skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting because #1 is my ex (who's not too active on Facebook), as well. But #2 is my cousin who is hardly active on there. #3 is someone who is kind of active but I never hung out with much.

My current girlfriend, who is not active on FB at all (she's more of a lurker), is basically last, with only 1 assimilation point.

I only have a little over 100 friends, though.
That's a perfectly reasonable sort of thing to promote. It might equally be that they don't want people to think of production delays that affected the launch of the 787 or F-35 (the latter being nothing to do with Boeing, but aerospace and space are strongly linked in the public's mind and the F-35 project is famous for not meeting deadlines).
Similar issues when people post scans of mail they get, and don't realize the barcode encodes the same info that the stuff they redacted had.
Judging only by the screenshots of the app in the iOS app store, and not by downloading it and using it myself:

* It appears you get 100 points for a shelfie.

* According to the listed rewards, it takes 10,000 points for a $5 walmart gift card

* Thus, you'll need to take 100 shelfies for $5.

My assumption is that different products / stores will award different point amounts so it will probably just depend.
>>we don't see mass airbourn infections very often.

Flu?
I'm not sure about Ada, because I never used it, but it seems to have some lifetime checking comparable to Rust's borrow checker. However, it also seems less powerful (in Rust you can specify the lifetime explicitly if need be, in Ada it seems you would have to give up safety).
A little background about me and the project. I'm a PHP dev wanting to move to Ruby and RoR. This project is for me trying my new found RoR skills. I created a site with the same idea (movie costumes) about 2+ years ago using Wordpress, but since I'm lazy updating blogs, the project failed. For this new project, I use themoviedb.org API to find movies so I don't have to update the site with new content. I hope I get good feedback from you guys. :)
Hehe, love this. Ticketmaster deserves every ounce of scorn, similar to Comcast, ATT & VZW
You are saying it is dumb to do from a financial standpoint. And your analysis is entirely correct. Mr. Money Moustache made effectively the same point in a recent blog post (although he of course had to rationalize having one child since that's what he did):

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/09/10/great-news-youre-a...

What I would note is that this is also the analysis at the start of Idiocracy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmRCixQrx8

I believe that the second and third order effects of this analysis, which Idiocracy points to, are negative in the long run. Idiocracy is prophesy.

I know this strikes many people as flippant, and I do find it quite funny, but I'm entirely serious.
> you can dump a can of beans into a sauce and have a healthy-ish meal in 5 minutes.

I sometimes eat beans with salsa mixed in them. I find it delicious. I'm clearly not picky.
felt kinda shtty about 3 that i didn't walk away from.*

They say that's the hallmark of a fair deal; both parties walk away feeling mildly dissatisfied.
> A desktop OS done in C++ instead of C.

It's everything I could ever dream~ vomits uncontrollably
#1 is my wife, by literally an order of magnitude. That's about right; we have a truly extraordinary relationship.

After that, unfortunately, this ranking is nonsense. #2 is someone I met once and have never communicated with since. We have only one friend in common. Totally bizarre. My good friends are scattered between ranks 5 and 50, amidst a sea of near-strangers.
Exactly. The only time I really want to use voice commands is when I'm driving and should not be staring at and touching my phone. It's nice that it can transcribe my voice into a text message. It's nice that it can read a website to me. These are my use cases.

Unfortunately, they are still a little awkward to use. To get it to text someone, I still have to type in their name because it's terrible at learning how my friends' names are pronounced. And to get it to read a web page, I have to highlight the text first and then click Speak. It'd be nice if these were easier to do hands-free.
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The Saturn V was actually from the 60s.
Telescope designer here. Curious to know how many people think the default theme is ugly? Just upvote this comment if you agree with kolev so I can find out.
Since I'm on a low carb diet it can be a pain trying to eat out so I just make all my own food. I really love cooking, but it can get old having to do it every day when you have lots of other things to do.

The two things I do to combat this is to either do batch cooking. I'll make a weeks worth of food sunday evening and put it in the freezer.

Another is I usually just eat one big meal a day. Bulletproof coffee for breakfast, then I'll eat around a 1300 calorie dinner around 5-7pm. The days I eat a smaller dinner I just drink a protein shake to fill up my macros.
I would be OK with that if it meant we were back on the moon in 2024.
I'm one of those people, actually. To the point that I now just use emacs at work. Have slowly started using it for all things. Email, irc, im, etc. Is very very nice. Always amusing to hear folks talk about how limited it is.

