skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't see what every media outlet that isn't Russian state-controlled would have to gain from distributing "biased" journalism.

We've seen raw footage released, we can read live tweets about what's happening and we can even communicate with people effected via the internet. The only side that seems to conflict with what's coming out of the region is the Russian side.

I watched cellphone footage of troops with Russian equipment in Russian vehicles with Russian license plates that spoke Russian and claimed to be from Russia in Crimea, despite Russian media and government reports of there being no Russian troops there.

With the internet and mobile phones, it's really hard to get away with lies in media anymore (unless of course you censor the evidence).
Agreed. Amazing how much the right tool can change habits - for the extremely better. It has barely occurred to me that people might struggle with merges (at least, small feature merges) anymore.
Switch to git at a minimum, if possible.
I'd neither suggest that, or that Jobs was one.

He was both very very smart, very very lucky, and good fortune to know to get it right on the first time - even if the first time wasn't the right time for the product (see NeXT)
> They’re trying too hard, and making a mess in the process.

I can sincerely say this about all the graphic designers and ui/ux designers I've ever worked with!
You can usually just google the headline and when google is referrer they let you through.
Since bike lanes integrated into the road are common enough, I think when people demand dedicated bike lanes, they mean »not part of the road, but instead physically separated«. And those are indeed better, safety-wise.
I don't store any music on my phone and I hardly have any pictures on it
I welcome this direction. Google needs to make money directly from user, instead of advertisements.

What I don't like is, even after I pay for this, I will still see ads and my data will still be farmed.
That part actually bothered me, to be frank. For several reasons.

1. It indeed gives the impression that your work is monitored, which should not be the case.

2. It's a mechanism to give you penalties, but it does not really affect the story-line in itself. It would have been great if a person you let pass by mistake actually ends up changing the situation (i.e. becoming a terrorist the next day or something) and therefore introducing more regulations to make your work more difficult.

3. It could have been done in a more subtle way. For example, the guards at the right of the screen could do a random check on top of the ones you do, and find out, not 100% of time but at a certain ratio, you actually make/made mistakes.
Sounds like a tuktuk, many cities in Asia have them, but they mix with car traffic.
A lawyer is posting an open letter (plea) asking the king of Saudi Arabic to stop the theft of millions by a Saudi billionaire, yet no western media outlet dares to write about one of the most corrupt states here.(Arabic) link to the desperate plea http://www.alweeam.com.sa/259063/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B7-%D...
There are a number of existing jsonfield implementations. This one, probably the best of the lot, DOES make use of the PostgreSQL JSON field: https://github.com/bradjasper/django-jsonfield/blob/master/j...

It looks like your app does more in terms of casting data that comes from the field. Is this the major improvement?
China's Central Bank Halts Tencent, Alibaba Mobile Payment Process
> I would love a compiled, statically typed Ruby

http://infraruby.com/ is a compiled, statically typed subset of Ruby, compatible with Ruby interpreters.
They were convicted of trying to monopolize sales of buses and bus parts, not eliminate mass transit.
If you're going to persist in flatly denying you said the things you clearly say, I'm done talking with you.
The (2013) on this headline makes it.
More about the smart drugs or the equation solving?
aemonfly@gmail.com . thanks.
The lack of challenge was a good cure for addiction...
Comfortable? Yes. Out of touch with you and your poor friends? You know nothing of my life.

I've worked my ass of to get where I am and while you may find our expenses excessive I would point out that they are what meet our needs and keeps us financially secure. Do I like asking for help? Hell no. As a matter of fact, this has been one of the hardest parts of this whole process. As I've been forced to accept that I will die and will likely leave my wife with debts that cannot be repaid I have to consider what will really happen. Without a home, she moves in with her parents. This isn't a bad scenario but it's also not the best scenario. Without the van, she has no way to provide for the basic needs of our children like taking them to the doctor. Note, her parents live in the boonies, there is no public transportation. The cost of a funeral? Have you priced these recently? They aren't cheap no matter how you look at it. And there are far more decisions that go into this than how cheap it is. This has long-lasting emotional impact on my wife, my kids, my mother, my grandmother and a host of other relatives. I can only hope you have people in your life who you care about enough to actually think before you act in the event of your death.

