skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless the project participants are willing to depend on this thing for fresh drinking water as part of their testing, the project itself is insultingly academic.
Can't wait to see it working in (or, under?) KDE...
This person isn't exactly spamming, with just 4 submissions in 500+ days, and 2 in the last 30.
this is completely lacking in context. there's nothing about coffeescript on the site or the issue queue.
They already are aware, and correctly dismiss them as pointless. Third parties cannot accomplish anything in a first-past-the-post election system like we have. Any vote for one will essentially be a vote for whichever big party you agree least with. Changing that would require changing the whole government over to a parliamentary system.
That is not at all my interpretation of your other comments on this page, but let's go with it...

If APT were "real" instead of marketing/lobbyist bullshit, like "al Queda" and "the domino theory", what could we imagine "strong laws" doing to combat it? Does anyone suggest we pull a Baghdad in Shanghai or St. Petersburg? How strong is a law that can't be enforced, really?
Some workers would *prefer* a robot overlord, study shows
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Have you seen https://www.coingecko.com/en? Bitshares-X is ranking #12 there now. Imperfect at first sight, but a broad overview of the coins.
You can also edit comments and submissions for up to about 2 hours, unless it/they are edited by the mods. You could have added this find to your original question/comment as an update.
More importantly, reading is the foundation of every middle class job. Whether it is legal precedents, medical journals, technical manuals, textbooks, articles, memos, reports, or code, reading is constant.
Maybe the judge knew what they could afford for brides while staying profitable... but anyways $1 million or $200 millions is not a big difference for doing something like this unless all you think about is money.
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Well that's trading off actual education for education-looking activity :(.
Even in the blog post from 2010 kindly submitted here, the author notes that this writing is from "many years ago," with a link to the old version,[1] so I wonder what she thinks now several years later, as her child has grown up some more.

[1] http://www.magicalchildhood.com/articles/4yo.htm
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> As this hasn't been happening

I believe this is incorrect. In Russia, two terrorists set off a bomb outside the secure area in the arrival hall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airpor...
Outside of local government, voting for third party is the equivalent of pissing in the wind. It accomplishes absolutely nothing. Even if you do manage to get a third-party representative elected to Congress, they will still have to ally themselves with either side to be able to get anything done.

This is the reality of American politics: it's a two-party, winner-takes-all system. The third party is like a catch-all "else" branch that never runs.
I really don't think we have to get so worked up about that kind of thing. If you don't like it, just ignore it.
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It doesn't in any way change the validity of GP's statement.
I'm curious - how does someone track the IP of a twitter user? Unless they have someone "on the inside", I thought it was not possible to see where a user was interacting with twitter from?

Besides, wouldn't you want to interact with the world through TOR or something like that if you were up to stuff like this?
Here's a nice start, which I found to be the top result by entering "academic achievement and socioeconomic status" in a search engine:
http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/factsheet-e...

In particular, from the subsection "SES and Academic Achievement":

1. Children from low-SES environments acquire language skills more slowly, exhibit delayed letter recognition and phonological awareness, and are at risk for reading difficulties (Aikens & Barbarin, 2008).

2. Children with higher SES backgrounds were more likely to be proficient on tasks of addition, subtraction, ordinal sequencing, and math word problems than children with lower SES backgrounds (Coley, 2002).

3. Students from low-SES schools entered high school 3.3 grade levels behind students from higher SES schools. In addition, students from the low-SES groups learned less over 4 years than children from higher SES groups, graduating 4.3 grade levels behind those of higher SES groups (Palardy, 2008).

4. In 2007, the high school dropout rate among persons 16- 24 years old was highest in low-income families (16.7%) as compared to high-income families (3.2%) (National Center for Education Statistics, 2008).
It's not a historic artefact. You can't trust the app to render in time... (that's also why client side decorations are worthless).
To be fair, the "blind free market types" are generally the ones who most freely acknowledge that he's using the system to his favor. The complaint is that the things that are being done in his favor are to the detriment of tax payers as, despite how awesome Space-X is, there could be other, better, cheaper programs still, if not for all the red tape.

Red tape as a corruption mechanism is there precisely to protect the incumbents. In this case Elon Musk is that incumbent. That's not a terribly prescient insight, nor is it particularly damning to free market enthusiasts, who are already well aware of this exploitation.
>My biggest counter argument to no-notifications is this post. I made it, and completely forgot about it until today. I would have loved to see all these comments and reply back closer to real time.

