skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also wonder if there were other issues on-board that required their attention or otherwise diverted on-board brainpower.

Not to mention they had a limited amount of equipment on-board, so they basically had ONE CHANCE to get it right; no room for trial-and-error. There was a surplus of equipment on the ground, so they had more of a chance to make mistakes and get it right before directing the crew on-board.

So yes, they would have been able to figure it out if needed, but I think there are other reasons besides NASA's (infamous) bureaucracy.
All good, except you didn't bother posting anything of meaningful value.

In what way, precisely, can Solaris objectively be qualified as what you describe?
They're checking referers. IIRC Google demands that whatever text that gets served to the googlebot gets served to people who arrive from google.
I think it does and it's something I work on. I don't think speed is as important as touch typing with less errors. having to backspace every couple of lines because you hit ' instead of ; really messes up flow.

I started practicing typing because I tend to type with 2 or 3 fingers per hand and was experiencing RSI symptoms. My hands feel a lot better when I type properly.

There is a great article about this on Coding Horror:
http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmer...

I've enjoyed typing.io for learning as well as typing of the dead.
Good points :) The only thing I would make a note on is luck in card games: Some card games involve a lot more luck than others. One of my favorite iOS games, Orions, gives you a set of random cards (assuming you do a random match), and from there you play whatever cards you want (your full deck, basically, which is a random subset of about half the cards in the game). Of course, you have to build up enough mana to play a given card, and many increases by 1 each turn on its own. Its possible to be given a crappy deck, but even those matches you can play out more deterministically because you know what you've got to work with; also this is part of the fun - finding a creative path to victory with a deck that you are not used to (building decks can be fun in its own right, but I (personally) prefer being given a random set of cards - this makes each playthrough more unique and exciting).

In shorter words, there are a few types of luck you could work with: luck of the deck, luck of the draw, etc.
Expect Labs brings its voice-powered predictive API to connected devices
would be interesting to hear a woman's opinion here. My understanding was that panties are usually bought on the merits of fit and, especially, quality of material. Is the built-in pad an improvement or gimmick?
I'm not a developer but I'm an IT/Technical Project Manager. I typically wear business casual.

I interviewed at one place where the owner was in flip flops. So I felt dress up in slacks and a polo shirt.

I interviewed at a very big financial institution so I wore a suit and I had one of my interviewers tell me, twice, that they DO NOT wear suit and ties to work.
Can someone clarify if this is the same HearthStone AI/Machine Learning project being presented at DEF CON this year by Elie and Celine Bursztein[1]?

[1] https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-speakers.html#Bu...
Yes, a lot of people say it's useful

However, I never managed to configure it in a way it's workable and not very slow even in local connections

I am surely missing something, and I find VNC easier to configure (especially if you have to force a low quality for crappy connections)
I have no idea what the NSA stores, but it's certainly feasible to store all the audio calls if they want to, and the new data center they're building has far more capacity than they would need:

http://blog.archive.org/2013/06/15/cost-to-store-all-us-phon...
Wear a suit, tell them you came from another interview if it's the afternoon, or you have another interview later that day.

Then if they say you can take off the jacket, tell them you're holding in the pit stains. I always like to get the interviewers laughing.
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What does one have to do with the other? If you can afford it and it's something you need then you buy it. It's only innovation if there is some significant improvement.
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Yeah, I should note of all the F2P games, Hearthstone has done it the best for me. Its really a tiny nitpick for me, if anything.
So I managed to get passed level 11 with a little hand-waving but am still not sure how to get to the answer properly. Any hints?
> Most Lisp books make this claim.

For sure not.
We are creating a service to let people create docs in json format, and share the resulting docs as interactive data docs. I feel resumes are a specialized use case for this (eg: http://www.summagram.com/Summagram/ViewSummagram/Jose%20Paul )
I just saw the jsonresume page. Very interesting. Am looking at incorporating their structure into our editor and viewer.
Interesting. Is there a reason beyond the obvious (that it shouldn't matter what you wear, at least above a certain threshold)?

Good new for me. I love wearing a suit.
This sounds much more reasonable... thanks Daniel
Thanks for verifying the article was on-topic. ;)
Then you're incompetent with regards to recruiting.
I'm not affiliated with those guys, but the project definitely looks interesting!
If all else was equal (fit, quality of material, looks), and they could actually be worn for a full day without getting "full," I'd give it a shot.
Not a woman, but its well known they buy several pairs of "period panties" as to not ruin their nicer ones. This seems to be tapping into that market by making an explicit "period panty" that'll last longer, come in dark colors, has a pad, etc. So instead of buying a cheap set of disposable panties and using those, you'd buy a few pairs of these that are specialized for the task.

