skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he's actively asking people to send money to him in a way that skirts the lien the irs has filed against him. if the irs notices this and gets pissed, it absolutely puts his 'helpers' in harm's way.

I'm not sure that's actually true. Is it? If you donate money[1] or buy something from him, you're giving him property; whether he is properly reporting that property and paying any necessary tax on that is his issue -- he's not asking you to enter into a conspiracy to hide anything.

At the very least, he could use cash donations to pay off whatever lien is against him. And according to [1] below, the recipient of the donation isn't the one paying taxes on the donation amount.

[1] The gift tax doesn't apply for amounts under $14k or so per year, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States
Oh wow, I didn't realize others had already done this, let alone make comics about it. But yeah it's like in that comic.
This reminds me of using doesNotRecognizeToSelector:/methodForSelector: in Objective-C to do similar tricks. For example, you can wire up a color class to respond to any hexColor selector by catching the unimplemented ones:

NSColor * color = [Colors h00FF00];

You can then parse the selector string when the runtime doesn't find an appropriate method for it. As with all these tricks, it is of course incredibly slower than just doing GetHexColor(char * hexString), but where's the fun in that right.
Have you ever been unable to reach GitHub during a denial of service attack? They're supposedly rare, but I've been committing during three of them in the last year. Simply, they're not dependable and if you deployment mechanism needs to be dependable then you're adding a rather weak link to the chain.

Obviously you could host/mirror git locally for more robustness, but it will be yet another system you depend on. It is for this reason that every enterprise I've worked at used a solution where a tar ball of the code to be deployed was composed, archived, and then pushed out to ensure it was available for all nodes and that old versions were available for rollbacks.

As a simple example of the above, my TeamCity server builds all commits, then pushes successful war files to S3, then contacts all the server nodes that fetch their deployment code from S3, which has 11 9's durability.
BJP alliance with Shiv Sena is since last 25 years! Why would it come under his ugly?
Seem to be quite a few newly registered, aggressively pro-Modi accounts on this thread.
GP did.
Opinions on reactive vs promises?
Bingo. The email course is the "why", the product is ultimately the "how".
unless something has changed, steam updates are usually optional.

Also pc's are often left on/used for other things so the windows, steam and game updates all kinda just download and install in the background so when you go to play its usually just ready, unlike consoles where you turn it on and it then has to download/install everything as you wait to play.
Ah ha, this site is where the data series is, specifically: http://www.gradeinflation.com/MIT.html and my memory about The Tech is from where they got a lot of their data.

So, you're telling me, the GPA going down 1/100 of a point in the quarter century of 1976-2000, is evidence of grade inflation???

If you can seriously look at this time series, accounting for the two factors of better post-Sputnik math and science education and Vietnam War avoid the draft, or simply limit yourself to the period after both of those ('73-75 for the draft, by which time the upper level post-Sputnik reforms would have hit the applicants), then factor in that freshmen went from pass/fail to grades in their second term during this period, and say MIT has statistically significant grade inflation, we have no basis for a discussion.
I'm a web developer. In terms of luck, that's a pretty high water mark for financial gain.

You believe in testing things, and for some reason, you don't seem to consider the many games I've played with luck components to be tests, but somehow gambling is a legitimate test because money is involved? Why?

> The central point is that if you have an unusual source of information about chance outcomes, even if it's negative, there should be a way to use that to gain.

I do gain. I learned not to play games that depend on luck. I learned that deliberately subjecting myself to depressing situations was not conducive to mental health.
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Here's another vote for Spectacle; shortcuts/key bindings are configurable and the ability to segment your available screen into grids is something I can't live without anymore.
Get your facts right. Nepal is the only Hindu state in the world -_-
Decentralized crisis marketing? I'd be surprised if anyone can pull that off.
The Impact Engine accelerator opens applications for 3rd class
May I please know the address of your wife's blog? Happy to look into this.
For those wondering about reader macros in Common Lisp, I wrote a tutorial a couple of months back that allows the Lisp reader to understand JSON: https://gist.github.com/chaitanyagupta/9324402
You're welcome to question his motives, rather than address the substance of what he's saying, if you'd prefer.
This sums it up nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753787.
I really liked GEB (as well as The Minds' I, and Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies, the later being a more CompSci book) and was looking forward to I am a Strange Loop because it had been a while since Hofstadter had published anything. I was very disappointed and never finished it.

