skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will we ever really know? "How many U.S. security IT startups come from 'No Such Agency'..."

The limit does not exist.
I disagree. (Obviously, since I submitted the article.) The regulatory debate about Airbnb in New York as I had always heard it framed was about "outdated" hospitality regulations that needed to be "updated" to accommodate the sharing economy. In this context, I think it is widely assumed that the New York regulations are focused on sanitation, safety, etc. concerns for hotel guests. What this points out is that, in reality, the hospitality laws (at least in part) serve to prevent the extremely high demand for hotel rooms in new York City from gobbling up large chunks of housing inventory, thus driving up already-astronomical housing prices. Hence the ban on renting out whole apartments, or single rooms for more than 30 days: this sort of space could plausibly be used as residential housing for New Yorkers. New York would rather this capacity be sold on the residential housing market than made available for tourists on Airbnb. A person might disagree with this policy goal, but it does not strike me as archaic or obviously stupid.

Also, it is written by "the Editorial Board." That is, it is the "official" position of the newspaper. If you would like to know who is on the Editorial board, you can follow the link at the bottom of the article. Or this one: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/opinion/editorialboard.ht... It's interesting that you find this aspect of the editorial so objectionable because I believe, in most circles, an editorial by the Editorial Board of a publication is taken much more seriously than editorials by whomever the Editorial Board allows to write in their paper which do not necessarily reflect the view of the publisher.
This is his second account. A while back his first account "ConradsCigars" or something like that was posted on somethingawful and it got quite popular. At the time it was implied that these were some sort of smoking fetish videos. He didn't like the attention and deleted them all. Looks like he's going strong again now.
Hopefully, AppLinks will make the transition more seamless :)
> I'm a little skeptical of this.

The title did warn that it is an opinionated guide.

I think most projects that used Maven before Gradle don't have enough incentive to migrate. A lot of the new projects, however, start out with gradle: Vert.x, Crate.io, RxJava.
Reminds me of @googuns_staging: https://twitter.com/googuns_staging

Here's an article about it from last year: http://www.theawl.com/2013/03/spy-twitter-is-weird-twitte
Mr. Matt_Cutts, its interesting that you have not responded to questions as to why Google does not provide comprehensive reasons why they ban accounts, and why they do not have a simple and direct interface where publishers can deal directly with the adsense support team, also as someone who works for Google, your reactions are far from authentic and substantive - your responses amount to the same kind of fluff you and your webspam team seek to fight in SERPS. Your reaction deserves no ounce of credibility whatsoever until you start to address the pertinent questions being raised here. Look at the number of publishers who have had their accounts banned arbitrarily and all you do is turn up and tell us your colleagues are confirming the post is fake, seriously???, what can they say?and you tell us the leak has many typos and the terminology is wrong-- so you think that should suffice to debunk the leak , not quite - there might not be merit in the leak but there is definitely merit AROUND the story ....Google's monopoly is stinking to the sky and its the only company I know where customers are not king... let me guess, you will babble and jabber on with every other nonessential interest area of the story rather than addressing the burning questions that every publisher is asking
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One of the main criticisms of git has been its user interface (which to be fair, has improved considerably over time). People often compare it to Mercurial's, unfavourably.
Agree that instanceof is wrong and discredits the article.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but here is how polymorphism along with the double dispatch pattern would work: NaiveActor#handleLifecycleMessage will need to delegate to the event subclass, which will in turn select the appropriate method on NaiveActor.

Example of subclass of LifecycleMessage:

class ExitMessage implements LifecycleMessage {
@Override
void handle(BasicActor actor) {
actor.handleExitMessage(this);
}
}

In NaiveActor:

@Override
protected void handleLifecycleMessage(LifecycleMessage m) {
m.handle(this);
}

@Override
protected void handleExitMessage(ExitMessage m) {
if (Objects.equals(m.getActor(), myBadActor) {
System.out.println("My bad actor has just died of '" + m.getCause() + "'. Restarting.");
spawnBadActor();
}
return super.handleExitMessage(m);
}

It's been my experience that many developers resort to instanceof or enum type flags because they don't believe polymorphism actually works in real world situations such as this.
The situationist/psychogeographic approach to the walk is algorithmic and should be made into an mobile app by someone. One definition of psychogeography is: "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape" . For example a walk through the city could be described as an algorithm or fixed pattern, such as "first right, second left, first left, repeat."
I'll have to test the effects of champagne this year.
I totally agree with wuliwong, infact I have never edited any design and have always used available ones(bootstrap) out of the box to save time as my motive as a developer is a clean working app than a beautiful app.
She could've just done this instead:

1. Delete Facebook account.

2. Use cashier checks.
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Why do the "flat" buttons suddenly turn 3D while active (pressed)? That's a mixed metaphor if I've ever seen one.
I think it has more to do with the fact that if the team doesn't blow away YC (neither of these teams seem to be superlatively amazing), then other factors need to be strong too.
yeah, only if you develop COPD; and, as the article points out, "These changes are not universal in smoking, however. Even with lifetime smoking, there is only a 50% chance of developing COPD."

very amusing article.
That isn't "simple". Let's say your preference is "I don't want to talk to this person." That cannot be said politely! Notice instead to make it polite you had to recast it -- "I would rather be doing X rather than talking to this person." That is not an obvious transformation, and it's not helpful to go around saying that it's "simple". Instead you could give explicitly the advice that you've given implicitly: Take your preference not to talk to the person, and recast it as a desire to do X (where X doesn't include talking to the person).