No idea how pricing works out. In the end, it might be smarter to just buy a box of 10 granny panties at Walmart for 12 bucks than pay $20 a pair for these high-tech ones. (The 5 day set is $180.) Especially if they can only hold 2-6 teaspoons of liquid. Seems the 'help a girl in the third world' narrative is pretty disingenuous here at those prices. Pads cost a fraction of that. This seems like something a western woman would use on top of a pad or tampon.

Does every startup need to be about "changing the world" and "helping the third world?" Its practically self-satire at this point and was expertly mocked in HBO's Silicon Valley series. This is a luxury good, not a charity.
Given that macros 'don't get variable binding right', they are still amazingly useful.

> Stepping back to the original point, there are other significantly important/powerful ideas in the world, and lisp users are somewhat over-the-top in their significance-to-hype ratio.

Many of the powerful ideas in software development are available in Lisp.
The game I am working on is called Voxel Quest (voxelquest.com). It is a roguelike, not a CCG, but many of the mechanics are inspired by CCG mechanics (Card Hunter is one other game that has taken CCG mechanics outside of its normal environment, although what I'm doing quite a bit different).
You and parent raise fair points, but I think this approach is a good compromise between the structure that you get from markdown and the aesthetics that ConTeXt is able to achieve.

To expand on your point, it's true that this approach does not automatically fit a given amount of content neatly into N pages, but I don't think there exists a system that can; you'll always have to iterate on what exactly to include if you want to have exactly N fully filled pages, regardless of your document processing workflow.
This is a fluff piece with no substance. It talks about how both companies combined are 20% of the market in 2013, and not about how in the 80s and 90s they dominated it. No talk about how both companies let competitors come in and eat their lunch (pun intended.) Just a brief mention of how Monaghan lost focus on the company, the solution to which is apparently to sell it off to vulture capitalists who have continued to run it into the ground. No talk about how Monaghan's Catholic zealotry has resulted in the decline of a massive company to the detriment of its thousands of employees and hundreds of franchise owners.

There's a wealth of interesting topics to talk about in this story, and Business Week did a great job avoiding all of it.
Go traveling. Central America is cheap, beautiful, and full of other travelers (i.e. people who don't know anyone there and are therefore happy to make new friends). And if you have some work lined up before you go, you can code using hostel wifi and live like a king (a king that sleeps in a room with 6 or 7 strangers, but a king no less).
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wonder what's on the backend? :P
A large number of people at my company probably share the same external IP, I bet that is why I see it a work. Everything works fine from my home.
"I love to think about it, love the fact that it exists, that Richard Garriott had the courage to make it — but just thinking about playing it makes me tired. Like a work of conceptual art, to some extent the real power of Ultima IV today is just the fact of its existence."

I played the NES version, which was probably a little more tolerable. Even though it's a slog, it is one of my favorite games at least in concept. I love how the air vehicle is a hot air balloon that you can't control other than cast spells to change wind direction. Good times when you run out of MP.

The game is up there with Inindo for the SNES, which is another game that is a chore to play, but is one of my favorite concepts.
Cameron here, designer for The Informant. We've just launched as a Heroku addon and are looking for feedback, insights & whatever you can throw at us.

What it is: The Informant is usability testing in the form of error tracking. It simply watches ActiveRecord validations and tracks when errors are triggered. It's a great way to learn where users are making mistakes, so you can improve the usability of those areas.

For example, maybe you're getting abandonment rates on account creation or checkout. The Informant will tell you if users are simply mistyping their phone number a lot, and the fix might be as simple as a copy edit or more forgiving backend logic.

tl;dr your users make mistakes all the time. Now you can learn where and why, and fix it. :)
Building Microsoft cannot have been a low-stress endeavor, and people always remark how quickly Presidents visually age during stressful political times.
You can collect lots of data without finding the terrorists, because to find the terrorists you have to do a good job analyzing all that data. But even if you're not doing good analysis, you can still keep the data in your back pocket to target anyone you wish.

As to whether scandals are effective, one counterexample is Eliot Spitzer.
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By being a special national public tax-funded corporation, BBC is a huge part of idea market, at least in the UK. In fact, by claiming that airing those views is "subsidizing", the parent post acknowledged it. Since UK residents have no choice about if to pay the tax or not, they are essentially forced to support one ideas over the others as a matter of public policy. If BBC were a private corporation without tax financing, of course that would not be a problem.
> It's likely that the actual development of Solaris zones started around the same time as linux-vservers.

That's what contemporary means.

> linux-vserver wasn't valuable to go and stay in the mainline kernel.

Lots of technology start out-of-tree and is only much later incorporated into mainline. That's part of what the big Linux distributors do for a living, and a healthy side of the Linux ecosystem.

