skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same story here, down to the dollar amount, except I was in the WP7 store. I say was because earning cents an hour wasn't a terribly attractive proposition.
Commie pinkos.
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A condo would be strange as well, why would (how could) they have purchased another place so soon after having their previous place foreclosed upon.
Hell, that IS my vacation much of the time. I went to Osaka with no firm plans in mind, though I eventually checked out Kobe, Nara, and saw some of the local sights. It was a blast. I drank in some cool bars, chatted up cute Japanese girls, and ate in completely random, nearly hidden ramen shops. The same with Brisbane, Queensland a couple of years later.

When I was in college I'd go into New York City and just wander around. I walked from the Empire State Building to the World Trade Center (the original was still standing). A cool place to walk in (though overwhelming and a bit dangerous if you don't know where not to go).
One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos
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I'm surprised they employed him at all, if that's their attitude.

If they expect "the proprietary ... know-how" and experience of all employees to remain confidential, then surely they can't have expected him to use any of the knowledge he gained working anywhere else previously, when he started working for them.

If that's the case, employing Carmack gains you nothing over employing a fresh new graduate, except that it costs a heck of a lot more.

Or are they just another bunch of fucking hypocrites?
Maybe you don't need a technical solution. Maybe opt-outs with HIPAA-style fines for noncompliance would work.
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"Salaried employees are paid regardless of hours worked, which means that you are technically always employed, regardless if you're expected to be working."

I don't know what third-world despot you've gotten stockholm syndrome for, but that is absolutely not true. Salaried employees can, and often do, have second jobs, run their own businesses, from restaurants to real estate ventures.

You are not the property of your employer. Salaried employment is an arrangement which cannot legally demand more than 40 hours of you. It often does, but I'd actually argue in those cases that the agreement is in breach and not binding at all.

Just because some states have stricter guidelines on how these lines can be drawn does not mean that you are ever the property of your employer.
I wonder how many NH readers would benefit from reading in that book (a lot I guess) and also how many have no immediate access or consider the asked price unreasonable (probably fewer, but still many).
Paper: among characteristics not mentioned, where a passage occurs in a page (or how far within a book or article) is part of the context, and I suspect that human's spatial memory comes into play with this. Online infinite-scrolling content lacks this particular clue, and even PDFs only offer the "where on the page" vs. "how far into the book" aspect. I can also often remember my place in a book simply by staring at the page number and committing it to memory -- at least for a few hours or overnight. Though bookmarks are useful.

Electronic: Over half a century into the digital age and I think a significant problem is that we still haven't settled on the "right" format for real information consumption. There are plain-text documents, simple HTML, word-processing formats, postscript and PDF documents, and now eBook formats. Absent its lack of text search, ghostview -- 'gv' on Linux -- is still one of the best reading clients I know of, particularly in how it advances through the text. The Internet Archive's online book reader is the best I've seen bar none, in particular its light-weight feel and auto-cropping of text so that the actual content of the book is centered on the page. I've submitted a request to evince (the GNOME PDF reader) that it do similarly. Still, I find myself constantly fighting with even the best PDF readers at finding the right balance between text sized large enough to read and fiddling with positioning the page onscreen.

Electronic formats may not be as good for first encounter and deep studying, but they are immensely useful for quick reference: the ability to 1) carry around a library of thousands of volumes and 2) instantly search to or open to a particular page or phrase is hugely useful. The ability to create an external reference that will find the relevant passage in whatever form of the work you have handy (similar to a URL, but not specific to a given instance) would be magical.

Some limitations of electronic formats can be mitigated somewhat: there are bookmarks, annotations, and other forms of marking up documents, though none match the immediacy of a penciled margin note, underlined passage, or dog-eared page.
Still seems strange to me that they're that low.
Designing for users and designing to enhance income is not usually the same.

It's not an either/or choice.
That's a tough call, especially for small companies. There are very real support expenses (not every app or it's users have SaaS-like support requirements) that don't make this an easy call.
> The short answer is C++ gives control and abstraction on demand, an unusual combination.

Ada, Modula-3, the Oberon language family as well.

But they lacked a proper OS vendor support and faded away.

Ada seems to be raising up, thanks to GNAT and continuous security issues with C and C++. At least from its increasing presence at FOSDEM.
I find myself pacing back and forth whenever I get deep in thought about something. I love walking outside just to think, and it's where I get my best ideas. Though I wouldn't be comfortable doing it in a city around other people.
That was an excellent essay. It started off speculating about the future of the video cassette. He speculated that they would eventually be mobile with a self-contained power source, and that they would be able to present their images to you without disturbing those around you. Controls would become almost automatic. They would stop when you looked away and resume when you looked back, and you could skip around or repeat sections at will, and play the cassette at your own pace. He finishes:

You'll have to admit that such a cassette would
be a perfect futuristic dream: self-contained,
mobile, non-energy-consuming, perfectly private,
and largely under the control of the will.

Ah, but dreams are cheap so let's get practical.
Can such a cassette possibly exist? To this, my
answer is Yes, of course. The next question is:
How many years will we have to wait for such a
deliriously perfect cassette?

