skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texas is... OK, but has no real culture to speak of.
The tax relief in Texas is not as great as you might be led to believe. Great for businesses (sometimes), not for people. Texas has some of the highest property taxes in the country despite cheaper housing. Texas is hot 9 months of the year, has no real seasons, has hideous politics (even in "Let's keep it weird" Austin"), low-grade food choices, laughable night life (6th Street. Really?), immigration nightmares, cannot walk anywhere, must have a car, a largely uneducated populace, rednecks galore, the notion of brisket as real food and not dog fodder, did I mention the heat?

There are far better options for just as little money that offer culture, more fun, safer living, you name it.
J.C. Penny was founded in 1902 and for years everything in the store cost a penny :). Same goes for the price of coke that stayed at a penny for 70+ years :).

So I guess in the very long run $5 isn't sustainable (and they're going at that direction btw... $5 is just the starting point nowadays)
What's wrong with Cooke and Bell exactly? I guess I need it spelled out.
That's hardly a point of comfort if the new jobs all tend to be subject to the laws of "extremistan" (which seems to be the case for most artistic/creative/high-level ventures):

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/21/welcome-to-extremistan/

If today you replaced half of the blue-collar jobs in our economy with jobs that had a 10% chance of paying 100x as much but a 90% chance of paying effectively nothing (10x the average productivity, woohoo) you would still have widespread starvation, revolution, and violence tomorrow.
I believe any of the Mozilla, Apache, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD Foundations more or less fit the bill.
Just downloaded the book! Thanks for making it free. You are very generous!
I am looking to build a quick and dirty prototype for Tinder for X, and this is a great starting point for me. Thanks Nick!
Whenever I read "gavin andresen" I think of Schlock Mercenary, where some the early characters were named 'gavin' and 'Andreyasn'.
I found it surprisingly shallow in that it didn't really delve into post-scarcity economics. With stuff like basic income or negative taxing the loss of jobs will not look as severe societally.
Thanks so much for this articulate and eye opening article on such a painful subject. As a white guy, who always belonged to the ethnic majority in all the countries I every lived in, I must admit it was always hard for me to understand the feeling of being discriminated against.

I agree perfectly that racism is cowardice. I have frequently identified feelings of fear when interacting with people of ethnic minorities, who are always tainted with a criminal disposition, by default. I also frequently identify this attitude in people around me.

I'm not an American, and have lived in America only briefly, but this problem is actually not limited to America. You can see the same phenomenon in other countries, even those enlightened European countries (I currently live in France) where racial relations are much more relaxed, there a lot of mixed couples and a great emphasis is put on equality. Beneath the surface, in day to day dealings between people, in small talk or offhand remarks, or even looks that people give each other on the street, racism is always there, and it's because we're cowards.
"Stott thinks Geographing more countries would require similar arrangements with national mapping agencies. Making contact with them is on his to-do list, he said."

This is important.

I fit the demographic rather well, and I have a filing cabinet drawer full of monochrome negatives of local city features taken in the 1980s and 90s... so there goes the weekend.
from a sample size of 3 cherry picked providers, one should add :)
We are getting a bunch of exceptions because of the Gremlin complier, I hope that TinkerPop complier performs better.
You mean you didn't save all your results? Don't a lot of the problems build on previous results? Why would one lose anything? FYI I was interested but did not start down the projecteuler rabbit hole myself, so perhaps I'm missing something.
The knapsack problem is the canonical dynamic programming problem. Any decent combinatorics class should touch on these concepts at some point.
Author here -- great point! I've updated the problem statement to make it more clear :) In this case, the article is simply asking "what is the highest value that you can achieve"
Thanks for the feedback! :)
From reading math research papers, it is not that uncommon to start with what you are trying to prove and proceed with a series of reverisible operations. This is gennerally done to as a first step to convert the proposistion into something that fits more naturally into the proof. This also tends to be done in prose.

It saddens me that so little of what goes in in math papers makes it into textbooks, or math students that do not study original papers themselves.
Can Apple repeat what it did with the iPhone with an iWatch?
This is why non-profit organizations such as the Apache Foundation and the Linux Foundation are extremely important. They act as a conduit for funds and resources to these important projects.

Organizations like Team Cymru also play an important role in discovering and mitigating exploits in both open and closed source software.

Perhaps there should be an open source crypto foundation or a crypto umbrella at the Apache Foundation to help foster and secure these types of very important projects.
Simple Schmup AI Pathing in LibGDX
you have probably never watched this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=nv_sr_1
My first open source contribution
I came from teaching high school Algebra with a Political Science degree to being a full-time developer. One of the lovely things about this industry is nobody really cares about the path you took to get here; it's all about whether you understand the problems and can do the work well.

