can tell (I could be wrong), Meteor has templates (view layer) that are reactive to data model changes. Espresso on the other hand both doesn't seem to impose a view layer but also introduces reactivity WITHIN the data model.