I have an aster for that, too, and a quite
definite one. We will have it in minus five
thousand years--because what I have been
describing...is a book!
Make sure you don't have settings or extensions (from previous installs perhaps) that are changing your user agent. I personally don't like sites checking user agents. I say give me what you got and let me decide of my browser is supported or not.
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It is a little more complicated than what I said.. The article has a pretty good explanation.

In the article: the first case the supreme court heard on the matter was a chicken farmer who said planes flying overhead were scaring his chickens, and they would fly into walls from fright. He had about 150 dead chickens. The planes were flying at 83 ft. He lost that case.

Here's the Wikipedia "air rights" article... it has a section on the US:

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

A quote:

Specifically, the Federal Aviation Act provides that: "The United States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States."[2] The act defines navigable airspace as "airspace above the minimum altitudes of flight…including airspace needed to ensure the safety in the takeoff and landing of aircraft."[3]

It also mentions a 500ft min limit for sparsely populated areas. But note, that's a limit set by the FAA. They may lower it or raise it if they want to.

In the wikipedia article you'll also find a quote from a case by a property owner suing a nearby airport. I think it perfectly sums up the rights of property owners with regards to the air.. but it's a little long to post here.
No, it's the same in every field, because the process of getting tenure in about every field is the same: publish lots of times. "Lots" might be different in different fields, but it still comes down to "publish a lot." Publishing a lot is actually a lot closer to incentivizing bad science than not.

I'd encourage you to look past your pre-existing notions of what makes a "hard" science branch and actually talk to people who are the boots on the ground about what is really going on in academia.
> I'd rather have declarative builds like Ant

Is that a typo? I'd say Ant is the opposite of declarative.
Very cool. I looked at it for two minutes and noticed a lot of changes. It must mean a lot of people are looking at it right now. fun stuff.
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This is a totally false and a distraction. We don't need a trusted execution environment. We just need rights enshrined in law.

Rights do not have to be guaranteed by bulletproof technology in order to be valuable. We might not be able to guarantee that corporations never overstep the bounds we set, but the threat of a lawsuit can be a powerful disincentive.
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The part I found strange was the mortgage they're paying on a new place, meaning they purchased another home. If the family was struggling financially, how could they have qualified for a loan to purchase another place so soon after having their previous home foreclosed?
After reading the injunction it seems that the court believes that the test is "a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits" not "a substantial likelihood for success."
> Might be many would benefit from taking walks like you do, I run instead, no patience for walking, but I probably should if only for the benefit of learning to be more patient.

One of the suggestions in the article is the walk mindfully. Unless you're familiar with usages of that term, it's not immediately clear what that means:

It's effectively suggesting meditation through walking. You shouldn't be able to take two steps without finding something marginally interesting to consider. That doesn't mean to write it down for later study, but just let it fill your mind for a moment, and then move on to the next interesting thing.

Walking is about getting to know the world by moving through it. That's a lot harder to do at the speed of a jog.
He needs asymmetric follows for his rants to get reach, and his rants don't fit in 140 characters. That leaves blogs and Google+, which is a tradeoff between better formatting controls and monetization (blogs) and realtime engagement (Google+). His choice makes perfect sense to me.
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I wonder if they made him sign an employment agreement as a condition of their acquisition. It's common for these agreements to confer all rights in anything developed or conceived, on the clock or off, with or without employer resources, regardless of subject matter, to the employer. These provisions vary in their enforce-ability by state. Generally, if the IP relates to your job function, even tangentially, it can cause a lot of grief.
Half of homeless had brain injury beforehand
> But enough writing Go in Java. Let’s try Erlang.

Nice
May I ask where do you live?

Most places in the world are pretty safe actually, and dangers live mostly inside our heads.
Wild Rumor of Apple EarPods with Biometric Sensors Has Roots in Apple's Research
Ask HN: What do you know about The Summit?
Our start-up was just admitted to the Alpha Program of The Summit [1]. However, after getting admitted, we were told that we could only exhibit for one day, instead of the full three.

This, in combination with the fact that we must still pay for the attendee tickets-- no small cost for a bootstrapping company- and that we must decide/reply whether we will attend roughly 48 hours after being told we were accepted, raises some red flags in my mind.

Does anyone know if this program is worth it? Or have any experiences they would like to share?

Thanks.

[1] http://www.thesummit.co/startups/alpha
Some pruning is planned for Java 9, at least is was announced so at Java One last year.
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He's not like that? You mean aside from everything he's ever written, every interview of his I've read, his Twitter activity, and so on and so forth?

> I wonder what gwern thinks of Taleb's xyz

I'll save you some time: Taleb is a pundit who has forgotten all the truths he learned about randomness, who makes shallow analogies (to take the last one I remember which irritated me: muscles are anti-fragile? Uh, no, they're optimized for minimizing resource usage and that's why exercising stops them from underperforming and produces illusory 'anti-fragileness'; put real stress on them and you'll get something like rhabdomyolysis), whose financial ideas seem to have been refuted in practice without any acknowledgement by him of this. And his personal style destroys any possibility of meaningful discussion with him: he lives in a world where he is surrounded by sycophants or fools. If he is right about anything, it'll be the usual stopped-clock thing; just like Seth Roberts, his methods do not allow him to regularly arrive at truth, and so unless one plans to investigate his claims in detail, he is better avoided since he is a good writer who is good enough to fool a great many people with ideas which, if implemented, will predictably make them worse off on average. OP is an example of this: he says he has learned an abrasive personality style from Taleb, which is not going to make his life better.
Many thanks. When I have something close to a final product I will get in touch with you.
No offense taken.

