skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ended up disabling it after just a few days.

As for you, it didn't handle my locations at all. It picked up my home and work locations. Great. Except it kept showing me bus and train times after the bus or train in question had left. It kept showing me sports results - I'd rather read the phone book. It pretty much never showed me the information I'd like to see, and made it far harder to find the information I needed then and there vs. just bringing up the apps and bookmarks I already have.

Their voice recognition still has a <20% recognition rate for my accent (English w/Scandinavian accent), and that definitively does not make it any more useful.

Maybe in a few more years.
Do you really need a formal contract? Couldn't an email trail documenting the requirements, scope and fees be enough? I am trying to understand the need for formal contracts as recently I have been taking on more and more consulting projects.

My projects are typically high value and short term. I never ask my clients for a formal contract/NDA etc neither do any of my clients. After our phone conversations, I typically summarize the discussion in an email. I prefer to have most of our communication via email after the initial phone discussions. Only safeguard I take is with the new clients. I typically request shorter engagements (< $5K) with $1K-2K as advance payment which all new clients to date have complied.

I find that keeping things informal (avoiding or minimizing legalese) keeps my clients comfortable working with me and better relationships. May be it depends on clients, mine tend to be small investment firms (few partners) who most probably care less about legal stuff and more about value they are getting.
I always found the whole concept of Google gathering so much data about my movements, browsing, email etc. creepy.
Let's wait and see. From the recent events like MS fighting to revert uncopyrightability of APIs, or trying to sabotage patent reform which would cut software patents, it doesn't look like they seriously want to change. But may be more things are coming.
Exactly. I in fact was battling a jonesing for "2048" as I was writing that. I'm sure you all know that's a web game.. the 10GB games are no longer an issue for me because of that download bandwidth barrier. It does help. It kind of helps that the web games are kind of B.S. in comparison to the 10GB games. :-)
The headline doesn't mean anything. Primarily because I don't know what you mean by "invest".

I'm doing a PhD in Chemistry. My personal investments are (1) spending money to go to conferences (2) buying semi-respectable clothes I wear once a year (3) buying food that won't destroy my health.

I haven't got spare cash to get in on the ground floor of whatever cyberspace social hack that happens to be popular somewhere I don't live and is valued at a price I'm pretty sure is completely imaginary.

Your first move should be to hazard half a guess to your own question.
Me. I dropped out due to depression, got a GED, went to a community college, then transferred to a university and got my BS.
I’m throwing in the towel on FubuMVC
> Spaced Repitition [sic]

You know, you can just copy the title of the linked article (which was spelled correctly). It's less work than typing, and the chance of misspelling words is dramatically reduced.
Thanks for the flags tip!
Well, you'll need a bit of trial and error here.

Try changing the sshd config and send the sshd a reload signal.

Normally that keeps existing connections alive. YMMV.
Did that code snipet bother anyone else? Most of it is duplicate. I wanted to leave review comments...
@OrangeDuck - Just wanted to thank you. Your style is clear and ideas progress easily from the first chapter onward.

The links offered in this thread are wonderful, The University links are impressive. HN is a tuition free education.
Mozilla claims this is false: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...
That mindset of them being on a downward spiral is based on the idea that they don't lead any more, they only follow. And in the long run followers are irrelevant.
surprise! forces you to download Chrome. Of course, that could have been done as a webpage, but psst!
I feel bad for her, but if you wouldn't leave $2,000 in cash on a table at a coffee shop, you shouldn't leave it in electronics either.
A try-out can just be on the weekends. I'm sure some people can't even spare any weekends, but there are plenty that can. Many people work on open source in their free time - this isn't all that different.

And true, nobody needs a try-out period - but some want one, in order to help them evaluate their potential employer.

If your assertion is that none of the "best and brightest" want to test out their potential employer, then we'll have to agree to disagree.
>I'm really sick of this whole victimization mindset that a lot of women embrace.

Please leave my industry. This is not a joke; I am dead serious. Fix your sexism, fix whatever bizarre issues you have with the female gender, or please, just get out.

Every goddamn time I see someone picking on women, it inevitably leads to chauvinistic gradations of so-called masculinity that somehow conveniently always rank the bullying asshole and his friends as the "manliest" and everyone else as "pussies". So just don't even start.

>Like another comment said - nobody complains about there not being enough men in nursing.

Then start complaining.

>Wait, did someone just call programmer culture an "alpha-male" culture? That's hilarious.

