skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a devastating rebuttal to everything you were saying, but it is highly relavent as a pompt for you to clarify your point - which this is a good start at. I don't think we're quite to somewhere cogent, though; real value is subjective, so I'm not sure exactly how we draw that line - particularly when it comes to entertainment. If a salesman convinces me to buy the pricier golf clubs, maybe I will have a "better" experience out playing golf, but under what conditions is that "real value" when I would have had fun and got exercise either way?
I'm all for the "fuck celebrities and their privacy wishes" attitude, but only when it's those who actively choose to become famous. Satoshi didn't ask for any of this, so I highly respect his right to privacy. Furthermore, he's not famous, he's infamous. I wouldn't wish his current position upon my enemies.
Android has 79 percent market share. I wonder if full screen video ads on Apple devices will change that.
I don't understand your point. Are you saying that people should be able to copy and paste whatever they find and photographers should starve? Seems as if Getty is exploring what could be a fine solution, that I'll probably use.
For a hosting company, offering virtual machines, the two most contended resources are CPU & RAM. Disk is practically free, even with SSDs these days.

So it makes sense that they'd want you to pay a premium for more cores, and bundle that with things like storage that you don't want.
I've been building my first full blown ember app since the start of the year. I haven't got up to speed with testing yet (as opposed to my usual cucumber/rspec combo with ruby). I can tell you it is painful! I'm used to being able to change code on a whim, safe in the knowledge that my test suite is going to tell me about any regressions. We're using ember-data and there's some changes (like changing a model's association from sync to async) that can have consequences far from the code that you're working on so we've been seeing a lot of regressions. This has meant we're doing a huge amount of manual testing (I'm the only dev but there's 2 biz guys so this balance works at the moment). But I'll definitely be spending the rest of the week getting up to speed with ember testing. Maybe you can get away without tests if you have a really strong type system (i.e. better than java's) but for dynamic languages I think you're in for a world of pain without that safety net.
Fuck Yeah Dorian Nakamoto
Investigative journalism has its place whenever there is information to be revealed. This story is the skeleton of that. All the investigations were done very smartly, but they didn't reveal anything relevant. I'd say the journalist doxed him out of spite.
Privacy and security in a connected world: One Way Communication Services?
I bought a laptop 4 years ago (Dell Studio 17) and I was actually quite impressed with the lack of bloat on it. It was pretty much just the Dell software that you'd expect, and nothing else.

4 years ago wasn't that long ago, I hope nothing has changed...
Right now, yes. I say this as a developer that works primarily in CoffeeScript - I wonder if, when ES6 is finally available to all, interest in CoffeeScript will wane. Certainly half the reason I'm using it is to avoid some of the warts in JS.
If by some extortion means, you manage to get a few percent of Microsoft shares, what are you going to do ? Sit at the board ?
I just got bit by this a few days ago. I was creating an event scheduling system that uses either repeating entries with a datetime.time, or one time entries with a datetime.datetime. I had code that said "if start_time" to see which it was, and discovered later that midnight evaluates to false. It's not the best idea.
> The religious are no different, they rail against how wrong science is, and yet at the same time have no problem using the fruits of scientific labor like air travel, the Internet or clean water.

Tone it down or be more specific. You are making a very sweeping generalization. And do not worry, I am not going to get into an extended conversation on this.
No, you didn’t understand me.

A. You have to put in the work and actually find stuff out. That’s what journalists do.

B. You have to report on something relevant and interesting to the public. Some random person who didn’t do anything of any note is not relevant. Publishing identifying information on them is unethical. Publishing identifying information on someone hugely influential is very much ethical.
Thanks for the link.

An important quote from that "the abundance mentality arises from having a high self-worth and security and leads to the sharing of profits, recognition and responsibility".

That point is a bit hard to apply in real world due to the general nature of our inner self or the circles we are exposed to.
Look for TDD tutorials for less trivial examples of what you should test. You want a general 'how do I know what to test' tutorial, rather than 'how do I use testing framework X' (which is what you were probably reading, if they show you how to test 1+1).

Other than that, just be explicit about your api contracts and test those.
How I write 3x more by blogging on my phone
Getting help may mean adjusting location to a less shameful community. With Internet communities and now the beginnings of Internet medical care, this might not even require geographic changes.
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Facebook is charging 0,70$ to deliver messages you send to random people /into their inbox/ instead of the 'other' folder. Which to me seems brilliant.
Non-fing-sequitur straw-man.

We can point at ANY part of the sociopolitical spectrum and find hypocrites. I could spew the same sort of such outrageous examples about liberals/leftists/progressives/socialists but won't because it has nothing to do with the topic.

Suffice to say Nakamoto did have a change of mind and did do something world-changing about it. And, golly, he is a libertarian who made a herculean effort to live up to his own ideals.