My tech career started by walking into Barnes and Nobles and buying a "for dummies" book on C++. That was a decade ago; these days you have a ton of better/interactive resources at your disposal.

The biggest determining factor is: Do you enjoy this kind of work? If you like it, just keep honing your stills. Finish one class, take another one. See if you can do some cheap work for a few clients to build up your portfolio. Before long you'll be able to look at a hiring ad and say "I can do that!"

If you'd really rather do technical writing or corporate training, those opportunities are there as well. But don't feel limited by your "current" skill-set. NOBODY is born knowing this stuff; we were all in your position once.
Chalk boards also feel nicer to write on, are easier to erase, and the dust comes off of clothes and hands easily.
Can't resolve website using Google's public DNS
Sometimes it is because, even if the chance it's real is slim, the stakes would be incredibly high. One time I thought I witnessed a kidnapping, a woman shackled and gagged in the back of a car. I contacted the police and they very thoroughly and professionally pursued it. Afterwards they told me the two people involved were engaged in sexual roleplay. She wasn't being kidnapped, it seemed kind of unusual (you had to be there) but I would have been irresponsible in not reporting it.

On the other hand, they could have been SWATed, and it probably cost my city government five digits. I don't have an answer.
Problems that are solvable with recursion are solvable with loop
Relatively primitive, but I'm glad things like this are being made.

I would switch to Rust from C++ in a heartbeat if I could easily call the Windows.h stuff, or even just plug into existing C++ code I've written.
Austin was merely an example. You can build a tech company almost anywhere.
The problem is the benefit of the stand-up meeting is that everyone is in the room together. A daily email misses the interaction aspect.
It is entertaining - I laugh a lot with it - but it has absolutely nothing with history and, believe me, some people think that because it's on "The History Channel" then it must be history.

This whole stupidity is rooted on the silly notion that every hypothesis, however wild, untestable or ridiculous, is equally valid and deserves the same level of attention afforded to the actually good ones, that people are entitled to their opinions, however wrong they are because, somehow, opinions became important elements of self-expression and a defining aspect of one's identity. If you happen to hold an opinion that's wrong, be prepared to see it torn to shreds and, accordingly, to change your mind.

For the record, I too found the WWII programming a bit repetitive. But before sponsoring "ancient alien theories" (and I cringe when I write "theories" here) they should have changed their name to "Stupidity Channel" or "Superstition Channel" or even "It's Stupid, But You'll Still Watch It Channel".
Good call...now I feel like even more of a jackass for not considering that :)
This is definitely helpful. At the very least for showing things that may get interpreted wrong (well, right, but wrong from the intention) in scripts.
This reminded me of a discussion of the "Red Queen Hypothesis"[0] in the book Daemon by Daniel Suarez[1].

It's alternately interesting and disturbing... the implication that much of our social behavior is to further the aims of microscopic puppet masters.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(book_series)
People still are. Just not in the US. Money goes elsewhere there.
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How to introduce DevOps into a moribund corporate culture
But who is to say that all pessimism is wrong? There are very good reasons to be concerned about artificial intelligence (http://intelligence.org/ie-faq/#FriendlyAI). Robots really could create mass unemployment. It may be possible for people to create engineered plagues. Technology is making mass government surveillance extremely cheap and effective. Military technology increasingly favors the side with the most money.
Grey said on reddit that he purposely didn’t include possible solutions in the video.
The next phrase mentions that this theory is testable

­>Along the way, their model appears to address long-standing cosmological puzzles, and – crucially – produce testable predictions.

I'm very curious to know how.
I don't think an "official" GUI is necessary. Rather it would simply hurt the community of paid/free tools that have built up around it.

My favorite PostgreSQL GUI is: http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/manager, it's excellent overall.
I usually level with my students about this, but with the caveat that any serious use of infinity involves a precise and technical definition, in particular one that is not guessed on the fly as students tend to do. To illustrate, I then talk about how in elementary calculus infinity is a precise and technical shorthand for the idea of unbounded growth.

[Edit:] I also recently had the wonderful opportunity to talk to really advanced high school students about projective geometry, and I contrasted the difference between the way people talk about infinity (the point on the horizon! I'm just making it up!) versus the precise and technical definitions (a specific point in a quotient of a vector space).
Yeah, seems like the article implies an upper bound of 2^n for a greedy solution, so your example would be pretty bad with a worst case of 2^1000?
When I use Lyft, it says there is a cancellation fee if I cancel after I make a request. So aren't those recruiters racking up thousands in fees to their credit cards?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=An+American+doctor+experiences+an+...
Law enforcement is full of retarded psycopaths? What's new?
This implies quite a lot of coordination. I participated in americangut.org and my guts contained 45 species of bacteria in measurable numbers (just one sample). Good tests for fungi are getting closer, but I don't have a hard number here, but I would assume at least a handful of species. And we have recently heard about bacteriophages interacting with bacteria in our microbiome as well. Unless all of these organisms developed similar mechanisms for manipulating us to similar ends, I would expect a microbial rugby match, not a puppet master.
Water quality is already the subject of intense government regulation programs.