And the moment you begin to think you know anything about how anyone grew up or how hard they've worked to get where they are or how happy they are, you need to stop and rethink your own priorities and happiness. This isn't about things or happiness, this is about security and easing the pain of my death. Memories will make them happier than anything else I can do and we have memories in this house and in that van. And the moment you think I have a sense of entitlement is the moment you need to go down to the nearest shelter and volunteer. You'll soon discover just how entitled you think you are and realize just how wrong you are.

May you find peace and experience true humility before it's too late.
Actually, our taxes are not high compared to other OECD countries (only Mexico and Chile have significantly lower tax/GDP ratios):

http://www.treasury.gov.au/Policy-Topics/Taxation/Pocket-Gui...
That doesn't really have a straightforward answer. That's no surprise I suppose.

I give an idea but you're best off researching it yourself. In terms of overall scalability and capability, Magento is hard to beat. But you have to know a fair bit about the patterns used in it's code base, and know how to code PHP if you need to extend it beyond it's base capabilities. However it's base capabilities are pretty awesome as it stands, and probably has the best range of free extensions, like payment gateways, out of the main open source choices. It is generally thought that Magento demands more server resources. If you look at the code you'll see why. A new version is getting to, or is in beta where other database options like Postgres can be used. Also, a couple of guys that made it are starting a new project for eCommerce but that's a way off.

PrestaShop is a much lighter system that doesn't need as much programming skill, though you'll still need some if you need to go beyond the capabilities it already has. It's themes and addons are part of a large aftermarket, so watch for costs on that. On the other hand you can pretty well run it on a shared server if your scaling suits, at least at first. It's popular as an alternative to Magento, having many of the options you might need like attributes for categories, such as separate pricing per customer. Check the specs though.

Drupal is a CMS with a eCommerce bundle you can apply. Talking about this involves talking about Drupal, and this you'll definitely need to research yourself. It's an appealing way to do things, but you would definitely need to know how to program PHP for Drupal in order to get the facilities you get from the other two I've mentioned.

The other CMS with an eCommerce plugin is WooCommerce for Wordpress. As with Drupal, you'll need to research that yourself. It's main advantage is that it just plugins into Wordpress. It's disadvantages are about Wordpress and scalability. Wordpress is a nice attack target.

There's others based on osCommerce, and others like bigCommerce you can look at.

It's not an easy decision for you. None of them are perfect. I'd just say that the quickest and simplest for a limited range of products with up to a few thousand sales a day would be Prestashop.

If you're going to do a chain of stores or support volumes of products at scale then Magento. Magento also has the ability to publish to eBay easily. Not sure about Prestashop on that.

But don't take my word for it. Get your head around the capabilities and requirements first.
I edit text all the time with a Mighty Mouse and find it fine. What do you find hideous about it?
2048! Took ~2 hours. One evil game! Great job Gabriel.
When you've nailed so many things so right in your career, you tend to believe in your opinion even when you've got something totally wrong.
See for instance http://time.com/23605/uniteds-in-flight-video-streaming-more...
Rdio Acquires Indian Music Streaming Service Dhingana
This was one of the most difficult conversations I had to have. It came about because of my 6 year old who asked if she could go to my funeral. No 6 year old should ask that question and no parent should have to answer it. She has been the strongest through this which is making it even harder because she fully understands what is going on and is asking tougher and tougher questions for which I do not have any good or easy answers. I've cried more trying to come up with the answers than I have in my first 34 years of life.
Skype Founders’ Music Service Rdio Acquires Dhingana
This is all very relevant to the gameplay, but I find the most interesting part of the game is the story and how it evolves based on your decisions. You can let anyone through. You can, and are asked to, cut people breaks. You can be a hardass. You can be a tool of the revolution.