This, at least, is correct. Programming, unfortunately, is full of butthurt "beta-males" pretending to be "alpha-males" because they were picked on in high school, read some idiotic blog posts about obsolete theories of wolf-pack structure, and decided that these idiotic status-hierarchy fantasies somehow apply to real life and real people. Except that they never really acquired the power to enforce these views outside their tiny little domain of circlejerking with their brogrammer friends.
it's quite creepy.
Let me step in right here. I'm not quite sure I get your reasoning or your disagreement.

As I understand it, yummyfajitas is saying [roughly] "here's how much money people make around the world, adjusted for purchasing power which means that it does make sense to compare. It's less than most people in the US. Obviously, they also live in much worse conditions, but that isn't the same as to literally be dying."

What yummyfajitas concludes from the above is that having less money won't lead to people literally being "unable to live", but rather "unable to live with the lifestyle they are currently accustomed to".

This is his position as I understand it.

Which part of that are you disagreeing with?
Apparently they must be rolling this feature out differently than other features which trickle down the channels. Maybe Google Now have been in the channels for a while without anybody knowing, just disabled unless some flag was enabled by either the client or a server. This way they can enable it for only certain users, circumventing the normal Channel release cycle.

I found this interesting quote in a 2014/02/03 blog post[1] on the Google Chrome blog:

"Update 3/24/2014: Starting today and rolling out over the next few weeks, Google Now users in all languages will be able to get these notifications in all channels of Chrome. To enable this feature, simply sign in to Chrome with the same Google Account you’re using for Google Now on Android or iOS."

This also suggest that they are using a different release approach than just relying on the release-channels.

[1] http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/02/get-notifications-from-go...
Thanks for linking to this!

I've been building a toy language by mutating the excellent Lua 5.2 runtime, it's one of my silly side projects aimed at taking me out of my coding comfort zone.

Looking into the LuaJIT code to figure out how they did it has been on my list for a few days now, and this introduction to DynASM provides an nice starting point (LuaJIT itself is based on Lua 5.1 and unlikely to be updated).
I confess I'm a little puzzled by all this; why would someone use this? You pretty much need to have such a computer already to use it, so what does it get you?
Building an App with Meteor
On top of that, having services with an understanding of a four year old child push things into my information stream is really rather annoying. If I want to know I'll ask. Otherwise someone mature around me, who knows me well, will tell me, and will not be tempted to be sharing all they know about me with someone else at the drop of an invisible court order.
UPDATE: Came across this video (40 seconds in), which all but confirms SimpleLink - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLOzF0Y4Mqw
It is Haskell spam wave. Every time there is something about FP lots of Haskell bigots jump out. Well, you could ignore this movement, but you cannot because beneath all of this at its core Haskell is pure immutable BS and actually it is first language with built in bugs because it wouldn't even run without them.
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That seems right. It's conceivable that microsaccades could be affected by diffraction effects in unusual situations. But it seems like shading (even specular highlights) couldn't be perceptibly affected.
I thought I was being given a command.
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Side note: 40 hr/wk at minimum wage is actually ~1000 month after taxes.

1400 would require ~10.50 an hour.
I find the article and this comment to be idiotic. Nobody is "confused" about MPG. It clearly is a measure of fuel "efficiency", read the fucking label.

GPM is essentially useless for anything because mom doesnt live 3 gallons away she lives X miles away and the price of gas varies along the route as do which car/motorcycle or jetski I may use to get there.

I swear to god sometimes HN makes me want to shoot myself in the fucking head with this pretentious nonsense.

Now go back to writing your amazing app that calls a taxi.
Tech and finance don't make food, serve food, clean, ensure sanitation, do landscaping, trash removal, construction, auto repair, transportation, make clothing, or 100 other things that people will continue to spend money on and where human labor will continue to be needed.

I agree that a low-skilled worker is at a disadvantage, but assuming that a tech/finance slanted world offers no low-skilled jobs seems incorrect to me.
Frames per seconds is better in almost every way. When you use it to watch movies it is better since a normal human understands seconds but not what a frame is. In gaming, frame times usually vary quite a lot, and the average, which is fps, is the important part.
Did this article have some kind of point other than to make its author's reactionary views sound polite?
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Yep.. I find that an addiction analogy is useful. If you told a heroin addict to visualize how crappy their future will be if they keep using, how effective do you think that would be? It's not a rational process. Reminding one of how awful a person they are might simply trigger a stronger urge to fix.

