skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree 100%. The idea of automating creativity is ludicrous. Creativity is what being human is all about and the universe we live in is infinitely vast and full of endless paths to explore.
I don't agree at all with the "so we needed to separate apps to do that" argument.

Is it that difficult to make a imediate check-in a standard private info and a review + aggregate check-ins a standard public info?

Only your friends know you did a check-in right now at that restaurant. But everyone who look at that restaurant on Foursquare can see your review (if you did one) and how many checkins you, as the author of the review has there. As well as how many check-ins total that restaurant has from any users.

It looks like a wrong strategy to me. It is as Facebook would decide to separate in two different apps (and brands) its newsfeed and its fanpages.
Dynamic Flip Out Card with FlipOut_Cards.js
Reading up about what their software did, i am once again astonished about yet another company setting up an IM network that is only accessible via phone, thus blocking it from the most convenient way to chat (via PC and a real keyboard) for the users most likely to have such an app.
I don't find earplugs comfortable, but you got me thinking and I might buy a set of hearing protection earmuffs (http://www.amazon.com/3M-Peltor-Ultimate-Hearing-Protector/d...). As a bonus, I think having a set of bright blue earmuffs on would more of a visible "do not disturb" symbol than earplugs.

Thanks for the idea. :)
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I was also surprised by this price!
Doesn't the monkey technically own copyright over the images? I mean.. just because it's this guy's camera doesn't mean he has copyright, unless the monkey transferred copyright to him via some sort of agreement.
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Yep, that's not a bad value, but $30 extra is still quite significant to us, and the smallness/lightness and battery life of the Chromebooks is hard to beat.
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Eh I just don't see this going anywhere. The arguments don't seem strong to me - Big data analysis itself is not against EU Privacy laws and I just don't see how they can frame it in a way that would convince judges otherwise. Even so, the overall penalty to Facebook would be just a drop in the bucket. The financial and reputational penalty that Facebook would incur from a loss here just doesn't scale well at all.
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I do not see this as being very practical. I think that many of the people who use Qt today have been using Qt 4.x or Qt 5.x, whereas the people who would use something like Qt 3.x are probably already using something more along the lines of WxWidgets. Changes that made Qt 4 and up different from Qt 3 were made for a reason.

That being said, if a Qt 3-type spin-off were desired and had enough support, I do not see the current developers of Qt (both Digia and outside of Digia) as spending a lot of time on it, since most of the focus is specifically on the features you would want to avoid.

My suggestion would be that if you want a widgets-only version of Qt, you could gather a group to create an LGPL spin-off of Qt 4 or Qt 5 using the specific modules you want as a starting base. (I may be wrong, but I think Qt3 still has messy licensing from the Trolltech days).
I always wanted to try that. Care to share your technique, or link to a recommended one? I read that it uses a lot of raw coffee. I don't roast at home; these days I'm ashamed to say that I don't even grind fresh.
I think its unwise to underestimate nature; what if a retrovirus went undetected at it moved through a large portion of our population, then suddenly turned lethal? Maybe it would be trivial to treat it, but it could still be devastating.
I think crouton is a much better-integrated experience than dual booting. You can set up the Ubuntu chroot exactly the same way you have in this, but you don't have to reboot if you want to watch Netflix or use Chrome OS. With the crouton integration extension (synchronized clipboard, open links from Ubuntu in Chrome OS), Chrome OS will feel like "just another app" (even though Ubuntu is the "app"/chroot).

Another benefit of using crouton (with an SD card) is that if the user accidentally hits space during the boot warning and developer mode is disabled, they can simply re-enable developer mode and nothing is lost in the Ubuntu chroot. Unfortunately, the C720 has an extremely slow SD reader, so you'd probably want to go with the Dell Chromebook 11 (same processor, ~90MB/s SD reader, better battery and build quality, $70 more) if you wanted to go this route.
The real question that intrigues me is why have a job in the first place? Obviously the current system derived from capitalism requires that we either work or own, but this doesn't make it the right path for mankind.
Except for local search (shops and restaurants for me) I never use the German version of Google, it's so much worse.
Sometimes I use the German version accidentally and it feels like Google is broken somehow.

The most annoying thing is, that when you type google.com (instead of google.de for example) you still get the localized version.
I don't keep Google cookies for long, so http://www.google.com/ncr is in my muscle memory.
Wow! I liked Emu after reading the article http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/emu-a-smarter-messaging-app... Here comes the innovation!
I'm currently a fully funded graduate student 'interning' for the USDA and working on (mainly) agriculture modeling software. I found this job as an undergrad through an e-mail system set up at my school for potential employers to reach out to the CS undergrads/grad students for temporary or long-term work. This system can get annoying as even after you have a job, you still get spammed with mail from people looking to hire CS students to do anything from working on their projects to teaching them basic computer skills.