It all comes down to the choices you make. At one point, for example, someone with their papers in order comes through and says his wife is next in line. Her papers are not in order. What do you do? Split up the couple to make your money? Or cut them a break and get a demerit.

You can even help drug smugglers and refugees, if you so choose. Or you can earn extra cash by locking up people who simply have an expired certificate.

Few games give you or support this type of narrative freedom.
> I think one huge difference is that a channel in Go is a stream of data, in which each element can cause the consuming code to wait for new responses. In your example, the future can only return one bit of data.

In java you also can do something like:

List<Future<Long>> futures = new ArrayList<>();

for(int i = 0; i < n; i ++) futures.add(some parallel execution logic);

long count = 0;

for(Future<Long> f: futures) count += f.get();
RELEVANT: http://i.imgur.com/YUBioI4.jpg
Marriage and Divorce in Ethereum
My family, including my wife, children, mother, grandmother, and extended family would benefit from a public viewing. Cremation is something we've considered but would like to avoid but we have made a final decision on which way we will go because we don't have the finances in place to make that decision yet. And yes, $20k is about as cheap as I could manage to get it with the research I did given that this would be an out-of-state burial requiring my body be transported across state lines. I've done my research and worked to keep costs as low as possible because that's just part of me trying to give everyone what they want and deserve without creating additional burden on anyone if I can. This isn't an easy decision and my wife are still discussing it because it isn't easy. None of this has been easy.
Is it really so hard to take the 30 day notice (or more) they would give you and actually download your stuff locally? Or, better yet, just let Google Drive operate in the mode it installs with which keeps local copies of everything anyway?
Feminist punk bands must be imprisoned right now because of playing shitty punk rock ever. They're real traitors of punk rock :)

Homosexuals? Why do you ask Russia about them? Go to Saudi Arabia and ask them how do they feel about that. We have our own vision of healthy society.

Murdered journalists - that's a shame, I agree. But you know what? Now it's just a tool in hands of the West. And you use this tool in order to justify your own actions.

Wanna bomb Iraq? Yes, they have mass destruction weapons.
Wanna bomb Afghanistan? Yes, they have Al Qaeda.
Wanna bomb Russia? Yes, they imprison feminist punk bands, banned homosexuals and they have murdered journalist (he was better than Assange and Snowden).

Wanna bomb Japan? Stop! But they don't have nuclear weapon. F..k that, let's bomb them anyway.

US is the only country that used nuclear weapon against other country (and this country had no any nuclear weapons).

And now you're telling me how homosexuals feel? Yes, they're fine!
I have an Embody and have been considering a sit/stand desk. How many hours/day do you find yourself standing? What does your typical sit/stand schedule look like?
Paypal actually has a couple options for having paypal's servers handle the actual card collection so your server never need touch it.

That said their API (or rather APIs as they have one for every day of the week with all sorts of subtle differences) is ... not fun. I know of several implementation in fairly major open source shopping carts/ecommerce platforms that don't properly use paypal to handle the CC data, and I only know that because I was looking for an actual example as PayPal doesn't make it terribly easy.

Also, the receipts filter nicely into a folder and then you never see them again.
Lieven Van Neste Is Lyin' Van Neste Again
How to Install Facebook's Presto over a Cluster
Is this actually type safe, or type safe up until you include an untyped gem and the whole thing becomes indeterminate? Does the typing actually improve performance over straight jRuby?

Can it handle method_missing and *_eval?

Also why is it closed source?

edit: sorry I didn't mean to sound aggressive. please interpret the stream of questions as extreme curiosity.
To be fair, linode has better documents, the library, DO is getting better and better meanwhile linode's documents grow slowly, partly because they already have a large volume, I have VPSs at both of them.
Here in the EU the EU has a reputation for being extremely bureaucratic and hard to fathom. As the writer points out, you ain't seen nothing. Just imagine 28 members plus privileged partners agreeing on regulations for international trade through bilateral agreements.

