skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US at least, we could use a way to increase voter participation. I believe in democracy and this republic. Believe being the correct word here. So many times, I fear for my country. I see evidence here on HN that it's all shit. That people are stupid and can't be trusted, maybe less so than the politicians. But I still believe that democracy is the best way out of it all. I have seen when a little girl realizes that her classroom rules really do change based on her vote. I have seen that power and hope in the faces of children and adults alike. I believe in democracy.

If you want to alleviate the debt burdens of the working classes, get them to the polls. If you want to reduce their cost of living, get them to the polls. If you want to help them have more efficient lives, give them more freedom and rights by getting them to the polls. Find a way to get people voting and out and helping each other. Then, I believe that people will fix it themselves because they know that they can. You have to tech a man to fish, not fish for him. The best way to teach a man to reduce their debt, to reduce their cost of living, to decease the time they spend on waste and paperwork is to teach them that they have the power to do something about it.
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> 99% of the articles about the profound importance of generics are people building nothing of interest for anyone, and it is exactly that vaguery of design that makes generics seem so important.

I think it's quite a stretch to say that people who have written articles about generics are almost never building anything of importance. The browser you used to post this comment makes extensive use of generics via C++ templates, which were well documented by their authors in order to fill a very important role (smart pointers for reference counted objects, for one).
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Is Objective C really that much better? If you have decent APIs/libraries, C++ would be just fine.
No implementation problem. Right now, only ~80x24 grids are life grids, and they aren't yet connected. I am planning to implement a "Life Field Emitter" which will give you a ~240x75 area for your Life formations. That should be enough space for interesting formations, but this will prevent infinitely growing formations from crashing my server.
I've often thought that the HN submission form should support both the link and a short comment. If the submitter can frame the context of the submission, doesn't that help the discussion?
Someone's now DDOSing the server.

EDIT: DDOS has ended now. Apparently my server stops out at ~150 players in a single grid. (Though I have an idea why, and know how to make that number much larger.)

EDIT: I think there's a different DDOS happening now.
The game has the same mechanics as Echochrome, but can you interact with the environment in Echochrome, or can you just rotate the scene? Monument Valley has a lot of switches and wheels to turn that open up new pathways.

It's also super beautiful, not just black and white (not that that isn't beautiful as well!)
Takes me 3 minutes to down a cup of cof-- you know what let's not go down this road.
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Both! On a related note, if you had infinite Dan Browns typing on typewriters, you would end up with infinite novels that all follow the same formula.
Most of clothing websites do not show the model's face, the reason being - they want customer to focus on clothing\dress but I can give it a try and showcase some of the dresses with a model to see if it converts visitors into customers.

I will highlight free shipping and offers in a non-obtrusive way.

Thanks for taking time to share your valuable inputs
>You don't exactly get such lists.

A lot of people would argue that this is a key part of understanding your market. If you don't have a such a list, it probably makes sense to hustle, cold-call, talk to people you know closer to the industry, etc (i.e., exactly the same steps people are describing as "sales") to get one.
The docs say a minimum deployment is 6 boxes. :p
Whenever someone finds a fault with the American way of doing things, there's always someone that shouts "but we're the most technologically advanced country on earth!", and the sound of people screaming "hurdur!" deafens everyone.

No wonder Americans stick to the imperial system.
Don't worry about your prices and don't every try to compete on prices. Don't worry about phone hooks, overcompressed images, logos, or anything about the site. It seems to me that you need to really focus on who your market is. "Outside of India" or "ages 16-45" is a very, very broad market for somebody as small as you. Are you after hip urban 20 somethings? Are you after rich NYC moms? Be very specific here. Age, gender, living arrangements, where they work, how educated they are, what is their income, how many pets (and what type) do they have, what is their favorite TV shows, favorite musicians, what type of coffee do they get at starbucks, etc... Give this person a name, even find a picture that matches who they are... Why would this person buy from you instead of your competition? What unique thing do you give this person that they can't get anywhere else?
I agree that the article was not effective in introducing the topic and the problem space. I'm interested in mobile ui, but not familiar with all the new terminology, so this article was difficult to read. I scrolled down until I got to the conclusion, which was fortunately fairly clear, and then went back to understand the beginning.

It didn't help that the screen animations were too fast and lacked context. They also lacked user motions. Aren't there some standard ways of displaying tap and swipe events on a mobile screencast?
No advice can be useless.

There are lot of clothes in range from $60 to $150 so I do not think everything is expensive. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks for your valuable time
Does YC also have a BOD? Doesn't the BOD in most US corps have final say over basically everything?
This is something you can test once you get enough traffic. You can do A/B testing and see if you get a higher conversion with or without the models faces. Until you do the A/B test, you'll never know...
>My target market is USA, Canada, UK, Australia and new zealand.