Another note is there are (at least where I work), potential for HPC personnel and they aren't even hiring for these spots. For instance, I was recently talking to a programmer who works with population models. He has no parallel programming experience so he writes his models sequentially and runs them for months and months at a time. If they had a parallel specialist of some sort (even on a consulting basis), their research would be greatly sped up.
We've currently funded 146 laptops over the last few months, but we'd love to be distributing thousands every year and are currently in conversations with a variety of companies to see if we can get sponsorships going. That would potentially allow us more flexibility around what machines we use.
If you guys are interested (and aren't already aware) there is a subreddit that houses all of the discussion on basic income with lots of good material pertinent to this subject. http://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome
Best headline I've read in a long time.
And the best part is that in Qt 5.x the individual components are separate source packages. Off the top of my head ... base for the core Qt; widgets for old style widget library; script and declarative for QtQuick; system for I-don't-remember-what; and so on.

If you don't need QtQuick or QtWebKit, you can actually drop quite a few of the packages.
They already do package delivery with UberX... you just call the allocated driver and ask them if they are ok to deliver it. We do this all the time.
The Chromebook is smaller (nice for a laptop), has better build quality, and is much faster with the smaller SSD.

Also, you can get a refurb Toshiba Chromebook for $140 on NewEgg right now

http://slickdeals.net/f/7113172-13-3-toshiba-chromebook-refu...
I just stumbled on this:

http://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-acer-116-chromebook-with-14g...

$129.99 for a refurbished 11" Acer Chromebook. Crazy.
Doesn't look that promising: https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework/wiki/Using-EF7-in-...

Look at the simplicity and beauty of micro-ORM like PetaPOCO: http://www.toptensoftware.com/petapoco/

The fact is you don't want to put in large teams in creating ORMs because that would invariably mean feature creep and lot of black magic happening behind the scene. ORMs should be super light weight, a single page doc should be enough to explain everything with it and there should be no "magic".
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Unfortunately I have no recollection of how everything is wired together. (Not that I ever had complete understanding of it!)

I know they consolidated some wiring, but I cannot say what was consolidated with what. I just remember the static routing table for security.
I'm glad they haven't added this creepy feature to Android yet
Yes. Is it OK because she's a famous poet?
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They do. http://gizmodo.com/5773089/this-robot-hand-pours-coffee-bett.... You can even get cheaper ones for your house. I can't say why they haven't replaced people, but I suspect it is cultural. The air of expertise that people get from those who make pour over coffee in so called "frou-frou" coffee houses is part of the price.
This looks exciting, but I'm confused about the decision to add extra arity to collection-manipulating functions. "filter" that returns a collection or a transducer depending only on arity seems a little counter-intuitive.
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Again, its not any of those things. You've already decided they're a good partner. The ring is a social contract in addition to that.
It is very nicely integrated, and that may very well be the best method for a more experienced developer. For our recipients, the simplicity of the dual-boot setup is nice and makes it easy to understand what's going on under the hood.
This is my stance on this question as well. Maybe it's okay to stop at dedicated computer + cell phone. At least when those get cracked into, they won't cause any physical harm (mental grief yes). If someone cracked into my fridge and messed with the settings, I would then be missing a lot of money and have the huge chore of cleaning a fridge full of spoiled food. Also, please never put door locks on the internet. Please.
There's the largely undiscussed issue that WMF has a large bias in defending the "information wants to be free" angle, not to mention the hits they get from hosting what is an extremely popular image.

However, the photographer isn't his best defender - he goes on about the expense of the camera and lenses "he used for his trip" - when in reality, as a professional photographer, it's highly unlikely he purchased those tools to create this specific image (because of course he didn't have that intention), and it's disingenuous to act like he's out the cost of the photography equipment by not being able to claim royalties on this one image.
You can install Ubuntu all by itself, it's quite easy:

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/764181-how-to-install-l...

It's now my default suggestion for a cheap Linux laptop instead of buying a used Dell/Lenovo model.
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2555617

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2014/01/30/http2_expectations

https://www.mnot.net/talks/http2-wtf/#/
The thing is, in practice bouncing directly to that view in another app is about the same as bouncing to a separate view in the same app. Try it with the new Foursquare + Swarm. I was just as skeptical at first, but it really does work pretty well. Honestly here's the old flow:

1. Hit check in
2. Pick venue
3. Type text, pick people you're with, etc
4. Hit confirm
5. Tap through insights
6. Tap to venue page

Now here's the new flow:

1. Hit check in from Foursquare's Here tab
2. Venue's selected, just tap your text, pick friends/sticker
3. Hit Check in
4. Swipe through insights, click "View in Foursquare"