It never gave me the impression he was a blowhard or pretentious, but it was something of a 180 from his other works in that there seemed to be much, much idle speculation on minds and souls and such without out suitable rigor.

Basically it's his personal philosophic musings, and it felt a bit too "Deepak Chopra" to me.
It probably only took 1 hour to do it because he hadn't been doing updates in months and months .. I'm sure if the system was in solid, regulary (say: weekly) use then it wouldn't have been such an issue ..
Ha ha! Good observation.
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> At the state level, on Ookla's data, New York performs pretty comparably to France and Belgium.

Because they're including Weill Cornell Medical College and Digital Ocean in the data (those are the top ISPs in NYC, on their map).

It's not very meaningful unless we (A) can separate out consumer ISPs from business ISPs[0], (B) Know what speeds everyone is paying for and has available (currently this is all lumped together), and (C) knows how much everyone is paying for that service.

> While Verizon is trying to deploy FIOS in New York, De Blasio has hired a civil rights lawyer to look into the issue of poor people not being able to afford FIOS! I would say the bottleneck is definitely NYC's government!

As someone who actually lives in NYC and has tried to get FiOS installed in multiple buildings, there are two problems. One is that buildings have exclusive agreements to provide television service through either Time Warner or Comcast (usually because the superintendant and/or owner gets free cable as a result of this agreement), and that Verizon refuses to
provide FiOS Internet unless they can also provide television service.

Verizon is fully aware of this problem, and they've framed it in a way that allows them conveniently to point the finger at another entity.

Verizon is "trying" to deploy FiOS in New York, but they're not really interested in expanding their coverage.

> De Blasio has hired a civil rights lawyer to look into the issue of poor people not being able to afford FIOS! I would say the bottleneck is definitely NYC's government

This would only be relevant if the NYC government were the ones actively blocking people who can afford to pay for FiOS from having it installed, but as explained above, that's not the case.
This Yahoo patent from a few years before seems very similar to this concept: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

Do notice the Apple logo on the side of one of the sketches:

http://www.seobythesea.com/wp-images/yahoo-virtual-reality-g...

And the talk of virtual reality games (without actually building them):

A virtual World Of Warcraft-type overlay can be generated that is superimposed on the real world by wearable device instead of being viewed on a computer screen. According to the virtual overlay, user can be enabled to play in the real world, but be fighting virtual characters.

From: http://www.seobythesea.com/2010/04/yahoo-exploring-virtual-r...
>but doesn't have any options for streaming content over a LAN

This is simply not true. Plex has been available on the Roku for years. It's one of the most popular channels.
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What to do when Stack Overflow is down?
Hey. I'd like to re-iterate that I think you're doing a great job, something which I and many others don't have the skills or the talent for. But yeah, it sure looks like you are selling something. Not in the "act now, buy this" sense, but still.

Please understand that I'm not putting you down, on the contrary.

With all the specifics you provided, this is still a very non-specific article. It's a beautifully written description of a technique that provides a lot of detail and yet gives very little away that could actually be used to learn something off you. And again, that's perfectly OK.

I absolutely agree with you about engineer types, and I'll be the first to admit I'm a prime example of that group. In between those two extremes, there is a spectrum of course.

> My goal was to try to make a case for building a very simple product for a very specific pain point, get customers who have this pain and want it solved as quickly as possible, and then (possibly) add complexity and scope from there.

I'm not sure I agree about the pain point being the most important thing in that strategy, but that may be because after reading the article I still lack the information to judge what it actually is you solved.

I ended up building a WordPress plugin, but what I built and how I built it is
immaterial here.
This book is fantastic as a tool. I have used it in many classrooms to teach students about how to identify pseudoscience. This and "Quantum Learning" are excellent examples of the work of well-read blowhards contributing nothing to human knowledge (aside from a very stylish series of handwaving and cargo cults).

Like most popular gibberish of this ilk, the most valuable part of the book is the reference list; most pseudo-philosophers are very careful to make as many references as possible to really excellent works, probably in an attempt for 'success by association.'
This is just a natural land-grab situation for an emerging market. Expect to see lots of applications similar to this in the coming months/years.

