skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oculus VR won't provide support for Oculus Rift headsets purchased “second-hand”
Stand up to the MAN!!!
Considering most people are casual observers 3 comments about paying for this is a positive signal. vpj should just throw up a landing page asking for money and start building. :)
The Six Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read This Summer
Chrome 36 is stable, 300M people will soon have full support for Web Components
I'm offering an observation & opinion on a topic of controversy. I'm not a social scientist, and didn't offer this perspective under the guise of scientific authority. I also didn't label or judge anyone -- disagreement with your perspective isn't sexist.

This isn't an unusual observation. I'd offer to you: http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/toy-guns-do-th...

I don't know why, but girls and boys tend to gravitate towards different types of play. And they do so very young. That's just a fact.
Fair point. I used to spend a lot of time on thinking about custom workout routines, measuring my progress, adjusting my workout plan etc., until I realized, you don't really need all that if your goal is to just stay healthy. For that you only need consistency. My app is simple because all you have to do is press "start". I found it difficult to put all that into one tagline. But thanks for your feedback, I will keep thinking about it...
A quick Google search yields this[0] which would probably do the trick. Just beware of browser compatibility[1] (something that plagues several features of Papa already, hence it requires a modern browser to use them).

[0]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3665115/create-a-file-in-...

[1]: https://www.google.com/webhp?q=max%20length%20of%20data%20ur...
Amazing, I saw your website a few days ago and been studying it ever since.
Sorry, but "by definition" there are several meanings in the dictionary. Merely employed is the lower level. And I think I made the way I mean it clear.

E.g From dictionary.reference.com:

noun:
- a person who is expert at his or her work: You can tell by her comments that this editor is a real professional.
- a person who engages in an activity with great competence

adj:
- extremely competent in a job, etc
- (of a piece of work or anything performed) produced with competence or skill
Excellent article. Among other points, notes why the "tea party" is so grossly misunderstood.
Archie comic removed from Singapore bookstore following public complaint
Well, what I mean is that we'd ideally have a situation where there are cheap dedicated hardware modules which contain your private key, so that you never have to trust your private key to a phone or a laptop. A phone can play that role and likely will at some point, but I'd still like something that is dumber than a phone, because I don't want the device itself to be able to harbor malware. Plus, the idea of such an HSM would be that you carry it around and then you can plug it in (or wirelessly connect it) to any system you're using, and all that system would be able to do is ask it to use its private key (which the system wouldn't be able to see) to calculate the response to some authentication query. If you're worried that your terminal might be compromised, you wouldn't really want to connect it to your phone.

Also, Google Authenticator is similar to a really fancy password because it's a symmetric key system. It's nice because you only have to enter in one-time passwords on untrusted devices, but the downside is that both you and the service you're authenticating with has the same key, meaning that if either you or the service you're authenticating with is compromised, the attacker can authenticate as you. With SSL, the service being compromised doesn't actually get the attacker anything except your public key.
For (actual) programming languages without mutation and with more than just lambdas and application for control flow, it is right:

f x y = y
f (raise Done) Ω

Under lazy application semantics this program will never terminate. Under eager application semantics it will.
Except that it's not that easy even for the French. I'm sure the law wasn't passed for tourists. Even some fancier restaurants were found to have been just warming up pre-made dishes. If a restaurant is not required to disclose this information, how would one ever find out?

Although, I do agree that a small bit of research will get you away from the touristy restaurants and into some more "local" places. Sometimes it's even just a matter of getting off the main streets.
Does iBooks do audiobooks? I'd love an alternative to Audible.
Haskell tries to be exceedingly (some might argue excessivly) clever. OCaml strives to be pragmatic and predictable.
Wiseleo, is that really true about the refresh rate? RSS readers have a configurable rate. Often there is a one hour default in order to be reasonably nice to the server. Basically, a Craigslist RSS item is just a URL with the search parameters embedded. Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect that whenever you fetch this URL, the server executes the search and produces the results as RSS XML items, so the fetch rate is controlled by you (your reader). Or are you saying there is some additional throttling on the server side, so that RSS-based searches do not see up-to-the-second updates that are visible through the Web interface? So that no matter how often you refresh the RSS feed, you don't see new items that are already visible via HTML?
To take a contrarian point of view, I have to agree with one of the chef's in the article. If I knew buying a prepackaged type of food would taste better to customers than what I can make in house 99% of the time, then wouldn't it be pretty stupid not to use that instead?

I've been using an automated espresso machine at home and what it makes tastes better than most of the fancy coffee shops in San Francisco.

When stuff gets automated it takes that fun out of things, but the end result improves regardless.
What happens when your university decides to cut your pay, and you want to picket outside of the work place?