It's honestly fewer steps when you think about it, thanks to the fact that the checkin flow is much faster + we know where you are with better confidence.
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Looking for examples / demos.
Yeah, the internet has never been the same since youtube got shut down.
I know I can donate, but why can't I buy one through you? If you've already done the effort to develop the product, why not sell it to the "savvy developer looking for an inexpensive laptop to travel with", reduce your per-unit costs, and make some profit you can pour back into the project?
"However, the commission concluded that "the undisputed facts and circumstances in this case make it clear that Uber is engaged in the public transportation of persons for hire." It found Uber does not only provide information between drivers and passengers, but uses its technology to operate a fleet of vehicles, set rates, collect fares and pay drivers."

So essentially the difference between something like this and Lyft is the fact that Uber has their own fleet of vehicles? I know the court hasn't made a ruling regarding Lyft (yet), but it will be interesting to see how they are interpreted. They offer a very similar service, but I wonder if this difference will allow them to avoid a similar ruling.
Yes it requires DRM. It also scans every file on your PC and sends info back to EA. No, you can't play it without Origin installed.
I'm not a huge fan of cold brewing for normal coffee -- but then again, I kind of like a slight bitter taste to it (and I tend to drink it black). My technique was crazy simple though, so maybe I didn't do it very well?

I did, however, cold brew a whole bunch of coffee to use in a coffee oatmeal stout that I brewed once, and it was absolutely amazing.
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But this was Lyft vision a LONG time ago- they started as a carpool app called Zimride, which didn't take off as quickly without mobile in the state it is today.
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I recommend listening to this episode of Pragmatic http://techdistortion.com/podcasts/pragmatic/episode-30-coff... as a better way to learn a bit about coffee.

Marco says, for example, that the CO2 thing is bullshit i.e. doesn't affect the coffee in ways he can notice. This is the kind of thing I'm most interested: someone who made all the experiences and came to a conclusion.
I'm not sure I grok this, but I think that the main points are:

- reducers can work on tree structures, and thus can exploit parallelism. This would be like using a map that requires only the Foldable typeclass

- In Haskell you have stream/vector fusion, but it's not obvious to know when ghc will actually exploit it, you might want to use something like Control.Monad.Stream or Data.Vector. In theory it might be generalized to all Foldables, but in practice for now it might be a good enough compromise to stick to a limited number of types (the one that support such transducers)

So: nothing terribly new/groundbreaking, but it might bring something like stream fusion to the masses (of clojure developers :P )
What you describe seems like a very nice problem to have.
This fight is a fantastic way for David Slater to generate more royalty income. Think how many news outlet are going to use that image today!
Which is too bad. I'm curious about rtc's argument around machines taking the pictures. It seems the logical conclusion of his argument is that if you buy a camera, and the software on the camera takes a picture without the act of camera owner, then the owner of the camera doesn't own the copyright but instead the company that made the camera? That seems like a very strange conclusion.
That didn't stop Jeremy Hammond from being convicted and sentenced to 10 years for the Stratfor hack.
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We'd very much like to, but we're only a few months into this endeavor, and we want to make sure that our product is really polished before we start selling them in quantity. We'll get there! In the meantime, if you're willing to put $300 towards a ready-made Codestarter laptop, I'd be game to put one together for you and have any proceeds go towards the program. If you're interested, email me: tom@codestarter.org.
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Given Hitch launched months ago I think it's fair to say that the idea of shared rides was out in the open and neither Uber nor Lyft were first on this.
It could happen I suppose, Maybe the right approach is somewhere between ignorance and hypervigilance?
If you can come up with an economic model which will support developers doing the hard work of producing something with a well-thought-out user experience, feel free to suggest it. Do you know of any besides targeted advertising or corporate sponsorship?

How would you suggest developing a text editor with a well-designed yet powerful user experience for a beginner?
I didn't get involved with either of those activities as I was too busy hacking but I thought they added some more unique fun to the event. They were out of the way, behind the general hacking area so if you weren't seeking them out, you could have easily missed them.
Pod machines approximate it. They pump the water, which most drip makers don't (they usually just have a heating element and a one way valve).

I think drip machines are the way they are because they are cheap and reliable and people mostly don't care that much.
I do this with a Toddy, and previously with large mason jars. It tastes great heated and makes for the best iced coffee. I love that I can dilute entirely with milk or water. You're right it tastes good for up to 2 weeks or so, but do you know anything about the caffeine content through that time? I figure (especially in the fridge) it should be pretty stable, but I don't have the domain knowledge to be certain of this.
IMHO this is a fantastic way to make sweet, very flavorful iced coffee without it being too weak or containing an acidic aftertaste. On especially hot days it's nice to freeze some into large square or spherical ice cubes to put in glasses of iced coffee later. Serious Eats also has a great article on cold brewing:

http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2012/04/best-way-to-make-cold-...
>If the government cannot balance and resist those influences then this is an inherent flaw of the government.