But, I still can't deny that the modern IDE has gone a long way to advance what can be done outside of emacs. To the point that I just can't bring myself to think the difference between the LISP world and any other is as large as it is often made out to be.
Besides the Gigafactory, can you point out taxpayer money they were "given"? They had a DOE energy loan that was paid back much earlier than required, with interest. That is not a gift.

Also, their vehicles receive the same incentives as other EVs produced by other manufactures. Perhaps other manufacturers should make more EVs (or EVs people will buy) if they would like to capture the benefit of those government incentives.
Feedly. Works great on multiple devices.
At the present rate its going to be a disaster with or without airborne anyway.
If you count C in the same breath, then between them, they make up the implementation language for probably 99% of other languages, and the operating systems those languages run on.

For anything safety critical, C in particular still has a vice-like stranglehold in many industries (e.g. automobile)
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Yep. Effectively, your app can't easily communicate back and forth with a third-party app using stock Android code. And there's little support for "embedding" other apps into yours, just context switching and data sharing between screens. So that's new here. Android really was designed around these full screen "activities", and created "fragments" only for use by first-party applications, or included as libraries from third-parties. The idea of running someone's app within your own... that's not supported. Heck, even Chrome doesn't have extensions. For an open platform, Android does have its limitations... ;-)
You can use your term sheet to talk to your firm about fees. Your VC will have a number in the term sheet to address their legal fees. Your should be somewhere in the 1.25-1.5x neighborhood of that number. More if your books aren't organized and your records are all over the place.

$30-$40k is probably right in a lot of cases (if you touch HIPAA, Crowdfunding, Bitcoin, issues you'll need to bump those numbers up).
Reminds me of the classic David Beazley course on coroutines: http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/

It highlights a similar pipeline-oriented architecture and eventually ends up being sort of mindblowing.
Maybe I should have left out the part about liking Node before it was popular. The point was to try to give the idea that I had picked up on a trend before some other people. The reason I want to get credit for that is because I want people to use those other technologies that I like, so maybe someone reading that will think that I can select technologies that, if nothing else, might become popular in the future, and therefore decide to use the technologies I mentioned.

Also, I hate hipsters and have no friends and am about the farthest from a hipster you could ever be, BUT I _did_ have a "fixie" when I was a kid 30 years ago. That was because we were lower-middle class and my parents were cheap though.

Also, I did finally purchase a pair of skinny jeans on the direct advice of a lady friend last year. Despite having put on at least six pounds, they still just about fit. Pretty amazing actually. It is a little embarrassing wearing them outside, but if I am honest, they are my favorite jeans.

LOL.
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I'm not understanding much from this thread's conversation. I'm not so interested in OS development (anymore).

Yet I'm reading the conversation in full due to the great, knowledgable, and foremost polite discussions. Not having seen this in Hacker News in a long time...

Thank you all
It's possible the two contracts don't meet the requirements in the same way or at the same level. There may be optional requirements which one company has promised to meet and the other hasn't, or requirements that require "at least X" where one company is promising 10% over X and the other is promising 30% over X.
Can anyone give a basic description of the assimilation score?
My wife is #1 on the list, then just curiously, I scrolled to the bottom. The last 3 spots are populated by ex's.
Similar questions here, and I have much fewer Facebook friends (around 350). My wife is #1, and it's not even close (66560 compared to #2, who is 8145).

But after that, I have a few people I don't care at all about in my top 10 (I'm thinking of just removing 3-4 of them now that I see that they're still my friends), and a couple of my closest friends have a score of 1.
Related: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/09/without-a-ke...
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This is a good day for humanity.
"Unlike previous phases of NASA’s commercial crew program, which used funded Space Act Agreements that provided greater flexibility, the CCtCap awards are fixed-price contracts."

http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/41891nasa-selec...
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My concern isn't about "how far in life" they'll get. In fact, I'm pretty sure life doesn't have a distance. I'm concerned about their well-being.
I wouldn't agree with any of those characterizations. I see him mention the team he has built and what they accomplish together rather frequently.
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> Not to mention better bike infrastructure reduces car traffic: more bikes means fewer cars

I don't think this follows. I don't know anyone who says "Bicycling everywhere is attractive to me and totally fits in with my lifestyle, but there just aren't any bike lanes." I'm sure such people exist, but I don't believe there are a lot of them. For most people, it seems like the problem is that bicycles are just too slow to get where they want to go in the time they want to take to get there. This is largely a result of community planning, not bike infrastructure. Do you have data to the contrary?

> The cost of a bike lane averages $130,000 per mile.

> The cost of an urban road averages $4,000,000 per mile, per lane.