I know nothing about your industry or product, but this seems pretty broad. You may want to focus on a specific part of one of those countries at first --- at least as you try to build up sales.
The existence of a programming language named Swift under internal development at Apple had leaked. What it was for wasn't clear – it certainly wasn't clear that it would replace Objective-C.
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Depends on where.

Some smaller cities have municipal electricity that pretty much always works (Holyoke, MA is the one that comes to mind). Even in regional blackouts, there are a few Upstate NY towns that never go out... they can isolate themselves from the grid when necessary, and draw from the grid when they have issues.

I grew up in the boroughs of NYC, and don't recall ever having a power outage in those years. I think it flickered during a hurricane in the 80's, but never actually went out.

Where I live now (Upstate NY), forget it... even after eviscerating the street trees, any significant gust of wind has a probability of taking out power. The state no longer effectively regulates the utilities -- the transformer on my street blew up this past winter, and per the lineman had markings indicating that it was made in the mid 1960s.
high quality images leads to bigger image file size which leads to reduction in speed of website.

I will try to find a balance. thanks
A worrisome issue indeed, the prudent next step would be to establish an ideology committee and emergency commission for combating mutiny and sabotage
I will consider your input.

Thanks for taking time to share your thoughts.
I don't think it's a conspiracy, it's just cutting costs of a commodity to meet expected lifespans.

If you buy 130 volt-rated bulbs (120V is typical), they are built to a better standard and can survive exposure to poor quality electric service.

It's one of those things not taken into account by the cargo-cult conversion to CFL and LED -- the electronics in these bulbs are built for good conditions. Try running the newer bulbs for extended periods off of portable generators.
Another way to put it would be "do work that scales". It's fine to do work that helps one person, but great if you do work that helps a thousand or a million.

Looking at society in its whole, I've always thought that the category that makes the most money are the "middle men". If you put yourself between many producers and many consumers, and take a small cut of every transaction, then you get rich quickly. We have example like VISA/Mastercard, the movie distributors, and many more. I guess these are what he calls "bullshit jobs". Even CEOs fall here: they connect thousands of workers to millions of customers (in a way).
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Thanks, good point. That is the next step.
I think it is time to start on A\B testing. Thx
People love faces. Include the faces.
At Univ of Virginia we have a "Board of Visitors" http://www.virginia.edu/bov/ :)
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Got one!

Haven't fired it up yet.
Yep I got that much out of it. So far I was not really lucky communicating with them. Will push further down that path. Thanks for the input.
This demo unfortunately uses an incorrect perspective transformation. There is no reason to go to trig if you represent the camera plane as a vector, and step along it one pixel at a time, and allowing the wall height to vary linearly in the distance to the camera vector (taking lines to lines). In addition to being correct[1], it has the added benefit of being faster if implemented well.

My (admittedly n00bish and embarrassing) attempt at doing the same thing is here: https://github.com/pervycreeper/game1/blob/master/main.cpp

[1] in the sense that lines map to lines, as in most photography, Renaissance and later painting, and most computer graphics
> And using third-party engines doesn't directly address a lot of the other questions about Linux gaming (drivers, fragmentation, back-catalog games), it doesn't help out with the large number of AAA games that are made on first-party engines (Square Enix uses a lot of Crystal Engine, Ubisoft has a handful of its own engines, EA games use their own engines for the most part), and it doesn't help turn Linux into a more compelling general-purpose desktop OS.

Wow, a lot of points made in a very few words. Here's my take on your comments:

* Drivers: massively improved for nVidia cards, probably very close to Windows performance nowadays. For ATI, I guess the state of it is "meh", but it's getting a bit better progressively. For now gaming on Linux should be with nVidia (and Intel).

* Fragmentation: this problem is a myth and has been debunked so many times already, I don't want to discuss it here.

* Back catalog games: a lot of it can be handled with WINE with no additional modification needed.

* AAA games engines: Square Enix is a Japanese publisher, focused on Consoles first, then PC, and when they mean PC they only have the image of Windows because Linux is non-existent in Japan (mostly). So I would not be surprised if they were the very last ones to jump on the bandwagon. UbiSoft has become a "console first" publisher as well, so I don't hope much from their side as well.