That's a weak counterargument. I'm sure you would have liked the comments, but you have to make the case that the conversation we all enjoyed would have been better with the participation of someone who forgot his own question :)
The hardest part about software always has been, and probably always be, getting humans to first know and then express exactly what they want. Natural human language allows for vague, abstract, and ambiguous expression (not to mention the euphemisms, exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies).

Most people who have never written a computer program, have probably never even been through the experience of having to express exactly what they want someone or something else to do for them, in a specific and non-ambiguous manner. It really is a different way of thinking.
Some lighters. Regular ones are okay, I think, but I had my butane torch confiscated last May in San Francisco. I'd been carrying it around for three or four years and had never been stopped.

I've also brought a swiss army knife on numerous flights, pretty much always by accident.
Starting out with "strong reaction" suggests you're either confused, or want to back off from the reality of your original point by trying to take a middle ground or change your wording.

I've never ever heard of a "single capitalist" taking advantage of an entire race. You sound like a Marxist when you say that. OED has a fine definition of capitalism that will help you out here. You can't possibly know what a capitalist is by suggesting such a thing.

When someone makes a choice to take a lower wage, it's usually because they can't get anything better. Guess what? Capitalism implies (and I really do mean implies) competition. The minimum wage (originally lobbied for by white unions) means companies are restricted to hiring only those who can produce more than that minimum. For the "stupid poor minority" you're so hell bent on "protecting", this means making it far harder to gain experience and work their way to the middle class. (You know, like immigrants used to do.) Instead, they're paid not to work via welfare programs (meant to make things "easier" right?) and not allowed to work off the books while living off of others.

Also, you're going to have to say it again if you seriously want to stick to the point that unions have no bargaining power. If this is the case I'll be less "strong" (lol) and we'll do this at a lower level. I'll write you up a whole 10 page step-by-step paper on all of the opportunity cost losses that you'd create if, theoretically, you were in charge of the economy. Hell, if you are indeed a Marxist or even socialist I'd be happy to give you the "See Spot Run" version of what subjective value and economic calculation is.
Suggesting a code rewrite w/o any idea of what the code looks like or what the issues are is pretty awful.

PHP is a good solution for plenty of projects out there. There are plenty of high revenue operations that run on PHP. Like any other language it just needs to be well coded and maintained.

What's needed here is looking at the current state of the system, detecting obvious issues and determining the course of action based on that + expected growth.
My issue with news is not the length. It's the tidal wave of clickbait and FUD. I actually prefer to have long articles if they're about something substantive and not, for example, who Jennifer Lawrence is now dating or how Ebola is going to kill all humans.
I agree, but that's not what's happening in this article though.

Each bullet/item in a numbered list is a new context.
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'doxing' is a term that has probably been around for at least 4-5 years. But yea. The point is that you are releasing 'documents' ('dox' being a slur on 'docs') about someone that removes that anonymity.
If you did, Bitshare founder's Daniel Larimer's comments at the bottom provide a couple more

Namely
(i) As he points out governments tend to like to be involved in investment and money transmission schemes... and the likelihood of the SEC taking a dim view of the trade and marketing of unregulated "shares" is probably a tad higher than the likelihood of your USD deposit account being frozen or haircut.
(ii) he appears to imply the only thing that went wrong with MtGox and "other otherwise trustworthy institutions" is government intervention. Whether that selective blindness to MtGox's problems was purely rhetorical or not, it's a remarkable attitude coming from the founder of a crypto exchange...
What's disgusting is that he gets 28 years and not life, or better, death prbalty. If there was ever a justified reason (ie Israel executing Eichman) this is it.
OP here. This is just a demo that I'm still working on, but would be interested in any feedback or ways to expand the idea.
A lot of people doing this are supported by lifestyle businesses like blogs, ebook publishing, affiliate marketing, etc. Income varies significantly, from just a few $10Ks to well into six figures, depending on how successful they are.
My god! I've been wanting this for so long. If your site breaks from being used too much, now you know why.
Bitmask: an open source app to provide easy and secure encrypted communication
Cookie Bandit – where have you been?
>And what about altcoins that issue an unlimited number of coins at a fixed annual inflation rate?

good point. A company also can always issue more shares to dilute existing holders. But no company (to my knowledge) has ever promised to do so at a fixed annual rate.
> Many professors said they were game to try the approach. In a survey included in the appendix to the report, 25 percent of MIT professors suggested that their classes “could benefit from a modular approach,”

Is this another way of saying that 75% of MIT faculty are opposed to this?
http://greenscreen.io/ Any good to you?
Indeed. Not only that, but the power of a precise language is not to be underestimated. I noticed that I had (and probably still have) a lot of errorneous concepts in my head and the only way to find out the mistake is by expressing them in a rigorous, formal language that forces you to think about every detail, no matter how 'obvious' it appeared at first.
The 20 seconds of shaking during the Loma Prieta Quake certainly felt like minutes to me!
Very nice. I find Atlassian's information and tutorials on Git to be very well written and approachable. When I first moved from SVN to Git their Workflows guide (https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows) helped connect the dots and eased the transition.
Ask HN: Does your company invest in providing on-the-job training?
Does your company invest in training it's employees?