I wonder who will win the race...
Damn Daniel, that's straight! :)

That's some good stuff right there. What I like what you said is that it's really actionable stuff from the outset. Literally from the ground up type stuff.

Hope to keep in touch to hear any other feedback you may have down the road. Take care
There was government involved. Maya Kodnani, who was a part of the BJP government at that time (2001) and later on made the Minister for Women and Child Development (in 2007) in Gujarat was convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
I strapped a display to my face with full 6 DOF head tracking and played Dactly Nightmare in a bar circa 1994. My Fiance shot me. My head bounced down the stairs. Big screens up above allowed all the people gathered round to watch from either of our perspectives. Fuck off Apple you didn't invent any of this. Notice what how the list of claims starts:

1. (canceled)
>In particular I find the constant harking back to "Well, we don't spy on US citizens, only everyone else." particularly annoying.

It is annoying, but there is a reason why it is being said. Laws (are supposed to) prohibit (more or less) the US spying on its own citizens without cause. It is written into the constitution (more or less). Foreigners don't have that protection under law. Whether that should be changed or not is a different question than are these programs legal under current laws.
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There is another option on iOS: use CoreData and don't sweat what's underneath it.
Is TDD dead? (part ii)
Yeah, what's striking is that the book itself is an example of what the book covers. For example, read the last page, then go to the first page.
I still do not see any advantage to skipping over Texas, even Toyota went there. They are simply more business friendly, let alone by far the largest deployment of wind turbines in the US. While many associate it with oil Texas never really sat still, energy is energy.
We've accepted this crappy universal platform because it is universal. Replacing something that is used by literally Billions of people is decidedly non-trivial and takes _decades_.
How libraries decide which books to keep
AppleTV is pretty similar. My parents use it only when I come home about once a month. At that time, there's an update that needs to get installed. Now my parents have the impression that the AppleTV just takes that long to boot up every time. Hard to change people impressions after they've noticed a pattern.
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Thank you! I was sitting here with a similar comment ready to go, but I was afraid to post because I thought for sure I'd be alone again.

I will sometimes be very interested in a service until I hit the "about" page and see all the "inside jokes" and weak attempts at humor that, for some reason, make me very uneasy.

It almost makes me feel like an outsider, the guy standing around the circle of cool kids who all have something funny to say, that I won't get, and they don't want anything to do with me. Do you really want your COMPANY to send that message?

The main UI designer draws arrows and likes Ice Cream? Is he 7? What is a data grill master? Uhg. I'm a bit of a stick in the mud, yes, but I don't understand this silly about-page trend.
I don't mind down votes.

At the same time I am curious how someone could feel significantly differently than the point of view I posted to down vote it. Does someone not believe an internet addiction is partly to blame for Lee's problems? That this isn't a disorder or there isn't a treatment? That his basic needs should not be met? That our social support service system doesn't need a pivot? What exactly is the argument?
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I probably would have actually enjoyed the Ouya, but it had such terrible input lag that it was effectively unplayable. Couldn't find any way to fix it, so it just sits on a shelf in my apartment now.
Very good point. Ultimately economics wins. Poeple of india are aspiring to raise, they want to work hard and lead a honest and good life. Congress party never helped people to grow, their main agenda is always divisive ( religion ) and populist.
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Modi controlled courts? Dude, do you believe in Indian democracy? Judiciary is independent of the executives. I strongly suggest you go to the courts.
Reactive (event) streams are a generalization of promises in a sense, from a single value to a stream of multiple ones. Both are monads.

Streams are to promises what lists are to maybes (options).
It also sounds expensive.
In case you didn't notice, the article you linked is from Faking News, India's version of The Onion.
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I've really been enjoying The Joy of Clojure (http://joyofclojure.com/) -- note that there's a nearly-finished 2ed in PDF form if you buy the early access version.

I've also been reading Clojure Programming (http://www.clojurebook.com/) to reinforce concepts from the above.
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I loved it because it fed my curiosity about how we think while introducing me to related ideas in math, art, and music which have extended my perspective in surprising and entertaining ways.

As an undergraduate computer engineering student who aspired to understand intelligence and apply AI, I was delighted to find such an approachable, yet profound, treatment of fundamental ideas that mattered not only to my field but to music and art as well.