Testing by government regulators is how we knew that the water from Lake Erie was unsafe to drink on Ohio during the algae bloom a few weeks ago, for example.

In new construction (at least for public spaces) a water sample from the plumbing must pass chemical testing by the local government before it can be offered to the public.
It is losing audience because information is quicker to get elsewhere--the TV stations weren't beating the papers on quality--and because ads are quicker to find on-line.
The not-so-sorry state of SSL in Python : Python
The thing that wasn't relevant in the de Tocqueville era is that markets for media were hyper-local in those days and more responsive to the user base.

This phrase and the thinking behind it are key:
"Papers without a global brand have bled money and jobs, and subscribers only provide one quarter of newspapers’ funding."

Newspapers traditionally provided a service, and the popularity of the service attracted patronship via advertising. If the content of the newspaper was drivel, people would move on. Reporting mattered.

Today, media is different, they create brands -- often by capturing uses via portals or other services unrelated to the content. The actual content is a necessary evil. When the brand is global, it doesn't matter that the content is garbage, most of the audience is too lazy to change the channel or update their homepage.

IMO, the only vital media in America are weekly newspapers.
Tested it in Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu. I think the problem is with Opera.
Also, most people who think they want the semantics of websockets, really want the semantics of SSE. I've seen many, many webapps that basically build SSE on top of websockets.
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The messages it gives are far more descriptive than bash -n. Plus it includes links so you can learn more about why it's a possible problem.
I wouldn't be allowed to build a skyscraper out of fatigued and rusty scrap iron. There is no reasonable amount of money and effort that could make that work, and just wanting to try would mark me as unqualified to do construction.

The heartbleed bug was a classic buffer overrun of the kind C has been causing for decades. When someone comes along saying "If you pay me, I'm going to write security software using unchecked pointer arithmetic" how do we as a community agree that the only response will be "That's a terrible idea and nobody will pay you for it"?
from 2013

Recent comments from Nestle CEO Peter Brabeck imply that the world's water will soon come under the control of corporations like his. Brabeck makes the astonishing claim that water is not a human right, but should be managed by business people and governing bodies. He wants water controlled, privatized, and delegated in a way that sustains the planet.

http://www.naturalnews.com/040026_Nestle_water_supply_domina...
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Take remote-control of a robot roaming Tate Britain gallery in London – live now
I can see why it would be hard to find one set of words that are easy to pronounce/understand in every language and every culture. But perhaps that isn’t necessary? I’m thinking that this feature needn’t be available in every localized version of GnuPG. Or that there could be localized word lists for various languages.
How about funding improvements in static analysis toolsets and competitive/bounty penetration testing?
Economist Louis Kelso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Kelso) was talking about many of these issues in the 1950's. He proposed the concepts behind Binary Economic Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_economics) which helped usher into law the Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP). Whether or not you agree with it, it is certainly interesting to learn about. It isn't something that is widely taught.
Enabling multiple users to interact with the equations in realtime as they are being written is hardly the only possible benefit of using computers to communicate math, and even so it only requires that the equations be tokenized to be manipulable, not that the whole expression be completely error-free and the parser be running in an enforcing mode.

And your claim that writing mathematics as source code is too slow is very much lacking in proof. All we can say with confidence is that syntax like LaTeX markup on a standard keyboard layout is too inefficient for realtime use. This does not mean that realtime use is impossible if you allow for a more complicated IME and for a different final notation on-screen than the current standard math notation.
Ignorant question here, but is it not the case that the normal laws of physics don't apply at big bang time?

Do we expect the laws of mathematics to still apply?