But we aren't just talking about bike lanes, which are insufficient to guarantee that cars never get within three feet of a bike — we're talking about whole separate bike roads separate from the main road. Additionally, urban roads benefit so many more people in most places in the US that they're a bargain even at 30 times the price. I strongly suspect that less than 3% of commuters at any given time are riding bikes.
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I guess I don't see how this is historic. NASA has always hired contractors to build their spacecraft for them. North American Aviation built the Apollo CSM, and the LM was built by Grumman.

This isn't like Virgin Galactic and SpaceShipTwo, with a private company offering spaceflight to civilians.
Probably not. If you would have interacted with any mobile or desktop Linux developers (especially KDE ones) you would have met more of those who use Qt.
Why not upvote kolev?
> Can you find any example of usage of "verbal contract" to mean anything other than "spoken contract"?

http://www.californialaborlawattorney.com/implied-and-oral-c...

Contrary to common wisdom, an informal exchange of promises can still be binding and legally as valid as a written contract. A spoken contract is often called an "oral contract", not a "verbal contract." A verbal contract is simply a contract that uses words. All oral contracts and written contracts are verbal contracts. Contracts that are created without the use of words are called "non-verbal, non-oral contracts" or "a contract implied by the acts of the parties."
#1 is some guy i went to high school with which I never talked to that much... weird, #2 is some guy I don't particularly like. My girlfriend is at ~30 and my exes are in the top 20. I don't think that app is particularly revelent in my case (most top 10 are people I barely know).
I don't think seeing them as soulless capsules is a very productive attitude. It's true that Dream Chaser's lifting body design looks sexy, but I don't think the goal of human spaceflight is to be sexy.

From a tech perspective, and keeping in mind that I can presume the goal of human spaceflight to be to push humanity further into the cosmos, I see one thing really exciting about Dragon 2 that CST-100 doesn't have--propulsive landing. A NASA Ames research team says that Dragon 2 thrown by Falcon Heavy could execute a fully propulsive EDL on Mars. This seems like interesting heritage to build, and shows that development of Dragon 2 could have implications on further spaceflight.
> Who do you think you are to decide for s/w else based on your guts feeling?

Their father.

> I hope your kids just turn out to be fine with it. You are betting on them that they are just like you.

I trust they see and will always see that I'm doing my best.

> I hope that the ones that get badly affected by your good intension can forgive you (for your strong believes)

I trust that there is nothing to forgive, and that these hypothetical "bad effects" are all in your own worrying mind.
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What known backdoors?
If Ford has franchise dealerships in MA then they may not do this, if they don't have dealerships then they may.

Citizen United was about political speech, not selling cars. There's a long history of the court taking differing approaches to commercial speech vs political speech. Ford most likely could open up stores to distribute political literature. They could even likely make a Ford movie. What they can't do is sell cars.

The court generally errs on the side of the people when it comes to political speech and on the side of the state when it comes to commercial speech. I don't see Ford having much of a case opening up dealerships under Citizens United.
Also we have more holidays, Americans get next to nothing.
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I kinda liked the graph (i suppose it's made up with Graphviz right?) because it could sort out different groups of my friends eg. my first and second Erasmus friends were two separate groups, friends back from my hometown were another one, and another friends from a training course i had participated lately. But the assimilation score list was totally off the point. The first ten people i got are still friends but not that close to me.
> I don't get your point.

That's ok. I've spent enough cycles trying to get it across I think. Good night!
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Hmm, I'd take it with a grain of salt, without knowing how the score is calculated. All of my closest friends are ranked way, way down the listings.

I do see four distinct clumpings, with very little overlap: my large, extended family, the people I went to high school with, people I knew in college, and the small group of coworkers I have now. Which is kind of interesting, but also makes total sense, since those are completely disjoint sets of people.
This is awesome, only I'd like to point out that the license is unclear. Are the files in static under GPL license or not? If not, exactly what is their license status?
this is more than just building. It's operating, maintaining, designing and launching, all private. It's essentially the way they worked with the Russians. That's a big step up from hiring contractors to build something for you. And no, it isn't civilian spaceflight yet, but a lot of the technology and science will be useful for that, and it's a stepping stone.
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If that's how you interpreted my response, then I apologize; that was not my intent. It was simply an observation directly responding to the post immediately above mine, not intended as a generalization.

The vast majority of cyclists that I've encountered are perfectly fine and do not engage in those behaviors I was referring to. I've simply noticed that often the ones that are loudest and most outspoken about "sharing the road" in these debates are often the ones that seem willing to share the road the least, and that immediately changes the tone from a productive one to one of "us versus them".
Read it as much as you want.

His first sentence said "...every single document I disclosed..." (emphasis added). Note how he didn't say "every single document I copied from NSA"; he was referring to documents he disclosed, and those documents were only disclosed to the journalists you're referring to.