And probably every policy that is less bureaucratic is either quite small or has bigger problems with corruption.
I kind of like the Magic Mouse. It basically gives me a built-in trackball and inertial scrolling, something I've wanted in a mouse for many years. It's too bad the ergonomics really suck, and that not having a dedicated right mouse button makes it completely unusable in some cases. (Games?)
Wait, seriously?

There's a lot of other stuff going on in this example, but in general yes - if I discover that someone named Ralph won the lottery, it is slightly more likely that the lottery is somehow biased toward people named Ralph, because explanations of the universe where that is the case very slightly better explain my observations. It's probably still phenomenally more likely that the lottery is not biased toward people named Ralph.

Take the other extreme - you look at the 1000 most recent lottery winners, and discover that they're all named Ralph. You look at the names of people buying lottery tickets, and Ralph only shows up 1% of the time. You're not going to consider it any more likely that the next winner will be named Ralph as well?
I can't say where I stand spiritually but everyone who suggests I should simply rely on God obviously believes that they are not responsible for any of their own actions. And if you truly believe that is materially driven then you haven't bothered reading and understanding what is written.

Don't try to talk to me about God until you've taken the time to actually read and understand who it is you're talking to and what it is you're saying.
It might have been the IntelliMouse Explorer, with the red bottom and LED.
Nthed. It's not great for all use cases, and it feels a bit slow when you switch to it, but after a few minutes you'll be going almost as fast as with a normal mouse, but with much better ergonomics and with full access to gestures and inertial scrolling.
While we're mentioning The Escapist, fans of the game would probably enjoy LRR's sketch [1] about it as well, one of Andy's best.

[1]: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/...
I have big hopes for the metro line project in SM that includes a dedicated bike path that is linked with the path along the beach. The beach path is fully separated and the link that is not would only be a few blocks long.

The ocean bike path stretches from past Redondo beach to Pacific Palicades.
I fully agree, and I think that's the common opinion as well. Their laptop touchpads are above all others, but I can't stand using a Magic Mouse for more than even a second.

I've been using Logitech mice (G5 and later G500) for many years, and they're far more ergonomic.
Database Versioning: The ignored aspect of version control
What about western media? They could block those China-style...
The era of Facebook is an anomaly
The "free shipping if $total > $35" tended to be fast enough for me, and often things arrived sooner than I would have expected given what I take to be Amazon's scheme of "add to the truck if and when there's free space". That is, closer to 3 rather than 5 days.

But since getting Prime I've had things show up the next day. It's sort of freaky. I trialed Prime for the VOD aspect and I bought some product or another, forgetting about the delivery thing. And BAM it was at my house. I got that "I could get used to this" feeling.

In most cases I appreciate having whatever it was I ordered ready for use sooner, but I'd have to give some thought to whether it really makes all that much difference to me, especially since I'm not using the VOD thing as I expected.
A GO skeleton for websites
"Most observed correlations turn out not to be causal" is perfectly well consistent with "causation is more likely having observed a correlation than having failed to observe a correlation, or even not yet having observed".
That was the whole reason I considered it.

Weighing it against Netflix. I beginning to think I'll drop both. :)
Any choices for DB? Should we continue with MySQL as we are most familiar or any other NoSQL can give us the good performance in real-time? No, not a big fan on dealing with Redis. We probably want a more reliable, fault-tolerant DB.
Google is the latest company busted for mining the data of children
Magit can do most common actions with one or 2 strokes, like `cc` for commit, `ca` for amend etc. Push, pull fetch etc work like a breeze and wont lock up emacs till its complete.

