skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, that's a nifty tool. How did you go about getting the idea to make it? Did the community ask for it?
Life of Steve Jobs becomes a French opera
Ask HN: Where to live during summer in/around Mountain View?
Long story short: I'm interning at Google, first time in CA, we 4 are looking for some lesser expensive housing options (corporate housing is expensive) near Googleplex. We have scoured through CL and airbnb but there is till a risk of getting scammed.

All we want is about 3 months of lease in a furnished apartment.

Any suggestions?
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> But, I actually use vector layers with layer styles ALL THE TIME. I actually use text layers with layer styles ALL THE TIME. I actually use non destructive adjustment layers ALL THE TIME.

Just use Inkscape and call it a day?
your dad doesn't have flash enabled ? how many toolbars did yo install ?
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Turn on Num Lock and it still works, including in Firefox.
The test suite is still there. I have had questions about the number of new tests that are not getting published -- http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2013/11/where-are-tests.html
Locked in a cycle of hate until the end of time. Just how it should be.
Not very 'live' ... The latest data I can retrieve is from the 23rd of March
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Yeah, ask people in Cuba
Why does it have to be either or?

Maybe your friend initially wanted to be friends with you for the utility reasons. But now over the years you've grown beyond that, you have a bond.

This is one of the reasons it's so hard to get rid of toxic friends (not saying you are toxic, just an example.) You've formed that bond that keeps you together even after the utilitarian reason is long gone.

Which begs the question, are there any friendships that don't start from a utilitarian reason? Why did you become friends in the first place? Did you work together? Have similar interests? Did you just need someone that wanted to play late night Japanese board games with you?

No matter the reason, it doesn't make your bond any less real.
Biggest thing I took away from this is organize your contacts from the very beginning of starting your business so you can easily turn them in to mailing lists. There are so many different types of people I've talked to over the years of running my business: investors, experts in various topics, journalists, executives and it would be so nice when we have something to put out to just be able to refer to those various lists vs. digging through email and inevitably only finding a subset of those people.
Maybe they already started following the plan:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/23/turkey-shoots-d...
Erdoğan, is that you?
> There are hundreds of companies in every city specializing in what Japanese call "Reform"

Is that more or less than one would expect for one of the wealthiest & most technologically sophisticated countries in the world?
It's all changed since a year ago. Bletchley guides are no longer allowed to show you the computers, you have to buy tickets specifically for the National Computer Museum

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/28/bletchley_park_sacks...
Or they earned more because changing their name might be a sign of strong motivation to fit-in and succeed.
flash is still around?
Q: do embedded videos on other domains (such as fixyt.com) get blocked, too? How does that work?
Personally I think this reasoning is totally bullshit.

People have a brain and can easily discern and analyze the information they get from different sources.
Internet, in this sense, is the main "method" to get information for gazzillion different sources, compare them, discuss with other people with other ideas and, in the end, come to a objective conclusion.

Shut it down is not at all a counter-measure... rather I suspect that only will push the people to rage against the oppressors of freedom to get information. That's a suicide measure and also the worst one because people will instantly think "woah, so this guy must have something really bad to hide if he is literally trying to shut down the internet".
How much of a threat is it there? Portland's sounded like an attractive place to try to move to, having the best bicycle transport "infrastructure" in the country. Seems like the side-effects like mudslides are worse than the direct effect of the earthquakes themselves in that region.

I moved back from Japan just a few months before the 2011 disaster.
Gah, I don't understand why everyone doesn't just have infinite money for goodness sake!
zerops comment has a list.
It is amazing the DNS system lasted this long. Turkey seems ready to push over this house of cards. Hopefully a namecoin type system will rise from the ashes. Trust without cryptography is dead.
Checking a steak (or most foods) for doneness is something it can't do, though--it can't see inside food. (You could get an "instant read" probe thermometer, like the Thermapen, but I did not recommend this because I don't use it that often for exactly the reason you mention: I usually have a good intuition if something is done or not already.)

Some more examples: If you want to make sure the oil for frying the chicken is at the right temperature, which is something you may already do with a conventional thermometer, this will make that faster and easier.

Wine experts (of which I am NOT one) have a whole "optimum serving temperature" list. The infrared thermometer is an easy way to check that. Beer, too. http://www.bettertastingwine.com/temperature.html

I mentioned checking your oven thermometer (which are notoriously poorly calibrated), but another use is finding hot/cold spots in your oven.

I don't do anything with chocolate, but if I did, I'd check the temperature with this.