> none of the mainstream Linux distributions have chosen to actually build a fully-architected platform including both the kernel and userland

For compartmentalization, I take it. It is indeed a problem that it has stayed a niche product in Linux land for so long, but there have been plenty of minor Linux distributors focusing on it, mainly for ISP use.

> In the end, use the right OS for the right job. I happen to believe

I have never in my professional life been in a situation where the operating system was not given by the circumstances. What I believe is simply not relevant. YMMV, of course, and good for you if it does.
One Of The NSA's Whistleblowers Says The Goal Is 'Total Population Control'
right-click, open in incognito to read if you hit the paywall.
Indeed. CIA director lost his job when the FBI spied on his mistress' email account. No.2 Admiral of Strategic Command lost his position too for some gambling scandal. Certainly possible to coerce or blackmail other positions of power that are unelected. Not everybody is shameless like Anthony Weiner
I really like this idea and was willing to try it out but with this iOS7+ limitation I guess it's dead end for me. I think there are still many millions of pre iOS7 users out there that won't be able to try this app out. How hard is it to make it compatible with other iOS? The XCode compiler doesn't do this for you?
It would be useful to clarify what the requirements are for the "curated" list. Also, why each framework is recommended. Otherwise, it's just a list of stuff.
Very cool.

Unfortunately, while it appears to run just fine under Safari, the window inspector is broken. It's not vertically splitting the area and putting the attributes on the right; it's horizontally splitting and putting the attributes below the window list, except there's no room to see any of the attributes like that.

It seems a real shame for the layout of the window inspector to be the only compatibility issue with Safari. Any chance you can get that fixed?
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Developers write blog posts?
Do your developers write posts? do you have a tech blog such as Netflix?
> […] what is the difference between bombs and explosives […]?

If there is no difference, then use something else, it was just an example. Say, machetes and swords.

> […] bombs can just as well be used as leverage to negotiate peace […]

It is precisely this argument that I don’t really buy. It feels akin to the argument of “If I don’t do it, someone else would do it, so it might as well be me.”.

> […] what part of the Tor Project is analogous to making bombs?

I was not talking about the Tor Project at all, and I was not trying to make a point about making privacy tools. I was merely trying to argue against the soothing falseness of “Technology is inherently neutral.”. If you make, I don’t know, bread or something, sure, we could agree on that being neutral. But don’t tell me that M1 tanks are neutral. Just because there is difficulty drawing a line at a specific point does not disprove the existence of a difference.
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> The Father cannot stay with any of the daughters, without their Mother's presence.

> The Mother cannot stay with any of the sons, without their Father's presence

This is a bit disturbing.
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> For Constitution Amendment to pass, it's not enough to get a couple of House members.

True, but so what? First, the Constitutional Amendment currently on the table in Congress has a lot more support than that (the version in the Senate has, IIRC, 43 cosponsors), and, second, a PAC aiming to increase legislative support can target both Congress and state legislatures, and, third, as the issue cannot be addressed legislatively except by a Constitutional Amendment, since the Supreme Court has already determined that legislation in this area violates the Constitution as it currently stands, so no other mechanism is meaningful.
Looking at this table, I should've said "without sacrificing too much performance". Impressive results, though!
Menstruation varies much between individuals, not to mention with age. So I'm sure there are people for whom this will be an improvement, which is the question you really wanted to ask.
Tech blog: Yes

Such as Netflix: Not sure

http://blog.decaresystems.ie/
Agreed, that's the most thrilling development to HSA in my eyes. Coherent memory structures (with much of it shared) all the way down truly elevates the GPU to first-class citizenship.
HearthSim is designed purely as a AI vs AI game simulation tool. It's not a "playable" Hearthstone clone. In the examples on my blog, I usually run 40,000 simulated games per data point, and each set of 40,000 games usually takes a few hours to run on a relatively modern PC.
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I was commenting to a friend that the limited functionality in these types of services have very steep edges. It's great when you're in the middle, but trying to do something a little bit different can lead to long, poor, difficult code as you try to work around the constraint.

I think we'll start seeing more "opinionated" platforms, similar to what Rails and others have done for web development. Parsing query strings, managing database connections, and wiring your own user reg code are all distant memories for most web developers most of the time today.

We might see something similar here, where groups of common functions or services are stacked together to form a unit that works well together and covers some set of use cases very well. LAMP comes to mind as a comparison, and you can definitely use SQL Server instead of MySQL, but it probably won't work as well when it comes down to drivers, libraries, recruiting, etc.

These stacks will differ as well to serve a broad range of customers. I cringe a bit when I see Amazon EC2 comparisons to Hetzner or Digital Ocean because they are serving quite a different set of customers with different needs. To think that all hosts should end up standardizing on the same units would leave many customers unserved. It's easy for innovation to be called vendor lock-in, but it's hard to compete or innovate on heavily commoditized products/services.