Sometimes I forget the keys, then I either enable menu bar mode to quickly look it up or switch to eshell for a while
Yeah, it's more like a body kit on a crappy old civic trying to impersonate a Lambo.

I have (2!) GSG-5. I've had an MP5 (real, full-auto, 9mm, with a suppressor). It's about that scale of difference.
There are a few stories that follow this pattern... my favorite is the one about Starcraft development. While Blizzard was making nothing more than "Warcraft in space", a competing studio showed a beautiful and fluid RTS at trade shows that got everyone's attention. The Starcraft team had a hard time getting their product to the same level, and had to scrap a lot of code. It turned out that the other studio was just showing prerecorded videos at trade shows, while employees mimed the appropriate button presses to make it look interactive.
There are many technical people who hate the one-button mouse, but the design is perfect for users who are not comfortable with computers.

Furthermore, after years of reading contemptuous comments about this design, and now this article (and associated discussion), it must really have taken a genius to perceive something beyond the conceptual resistance (unconscious, even) of those surrounding him. It's the same process that leads to new paradigms.

Imagine that: making computers easy. Pffft.
Actually bureaucracy was invented to battle corruption. But back then you really couldn't call it corruption, because without bureaucracy there were no rules or laws that could be faithfully executed or their faithful execution monitored. Kleptocracy and outright feudalism was the norm.

So in essence, without bureaucracy there is no corruption just as there is no shadow without the light.

Whenever bureaucracy has to be simplified, keep in mind that the potential for abuse usually increases unless the legislators take very much care.
I have the Kinesis Advantage and it's done wonders for my hands. I use to show early symptoms of RSI and since switching to the Advantage, they've all but disappeared.
The gargantuan stupidity of the financial transactions tax
I also have difficulty reading this site.
When I ask accountants, here in the Bay Area, about Form 5471 the quote for personal taxes goes up $1000-$1500.

Who does them for $100-$250? Please let me know, thanks!
2 counter arguments:

1. Dropbox has a high potential to be acquired by a big company when the price is right.

2. Cloud storage service is something that you don't need to be attached to. Use Google till it's good. The day it isn't, simply switch to Dropbox or whatever.
What's the context to that 9 minute example?
This is from someone who's so accustomed to self-censorship that he can't even say "fuck". Right. I believe you.
Or what about this one?
https://www.meteor.com
I agree. In the suggested book The Design of Every Day Things they cover the topic of "positive knowledge transfer". Climb in a car you have never driven before, chances are in addition to gas, brake, and steering you can also quickly figure out how to use the horn, turn signals, open and close windows, etc.

There are a lot of positive things to be said about the car's UI.

[Edit: grammar]
Just visit the site and see the pictures, and after seeing your Desk chair, all I can say is you make your room your office..
RSS vs RSS – A Tale of Two Icons
The Setup / John McAfee
absolutely, I used AWS EC2 for 1 year, and now I only keep linode and DO, and put most of mine at DO
All the time you hear about smart, gets-shit-done types that can take your company to the next level, or the opposite, the non-productive, not as smart, jerks or assholes that could be detrimental to your startup.

What is 1000 times more insidious is very smart, insecure people. You hire people like that and they'd destroy your company from the inside, because they're (probably) affable, do good work and are so good at navigating internal politics that if you're not paying attention they can chase off the type of people you need and quietly toxify your culture without you noticing it.

The problem is that they are out of their depth, but are not used to failure, so they will do anything to avoid looking like they have failed at anything, including abiding criticism, or engaging in things they're unfamiliar with. If you put them in positions of power. Good Night, and good luck.
I assume they mean "half of the 20gb which was paid for", which would be 25gb of files stored.

I have a similar plan. I've filled up my gmail and picasa/G+ free storage, and am using ~6gb out of the 20 that I'm buying.
Good points.

3. No block level sync. This is a big deal for me since I use big encrypted files (block cipher). They work flawlessly with Dropbox. Incremental changes = incremental update.