When I make coffee or tea, I bring water to boiling... but then you're supposed to let it cool a bit, somewhere in the 180-200 degree range.
I would rather give for a funding of free online classes that would benefit to millions.
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99% of political activity runs over phone lines. Not using phones would basically shut down the whole government and parliament, throwing a country back to the XIX century, it just can't be done.

What you can do is to change phones and to loudly complain with your counter-espionage and police arms that this stuff shouldn't happen. Except Erdogan has lost most of those constituencies already, which is why these leaks are happening in the first place.
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Anybody knows what is the success rate of those?

I would pay to know how much people has their password listed in the first TOP 10 list.
Why the downvote? It just seems to be an unusual bio and would be interesting to see the history leading up the mill:
http://www.ftpress.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=DE5F140D-E5BF-4E83...
MH370-Thai satellite images show 'up to 300' objects in southern Indian Ocean
> Makes me wish people weren't so inflexible about the tiniest UI differences. It's difficult to please the converts.

I replaced Photoshop with Gimp years ago, but I still find Gimp incredibly painful to use. It accounts for a tiny proportion of my software use, but a massive proportion of my swearing. I use to think it was just down to being familiar with Photoshop, but I think I can only excuse it on that basis for so long.
This is great! Can anyone suggest a place where coders can reach out to people in non-tech industries and solve real problems for a change?
Clearly a neat demo of their hardware.

Big e-ink fan, but having an intermediary server like that should really lead to the devices being much cheaper, which I guess is an economies of scale problem.
It's probably the adult and mature content elsewhere on his domain.
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Exactly. I felt the same way when I watched their most recent videos. I kept thinking that there were things like GSAP which were already available that produce kick ass fluid animations for HTML. IIRC, their founder also said things like their framework wasn't easy to work with, but if you learn it and stick with it you can do great things. That's true of Javascript/WebGL, etc, already, so why bother with their framework at all?
Good article. Actually, you can share a lot of code, specially when you are using browserify (no copy/paste please :)

Where I work, we share model logic and validations between server and client side.
It depends if you have a $1 million dollars in runway then you can just pay them. If you have no money to pay them and no traction you have nothing of value.
An instrument - you can actually get perfectly reasonable starter version of most instruments for around that price point if you shop around, which will work fine when it comes to gigging too. Guitars, Basses, Midi Keyboards - you might have to shop around, but it is possible to get within the price limit.

I've been learning bass for the last month and a bit, and it has made a big difference to how I feel about myself and my confidence that I can pick up an entirely new skill from scratch, and that I can make music.

With things like LMMS and Hydrogen available, and lots of royalty-free free sample packs available, it is entirely possible to write and perform music on the cheap.

And if you're still not convinced? The tech industry seems to want us to be 'rockstar' developers, devops, admins, growth hackers, etc... so why not literally become one too? ;)
I have never taken homeopathic medicine but I am fascinated by the placebo effect.

It is one of the best researched effects (because most studies have a treatment group just with placebo) with very real results. Homeopathy for some people just seems to be a good vehicle for tapping into placebo. So yes, even if you're 'smart' and 'educated' it pays to reap the benefits of that mechanism. It would be shortsighted to paint these people as lesser than.

The irony is that people who feel compelled to discredit alternative approaches that have little scientific consensus are actually campaigning to take away an approach that works for some people, purely because it doesn't sit well with their beliefs.

Different story, of course, is criticising the way alternative medicine is practised. I believe there is as much malpractice and fraud there as there is in mainstream medicine and the food industry, which is a pity. This story just points out a very troubling production problems. Worser still is that this is not unique to one homeopathic production company, you can find similarly outrageous problems in other industries as well.
That comment seems to be dead.
You can patch the browser to disable HSTS, but if you allow patching the browser to break the security intentionally, then all bets are off I'd say?

Surely the enforcement depends ultimately not on the browsers but rather on the server refusing non-TLS connection attempts?

No, HSTS capable browsers (Firefox and Chrome) will flatly refuse to connect if HSTS is in action. That's the whole idea and the defense against SSLstrip.
I just also want to add, that giving you a pool of paid time off that you can choose for whatever reason, allows them to deftly avoid the issue of the celebration of holidays that are of (possibly religious) significance to an employee, but not to the company - for example Passover or Yom Kipur.
Would this picture change your mind?

http://t.co/lCaMDBxZER

Seems they are working their way up the chain of services.
Stripe seems to be the default payment processor for tech startups. Especially now they are going to support Bitcoin.
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European Commission approves UK games tax breaks
English-like programming languages, like, yuck
I really like this concept. I can think of a bunch of ideas to take advantage of this hardware. However the hardware seems expensive. A kindle is only 120$ and I understand that amazon subsidizes them but what is the difference?