Or merely of the way government is practiced at a certain place and time.

Nothing has to be "inherent", especially since the word "goverment" is a shortcuts for tons of different methods, practices and cultures of government.
It's a free email service. It will (by definition) come with strings.
Holy shit! This is great presentation http://hello.p5js.org/
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First mention of “The Internet” in The New York Times was about a virus (1988)
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I think that in long term it will take much less effort to customize ChromeOS than Ubuntu. Initially it will be harder but after that it will require next to no maintenance. Changing the kernel sounds much more complicated than finding a way to install a package manager. Google might also be willing to participate in this in more ways than just helping set up the environment, which could be very beneficial for the whole project.
It looks like those are specifically designed to be triggered by bikes. I've been at intersections with a 50-100cc motorcycle that would not trigger the light.
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Outstanding potential for technology! Who says all these games are just mental candy?
> Advertisers and branding wouldn't find much use for them because they were public domain. They gain value from these things by limiting the use through exclusive deals enabled by copyright

That's one way advertisers can gain value from using a character. Exclusivity strengthens the association between the character and the product being advertised. Without exclusivity, many advertising characters probably would indeed be of little value and advertisers would probably not use them. I think, though, that this would mostly apply to characters that were created for advertising, or that were outside characters that were not very significant to the public.

If the Michelin Man were used to pitch donuts, for example, I'd find it weird, because I only associate the Michelin Man with Michelin tires.

However, for characters that had significant public interest before they were used in advertising, I don't think exclusivity is very important. For instance, Michael Phelps (yes, I know he is a real person, not a character, but that doesn't change the point) has done ads for Subway Sandwiches and for Speedo, and I don't think either diminishes the other.
I am from Europe so pardon me if I totally missed the point but how is 90% african american considered 'diverse' ?
Ratio Eight automates the brewing process (sans grounds preparation). http://ratiocoffee.com/
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Taken directly from Wikimedia?
Kasparov's twitter feed at https://twitter.com/Kasparov63 is a must read for all those who want to understand what goes on in Putin's Russia.
The photo would have been unremarkable, worthless were it not taken by a monkey. The value is the novelty, the random act. Not the "setup".

I can't blame him for trying to make a buck from it, but he's really pushing he boundaries of reason by claiming copyright for a creative work that he did not create.
I work in a government lab and I got my job in a highly conventional manner. I was working on a PhD in a related field, saw a job posting that looked interesting a couple months before my defense, and applied. It all went very smoothly.
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I grind fresh for my Aeropress, but use pre-ground (or grind-at-the-store) for cold brew and try to make it that day. You can do it in a large mason jar with several paper filters, but I use a Toddy system I got as a gift.

Basically it's 12 OZ ground coffee + 7 cups of water in the bucket. I let that sit on the counter for 12-24 hours, then run it through a very fine filter (~1 cm thick piece of felt). This produces a concentrate that I store in the fridge. Dilute 1:1 or 1:2 with milk and/or water before drinking. It's good heated or over ice.
In a healthy economy there is a need for bad investments. Otherwise capital would simply accumulate. Many VCs perform a service by making bad investments seem reasonable and attractive to foolish institutional investors. It isn't that easy to do. You need a plausible story about how you could generate a huge return. You need to convince people that the investment is sensible. This article makes it sound like anyone could do it, but actually I am sure it is very hard.
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Copyright isn't assigned to the tool owner, it is assigned to the person who created the work. I use Visual Studio, that doesn't make the code I write owned by Microsoft even they "own" Visual Studio. Bad analogy, but you get the point.
Im not a kid but I may look into this to learn a bit of code myself.
Photographs are not video.
Ownership is clearly stated as "Person", which a monkey is not.
No... he is the furthest thing from Walter White.
There is no "technically" about it, as the right of animals to hold intellectual property has yet to be affirmed in a court.
How is this picture different from any taken remotely of a natural scene? The monkey did not know she was taking a picture.
This is pretty much exactly what I do, and I based it on instructions I got over at CoffeeGeek. There is one difference with their method, though, and that is that they recommend that you give it quick stir after the second pour. Does anyone know why this might be good or bad?
The HSTS header is valuable because it prevents all future requests from the client from ever going over HTTP.

So, for example, after visiting Hacker News once, the next time you type "news.ycombinator.com" into the URL bar, your browser will simply go directly to "https://news.ycombinator.com", rather than making the initial request to "http://news.ycombinator.com" as it usually would. This ensures that all future communications between the client and server are over a secure channel.