And as to your "curiosity": catchphrase-labeling usually grossly overstates the POV/philosophy. People labeled "anti-government" are rarely true anarchists; they understand government has its proper place but are (as the label is currently applied) dismayed at how this government is exceeding its granted powers and abusing that which is proper. Ex: Making weapons for government use is a legitimate industry; that those weapons are used to violently invade the home of the terminally ill solely for the purpose of seizing a few plants is worth railing against on Facebook.
Familiarity breeds contempt.

If you have never worked in the government sector or in the military-industrial complex, you may suspect that it is a giant dungpile of inefficiency, good-ol'-boy networks, and outright fraud.

If you have worked in it, you know.
But NONE of their packages go beyond 8 cores, even with higher priority coming with their higher packages.

I am fine with the fact that I'm sharing cores, I just need more of them.
I would imagine a system with a whitelist. Anyone not on the whitelist, gets an automatic reply and his email is not even processed. The reply email has a captcha, once you solve it you can send the email that will be processed and read. The receiver can decide whether to put you on a whitelist or not. So a friendly message will require at most a single captcha, and from then on work normally. Those emails that get trough, have shown enough effort for you to read, and if it is spam, you put it on an always-block-blacklist.

The captcha or something equivalent has to be only hard enough so the spammers time isn't worth it.

Of course email replies to you would always get trough.
Off the top of my head I can't think of a reason to check if a date exists, but I would certainly expect midnight to be truthy if I found a reason.
We had good success with tracking down heroku memory leaks with Oink on a Rails4 ruby2.0 application. It turned out to be about 30% the code, 70% the defaults for the ruby2.0 garbage collector. Tweaking the default GC settings helped with most of our problem.
Disruptive Testing: Part 2 - Lorinda Brandon
will bend
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Yeah, to me it seemed like some kind of weird joke. I was confused when I read it. At least we know they aren't exaggerating when they say 5!
Irreversible + bulk automatable = disaster: fraudster can bleed the system dry before anyone notices, and damage cannot be repaired.

Irreversible + manual = opportunities for people to spot the fraud; volume limited by amount of work required to commit each fraud.

Reversible + automatable = opportunity to spot and undo the fraud.
You might like http://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2014-01-25-the-failures-of-...

It's a tad long, but worth it. tl;dr: the first half agrees with you, and the second half describes a process that does help you test useful stuff (and design your software decently along with it)
More buzz words.
On Focus & Boiling An Ocean
I hate when people claim things as fact in comments which are entirely unsourced.

EDIT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity

Study of the regions of the world known as blue zones,[11] where people commonly live active lives past 100 years of age, have speculated that longevity is related to a healthy social and family life, not smoking, eating a plant-based diet, frequent consumption of legumes and nuts, and engaging in regular physical activity. In another well-designed cohort study, the combination of a plant based diet, frequent consumption of nuts, regular physical activity, normal BMI, and not smoking accounted for differences up to 10 years in life expectancy.[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_into_centenarians

Many centenarians manage to avoid chronic diseases even after indulging in a lifetime of serious health risks. For example, many people in the New England Centenarian Study experienced a century free of cancer or heart disease despite smoking as many as 60 cigarettes a day for 50 years. The same applies to people from Okinawa in Japan, where around half of supercentenarians had a history of smoking and one-third were regular alcohol drinkers. It is possible that these people may have had genes that protected them from the dangers of carcinogens or the random mutations that crop up naturally when cells divide.[15]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-secrets-of...

The results are sobering: "There is no pattern," says Barzilai, 54. "The usual recommendations for a healthy life -- not smoking, not drinking, plenty of exercise, a well-balanced diet, keeping your weight down -- they apply to us average people," says the researcher, "but not to them. Centenarians are in a class of their own." He pulls spreadsheets out of a drawer, adjusts his glasses and reads out loud: "At the age of 70, a total of 37 percent of our subjects were, according to their own statements, overweight, and 8 percent were obese; 37 percent were smokers, on average for 31 years; 44 percent said that they only moderately exercised; 20 percent never exercised."

But Barzilai is quick to point out that people shouldn't start questioning the importance of a healthy lifestyle: "Today's changes in lifestyle do in fact contribute to whether someone dies at the age of 85 or already at age 75." But in order to reach the age of 100, says the researcher, you need a special genetic make-up. "These people age differently. Slower. They end up dying of the same diseases that we do -- but 30 years later and usually quicker, without languishing for long periods."

37 percent isn't disproportionate. It is about average.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_tobacco_consumpti...
I really like the simple search (and useful keyboard shortcuts) to jump to an object, something that is fairly tedious in SSMS. (expand, expand, expand, pick folder, use filter or type dbo.stuff in a large group of objects, hope you didnt add a typo!)

