skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of [0] and [1]. Quoting from the latter:

I've seen people severely messed up by their own knowledge of biases. They have more ammunition with which to argue against anything they don't like. And that problem—too much ready ammunition—is one of the primary ways that people with high mental agility end up stupid, in Stanovich's "dysrationalia" sense of stupidity.

[0] - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Dangerous_knowledge

[1] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_peo...
By that reasoning nothing is dependency-free, as it requires a browser, or a computer, or a universe...

Dependency-free almost always refers to runtime dependencies. A build tool is not a dependency. (Rome isn't dependency-free in that sense either[1], but hey...)

[1]: https://github.com/bevacqua/rome/blob/master/package.json#L2...
1) Possibly. It seems likely that it'll be open-sourced sooner or later, like Clang was. Everything said by Apple people has been cautiously positive on this front.

However, it doesn't have much of a standard library as part of the language itself at the moment, being heavily dependent on Cocoa stuff. GNUStep/Cocotron could presumably be used.

2) Yes; Swift apps run on iOS 7 and up, and MacOS 10.9 and up. There currently seem to be some bugs which turn up on iOS7 but not 8 or vice versa, but Swift is quite buggy in general at the moment, and this will probably be cleaned up.
I felt like I was getting so close...

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>Can you describe the problem in a paragraph? Please use small sentences, I'm only a duck.

I must know the meaning of life

>Is your meaning of life the thing that has the problem?

Yes

>Can you explain what your meaning of life does?

It provides a reason for one's existence.

>So does it do just one thing? Any chance that your meaning of life, or parts of it, can be isolated and test seperately?

Perhaps if we knew all of or part of the answer, each part could be tested.

>What parts of your meaning of life are you certain work, and where are your 'unknowns'?

Well many people find meaning in their relationships, work, or education. None of these are universal though.

>Is your meaning of life being compiled? Can you restart the compiler?

The universe cannot be restarted or recompiled.

>Is something similar to your meaning of life being used elsewhere? Could common elements be shared?

Well we know of many physical laws. Perhaps those laws can be adapted in some way.

>How is your meaning of life modified?

We do not know if it is constant or ephemeral because we do not know the answer.

>Could your meaning of life, or variables within it, be somehow overwritten or overridden?

Perhaps they could by a supreme being.

>Is everything in your meaning of life your code? Could you replace uncertainties with debugging statements?

We do not know how to overwrite the code of the universe.

>Why do you need your meaning of life?

To give life direction

>Do you fully understand how it does what it does? Could you split your meaning of life into smaller chunks?

It doesn't appear to solve the problem.

>Sorry, my super-duck-powers have failed. Have you tried google or stack overflow?
Because if you watch that film and believe Apollo went to the moon, the only conclusion is that light has different properties on the moon compared to Earth.

I'd like to know what could explain, for example, their shadows lengthening significantly when they move a small distance as shown in the NASA footage better than "the astronauts were close to a large artificial light source" as they claim in the film that physics implies.
Just implemented this. `weekStart: 1`
> An Uber spokesman in Seoul denied that the service was illegal as Uber is “a technology company that connects drivers with passengers” and doesn’t directly run a taxi service with rented cars.

I'm not sure any definition of a taxi service requires renting cars.

It just requires connecting vehicles to passengers, at a time and place the passenger defines.

Uber don't half come out with some rubbish when they're trying to skirt around some narrowly worded local policy or law.
Peek: A Free Usability Testing Service
From the article;

Karl Albrecht established the Elisen Foundation to support cultural causes, and his Oertel trust, which controlled a portion of Aldi Sued, also donates to medical research.

It's quite possible that he did exactly what you suggest.
Why isn't a build tool a dependency? Seems arbitrary to me.
RJ Reynolds told to pay wife of cancer victim $23.6bn
I think it's interesting to note that Trader Joe's "has been owned since 1979 by a German family trust established by Aldi Nord's owner Theo Albrecht." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_Joe's
Based on these examples, I believe the proper way to draw up the contract would be to write "exactly" instead of "no more than". "I will be fed lobster exactly 3 times a week". It safeguards against those farfetched price increases but also limits the number to a tolerable level.
InterviewithHire Great Devs: Part 2
They just fooled you as well. I'd definitely have the main URL redirect to where people thought they should go, then have internal pages contain the fraudulent payment gateway.
the moon orbits around the earth for an (effectively) infinite amount of time - that doesn't mean that how fast it goes isn't interesting.
The next post in this series is also up. By djs55 on Using Irmin to add fault-tolerance to the Xenstore database.

http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-irmin-in-xenstore
yet, this man depended on what you view as highly skilled labor, scaled it, and was worth $20.9 billion when he died.
Redirecting from one domain to another can be done without being affiliated with the target domain.
HelloWorld at Under 30 CEO: The 70% rule with Raj
But you'd have to use Mac servers, right?
The graphics look nice. Definitely better than the average App Store crap imho. The particle effects are a bit too much for my taste though. While I found the graphics polished, I can't find anything in the video or app description that would make me want to play this game right now. Something that would let me think: "F* it, what's 99 cents?". That may be a well thought of combo mechanism, dual ship power-ups, size modifiers etc. And if they're already there, show them!