"Oh, you need to protest at this location 20 miles away where no one relevant will hear your message."
It's actually the reverse when it comes to licensing (or contracts for the matter). If you don't explicitly state it, then it can be interpreted to be implicit. When dealing with licensing or contracts, you want as little legal wiggle room as possible. Part of the reason even the most basic of contacts/licensing are pretty verbose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty
This sounds like the perfect place to start building my giant mechanical kill bots
hmmm. we're doing greenhouse climate control, irrigation and nutrient dosing for hydroponics. i'm gonna shoot my buddy an email to see if he's interested.
Oh how I wish that math was replaced by a natural language explanation in simple words.
This is really amazing. A lot of thoughtful work went into this site, and it's great that he took the time to document the process and talk through it. Wow.
Aid to Africa: donations from west mask '$60bn looting' of continent
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/farmlife/msg0612065...
I hate pieces like this.

"The Media" is not a monolith. The media is a complicated and dynamic world of individuals, companies from large to small, distribution mechanisms, educational systems, and cultural assumptions.

The media is comprised of a lot of different things including people who may be awful or mendacious or ignorant or naïve or inexperienced or any number of things.

Does the press/media have structural issues? Yes absolutely. Does this piece identify, elucidate or address any of them?

No. It doesn't.

(p.s. the entire subtext of this piece is that the "liberal" media is dumb. I'm sure that the "conservative" media would fare much better /eyeroll)
Yes, but also consider the Equation of Time.
I was more speaking about the license in general, not the specific codebase example.
This is the most insightful comment I've read in a long time. Kudos!
wow, incredible designer. What would it take to convince you to work with me?
Do you mean something like this?

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Ada.Integer_Text_IO; use Ada.Integer_Text_IO;

procedure example is
data : array (1 .. 10) of aliased integer;
dataPtr : access integer;

begin
for i in 1..10 loop
data (i) := i;
end loop;
dataPtr := data(4)'access;
Put("The array 4 is ");
Put(dataPtr.all);
New_Line;
end example;
Growing up I loved the Myst games and 'Jewels of the Oracle'. I got to explore and solve puzzles. Even now I play RPGs, but I like games that encourage exploration (Guild Wars 2) and I'm always on the look out for a good puzzle game. I would love to see a RPG that had both combat and puzzles more.
I'm looking into phonegap stuff myself... were you a mobile app developer before using it? Or only javascript/html/etc?

If only js/html/etc, was the transition to phonegap for web apps pretty simple for you?

Thanks!
Why do you think Rust is applicable, here? It isn't obvious to me that these people would benefit from a language that can be used anywhere that C++ can be.
It's always impressive to see an individual with a really good eye for design and the technical chops to bring it to life alone.

Building a site as beautiful as this must have left you inundated with job offers. It's really awesome!
Million Dollar Game – Please give feedback
Million Dollar Game is like Flappy Bird but the person with the highest score at the end of a "season" will win a sum generated out of the purchase price.

Any critiques or questions will be greatly appreciated.

(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.game.milliondollar)
I see lots of "my anecdotal experience as a XYZ proves your anecdotal experience fighting bullies as a ABC is totally wrong"

However, observationally over my long life, I've found it all boils down to get inside their OODA loop, and they want nothing to do with you. Doesn't matter if its a supervisor at age 35 or some jock in high school.

Observationally it doesn't seem to even matter if you're right, just if you're faster. Spin the loop fast as possible and don't skip any steps. Do the best you can without stopping but don't stop the loop. The faster you spin the faster you can try all kinds of crazy ideas some of which might actually work.

Being reactive has a negative connotation. I'm not saying be reactive. A dumb ball game analogy is make sure the ball is always in their court so they have to think longer, harder than you, they're the ones anxiously guessing whats about to happen next not you. They tend not to like that experience, not at all.

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

Don't confuse it with being flaky or random.

Its not of any use when you're getting beaten, its highly effective at avoiding a beating scenario.
The middle ground is not better than extreme viewpoints just because it's easier to get people to accept. A "subtle" argument is not a good thing. Arguments should, ideally, be glaringly obvious.

Better than an argument, how about a nuanced discussion of reality? How about we get people away from the marketing caricature of reality, and we have them discussing reality?

A statement is either true or false. If you can't decide on one of those two extremes, it means either your statement is ill-formed or your axioms aren't consistent.

Human language and human models of the world are ill-formed and inconsistent. This is why honest nuanced discussions that aren't arguments are the best.
Pretty cool. Thanks! Could you make the URL clickable? And moving it to the search results instead of the inner page would be useful.
http://hackaday.com/2013/08/05/centimeter-level-precision-gp...
I have very rarely run into misbehaved threading. Even so, for me personally it's not enough to warrant the effort of doing a manual split. Threads are ephemeral and it's fairly trivial to change the subject and fork the thread.