I don't understand why the server is needed. Can you use it without the server?
Rewriting the lexer benchmark in Go
>But so far I have not been able to figure out how to use it.

Have you looked at the tabs on the top of the screen? (Getting started, code snippets, etc.)? There is even a video of live coding with it.
Only if your privacy is worthless.
growth before all else. i'll take that.
Is it not also possible that the people with Anglicized names are a self-selecting group with high emotional intelligence quotients, or who possess generally above-average self-awareness? Both of these traits are indicative of career success, and make one more likely to change their name.[1]

[1] http://www.eiconsortium.org/reports/business_case_for_ei.htm...
Do it! It can be complimentary to this effort. Jim's educational work lives on and touches many people for free. See for example: http://rubykoans.com/ & http://gitimmersion.com/

You can contribute to these here: https://github.com/neo/ruby_koans

https://github.com/neo/git_immersion

[edited to be more constructive]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

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

By late 2003 it was already clear.
Not great advice for photo editing, which is a huge use case for nondestructive adjustment layers.
I know way too many developers whose understanding of server infrastructure only extends as far as the API for S3. Marco's advice is dead-on: learn the nuts and bolts rather than becoming reliant on a leaky abstraction. You can always specialize to a specific cloud host after you understand the basics... much harder to go the other way if you've made your app reliant on Amazon or Rackspace-specific services.
Californians especially are woefully unprepared for disaster. I started a local company (http://expresssurvival.com) selling survival kits and emergency gear to try to help the community get prepared and realize the importance of having those supplies when that next earthquake hits.

Most of us understand that its not a matter of if, but when we will need those emergency supplies, but as someone pointed out earlier, we are "whistling past the graveyard."
The other way to do this, which is common in (older?) 3d video games, is to render your scene twice, once normally and once with each object shaded in a unique flat colour. Then sample your second bitmap at the mouse position and map the pixel value back to your list of objects. This is very fast and only falls over when you start to have transparent objects, in which case ray-casting and r-trees become appropriate.
Technically videos could be accessed as they are served from googlevideo.com
I don't think I have a problem getting interviews, but random little biases similar to that is why I eventually decided to change my last name to my husband-as-of-Saturday's last name. I also happen to like that last name, but...

It was rather surprising to me when I realized the number of people telling me I shouldn't be pressured into changing my name was equal to the number of asian/minority women that changed names giving me not so subtle hints about what they've experienced. It frustrates me a little. But I have friends from all walks of life and everyone from the minimum-wage-job-paying-off-student-loans friends to doctors and lawyers were all telling me variations on the same story from all different settings. They went from sounding like a minority like I did and just getting whatever treatment they thought everyone else got (i.e. it wasn't explicitly racist, it was just...average), to sudden interest and respect that lasts even after people realize what race they are.

I do find it sad the other "married" privilege I'm laughing at is that I could be wearing literally anything even a crappy tshirt and yoga pants sweaty after a workout at the gym, and people will treat me differently based on whether or not I'm wearing my ring that has a 1ct stone. Especially when I frequent a store and the same cashier or owner still doesn't remember me but treats me like night and day based on it every. single. time. The effect is even better than walking up to someone to buy lots of things and they're a bit snobby like "you can't possibly want this or pay for it" until I pull out a platinum amex or a wad of 100s from my wallet.

This is (among other reasons) why I try so hard not to make buttloads of assumptions and pass instant judgment on others - I don't like being on the receiving end, and we're all guilty of being on the giving end too many times.
I'm very sorry but I really don't like that argument. That doesn't make it any less ghastly for others to be like that as well.

The argument you bring seems similar to what people say about the Crimea-Crisis (that 'the west' isn't allowed to complain because of Bosnia). Just because 'the west' interfered illegally in Bosnia, doesn't give Russia a free pass to do so as well.
i'm asian american (born and raised here in the us) but have completely anglo-sounding common first and last names.

i can say that i've never been discriminated against in a professional/work context, ever, and i think that has a LOT to do with it. probably all to do with it.

a lot of people think i was adopted. lol.
If you're using Photoshop for the purpose it was designed for (editing photos, not illustration/painting from scratch), then GIMP is absolutely inferior in its current form.

If you're making edits directly to source pixel layers (or even making duplicate flattened layers and working on those), you're doing it wrong.

Photoshop is designed for non-destructive editing. An essential part of that is adjustment layers. Many serious photographers will never switch to GIMP until it can match the non-destructive features of Photoshop.

Editing photos without adjustment layers is like writing code without revision control.
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I didn't know that Jim had died. I think I may have been on vacation when the news would have broken.