It's [still] an exciting time to be in tech.
I use DuckDuckGo and use the !mdn bang syntax to run the search on MDN.
> I still don't understand how economists can say that BTC has no "intrinsic value,"

It really annoying to me that people keep putting up this straw man. What economist is saying that BTC has no intrinsic value and is thus worthless? Really? You learn in ECO101 that currency only has value because of what you can exchange it for. Money demand is not a fringe concept in economics--its a core concept that anyone in any branch of economics that deals with currency and money thinks about several times a day.

The fact that you can only do business with the vast majority of american society in USD is what gives the USD value. We got to that point because the US government said that US currency should be acceptable to pay off any debts in the US, including taxes. The fact that dollar exists and is the common currency in the US is tied to the law, but its exchange rate and purchasing power is (aka its 'value') is tied to other factors completely.

You can make the argument that the long term value of BTC is zero because there's nothing that guarantees it continued existence, like US law guarantees the existence of the dollar. But thats totally separate from the value and exchangability of BTC to US.
It's a bit hard to elaborate. You have to rember that a classification problem may be generalized to more than just two dimensions, in fact it can be generalized to however many dimensions are necessary to describe the data. In the general multidimensional cases linearly separable relates to the number and type of hyperplanes (subspaces) necessary to correctly classify the data.

In this simple 2-d case the subspace is a line, so this example is linearly separable. In the 3rd dimensional case linearly separable refers to classification using a single 2-dimensional plane. For 4 dimensions with the data, you need a single 3-dimensional hyperplane for it to be linearly separable, and so on.
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He's likely done a lot of traveling and probably has a yacht or two- so he's had more sun exposure than the average Microsoft employee. His father is almost 90 and is still going. If someone could find some photos of his father as a 60-something we could probably make a rough determination if there's maybe some genetic factor involved in the sort of skin wrinkling Mr.Gates III shows now.
Not sure if you're referring to my approach or the other possible approaches mentioned in this thread, but is there anything specifically about the generated pdf that you would describe as badly laid out?

The approach in my post was specifically trying to be a more flexible format than the recently featured JSON resume, while giving ConTeXt as much freedom as possible in laying out the pdf.
> Do you have a hard time reading?

Personal attacks are not allowed here. Please don't.
HTTPS Everywhere is a "soft enforcement" of HTTPS, with hand-curated regex that switches you to HTTPS if it's known by the EFF where the appropriate HTTPS server is. It's a wonderful, wonderful tool and I'd feel naked without it, but it "fails open" as it were - if something doesn't have https support, or the https support is buggy, it just shows you the http version.

I believe HTTP Nowhere is similar to HTTPS Everywhere, but it "fails closed" - if there isn't an HTTPS version of a site, HTTP Nowhere just doesn't show you that site.

I really hope we one day get to a world where it's feasible to have HTTP Nowhere on by default. There are a shocking number of sites which don't support HTTPS, probably because they are suffering some misapprehension about the overhead it adds. Amazon does a bizarre thing where they bounce you back and forth between HTTP and HTTPS depending on how much information about you that they feel a page reveals. It's quite an unstable situation for such a high value target. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a number of spearphishing and MITM attacks that take advantage of Amazon's cavalier attitude towards its customers' safety and privacy.
I took off my jacket but I was still in a tie at a job interview at a place that hit hot on all start-up stereotypes. (Simple example: someone blasted the theme to Indiana Jones over the speaker system during my code-pairing session.)

I 100% stuck out as a sore thumb, but that was okay. I considered the three cases:

1. I should dress up and they will ding me if I don't

2. they don't care

3. I should not dress up and they will ding me if I do

I'd be right in 2 out of 3 cases. And in the third: well, flushing people for doing what is expected of them by a large fraction of the community is crazy, so it's good to find out.

(No, I didn't get the position.)
This is an interesting yet drastically different take on a similar story from India. Some of you may remember articles about Arunachalam Muruganantham, an uneducated man who lost his family, friends and whole way of life in order to bring affordable sanitary pads to girls and women in India. Now he helps rural villages install, run and make money off of machines which produce sanitary napkins for pennies on the dollar, and at the same time teach local women how to use them and break cultural taboos. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978

So when I read this article about THINX, while I want to be positive about anyone who works to make people's lives easier and less stressful, all I see is commerce. These are basically luxury items that are intended for people who already have access to sanitary pads. It almost seems like the whole story about being inspired by a girl in South Africa is a marketing ploy to get people to purchase their product by preying on people's sympathy for an unrelated issue. If they really wanted to help women around the world, donating a small portion of sales to one African country is not what I would consider a realistic approach to that goal.
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