I just felt that your knowledge is seriously outdated or not based on actual usage of the OpenBSD tool (which, by the way, has had a steady stream of improvements throughout its existence). And it looks like I was right, if your experience is indeed based on FreeBSD & NetBSD. OpenBSD has its own tool, which was written from scratch on and for OpenBSD by Marc Espie. It is not based on the code by Hubbard. It is not at all the same thing the other BSDs have.

As for your own ports tree -- well, I can't tell what is the best method for your scenario; I primarily use the binary packages (and sometimes compile things outside the ports tree). But the most obvious thing to do (which I've done) is to checkout the official ports tree, add your own ports and/or make your changes in it and use it as such. You might have to merge upstream changes if they've updated something you have touched. But if you want to track the official ports in addition to your own, then it makes all the sense to watch out for overlapping updates, no?

Also, if you're bumping ports because the OpenBSD porters haven't done so yet, it might be a good idea to send the diff to ports@.
Stay away from camel's milk and Egyptian tomb bats
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Adventures in HTML 5 Sound: A Developer's Journey
That's because suburbia is boring. Come to the city.
It's pretty alarming that the net financial outcome of all his efforts and 4Snaps' popularity and success is not enough to even pay his private school tuition. No doubt the intangibles will transform his life (network, fame, Zuckerberg, experience, etc...), but as a commentary on the viability of the app store for monetary gain in games, it's pretty bleak.

As a developer, it was wildly successful (can't overstate that enough). As an entrepreneur, it was a big failure. If, as an entrepreneur, you're jealous of his success, you need to reevaluate your priorities and consider a change of profession.

Too much Silicon Valley navel-gazing here.
To this day I credit Nibbles and QBASIC in MSDOS for getting me started in programming. This was a little later than the 80s (QBASIC was introduced in 1991). As a bored computer savvy kid discovering a game installed on my computer and realizing that I could change the game was all it took to eat up hours of fun.
If your response to the logic flaws in your original argument about the technology industry is to apply the same logic to engineering school, my response is to point out that the same logic flaws apply to engineering school.
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Not to disagree, but Apple had very steep educational discounts. My example: Mac SE with harddisk, ImageWriter II, Microsoft Word, and some other software for $2500. Macs were everywhere in higher education (except the business school).

My impression is most of the home computing scene largely moved over to Amigas and Atari STs.
Sounds like you might need to go for a walk.
I will be watching this closely, and I am going to start writing to my state representatives in case the court sides in the dealers' favor. This law should be clarified or repealed.
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Lots of userspace makes assumptions about page size being 4k and breaks when it changes. Try looking for:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="pagesize"+"64k"+"bug"

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="pagesize"+"64k"+"issue"

Another common one is actually in the kernel where filesystem block sizes are limited to page sizes, so from this point of view large page sizes are better:

https://lwn.net/Articles/591690/
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Totally agree. When I lived in a large city I walked a lot more. Not for the reasons you say though. In my suburban home everything I need is at most a 5-10 minute walk away. Because a city is a much larger place it took 10-15 minutes to get from my apartment to most places (coffee, convenience store, public transport etc.).
Unfortunately, it had the exact opposite effect.
The Future of Chicken: How to mass-produce meat without breeding killer microbes
I did a side project in Play! some time ago. While it was generally OK to use, Java in Play is definitely a second class citizen compared to Scala. Most documentation (which btw is sorely lacking) concerns how to do stuff with Scala and you'll have to figure out how to do the same in Java yourself.

Even worse, breaking backwards compatibility between even minor releases seems to be standard for this framework. So once you've finally managed to find some piece of documentation from some random source on the net (as again, the official documentation is pretty much a joke) you'll find that it doesn't work at all because it was written with Play! 2.0 in mind which is different from 2.1 which is different from 2.2 and so on.

Once you figure it out, it's a pretty nice framework. It's a shame so little attention seems to be paid to exposing that in a better fashion.
+1 for the starcraft races and the selection of Pokemon.
Microsoft has issued a fix for IE
Using 'declarative webservices' on NixOS
Sounds like it's the implementation of the audio library using thread in the wrong way. Has nothing to do with threading in Java. Nodes could have the problem of starving the audio playback if other parts of your code hogging too long of processing time. It's just shifting the problem around.
New in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: nginx 1.4 in main
Pay as you go solar. Payment done through mobile SMS banking networks like mPesa. Each unit has a SIM card to receive commands.

Considering solar panel costs are < $500 kW and Chinese lithium iron phosphate batteries are < $400/kWh, a financially sustainable business model is entirely possible.

Mobile operators are the ideal vendors but lack imagination. That's where you come in.
A wonderful age indeed. I see building apps becoming the new "lemonade stand" for kids.