However, I would really love to see thread merging or some kind of grouping into a master thread which can track all the sub-threads. I am fairly certain this would have very high utility for a lot of other people here especially if its dead simple to do (group > search thread > select thread > ok). I could easily use this to merge a bug report email thread with the internal bug tracking thread, etc. Or a candidate's job application with his interview feedback, etc.
At least in Ireland, an EU commission post is often a way to remove either someone perceived as a threat, or a sinecure for an old ally who might be better off not interfering with national politics. I imagine Belgian politicians succumb to the same temptations.
"Just press start" or "Only one button between you and your workout" or "One button to a better you" (okay, not that one). I'm not any good at this, but I like the idea behind your app and I understand what you're trying to say. Quaffapint puts the tagline problem well.
Congrats to Kyle and team. Great to see the growth of Vancouver startups over the past few years. We may be small, but we sure are hungry.
Seeing the favicons while having both sites open in different tabs drives the point home even more.

They're even using a very similar shade of orange.

I do wonder if I was making a logo how hard it would be to search for similar ones though. It seems like it would be harder to google than a name.
Definitely. We looked into adding RTK autosteer to our tractors a few years ago. It was about $10,000 to get into a full autosteer system per machine, plus recurring costs for the correction data, which seems to be the preferred way to go. That just to drive straight. The systems that can handle turning on the headlands or synchronize between machines run even higher, at least at the time. We decided it wasn't feasible for our operation and haven't reevaluated.

However, if you can completely replace an operator as a tiny autonomous combine could, costs of that magnitude become negligible.
Supercool. I have no doubts you'll find lots of Chicago-area people looking to put that land to use. However, if you are looking for a good base of people to reach out to my suggestion is to tap into Northwestern University. It's a bit hard to reach for most people there, but I'm sure you could find some people who would desire land for some project or another.
Abusing Oracle’s CREATE DATABASE LINK privilege for fun and profit
Just curious, but what are the "real reasons they are nonetheless made to put up with it"? If your child says "I'm being bullied at school and no one is doing anything about it. My teacher ridicules me because I don't understand Algebra. I'm not learning anything in literature class except how to fill out worksheets. Can't we figure out something better?" what do you say?
Sure thing. Even if no one runs with their own plans, I'll be documenting the home construction and small farm process.
perfect response.
I live not too far away myself. Anyone taking @syedkarim up on his offer, I would love to help out!
if you s/liberal/corporatist/g you'll get a more valid viewpoint. The main problem with "the media" today is that it's all influenced/corrupted by wealthy interests that hype or suppress news to favor their viewpoints (of which there are many, but all about increasing wealth for the already-wealthy).

Any media detached from supporting a wealthy interest is usually ignored and shunned by media outlets. That's a trend that's disturbing and escalating.

The future is NeoFeudalism.
Relicensing is a weird term and easily leads to confusion. I guess you can write your own terms and distribute copies under these new terms. But you cannot revoke the rights the original license has granted to people who have received the work under that license. Nor can you revoke the original author's exclusive rights. The license text (which is about the copying and performing of the covered work) does not grant you such powers.
If you haven't already, you should check out The Plant. I took the trip to Chicago all the way from LA just to check out this place. When I went a couple years ago it was in its early stages, but it was still a great experience to tour the facility.

http://www.plantchicago.com/
If they would read the history, learn the arguments they dismiss reflexively as idiotic, gather even a modicum of context before pontificating, who knows what might happen?

This is the main point of the article, and a fair one.
Yes that's the one he has (I'm his roommate)
> Even some fancier restaurants were found to have been just warming up pre-made dishes. If a restaurant is not required to disclose this information, how would one ever find out?

If the meal provides experienced utility (enjoyment, etc.) that justifies the cost, why do you care?
This is killer. I would throw in a few bucks for someone to work on this.
The WTFPL allows me to re-assign copyright to myself

Under which jurisdiction? Can you back that claim up?
Yeah, an bug from posting this in a hurry and problems deploying it from github to heroku. Fixing it tonight =D
"OMG, this service sucks so much, but I like their logo, so I'm going to pay for it!"

Nobody actually thinks this way, but I think it's been demonstrated countless times that people respond to branding.

I guess the takeaway is that just because it's possible to make something sound silly doesn't mean it doesn't have an impact.
Google+ drops real name policy
Great, thanks for the braindump!
I welcome all assistance. Feel free to reach out.
No condescension perceived :-)

I think that background varies - some people are fluent statisticians and others come from different disciplines / careers. Anecdotally, my experience from browsing A/B testing advice online is similar; some content is very statistically savvy and some is a bit oversimplified.
Chrome 36 Launches for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android
Me making a plea to back the Xiki Kickstarter – 3 days left
Library hours strongly conflict with 9-5 job hours.
Thank you for all your comments - We will take them all onboard.