Being mindful of future happiness definitely keeps me on track. But I think the core problem is that one's "body" has learned strategies for temporarily ameliorating stresses that are nearly impossible to talk down. One must simply deny the body the fix in the hopes it will reduce its chemical urge.
I don't find it that useful or intuitive. It does keep me up to date on the weather where I am, but I can look out a window or use any of a bunch of widgets for real time/location weather. The destination service is always telling me how far work or home is away (regardless of my calendar) depending which one I am further from. The stocks doesn't seem to follow what I'm interested in too closely despite using Google Finance on the desktop. I do like when it has brought up flight details but this is not consistent enough to rely on. Currently it seems best for suggesting articles to read as it knows if I've been googling a topic or product.

Overall I'll keep adding my information manually and allowing passive collection. I have seen it improve quite a bit from it's earliest iteration . Getting Now working well will take some time. It has great potential utility if they nail it.
May I suggest OpenRC:

http://blog.notfoss.com/posts/openrc-on-arch-linux/
That's a good attitude. Political correctness is insane.

But you don't need a new throwaway account for each "bold" statement you make. Speak up, though. The world needs more people waking others up.
Do they integrate sensory information from those stimuli though? Do they create a subjective representation of what those stimuli are, and use that representation to guide their actions? I think those are the questions I would ask to find out if they could experience something as subjective as suffering. As far as I know the answer is negative for plants.

If you could describe something functionally akin to ganglia or a CNS in a plant, I would have to reconsider my position.
Ok, this one definitely needs chrome to work correctly. Horrible clicking in Firefox.
I would not say that dependency of the layers is like a tree and if trunk breaks, everything does. I'd rather see the levels of programming abstractions as a graph with lower/higher level nodes.

As it is pointed out in the comments above, x86 has surprisingly much of a duct tape in it. There is a lot of much more saner platforms, but programming still lives happily on x86. Why? Because it does not matter at all so often. x86 is hidden from us with OS, compilers and virtual machines. That's where the beauty of programming shines: if you have a lame implementation below your level, just abstract it away as far as resources allow you (e.g. full-scale managed memory programming is theoretically possible in DOS but noone did it because of CPU/memory constraints). Another example: Win32 API and MFC and other native stuff is horrible, but .NET platform seems to be quite sane. Javascript is horrible, but jQuery is, um, beautiful.

On the other hand, a hardware guy still operates with an abstraction of a microcontroller. If memory is corrupted, his abstraction fails also. It's just that the HW guy does not have to invent good abstractions often (or rather at all).

The point is, abstracting may be self-healing: if something is broken at some level, a level above can use the good parts to build a fully functional emulation.
It's not the exact percentiles that matter, but one's relation to the means of production. If you work and earn a wage or salary for your living, without which you would become destitute or dependent, you are a proletarian. If you earn your living largely from capital assets, as capital-gains or dividends, and can choose to work or not, you are a capitalist.

The precise matter underlying income inequality is that the income distribution between labor and capital has become tilted strongly towards capital.
That sounds like the wrong way to do it tbh. What about a deployment key?

Not sure if that is any easier on eb though. Some other ideas: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13476138/setting-up-priva...
I think you are conducting a lot of armchair psychoanalysis without any basis. Since I am conveniently present here to help test your theories about my moral views, why don't you take the opportunity and engage in good faith?

Let's start with this: Why is it you think that everything experiences pain in some way? Can you elaborate on what you think 'experiencing' or 'some way' entail?
so I just googled 'DRAM chip' and this class action lawsuit popped up if anyone is interested: http://blog.seattlepi.com/boomerconsumer/2014/03/04/dram-chi...

" DRAM is a widely used form of computer memory that is found in many products including personal computers, servers, and MP3 players. Regardless of the brand name, most of these types of products produced between 1998 and 2002 contained DRAM chips.

“This price-fixing wrongly forced consumers and state agencies to pay more for computers and other high-tech products containing DRAM chips,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Tuesday. “This settlement will provide some monetary relief for affected consumers.”

The total multi-state settlement is $310 million. The amount of money returned to Washington state consumers depends on how many claims are filed and the types of products they purchased, Ferguson said."

price fixing?! interesting.
It get this at the moment. We have something new that the old hands say can't be done. We've proven it in the lab to our satisfaction and those that "know" just shake their heads. They do want more detail though.

It is fun to take methods that are 80 years old and update them with new technology and have them outperform the state of the art.
55 MPH is nothing of the sort. My BMW reaches the same efficiency at 75 MPH as your honda does at 55 MPH. This has been debunked years, no centuries, NO EONS ago when Ronald Reagan decided to enforce a federal speed limit in exchange for provisioning interstate construction money.