Does anyone really have any clue about this stuff?
Brian Eno's Music for Airports always helps me focus and get stuff done.
This is interesting. I've always been given, along with an initial rental agreement, a letter dated for the end of the tenancy that asks me to leave the property. It was my understanding that this is enough for the agent to easily eject you at the end of the agreement period unless you follow what they want.
I really hope we dont let the bottom half of our economy fall before we strive for the restructuring we will need. Because when we let stuff fail, billions or trillions in value will vanish with it.
Rust's C FFI is well-supported because Mozilla's Servo needs to integrate with other Mozilla code written in C++, like SpiderMonkey.
In theory, the wealthy patron who is paying the tab would be the one to control the rate of price increases. We seem to get into these perverse situations by balancing our desire for the government to provide beneficial social services with our desire for the government to avoid manipulating prices in ostensibly private industries. Libertarians and socialists may be right that each of their extremes are better than the middle ground, but it's much easier to get support for a compromise.
Two books that discuss this are "Founders at Work" and "Gamers at Work", but in a nutshell - in this industry it's easy to grow from 1 to 50 people anywhere, but it's very hard to grow from 50 to 500, and almost impossible to grow from 500 to 5,000 employees anywhere outside the Valley. It's just the proper concentration of talent and other companies you can poach from.
IIRC stackless python implemented microthreads and channels before go existed - thats the whole point of stackless python - so whats the benefit here on top of that?

http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Tasklets
http://www.stackless.com/wiki/Channels
Finally, something to do with all those install scripts that pipe the output of curl to bash!
IMHO, there are only 2 jobs in a seed company hacker, hustler.
If your going to be the hustler go talk to potential customers and find some people that will use your product. then hire contractors to build the product, if you don't want to build it.
Sounds like you don't want to be either. Go back and get a job and take no more than 20% of your savings find a team with both and invest in their idea. or hold off until you find the right cofounder.
In all honesty, it would be a really bad video if it included it. Because we have no knowledge what post-scarcity economics will look like.

At best he could write about his ideal of an utopia or his vision of a dystopia.
Ebola Epidemic Most Likely Much Larger Than Reported, W.H.O. Says
Swarm of One Thousand Self-Organizing Robots Developed
I have your exact hardware configuration and all his slides got a solid 60FPS. I'm curious what your setup was. What version of Firefox? What version of Windows? Latest NVidia drivers? Any weird extensions installed, screen/desktop capture apps running?
Does this one work? I spent a bit of time playing with Titan earlier this year before passing and moving on.

IMHO the project made a critical design error by trying to be backend agnostic. From a technical perspective, that gives the worst of all worlds for everyone involved.
Someone please make this into a phone/tablet attachment for putting on sunscreen.
From the source code:

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/blob/master/ShellChec...

shellForExecutable "sh" = return Sh

shellForExecutable "ash" = return Sh

shellForExecutable "dash" = return Sh

shellForExecutable "ksh" = return Ksh

shellForExecutable "ksh88" = return Ksh

shellForExecutable "ksh93" = return Ksh

shellForExecutable "zsh" = return Zsh

shellForExecutable "bash" = return Bash

shellForExecutable _ = Nothing
It's one of those stupid questions where you either have seen it before and use memorization to pull it up or you flounder because you can't come up with a new algorithm on the spot.
That's possible, but I would still call that a deliberate DoS attack.
Original paper title: Out of the White Hole: A Holographic Origin for the Big Bang

Arxive page (w/abstract): http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1487

Direct link to paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.1487v2
I believe the fee is only charged for cancellations more than five minutes after the request.
An Open Letter to the Tech Workers of SF
New York Governor Candidate Arrested for Recording Aggressive Arrest
Probably not. Seeds are live plants enclosed in several layers of protection to make them transportable and to avoid drying out. There are two reasons seeds don't germinate: (1) they are viable (still alive), but it's difficult to break dormancy -- to "wake up" the plant inside the seed and get it to start growing, and (2) the plant tissue inside the seed has died. Seeds that have been stored a long time usually don't germinate because of (2).

Tissue culture requires tissue that is alive. The live embryo is removed from the seed and placed on sterile media containing nutrients and hormones. The exact composition varies depend on the plant species / cultivar you are working with.

Tissue culture is useful as a last resort for breaking seed dormancy, but if the problem is that the plant tissue inside the seed has died, it will be no help.
Is regulated standards for foods pushed to the logical position from a bureaucratic standpoint, but mindbogglingly insane position from a biological one, that all inputs to the system must be on the official list of defined things, otherwise the entire process of insisting that we know what is going on falls down.
Just signed up for one of these too. Looks like exactly what the OP is looking for. I haven't taken the course yet, so I can't speak to how good it will be, but I like that their approach seems to be learn/build/critique cycles.
It is not free (or even that cheap) but Navicat is really good. It was worth it for me as much as I interact with databases.
Here's Matthias' talk on Titan at StrangeLoop 2013...

Graph Computing at Scale
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/scaling-graphs
There has been at least one user working on it, for kivy, so maybe it'll available soon, either as 3rd party package, or as a PR to either project (though it would probably make more sense on kivent).