* compelling desktop OS: Linux in some of its best distros IS already very compelling, much more than Windows 8 where you have to relearn everything from scratch again. It's faster, you have repositories for updates, Firefox runs like a dream on it (on the same hardware I always find the Windows version running way more slowly), and you have great Free Software for most of the uses you need, without viruses, ads and stuff like that. It's VERY functional. Of course some people will bitch about not having Adobe products, or X or Y software, but you can always keep a double boot or a virtual machine if you really need something. Distros get updates automatically, instead of the ancient way of doing updates on Windows with service packs and the like. Since I've switched to Linux years ago I have never looked back, except for games and video editing. And I know I'm not the only one, and I see Linux distros improving release after release.
if var == true {...}

In some languages var might be truthy but not equal to true. The falsy values may be more of a problem at times.

However in the strongly typed swift I don't think it will be a problem as I suspect (but haven't read/tested enough yet to confirm) that only false and nil will be falsy and that comparison with true will throw errors if var isn't of bool type.
That doesn't contradict what I said at all (and it is also an oversimplification).
i have always wished, google docs, or office's word versioning showed the tree / branch view like this does.

it would be great to see other peoples work and how the auto merges are made and can be restructured.

Its a real shame that it is not exposed in two most popular editors (gdocs and word)
Indeed. I am able to separate critical and non-critical appointments, as I suppose most people can do. I am punctual to business meetings, class meeting times, doctor appointments, and such. I am perpetually tardy to things like going out to party, having a cup of coffee, or visiting a friend.

Being punctual is stressful, requires planning, forethought, and saying no to unforeseen circumstances. I can't imagine living being punctual in my non-business life. I would feel like a slave. I once lost a girlfriend because she was extremely uptight about punctuality and I wasn't. While that attitude might seem completely normal to an American, to me it was a glimpse into insanity.
I don't believe that voter participation is not a magic pill and will not fix anything by itself.

However, if you do believe that. Then get on it!
Any remote positions or are you only looking for on-site folks?
Sounds like dumb teenage kids being dumb kids.

I had some dope tell me that I was burning in hell because I was a catholic idolator after some sort of evangelical revival. I told him that I'd see him there and wished him a good day.

In seriousness, people get fed fire and brimstone, and see it as an escape from the dreariness of their existence. More people in India are in more desperate conditions, so I would expect more nonsense about magic and such.
Which is itself a special case of the rule for the difference of two nth powers...
Marketing is salesmanship in media.

If you do marketing first, you're putting the cart before the horse.

You should do sales manually first before you try to automate it away with marketing, because the feedback you get will give you extreme leverage in your marketing later.
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huh? great-grandparent said nothing about square roots
Have you guys took a look at https://github.com/indutny/elliptic ?
> But Gmail itself may handle attachments differently.

AFAIK, Gmail handles attachments the same.
That first one happens if an app is built with an SDK older than 10.9.
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Why is it incorrect? From looking at the demo, it doesn't seem incorrect at all. If it's incorrect, then the incorrectness doesn't affect the end product, which is all that matters. Lines seem to map to lines, so it seems mistaken to call it incorrect.

I'd be interested in further explanation about why you feel the underlying math could be improved, though.
Idea of paying citizens a yearly stipend is gaining support in Switzerland
Pretty sure narco-violence isn't caused by drug crazed gangsters, but by a combination of prohibition and weak/corrupt law enforcement. It's a huge industry and only criminals are allowed to participate.
So you believe that only 1% of the population enjoys or is capable of creation? That is BS.

1% of a given group A may be doing the creating, however many of the other 99% of group A may well be active in group B and be a creator there.

Additionally, I would guess that the percentage of of group that are active participants goes up as the group size goes down. In my DnD group the DM makes up ~15% of the group.

"if the idea is that Reddit serves as a microcosm of what basic income would do" then that idea seems obviously flawed to me.
Great way of putting it. I see Ruby in it personally, and loads and loads of C#, but I have heard the Rust thing before from other people.
Onarbor is publishing and funding in one platform

Great pitch, but it's still just an attempt to end-run the funding process. There should indeed be systematic solutions to the current problems, but this attempt is just a recipe for funding snake oil.

Traditional evaluation is broken and virtually no academics respect it.

There's plenty to criticize about peer review and about the big journals, but to say "virtually no academics respect it" is just factually untrue.
Will give it a try. It is very expensive. I will have the updated collection with model's face slowly.

There is a software also for this which will let you choose the model, model's pose and dress. I need to find the cost of software and work involved.
I did (some of) this with chicagocrime.org in 2005... :-)

...and I've since learned the error of my ways. It's just too misleading to do these types of overly simplistic data reports. The data set is flawed in many ways, including:

* Data model. The Chicago crime data only has a single date/time field. For many crimes, such as break-ins, the victim/reporter isn't able to pinpoint an exact time; they might just provide a time range. That doesn't jive well with the data model.