What this means is that if a journalist ever showed you a Snowden leak at all, it was because it passed through Snowden's self-professed "carefully evaluated" disclosure review.

Stop blaming the journalists, Snowden himself specifically said that if those journalists have any of his documents at all, it was because Snowden intended specifically for them to have it.
Not really a prank, but a while ago my group of friends thought that the smiley with a nose ( :^) ) was really weird and creepy in casual conversation (we never use smileys).

So naturally I wrote a twitter bot that finds all normal smileys and adds the nose.
Its a step closer to democracy, where your voting power is not diluted ten times.
You sound negatively biased against reasons backed by religion.

You also sound negatively biased against parents handing down core values and religious beliefs to their children.

We'll have to disagree about both of these. And anything that stems from them.

Which, in our case, probably means this discussion should politely end here.
C++11 has better Unicode support than previous versions.
Using a proprietary barcode format won't help if people post the barcode image itself (which they do in the example image provided). More work might be required to 'unskew' perspective shifts to get it back looking like the original if the photo wasn't taken from directly in front of the printout, but barcode readers are generally designed to deal with that sort of skew anyway.

I remember when the Xbox One came out last year a lot of people were posting ebay listings for digital download games in the form of scannable QR codes and posting those QR codes as proof of the item existing (since otherwise it is all digital). Not surprisingly people claimed those QR codes using the ebay images without ever buying the item.
Throws an "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token u" at line 224 (mutuals = JSON.parse(arguments[i][0][j].body);)

Same for someone else? Waited quite a long time (comments here said it takes long) and then opened the console.
Wait, are you sure that everyone should have a trial? The majority of criminal cases are open-and-shut straightforward (remember, we only hear about the interesting cases). What's the purpose of requiring a trial when the outcome is foreordained?

Obviously, it's impossible to know exactly who does and doesn't need a trial, which is why everyone is entitled to one. But incentives to keep pointless trials from bogging down the system make sense, too.

The majority of crimes are also not Silverglate "transporting the wrong species of kiwi across state lines". A plurality of incarcerated people in IL and IN are in for domestic violence; the majority are in for violent crimes.
> I think you're making a distinction that isn't one.

I think youa re obscuring an important distinction: specifically, you are confusing "how you decide to act based on the law" with "what is required by the law".

> I'm not going to take a poll or ask a lawyer every five seconds as I try to decide where I need to be.

Of course not. That doesn't mean, however, that the requirements of the law are based on your subjective judgement. Obviously, with most laws, you are going to use your subjective judgement to decide how to act, even if the requirements of the law set an objective standard that will be applied should the question of whether you complied with the law ever come into controversy.

But your earlier argument was that the law accomodates your subjective judgement of necessity, which is incorrect.
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Exactly the same here. #1 is my wife and #2 is a relative stranger, which I should actually not have on Facebook. Probably a bug.
Ah, I see. I certainly agree with your observation that the most vociferous cyclists frequently turn out to have the worst road manners.
After Keen 3, the id guys were still under contract with Softdisk for another game. They made Keen Dreams to fulfill this obligation, but it wasn't released until some time after Keen 6.

http://www.thefloppydisk.com/articles/commander_keen_the_gam...
Has this happened to anyone? What would happen if you showed up and find that your ticket is invalid. I'm guessing it varies by venue but is there any recourse? I can't imagine they'd just turn you away without at least a little investigation.
Note that "Keen Dreams" is the game sometimes called "Commander Keen 3.5" or "The Lost Episode"; unlike episodes 1-3 and 4-6 which were made by ID for sale by Apogee, Keen Dreams was (I think) the last game ID made to fulfill their contractual obligations with SoftDisk. It's interesting in a number of ways - the engine and art is very clearly halfway between the first and second Keen trilogies, it's the only game where Keen doesn't have his iconic pogo-stick or his Neuralizer Ray gun.
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Please read the second sentence in my comment above.
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I guess it was changing too rapidly. I'm waiting for such book as well.
Iceland were the only one that seemed to listen to its people after the financial crisis, and didn't succumb to the bankers threats. They seem to be doing OK.
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There's also an html5 version: https://github.com/JoeAnzalone/HTML5-Keen
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Reader YC on BlackBerry . Works like a charm, not just on the go but while getting the little one to sleep.
I also had it pick out my wife by an order of magnitude over everyone else -- and that's the best I can say for the rest of the list: it included everyone else. I can't see any particular order or pattern there. My last place, theoretically most unimportant connection is actually a good friend of mine I interact with regularly offline.