I think the strength of games like this lies in competing with yourself and others. For example I thought Flappy Bird was a terrible game, but I HAD to beat my brothers highscore. So that would be another way to generate downloads. In fact I think another strength of Flappy Bird is that you don't have a warming up phase regarding the difficulty which keeps you in the flow. Players in the flow keep gaming on and on and therefore expose your game to others.

I hope my thoughts can help you to improve your game. Regards, a fellow indie who has yet to launch his game.
Yeah, but don't forget what this is. Taxi Drivers complaining that barriers to entry are being removed, so fares remain artfically high.
Can anyone vouch for any of these sites? Do the curated sites have a lot of hoops to jump through?
Or you can just use Compose Key. It's more practical than switching layouts all the time.

Also AFAIR on Mac OS X you can just long-press for alternative letters.
> it is possible that indulging your instincts by seeking even more partners would indeed make you happier.

Your hypothesis is very interesting but from what I've seen of others, this doesn't work well in the long run. There are spikes of more-than-normal happiness but eventually, someone is jealous, someone gets cuckolded (as hard as it is in such an arrangement!) and you crash hard. Not everyone is so far evolved to avoid these problems.

As a guy, I know I am at my happiest when I have one primary woman and side women that the primary does not know about explicitly. Oddly enough, the vagueness of her not really knowing makes her more attracted. But I still have to treat my primary as if she is the only one. This is the only stable configuration I've found.
How can you know if separatist on the internet are real rebel commanders or just some hotheads in their mommies' basements or (gasp) other intelligence agencies? How do you know that nobody took over their digital identities? We're on HN we all know how easy it is.
> Learning to program is not the same as learning a new language. Norvig is talking about something utterly different that has no relevance here.

At least in parts of his essay, Norvig is talking about learning a new language when one already knows how to program. For example, where he says:

In 3 days you might be able to learn some of the syntax of C++ (if you already know another language), but you couldn't learn much about how to use the language. In short, if you were, say, a Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of Basic using C++ syntax, but you couldn't learn what C++ is actually good (and bad) for.
I'm on an iPad. As far as I know there is no way to install Adblock on it. Still don't see anything on the page.
join to build kickstarter project
I would say yes. I just bought a Mini and an Air, just for iOS development :)

Well, I also got the Air because it's such a fantastic laptop, after years of using corporate Dell bricks.
Stripe now in beta in Denmark
Nice overview. I think a lot of the tenets of pythonicness are based on the heuristic that there should be minimal cruft and friction between the reader and the code. I should be looking at a reasonably close approximation of my interpretation of the problem. Was it let or var? Semicolon or no semicolon? Was it := or set! <- or <<- ? Squiggly braces or none? Does the second indented line after a non-squiggly block count as part of the block? Was it private static or static private? Does const go before or after the function definition? Does i++ increment first or provide a value first? I should have to think less about any of these things and more about the problem.

Usually, syntax is minimal enough to get out of your way, and where there is syntax, it attempts to be consistent and to enforce clarity.
Did you just read the first half of the article?

The rest of it is the main point.

Given that it's likely to be very very popular, and nobody can claim to be an expert, you can be one of the most knowledgeable people in the world about it by getting in now. Want to be the author of a very popular framework in a very popular language? Write a framework now in Swift.
I am not using adblock and had the same behavior - refresh fixed it.
At first, I thought the empty list was the point of the site.
It used to be mostly 3-digit numbers because for decades the inventory was kept below 800 unique products.
Making the end of your internship count
Site is down for me. Anyone have a mirror?
“Comments like these show Seoul is in danger of remaining trapped in the past and getting left behind by the global ‘sharing economy’ movement,” the statement said.

You know, I don't particularly like the "sharing economy" movement. The whole thing seems predicated on deregulation of industries that I honestly think should be regulated.

Airbnb acts, essentially, as a parent company for a hotel chain without any of the actual power or responsibility of the traditional holding company. Uber/Lyft act as car dispatchers without any of the power or responsibility of traditional taxi/limo companies. The ability of these companies to outcompete traditional companies on price in their spaces is due to their choice to not follow regulations as much as possible. The reasoning Uber gives in the article for not being in violation of the law sounds suspiciously like the reasoning given by escorts ("You're paying for my time"). If this trend continues we will see additional disregard for regulation with more and more absurd reasoning ("We aren't breaking the law on regulation because we are simply a technology company that connects your phone with another phone who happens to be in the possession of a guy in a car and whatever happens after that is between two consenting adults"). How far can this race to the bottom go before our search for low costs starts to war with our sense of personal safety and social responsibility?