The find all references is also useful, I really don't like either scripting sys.comments or using the find dependencies as they are both tedious. This may be specific to my use case, but finding the tree of dependencies n levels deep is something I find myself doing and it is a pain in the neck. (find references, now find references to those objects, now find references to those objects, pull apart this mess)

I like the quick info as well, though alt+f1 usually does this for me, if I can get the information without blowing out the result set or opening a new window, that's great.
From a young AF lieutenant here: Taxes are theft!

My response: But you're paid with those taxes.

His response: Oh, right. <subject change>

I live in a military town, 20k people work directly for the base (there are only 120k people in the county, 250k in the counties most of the employees live in). They rail against the fat, then when furloughs happened last year railed against that. No shit, you want the government to spend less, you've got to take a pay cut or a program has to get cut. You're consistently late on delivering equipment and completing jobs, you're the ones that'll get cut. And the safety record, the morons think it's government interference (damn OSHA!) to insist on PPE [edit: personal protective equipment], and don't wear it so their kids end up with heavy metal poisoning when they carry the crap home on their clothes.
PhoneGap 3.4.0 supports Firefox OS
If we are going after the same wallet on the same product, then we are competitors. Not acknowledging me as such doesn't make it any less true.
Reminds me of the time, years ago, when I was berated by some chap sitting across from me at a wedding reception for "living off the taxpayer" as I hold him I was a researcher doing a PhD.

It was much later I realized that he had said he was a criminal laywer and therefore here in the UK his main source of income would have been Legal Aid - paid for by the tax payer.

[NB He was really quite staggeringly rude - probably one of the few times I have considered punching someone. Fortunately, even here in Scotland, thumping someone during a wedding lunch is frowned on, you do that at the dance later, where it is practically a tradition].
OK but what if it's not him and some bad people think it's him? Then he has to adjust living like a millionaire but without the money to do so?
What is the Latin word for reason? I think Google is wrong.
From finance in London to a Tech Startup in Medellin Colombia
Java and Wordpress in single domain - application and blog integration
> there is a shortcut - '5 foot 7'

You can say "1 meter 83", and people do.

> If I said a decimeter to any of my friends, they would have no idea what I was talking about.

Well, mine would - and any who didn't could easily figure it out. If you're willing to memorize all the random names the imperial units have, you can afford to remember "deci".
I think the most compelling example of this is something called "Freemen on the Land", and related belief systems. Instead of people's ignorance of technology, it exploits their ignorance of the basics of law. Like, did you know the government holds hundreds of millions of dollars in your name in a secret account? If you just say the right magical incantation in court, you can use it to pay off your parking tickets. Many people have believed this and tried it.

If you haven't heard of it before, prepare for a journey through Wikipedia as fascinating as it is pitiful.
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Except then someone who has invested a fortune in Bitcoin might go nuts and take it out on him
Smoke your meat, my friends.

A cross-sectional study of this type of data will yield crappy, linkbait-friendly results.

For confounders, they didn't look at: income, geography, genetics (self-reported ethnicity is not a good proxy), etc. etc. etc.

The time and sample scale for powerful epidemiological research often seems higher than publish! publish! publish! researchers are given time and money to do.

Any morsel of truth to animal protein having a negative effect is lost in the structure of the study and data available.
FWIW, the A in ACID and the A in AtomicTransaction both stand for the same thing.
AFAIK, iTunes Radio is audio ads, not full-screen video ads. Or does the desktop iTunes client show video ads? Apple TV and iOS devices definitely don't.
Great feedback. Thank you!
"Find References" is definitely the feature that made me say "YES!" when I watched the demo!
In Django you might have a nullable TimeField and check if it's set via "if obj.time_field".
He's saying Getty in particular has a history and is known for using licence disagreements as a method to generate income. When they come to you saying "you can use these for free now…" he sees them not as extending an olive branch and being nice to people, but rather casting a large, wide net and seeing how many gullible people they can catch and squeeze money out of.
What about optional date fields in a Django application?
Well let's hope that everyone else in the world becomes as uninteresting and uncontroversial as you, so they enjoy the comfort of de facto privacy. So what if all human progress grinds to a halt?
FTA:

> Radtke’s company, First Meta, said it was "shocked and saddened by the tragic loss."

> First Meta allows users of virtual currencies such as bitcoin to trade and cash out the currencies. It is one of several such exchanges.

Maybe journalism isn't the problem here?
Well i have been working on the following project for some months whenever i manage to find spare time.
Between working 8 hours a day and playing professional basketball, time is hard to find.

www.fitorganizer.com
It is a personal trainers appointment scheduler.
It is still in early alpha stages, and i am working on making a better calendar at the moment ( which is open source on github ), adding hours and figuring what needs to go where is harder from what i thought it might have been.