Some examples could be

1. Hiring fresh graduates and conducting basic HTML, JS and CSS training
2. Reimbursing employees who take courses to update their skills
3. Spending an hour or so each week so that colleagues can share something new that they learned each week and so on.
Yeah, that terrible Somalia place, with its dropping infant mortality, increased life expectancy, massive increase in adult literacy, fledging and competitive telecommunications market and thriving economy sectors like livestock.

Or maybe this is just biased reporting from that anti-government rag, the BBC[1][2].

And none of this matters, because taking Somalia as the standard for anarchy is no more valid than using Nazi Germany has the example of the result of democracy[3].

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12278628

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12285365

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_...
I think there are several factors to consider.

Terrorism is an infinitesimally small threat, but many on the political side chose to treat it with heavy gloves despite the diminishing returns because (1) the Zero-risk cognitive bias makes people want to force than small risk to zero [1] and (2) the federal government views the TSA as a jobs program. Even though they're largely ineffective, no politician would dare to propose the dismantling thereof because the opposing side could use this as ammunition in the form of 'X is allowing the terrorists in' or 'X has cost us 10,000 jobs.'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-risk_bias
For some reason, Dijkstra quoting A.E. Houseman brightens my day. And then there's this:

"Therefore, although changing to communication between machine and man conducted in the latter's native tongue would greatly increase the machine's burden, we have to challenge the assumption that this would simplify man's life."
From the article: "As one might expect, government officials who have such contractors in their own districts and states are unhappy with this."

If many local jobs are being threatened, a politician would want to be seen attempting to protect them. No bribes required.
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Dijkstra is right, and this has been a standard problem in philosophy and logic. Only when one considers programming to be some new endeavor divorced from its logical roots that this problem seems new and puzzling. For more, check Russell's Theory of Definite Descriptions.
I've never understood people's issues with self-submitted articles. If the content is good, who cares who submitted it?
But wouldn't that also hold for OSX/Windows?
I disagree. Choosing not to help nurture a child's need to become a superstar is doing them a disservice. You say "so few people do that," I refuse to believe that every child is not capable of the greatness to be world famous because of something - if that's what they choose.

So if your kid wants to be an astronaut, an A-List movie star, or a magician, nurture that. Don't discount something because "I can't realistically consider that." Don't sell your kid short, they are capable of whatever they choose. You just have to equip them the tools they need to deal with what stands in their way.

Some of the biggest celebrities and even presidents of the United States started off with meager beginnings, knowing nothing, having little; Some of them self educated. Of all the famous people in the world, look at who their parents are, what they came from - look at those that started with nothing. Some have prevailed despite overcoming the worst atrocities known to man and risen to greatness - Nelson Mandela. Some have become famous "just" for standing for what's right when those around them didn't rock the boat - Rosa Parks, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden. (I put "just" in quotes because I think everyone stands for what's right, but historically very few have been brave enough to really make that stand alone with so much standing in their way.)

The chasm between having nothing (and by having nothing, I mean educationally speaking) and world fame can be crossed and has been crossed by many. Don't sell your child short by thinking they can't cross it. It can be done, it has been done and it will be done many times again. So you have to nurture it if that's the path they choose. If you have to educate yourself to help them get there, that's your job as a parent.
Url changed from http://qz.com/254495/why-shutting-uber-down-is-poor-regulati..., which points to this.
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Have since added global totals to the key at the top right, working on per-country totals over the next few days. Thanks again.
The specific Cloudfare link that you have is to the ZenDesk helpcenter platform.
OP here. Working on this app to be released soon, but the more interesting part is the multi-device concept. Would love to get some feedback on it.
Be careful what you wish for. Narrow focus is great, as long as you make the right bets. In the book "Fast Food Nation", there's a great profile of a talented hockey player whose career is sidelined by injury... after thousands of hours of practice and work, he's running a chain pizza joint.