Decades later, it remains my favorite book.
My proposal for the solution of this dilemma: The car traffic development should go a route that is similar to air traffic controlling. That is, the security measures and controlling are increased so much that accidents happen very seldom, possibly once per month or less. Then, almost all of these moral issues would become irrelevant, simply because each crash would become an isolated case, literally.
No one seems to be paying attention to the amount of toxic waste that will be generated from batteries after they are done with their usage. The toxin waste is much worse than letting CO2 in the air IMHO.
There's the not minor point that Congress has formally apologized for its role in the 1984 riots, while Modi and the BJP have offered none for their role in 2002, instead comparing the murdered Muslims to puppies that sometimes happen to get run over by cars.
As long as Gavin holds the key to the 'panic button' for the entire network (which I don't think is necessarily the worst choice), he will have slightly more power over the direction of bitcoin than anyone else.
The 'unknown or expired link' embarrassment (that's different from both bug and feature) continues to eat my carefully thought out posts, even to this day. This of course, makes me furious at you, personally.

Whatever the timeout is these days, it is simply not enough. Not for editing posts on a phone on a bus, which should be a core use case in 2014.
Sorry US visa doesn't prove anything. If at all, it simply shows someone visa officer's understanding of Modi in 2002, thats all. The election is much better and neutral judgement of someone's character. Obviously the views of 500million people are better than one person sitting in a foreign country.
Core Data uses SQLite as its backend by default, so you may still potentially run into these kind of problems -- if say, an ad network decided to statically link in its own SQLite version.

I have been frustrated by persistent corruption in a production app that solely uses CD, though I don't know if it's related to multiple SQLite instances.

EDIT: An ad library is probably a bad example since it wouldn't create files that are normally touched by the user app. Unless you were making an app to visualize ad library requests...
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If you've ever attempted to be productive while at a meeting, traveling or at a customer site these tricks become very useful.
I actually got that test in middle school. (I presume my teacher read about it and thought it was a cool idea.)

The one I got was very explicit: Read the entire test first, and only after you've read all the questions and instructions are you to begin work.

Let's just say that I failed and I was pissed about it, without any particularly good basis or justification, other than being 12-ish years old.
Thanks. We changed the url to that from http://www.marketwatch.com/story/baidu-opens-silicon-valley-....
Hey, thanks! I'd also love to see it built in to operating systems someday. It'd be much cleaner and easier to implement there as well. When I wrote steadymouse I had two choices: 1) Implement a driver (which is overkill if you ask me) or 2) Use a mouse hook in a very convoluted way (As is, the low level mouse hook doesn't easily let you "modify and pass on" mouse data). Applying DSP math to the mouse would be much easier within the OS.
As for open sourcing the project, I've considered it and may eventually go that route. I'd like to clean it up first though and have the time to stay a part of the active development...maybe it's just hard for me to let go.
curious if anyone has read anything by Zizek, esp his writing on Lacan and Deleuze, and if they can summarize the substance of his work for HN.
I find the Internet supporters of Modi/RSS/BJP a fascinating tribe. They are usually well-educated intelligent Indians, but with a marked tendency to turn off their critical-thinking faculties when the latter is mentioned. In addition, they expend enormous amounts of energy on the Internets trying in futility to paper over the obvious, and play the 'it's-all-a-aniti-hindu-conspiracy-card'. Hence the down votes for rather straightforward factual comments below.
Whatever logic it is that makes stories enter free-fall from the #1 slot, to page 10, in the course of 15 minutes...

I seem to see this frequently. It is jarring 100% if the time. I can see a rational for it maybe 10% of the time.
Similar views were expressed when Vajpayee was elected in 1998. Vajpayee's term was one of best times India ever experienced. Lets see whether such things become true.
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I'm surprised that this EFF report doesn't include Reddit.
It introduced me to cognition as a emergent phenomena (specially the chapter "Prelude ... Ant Fugue" [1]).

It made me think about various philosophical topics such as holism vs reductionism and syntax vs semantics, the meaning of "meaning", intelligence, cognition...

...and then absolutely blew them all with the Zen approach to life.

[1] http://themindi.blogspot.com.br/2007/02/chapter-11-prelude-a...
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