Its a fallacy, its wrong, and its well known. Stop spreading the 55 MPH is efficient pablum.

Are you seriously all 18 year olds in here?
I am surprised by the hostility displayed by the systemd guys. I was expecting them to admit they were wrong, and things would be back on track.

With such a reply, I wonder what effect will this have on kdbus making forays into the kernel (not that I am looking forward to it ;).
That blog post is bad and you should feel bad. Seriously? Men can be low-status while women can't, because women have bodies to show off?

Please tell me, at the very least, that you didn't actually write that.
Was was thinking more of tubes with ladders inside. But this one looks great too!
OK, I was confused because it seems to make the most sense to me to eliminate race and class as factors. So if you were to take into account race and class, what conclusions could you make considering that overall men are less likely to be college graduates than women? If say upper class white men are equally likely to be graduates compared to upper class white women, then that would mean, for example, lower class black men would be egregiously disadvantaged compared to lower class black women. So your point would be that male privilege only applies to rich white men and that privilege is reversed for poor black people and for that group women are privileged over men?

Let's look at the gender wage gap. Assume someone looks at the statistics that say that overall women earn less than men and says, why aren't race and class considered as factors? Why would someone say that, and what possible conclusions could they reach if they were to slice up the data for those demographics? They could say that some demographics are equal or in favor of women, but overall it would still be in favor of men, so what sort of point could they make there?
Nociception implies that the raw sensory data is being processed or encoded in some way. This can't happen without a nervous system. Plants don't have a nervous system, ergo, nociception is not occurring. I am quite convinced that this is consistent with our current understanding of the biology, but would be happy to learn differently.

Another way to approach this ethical dilemma is to proceed from a position of harm minimisation. When you consider energy inputs required to generate plant based calories versus animal based calories, the former is just about always more efficient. To the extent that we consider the moral harm of animal suffering greater or equal to plant suffering, if it exists, we must tend to substitute to plant-based calories to minimise the total suffering we inflict on other life.
The linked article claims that an e-mail can be deleted from the recipient's email in-box, regardless of whether the recipient is running a Pluto client.

Earth to Pluto ... assuming the received e-mail is a classic plain-text e-mail, that's impossible. Either the recipient is running a Pluto-compliant client, in which case the claim is true, or the recipient is not running a Pluto-compliant client, in which case the claim is false.

The only way this could work is if the received e-mail has content linked to Pluto's site (example would be an HTML e-mail containing an iframe with hosted content), where the real e-mail is located. So ... they should be honest and say that.
I use Sup, which is also my primary email client.

http://supmua.org/
I can think of quite a few reasons off the top of my head.

Working from home - Perhaps you or your employees home machine is a Mac. An alternative is poking a hole in your office internal network to RDP to your PC.

Conserving office energy - Have workers shut off their office PCs at night.

Upgrade path - Perhaps your company has older PCs running XP. This is one option to an upgrade path to Windows 7 and future versions of Windows.

Easy deployment - Perhaps you work in an environment with lots of employee growth. Get them up and running fast.

Thin terminals - Have a less powerful, bare bones machine for access to your Remote Desktop. Imagine employees running off of devices like a raspberry pi.

Terminal stations - Work from different desks in a larger complex.

Licensing - This can be a cheaper or preferably month to month option for people wanting to run Office but not wanting to pay the full up front cost.

Testing - Perhaps your office has Mac desktops and you need a Windows PC your company can share.

That should get you started :)
No. Having module import perform side effects delays program startup unnecessarily and makes the semantics of the program depend on the order in which modules got initialized, which is confusing.
I like what GitHub does with a deleted account:

https://github.com/ghost
Finally, some confirmation! The similar names made me instantly wonder if there was a connection when I saw their booth at a career fair. During the entire interview process, though, no one I asked had even heard of BugMeNot, or knew if they were connected. It's just sad, really...
Plants are not capable of nociception, as far as I can tell from my familiarity with the biology. They don't have nociceptors. They don't have integrating organs to interface with nociceptors. They don't feel.

I'd be happy to have you explain how this is not the case.
So your point would be that male privilege only applies to rich white men and that privilege is reversed for poor black people and for that group women are privileged over men?

Sort of. At least, that's the net result. But it isn't because gender privilige is truly reversed- it is because they are weighted down by things like incarceration, which impacts men more than women, and gang violence, which also impacts men more as more men join gangs!
Yeah, that's a function call.