Now, you may point out that these two preferences are extensionally equivalent. But we're working with mental representations here, so the distinction is important.

Also, this approach is not bulletproof. E.g.: You're not doing anything but watching the walls of the subway tunnel go by. "Sorry, I'm trying to...?" This leaves you with a lack of things to say. It also has the general problem of excuse-making (because that is what you are doing when you recast your preferences like that), namely, the person may try to engage you along those lines. ("I'm trying to solve this puzzle." "Oh, yeah? What sort of puzzle is it?" Sure, there's are potential replies to that (e.g. "It's a masyu puzzle, but please leave me alone." or "It would take too long to explain, sorry".) My point is it is not as simple as "just politely communicate your feelings, preferences/and or needs", often because doing so is impossible without violating other social constraints. (Notice how "It's a masyu puzzle, but please leave me alone" is more explicit and less polite in its "go away" -- but this is OK in this context because you've already told the person to leave you alone once. These sorts of things have to be accounted for.)
I don't buy the theory that it was his injury that set him down the wrong path, by causing him to lose his lacrosse scholarship which sent him home from college back to live with his parents, away from all his friends.

His family was rich enough to send him to a prep school with a $35k tuition. His college, University of Richmond, had $45k tuition and fees, which is only $10k more. Surely his family could have come up with that. Furthermore, Richmond has generous financial aid, with a cap of something like $8k per year on the amount of loans they will put in an aid package.

I think it is more likely he had gone bad long before college, and probably only went to college to play lacrosse.
The next version of GHC should improve those numbers significantly, but I would also note that there are much more significant reasons to consider using Haskell than the difference between 37k and 43k req/s.
Thanks! I have been trying to stay away from structural information but recently I have wanted the contribute to the uofw/uofw project. This project aims to completely reverse Sony's PSP firmware. This requires me to learn MIPS ASM which requires me to learn the structure, general terms and ideas of computer science.

Your last point, about having fun, is a good one. Lately, I have been very busy with school and programming. Between my school work and my programming, almost all of my day is consumed. You have a good point.

Thanks for the advice!
Why the Venmo Newsfeed Is the Best Social Network Nobody's Talking About
John Carmack accused of stealing technology from id Software to Oculus VR
name | delay%
alice | 30%
bob | 20%

So Bob's flights are delayed less often, he's the better pilot, right? Yet:

name | night | day
alice | 7/25 | 1/5
bob | 3/10 | 3/20
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Thanks for posting that, it was moving in a strange way.
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It's near the top:

"Much of the material here will be adapted from my open-source textbook on probability and statistics [0]. I’ll use R code to perform the analysis."

[0] http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/probstatbook
Hey, so what's the app about again? Something about machine learning?
> No, the reason is that Mozilla just added lots of stuff way before it got into the ES specs.

That's only part of the reason, the linked page notes which features had been added by Mozilla (generally feature-gated). The count is 5 items of syntactic additions (out of 12), and 0 of standard library additions (out of ~40)
I'd like to hear thoughts on CheckedExceptions in part 2. IMO, they are a disaster - most projects degrade into all methods having a "throws Exception" clause. But I'm not sure if there is any consensus on how the CheckedException haters like myself work around them. I use Runtime exceptions everywhere, but it's a pain/boilerplate to convert them.
Oh man, that'd be a crazy awesome way to collect info on your preferences. "Here are five ads - pick the one you want to watch."
A bad architecture and bad code structure can be achieved without TDD. I don't think well thought out design precludes unit testing.

I don't think producing bad architecture/bad code structure is goal of TDD and I suspect it's something to be thinking about regardless of whether you use TDD. If you're having to contort your code or change it just to make a test pass, that's probably a smell.

It just so happens that the SOLID principles (distinct from TDD) are beneficial for TDD and you would probably consider those to create a 'good architecture' and 'code structure'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_%28object-oriented_design...
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Has anyone actually figured out what the retention rate is for FB acqui-hired employees? I'd be interested to know how many people hang around after their shares vest.
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I, on the other hand, would rather they be ads for things I _don't_ want, so that I'm not tempted to spend money on crap I don't need but have been manipulated into wanting more than I already do.
It is easy to write performant web applications without servlets using Vert.x which is also based on Netty. It also scored highly in the benchmarks.
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I remember Apple IIs of the late 80s/early 90s being "not exactly cheap" either, in comparison to c64s.
Surprised to see nobody yet mention here Edward de Bono's concept of creative pause.

It's through activities such as purposeless walking — or showering, or doing the dishes — that we allow our consciousness to subside into a routine task while subconscious feedback is allowed to subtly rise. In theory this allows for more of a connection to the deeper going-ons in the brain.

More thoughts on the matter from designer Cameron Moll, dated six years ago: http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/11/showering_and_th...
This is a good idea, supported.
Starting today, Yahoo will not honor Do Not Track settings
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