Not clearly displaying that we only operate within Great Britain is clearly an issue. Therefore I have now added a banner that should be displayed if you are outside of Great Britain. The geolocation isn't perfect but it's good enough for now, we will look into making this more accurate in the future.

We will certainly reconsider the video background and I can also confirm that autocomplete in the search boxes is currently on our roadmap as a high priority feature.

Your feedback is very much appreciated so keep it coming!
Indefinite detention "works" because it's structurally the same process as is used for prisoners of war, and we (in one of the great foreign policy blunders of the century) managed to declare war on a terrorist brand name instead of a state, meaning that we've created a military conflict that won't end --- where the conclusion of a conflict, usually (in the last 2 centuries) within single-digit years, is the normal way you resolve prisoner of war dilemmas.

Not that I'd want to suggest that a discussion that starts out with "that's interesting but it doesn't matter because there's no such thing as due process in the US" is going to be productive, but the nature of indefinite detention is, in a positive sense, not a normative one, interesting.
Female Exec accused of sexual harassment files defamation suit against accuser
Nesting is the next on the roadmap once we get around to it. The Clojure for this is super complex, it was a ton of work making it "unbreakable" (as if). We're in a good spot to add it.

The nesting will actually "zoom" into the col you're putting it in and give you a new view, then you can zoom back out.

There IS a live HTML preview that you can actually see and drag your browser big and small.... but it's broke. Fixing it after work tonight.
Gonna give this a try now time to jailbreak
Thanks for the link. Time to try out Google app engine's PHP preview.
The main problem with "the media" today is that it's all influenced/corrupted by wealthy interests

Did you even read the OPs post? There is no "the media". There are a wide number of media organisations, some of which resemble others, and many more that do not.
[facepalm] This retort about social equality & justice is not something anyone should take seriously. It is a very one-sided, reductive rebuttal of the issue. If nothing else, this comment is a good example of the projection mentality on display in folk of a "progressive" bent: long on cynical rhetoric about "those people" while short on understanding the underlying differences in axioms (ex.: "compassion for fellow human beings" does not involve gov't confiscation of one's income for redistribution to those able-bodied who complain sufficiently).

Long story short, some people question the idea that people who are successful deserve what they have because others agreed to give them it, and that those who are unsuccessful deserve to be poor because, in a word, they didn't earn what they don't have. Furthermore, some people want society at large to acknowledge that chance and circumstance are unfair and nobody's "fault", and the rewards of success should not be forcibly redistributed just because chance favored a ready mind.

Your post is so common it's a cliche.

We'd get somewhere in this discussion if we could discuss differences in underlying axioms, rather than hurtling insults at those with diverse views.
Nothing about the robot pictured at TFA is "creepy", nor does TFA refer to it that way.
There are certainly tangible hurdles to scaling. Namely, number of partners. Quality support, advice is hard to do with a 100:1 ratio. Much better at 10:1. There's also physical space, but as we see, YC is opening up more space so that will scale slowly. But as these companies mature and maybe become partners themselves, that will scale too.
Wonderful! I was looking for a container like this to test my Drupal website.
You say that it's a malicious intent. Are you sure about this? I remember a recruiter once pitched me for a role in a company I did an internship previously - this was when I was student and started to look for my first job. It's possible that he saw that you were an X with n years of experience and sent it to your current company since they were looking for the same profile.

You mention that your current employer knows that you are looking, and that you are not worried about losing your job. In that case I'd just discard him as a crappy headhunter and move on.
Is that possibly the culture at Microsoft? I knew a guy who moved from Intel to Microsoft and I noticed his speech tended to more verbosity after the move.
Most likely it would've been a larger fraction at almost any point in the last 60 years.

Whether you like it or not, you derive innumerable tangible benefits from living in American society, in no small part because generations before you paid for it. You're probably white, male, hetero, relatively young, and relatively healthy, and none of the advantages which accrued to you because of that are due to your life choices. Arguably, you have the sense of entitlement exactly backwards.
On Arch Linux using WebKit, this page doesn't load at all without JavaScript, and doesn't work at all with it. Can you fix the site or provide a text version?
Poland Game Industry (witcher3, dead island, dying light, indie)
It's dehumanizing to the victims to dismiss allegations of sexual assault because of a convenient theory that aligns with your politics. While it may be your version of Occam's Razor to assume that this is an internationally-coordinated plot against him, I find it much easier to believe that a person with a lot of public self-regard could be guilty of one of the most common crimes committed by humans: acquaintance rape.

What's really frustrating is watching people conflate Assange with Wikileaks and defend the individual as if he's the organization. It causes people who are skeptical of rapists and cult-of-personality individuals to be made out to be anti-whistleblowers and that's not fair. I think Wikileaks operates best as an anonymous organization and not under the control of a figurehead.