His work on Ruby Koans helped me tremendously when learning Ruby. And of course there's rake. This sort of thing feels like an appropriate match to his own contributions to the community. I couldn't give much, but hopefully my little bit can help.

A few notes for the developers of the page: the form fields are wonky on Firefox (upstream on Aurora at least) and I'd suggest a country field for non-Americans.
I've been paying the ~$20/month for awhile now. I'm totally happy with that, and I don't think that's an unreasonable expense, especially if you're using it professionally.
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https://solvers.io

Here is the one my team posted if you are interested: https://solvers.io/projects/R4Gr5vQTC8srHktEe
I read it a long time ago, but wasn't it the final conclusion of the Freakonomics study?
When I saw the headline, that's not even the reverse causality story that jumped into my mind; I thought instead, 'adopting an American name proxies for willingness to assimilate and abandon the Old Country and hence naturally predicts increased success' (similar to the 'black' name studies). Their Scrabble/unusualness metric fits this story just as well the obvious discrimination story.
It would be interesting to run the same study with immigrants (or children of immigrants) who are currently 20-30 years old.

As an immigrant myself, i would argue that those who have little existing financial foundation AND the desire to succeed - which is evident by act of immigrating - tend to be more successful overall.
This was expected and it was late than I expect. Now, they will block facebook and this will be their ending.
Best snarky answer from that thread: "Is Google overreaching by forcing you to log in with a password?"

Vaccine analogy answer from stackexchange: It's not just about you, it's about herd immunity. Having everyone have secure communications helps makes others secure as well.
15,000 user experiences and $2.2M later
Perhaps young men are more likely to immigrate than women? I believe I read somewhere Toxoplasma gondii causes higher birth percentage of males. Also the birth rate is naturally skewed. And then there are selective abortions, and less war to kill off all the young men.
But if there's trials that show they don't work, then you don't need to wait for positive results. The question isn't open, the question has been answered with a "no".

Absence of evidence where you should expect evidence is evidence of absence.
Given that the IRS can operate under any rules that the government pleases itself to create, regardless of any connection to reality, I don't think anyone there even attempts to discern whether a given rule is actually generating revenue or just fruitlessly destroying commerce.

As you say, anyone with enough cash available would always prefer settling with two trades using money instead of one barter trade. So really, the barter tax is only levied on people who don't have the money to pay it and on tax avoiders. The tax avoiders find another loophole; the poor people remain screwed.
Japanese has it's own word for this:
Tsundoku - the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other such unread books

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%A9%8D%E3%82%93%E8%AA%AD
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Fukushima changed the rotation of the earth as well (http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/japanquake/earth20...)

I think there are calculations on nuke tests and rotation as well but I'd expect they'd be a much smaller scale.
I've seen this in person. I got asked to lunch by a local branch of what I term a "body-shop" type consulting firm (just get you in the door so they get their fee). The two people from this company that attended lunch were a 20-something woman, dressed very attractively, and a "bro" type 30something man.

Totally missed the mark on influencing me :)
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It was interesting when we saw governments attempt it last time, too. And then they stopped, because they were overthrown.

I wonder if this is going to be a law, now ... a government that attempts to dismantle the internet a piece at a time in their country is going to fail.
Absolutely. Stripe understands how to build clean and easily usable APIs.
Ha! Yes, for floating point. I meant my post to more communicate that moving it behind a library/method would allow you to make that decision elsewhere easily. I did not even come close to making that point. (I got distracted reading some interesting hacks that approximate this in insane speed.)
I had the opposite experience so I can confirm it is Gimp's interface. I started with Gimp and found it painful to use. I spent hours and hours reading tutorials for basic actions. Photoshop on the other hand was easy to jump into and start using just by reading labels. You still have to read/watch tutorials but things are much better labeled and organized and you find buttons/menus where you expect them.
Plausible deniability is frequently more useful then encryption. The probability of someone messing with my packets in-flight is low. But TLS creates the problem that you are possibly then able to prove that the packets I sent came from me.
Any particular fixed point format will have slightly more precision/accuracy at the edges than a floating point format with the same number of bits, but then it will hit a brick wall and stop working entirely. And it's easy for it to have less precision/accuracy in practice because it's hard to keep each intermediate result at the exact right exponent.

Fixed point won't save you from the space kraken. Instead of going so deep into space that consecutive numbers gradually become .1 apart, your ship will spontaneously explode a fiftieth of that distance out.

It's probably much easier to use two coordinate frames than to properly use fixed point numbers. Then a ship can run physics relative to its center of mass or a nearby planet/moon and have very high precision/accuracy.