As an aside, I use Uber pretty regularly in any city where it's available simply because I generally don't have the local taxi numbers. Does this make me a hypocrite? Probably.
Front-end style guides and resources
Digital electronic computers were developed in the early 1940s. In the early 1970s we had microprocessors, and in the late 70s/early 80s we had affordable personal microcomputers.

There's no single, landmark event in the history of digital computing that compares to the moon landing, and of course the development of computing owns a lot to space exploration research. Still, to the extent that such comparisons make sense at all, the advent of cheap, ubiquitous microcomputers has had far more impact on humanity's welfare and culture than the landing on the moon.
I was in a bad place until I discovered bank robbery. My life has been one big party ever since.

There's just a small matter that the law hasn't caught up to reality yet.
Once a month one of these sites gets posted to HN.
Kernow bys verkeyn!

(Sorry I couldn't resist it. I never thought I'd see a story on here about my home.)

I've never heard to Lego story either, plenty of other things get washed up, but I've never seen or heard of Lego.
> The problem is when people rent these places and then throw loud parties. The neighbors' rights are violated in that case. I don't know of a good solution, but I don't think it's worth sacrificing the entire platform due to that problem.

The thing that frustrates me is that there are pretty obvious solutions, actually:

1) AirBnB needs to provide a service where anyone can check to see if a building has any AirBnB units in it. Then they need to be able to file complaints about the unit.

2) AirBnB needs to require written permission from the landlord of the property.

1) seems completely feasible to implement for me, and I'm pissed they haven't yet. The only problem is once they have the complaint, they'd pretty much be required to notify the landlord which leads us to 2) which also seems feasible, but would obviously obliterate their market. Ultimately they've overextended themselves on that front, and either they will be successful lobbying change, or a company that figures out how to do what they are doing while making peace with landlords and the hotel lobby will come along.
This looks like it lacks i8n. Many other (jquery ui based) datepickers have i8n modules with built in foreign day / month names.
How does this handle the existence of native datepickers (a la Chrome)?
Wow. Just wow.

I would have thought that that the NSA would be more sly about their unattributed propaganda sites. That whole site is full of bullshit whitewashing.
Surely it's nothing but the Wesley Crusher episodes.
Reminds me of the Hansa Carrier incident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansa_Carrier

The idea that a ton of lost sneakers helped to illustrate ocean currents blew my mind as a kid.
Inconsistencies and incompatibilities in OOXML
Sure, blame the victim. How is old age not literally every single person's problem who hasn't committed to suicide by a certain age?

It would be completely justified to spend 1% of world GDP on aging research - that is something like $700 billion per year, $7 trillion by 2025.

It's free money, too, as if you increase life expency from 70 to 90 I'm sure the people choosing to keep working from 65 or 70 up from 56 or 60 would more than account for a 1% increase in GDP. It's just free cash for the economy.
As a developer in Southeast Asia, I wish Stripe come here as I heard a lot of nice things about Stripe.
I'm not making any mistakes. It wouldn't even be a jump at all, just static code if the statement was compile time optimized. I failed to mention it because it's trivial enough without the extra fluff of compile time magic
Sometimes the best interview questions are the ones an eight year old learning to program would ask.
'Never underestimate the person behind the register.' was one of the lessons we took away from a Point-Of-Sale system installation in a fast food restaurant. When the first customers came through the drive-through, we were surprised that the teenagers taking the orders had calculated the tax and order total, to the penny, in their heads. By the end of the day, we'd developed our rule, confirmed by further experience in other stores and other states.
Not wanting to detract from linking to an interesting technique, I should say, but NoScript seems to block it just fine.
Ignores those, they're far too differently implemented across browsers. This just assumes you're using a `<input type='text' />`
Payments Startup Stripe Launches in Australia, Tests in Three Other Countries
Cloud App Security: Foggy With Low Visibility
you can start with your true goals right away, in Elon's example he wouldn't be able to start building Spaceships without having billions on dollars in his pocket... If the true goal/passion requires less capital and you have it available then go for it right away
Vagrant/VirtualBox is the top of the list, I usually run a 64bit Ubuntu 13.10 instance for dev and production.
Because it isn't needed at runtime. Definitely not arbitrary. scons isn't a dependency of Google Chrome.
Can you explain a bit more how you pulled this off? You are submitting requests to m-dot-betaspike.appspot.com and spoofing Ingress?
its very hard typing in mobile
so I will not tell you anything
What about your next employer? If you did this you'd be taking a bet that your number potential future employers who would hire someone that posts their salary (or a proxy to it) online is greater than zero.
Building Cordova Apps with the Verified Plugins Marketplace
>No government on Earth would blindly install foreign systems. They wouldn't blindly install domestically built units (what better way to get the inside track then to accidentally be able to listen in on your government's private conversations).