The Tiger Woods of world are brilliant in their fields, but often leave behind a train-wreck of personal life issues in their wake.
Exactly, a formal specification language (including any programming language) requires you to make all your the implicit, underlying assumptions explicit. Nothing can be taken for granted and there is no "you know what I mean." But once you really do know exactly what you mean, it's usually not so hard to specify it. Figuring out what you want is the hardest part.
I don't believe posting links to your own blog is prohibited. I've done it a few times and I hope plan to in the future. I just thought the only criteria is that the links should not be "crap".

Is this, indeed, seen as bad behavior here?
Thank you for the feedback. I intended this idea to be something that a reader could use to find articles that they want to read. rather than committing to reading an entire article that may or may not be click bait, the summary may be able to help them determine if they want to read the main article.

This obviously is not a substitute to reading the entire article.
All I can picture coming from this is reams of EULAs.

Legal documents contain the most precise language we humans can create that can still be considered to be "natural", and they're still all but unreadable without the proper degree and legal context.

Not precisely what I would call a "win" for the ease of programming
It's depends on your scale problem. But I guess you mean perfromance (and not maintability or other) problem. There are a lot technics on different levels to save you for some time depending on your bottlenecks. Without concrete details of your stack nobody can give you "the answer". But in (my) practice, small improvements on right places can speed up your site up to 80%. Depending on your client presentation, you can hide some latency by minimizing and merging css and js-stuff and put them to cdn and cache forever. Decide to master-slave your database, cache query results and so on. These relatively small changes give you some time to develop more deeply changes.
This reminds me of when I first learned to program. By far the hardest part was learning how to think clearly and discretely. It changed the way I looked at the world completely. Really, we should want people to overcome this challenge, not avoid it.
It should be acceptable to use older versions of Windows
What Docker does right and what it doesn't do right yet
Thank you, I didn't know that HIV medication daages the kidneys.
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I was under the impression most links to blogs were submitted by the post author, and this is very common behavior on HN and personally I see nothing wrong with it.
This is very Five-Thrity-Eight-ish, I love it!
I've found that forth works best when you use it to create a DSL for your problem domain, and you write your application code in that DSL. That DSL becomes the critical abstraction that helps prevent your codebase from becoming an unusable/unmaintainable mess. This isn't a new idea; the book that got me thinking about when/how to use forth was (oddly enough) http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ . It's a good read even if you never intend to build a forth project.

As a side note, I've done image processing with forth: I helped build a commercial HD video camera with it that shipped in the mid 2000s, and I found it well suited once we had the problem reasoned out well enough to build our DSL. Overall the product ended up being composed of forth/C/hand written assembly, and a bunch FPGAs. We shipped things with < 10 people, and I think the interactive/extensible mindset that forth gave us helped us get the product out the door successfully.
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It may also lead to her hating whatever it is you're forcing her to learn.
Map the ocean floor.
I assume you are referring to the POSIX spec on utilities (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/), which is helpful but not a full solution to the problem.
As an aside, the "coffee was hot" lawsuit wasn't as frivolous as people make it sound. See Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants for details.
I think that we overstate the "economic" and discount the "socio" aspect of "socioeconomic".
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You got downvoted a lot but no one actually touched on the important issues: This is not a white collar crime.

The judge may not be the person physically handcuffing someone, but by improperly sentencing people to any kind of imprisonment he is directing violence at them. Someone is on the other side of the bars / glass / building and will use violence to keep the prisoner there if necessary.
"between two to ten minutes are wasted in dealing with the payment" - how on earth is this possible? I can imagine two minutes if the driver has to dig around in a big pouch of mixed up change, but ten?

edit: I realise this is slightly off-topic and doesn't change the central premise of the article, which is that the legislation that forced Uber to employ a loophole is a bad thing. But what the hell, I'd go out of my mind if a paying for a taxi took 10 minutes.
Blacks, whites or cops killing blacks - whatever it is, it's more than terrorists killing blacks.

I could have worded my other paragraph slightly better - what I meant was no western person (since we're talking about potential for terrorist attacks on westerners) would normally find themselves in the mountains of bora bora or the war zones of syria/iraq. The only western people outside of UN, military or diplomatic personnel you are likely to find in these parts are radical young men from home who are living out a jihad fantasy.
Seems like software developers and lawyers share some common pains.
Whoa. This is super slick! Are you using any libraries for animations/transitions? If yes, Can you please share that info as well? Thanks.
I'm always caught in that dilemma. After all, you tend to learn more and with more efficiency under your own direction than you ever do in school. I guess it depends what type of books they're reading. Perhaps start grooming his library ;)
Unfortunately, studies have found that police homicides are under-reported to the FBI's national database.

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342228794/ferguson-turns-lens-...