* Data mistakes. I dealt with public record databases extensively from 2005-2012 (Washington Post, chicagocrime.org, EveryBlock). Government data sets (like any data sets!) contain mistakes, which are compounded when you do aggregate queries.

* Systematic police department effort to reduce crime numbers through data trickery. See the amazing recent piece by Chicago Magazine: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2014/Chicago...

All in all, obviously this post is harmless link bait at face value, but more thought should be given to these issues. Open govt. data is a good thing, but it's healthy to be skeptical.

(Note chicagocrime.org is no longer around, as I redirected it to my other project, EveryBlock, several years ago: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/chicagocrime.org-tribute/)
The Enlightenment produced a society which identified pleasure as its most fundamental social value. As Locke says, individuals are hardwired to pursue pleasure. And as Smith says, capitalism is the economic system best able to produce the most total pleasure. Thus, if you can produce lots of pleasure for people, if you are useful, if you can make money appear out of the stock market, you are rewarded. The jobs most rewarded by society are those that are most pleasurable to others, like CEOs who can turn profits for board members. The group who's pleasure is the deciding pleasure is the dominant social group, who has the most of whatever currency matters to society. (Status, property, now cash)

Whether someone is virtuous, or caring, or helps others, is irrelevant in ascertaining their value, and thus how they should be paid. A teacher might produce pleasure in a student, but that student is in no capacity to makes its pleasure the deciding one. The moral good of a job is, at best, a footnote, and only valuable insofar as far as the dominant groups are pleased by them. The market doesn't care about your moral good.

The mistake of writers like this one is supposing that such a system can be fixed within the confines of modern capitalism. It cannot. People will conduct their campaigns, and go on strike, and create new movements, and perhaps pay teachers more out of social duty and pity, but they will ultimately butt heads with the philosophical underpinnings of modernity. If this writer is serious, the solution is not to turn to mere Marxist-inspired theories of labor, but to Aristotle and Aquinas.

For what Aristotle, Aquinas, and essentially the entire stock of pre-modern philosophy, approached differently was the question of, "what should our fundamental social value be?" Their answer was not, "pleasure." For Aristotle, it was the good produced by a life trained in socially-imparted virtues--which ultimately allowed one to contemplate the divine. For Aquinas, it was more explicitly religious: loving God, which entailed doing and believing all the things He wants us to do. And as was the case with the Enlightenment, the cultures that both these thinkers embodied were constructed around such answers, from the top down. In either system, the moral worth of work is not irrelevant, it's the only thing relevant (with differences in how moral is defined).

In-depth rebuttals should be directed to Alasdair MacIntyre, a Scottish philosopher whose book "Whose Justice, Which Rationality," I just paraphrased in part. (But seriously...)
I apologize I did no see your reply earlier. I have a project that I am working on that will really benefit from the citation extraction. I am tired of waiting for GPO/CRS to release the Annotated Constitution in xml format. I have been slowly working on getting it in markdown format so that it can be made into epub/html/etc. I have been planning to get in touch with you but I do not have enough completed yet.
Uploading a PDF resume gives an error. I generated the PDF from Linkedin resume builder...
Love that you referenced Comanche ... my favorite helicopter game ever. Nice work on the JS side also!
>No implementation problem. Right now, only ~80x24 grids are life grids, and they aren't yet connected.

That is disappointing.

I think you could find other, more creative, ways to prevent infinitely growing formations from crashing the server.
But Google likes to read your email so they can target ads. Even they don't want you to encrypt on the client.
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This is great news. Kudos to the ACLU. And I'm happy to say it came about as a result of a note I posted on Twitter in January:

https://twitter.com/declanm/status/429292173083688960

https://twitter.com/NateWessler/status/473990510902640640
I'd venture that it's because "he said that he's learned to identify the signs of grand mal seizures, and if he feels one coming on, he simply sticks himself with a couple hundred milligrams of phenobarbital, straps himself in, and goes for a ride. Then he gets back to work."

How is it not awesome that someone can detect and prevent a major infirmity with such nonchalance and grit?
This is great. I wonder if by making the stingray'd phones transmit at full power, it allows them to find the phone quicker/easier.

How quickly can someone create a phone widget that shows when your cell "tower" has asked your phone to transmit at full power?
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Probably best if that remains the case instead of whatever happened in the last 200 days to make you change your mind.

It goes against the spirit of the thread, which is a company posting that they are hiring. Job boards are spam. Unless you are hiring someone at your company or looking for a job yourself, this thread is of no value to you.
Eh, I was a user on a token ring university network almost that late, and it was superior to the congestion-crippled ethernet networks at more 'advanced' institutions. That said, I definitely didn't enjoy all the practice I got in building token ring-enabled Linux kernels.