History is full of stories that makes this not true dating back to even Xerox machines that the US tampered with before selling them overseas.
That's why I mentioned machine precision. Bignums are going to be different and most languages don't handle big nuns or casts on them implicitly, it's mostly lib based
moment.js exposes i18n options[1], I'd just have to expose an API to allow you to add/set a language through their API.

[1]: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/i18n/
Practically every other language does the same thing. For instance in C would you expect `int x;` to be the same as `intx;`?
As I'm barely out of draft eligible age (over 35), I don't have to worry about it.

That said, I very much believe that 1) the US would quickly fill its 2.5 million troops needed, but also that 2) we wouldn't ever really need them.

To point 1) our military force is already insanely large, to the point that military recruiters turn away (or at least, don't rabidly pursue) recruits that aren't supremely eligible. They could probably get half of the 2.5 million needed just by calling back would-be recruits that are 'on ice', meaning, they're passively being recruited, but there are more qualified applicants ahead of them, so the US just keeps them in contract limbo.

To point 2) the US military is large. It would take China actively recruiting (or secretly expanding) their eligible-for-service and rapidly training them before there was even a real potential for being outmanned.

That said, if China were 'fully engaged' they've got ~600 million persons eligible for service[1], and could likely overwhelm the US in a full on assault, if that was their only objective.

This is a fun (though perhaps dated) military force comparison chart that illustrates overall, potential and other types of manpower available to nations:
[1] - http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison.asp
Twitter takes on WhatsApp with direct message chat upgrade
We learned Swift right after it came out , then we realized that it's just not mature enough and stopped our project
Unless they open source it, yes.

Knowing apple, I feel that they would have an off the shelf solution that you could just push code to. Almost like a parse type solution, integrated through Xcode.
fuck with your mother or rape your sister idiot
The Overall Taxi experience (or all of public trans for that matter) in Seoul is much, much better & cheaper than anywhere in the US. It's usually pretty easy to catch a cab, and when you can't you can get a "call taxi" and have it arrive in a Uber-esque time.

I'm not sure if anyone in Korea would pay the premiums that people pay in NYC/SF, especially if taxis get a comparable app.
People tip delivery guys? Aside from food deliveries I've never heard of that before.
It's a good point - maybe this is a gap in the market?

There are posts re freelance sysadmins on the big sites like Freelancer.com and Guru but not much else I can find.
> the US troops that have for so long enabled European
> governments to spend money on healthcare are now just a
> thin, semipermeable membrane between Russia and their
> safe, little garden

You realize Europeans spend less on healthcare than Americans do, right?

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO#French_withdrawal plus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France

Also: France, Germany, UK and Italy spend as much combined as China does, ignoring the rest of the European countries.

Also: your fantasy that European healthcare can be afforded due to American military spending is offensive, wrong, and appears to be a bewildered reaction to "How are we the only rich country who have screwed up our healthcare provision so badly?"
Time to Aaron Swartz that shit.
Riding the Juggernaut That Left Print Behind
How many people clicked it expecting a blank page or "There are none" or something like that?
> Even though I support your conclusion of it being a manufactured controversy, this part of your post is not correct - it's actually 2 times - and is at the heart of the discussion. A citation from the Keccak site:

Depends how you're counting. A 512-bit hash function is supposed to have 2^512 preimage resistance, but its overall security level is necessarily 2^256 due to collisions.
Down for me too.

Found this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140719161748/http://manu.sporny...
Yeah I guess that makes sense. Fair enough.
Until we can get more people's retirement plans solvent enough that they can live until 120 and be reliably not poor, I disagree with your assertion that it's free money.
Seoul has an army of taxi drivers, probably a surplus of them, and the fares are already quite low. It's a massive city of 10 million people and you can get a cab from one end to the other for the equivalent of about $30 USD. Most rides cost $10-20. Good cab service is essential there, and my theory is that it's due to the extremely high rate of alcohol consumption among the working population. I can't really imagine the Uber business model being attractive in that city because the existing taxi service is so strong.
while() doesn't cast to bool in C. It compares to integer 0 which will become an unconditional jump after optimization.
Tut, where are the supporting unit tests.
Pretty much from the moment that I became interested in the demoscene about 12 years ago, Farbrausch has been my favorite group. It was something about 64k intros that intrigued me. Even in 2002, a 3" floppy held almost no data, but you can fit 20 or so of these amazing things on one.
There's a Hole in That Road (10 Common Pitfalls for Startups)
Other nervous circumstances that are not the same as interview circumstances. For me at least, test and interview stress is of a nature and effect that I have never experienced in other circumstances in 12+ years as an engineer of various disciplines.