The version on line is a bit old, as i havent updated it for a few months. My local one is much better and fixes several bugs, with a newer database design.

Feel free to break stuff.
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CoffeeStrap is joining RockStart to target conversational skills
> Yes poorly written or tautological tests are useless

> It helps to step through the process of what the function should return given what parameters it is given.

Congratulations, you just described tautological unit testing. Unit testing should be about guiding design and describing the behavior of the subject under test. Focusing on input-output testing is exactly what leads to the "unit testing is worthless" blog posts.
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004
What's wrong with drinking a small amount of alcohol? There is a small amount of evidence that it is good for you in small amounts* and it is [or can be] a social experience. You can meet a lot of interesting people in pubs. Beer and wine contain antioxidants.

I really really enjoy a beer or two now and then, and I'm not going to feel the least bit guilty about it.

I also happened to meet my (now) husband in a pub.

* http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1059/is-alcohol-...
Support 5th grade girls creating an ingenious solution for flash floods
Seven 5th grade girls in Austin creating an ingenious solution for flash floods,
need to have 100 comments by Friday night on their blog page:

http://highlightersFLL.wordpress.com

Here is their presentation:

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Our robotics team, The Highlighters, made up of seven 5th grade girls, will be competing in the FIRST ®LEGO® LEAGUE invitational tournament this Saturday. In addition to designing and programming a robot made out of Legos to complete missions on a game field, we were asked to design an innovative solution to a real world problem with this year’s theme NATURE’S FURY®.

We chose to focus on Flash Flooding as our topic of study after we saw the terrible flooding that occurred in Colorado shortly after the challenge began this Fall. Soon after that, Austin was hit with heavy rains and we saw the effects of flooding and the unfortunate tragedies from flash floods right in our own town.

Despite the current signs and barricades used to warn us of flooded roads, Central Texas still leads the nation in flood related deaths and 75% are vehicle-related at low water crossings. This inspired us to design an automatic flood warning system that would be a great improvement over existing signs and barricades.

We took first place in the research portion of the FLL® competition at our Qualifier in December. We recently learned to make blogs in school so in order to get our ideas out to the community and get feedback that may improve our design, the team has created a blog describing our invention, the Flash FLare FLood FLoat (FL4).

We would be very grateful if you would take a few minutes to look over our blog and leave a comment with feedback on our ideas and design. The judges really like to see that the teams have reached out to the community. Our goal is to have 100 comments by Friday night to print and show the judges on Saturday morning so feel free to forward this to anyone you think may like to help us.
The whole point is that it paints a huge target on his back. And he isn't even using that 400m to do anything deserving of vigilante/criminal attacks, and no one knows if he even really has it
Lets Try: Duo - A Dual Mobile and Desktop Web Browser
MoodyLight - Build your very own lighting with LED Lighting control platform
Bill Gates spends millions of dollars per year on personal security.
While I agree this is surprising behavior and I wouldn't design an API this way, it is documented behavior. From the docs:

"in Boolean contexts, a time object is considered to be true if and only if, after converting it to minutes and subtracting utcoffset() (or 0 if that’s None), the result is non-zero"

Changing at this point would possibly break code that relied on documented library behavior. That's not a responsible thing to do.
I always write "if x is None", trying to be explicit.
The quick jump-to-object functionality is killer for me, seems like a great plugin!

Looking forward to playing with it
I know, but I think that under Apple restriction is possible to deliver better experiences than a rooted Android.
The idea of making the software worse to increase some arbitrary measure of "maturity" is sad and amusing. It makes me think of the saying "what gets measured gets done." It seems it would make more sense for management to be serious about things that actually matter, like customer satisfaction, user experience, productivity, and defects in production.
If you go through to google translate the actual app then you get a much better answer http://translate.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sl=en&tl=la&text...

This is output from the WORDS program http://archives.nd.edu/whitaker/words.htm

=> quod: Pronoun

who; that; which, what; of which kind/degree;

person/thing/time/point that;

who/whatever, everyone who, all that, anything that;

any; anyone/anything, any such; unspecified some; (after si/sin/sive/ne);

who?, which?, what?; what kind of?;

lesser: Adverb

with respect to which;

lesser: Conjugation

because, as far as, insofar as; [quod si => but if];
Testability falls out of good design. Testability is not worth optimizing for on it's own, though. It's just a nice side effect.

Read Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided By Tests. The authors walk through the development of an auction sniper.
Except that Nakamoto lives in LA.
If anti-government and inexperienced then: 'These libertarians are just backwards and don't understand government'

If anti-government and experienced then: 'Hypocrites!'

else: more government

It's a stronger position to oppose something you are experienced with and benefit from. Imagine a nuclear engineer who's advocating that the new plant she's working on is being built dangerously by the people in charge. Would you refuse to listen to her because she works there?