skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This inspired me to do the same with reddit, so I threw together this function in zsh (should work with bash too):

function redcom(){ ! [ -z "$2" ] && i="&after=$2" || i=""; data=$(curl -s "https://www.reddit.com/user/${1}/comments.json?count=100${i}"); j=$(jq -e -r '.data["after"]' <<<$data); echo $j; (jq -e -r '.data["children"][]["data"]["body"]' <<<$data)>>${1}-redcom.txt; echo $(echo -e $data|wc -l) lines; ( [ "$j" = "null" ] || [ -z "$j" ] ) || redcom $1 $j ;} ;

It's a bit more complicated due to the reddit api, but if you run that, then run redcom <user> and it should throw all your comments into <user>-redcom.txt

Never user/heard of jq before, it's a pretty nice tool.
tl;dr: Forward arm and forward leg are on opposite sides, but many old pictures show them on the same side.

"Nobody" is a strong word though. I guess most artists nowadays get it right. At least people in animations/computer games.

Correct pose: http://www.angryanimator.com/tut/pic/002_walkcycle/wlk08.gif
This is no longer necessary in the UK - you can send money via a phone number instead of an account number.
Are you hiring junior developers for your secret project? ;p
> I don't understand why more people did not accept this as a viable solution

Mostly because it's a pain in the ass, I've tried doing it and not only do you have to be careful to stick to POSIX, you also have to avoid shell and binary extensions (e.g. `echo -e` would print `-e` with a POSIX echo, it won't with GNU echo or most shell builtins). Even testing it multiple posix-compatible and userland environments, you never really know whether your script actually is cross-platform.

It'd be nice to have an environment (shell and binaries) which implements only POSIX and warns/errors when triggering common extensions.
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My only advice is try, try again. For me the magic number was 5 days in a row. I'm really glad I acquired the taste/slime-tolerance though, because now it is one of my favorite foods.

If you can already deal with the smell/taste, then you might like it better as in natto-maki form:

https://www.google.com/search?q=natto+maki&client=safari&rls...
This pretty much sums it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle#.22...
There is no public option for this, it might be possible if you poked an admin, but I'd not hold my breath.
The site doesn't say anything about if this will be available world wide or just in the us?

Even so, I have used virtual credit cards for several years already as my bank provides a service for it. It works really neatly tbh even if the UI isn't as nice as in the video promotion.
I wonder how Google's success as a search engine could have unfolded differently.

Imagine they had launched adwords with more basic tools: less granular targeting and such. Imagine that their revenue had gradually climbed to $1bn by now, enough to employ a battalion of the best engineers they could find and focus on search. Investors (those delivering truckloads of cash in the article) would still have called it a big success.

They probably wouldn't have built or bought all the expensive speculative stuff like self driving cars, android, wave & youtube. Would the search engine be worse? Would it be better? Would they have been able to maintain their lead in search?
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There is another interesting side-effect : companies from developed countries are unwillingly training low-wage workers from 3rd the world.

As an anecdotal evidence, the company I'm working for has partially outsourced their customer services (technical maintenance, etc.) to Northern Africa in order to lessen the wage bill. Their problem is the following one : as soon as they find a competent employee and training him, he expatriate himself into Europe and sell his skills for a much better payroll. Now my firm is stuck with incompetent salary men and old-timers which aren't willing to relocate themselves.
I dont't want to be politically judged by HN audience. But, I will tell you this: don't you see that start-ups and innovation happen around things that are the least regulated by the Government. Things with the least amount of required bureaucracy and compliance to the state regulations?

Peter Schiff - opened hedge fund from his bedroom. He got lucky, worked had, whatever, his investment company is doing pretty good nowadays. But he will tell you one thing - if he wanted to open a brokerage firm from his bedroom today, it would be impossible due to all the regulation imposed on the financial markets. Putting aside that this way the regulation protects established big financial institutions from new competition, this also kills innovation.

What isn't regulated by the Government? Internet start-ups. I can work in my bedroom on a new search engine (currently). Or on mobile app. But try to open brokerage firm.

There is a reason for which still more innovation happens in the USA than in much more heavily regulated EU. Spoke to fashion designer from Paris in New York the other day. He lives in New York. Why? Because to open a fashion shop in Paris requires fee to the government to the tune of 15,000 Euros. Nobody in New York ask him to pay 20,000 usd to the city for the privilege of opening business.

The moment they will start regulating web - the party will be over! What about 10,000 usd fee to open a commercial website? Would you be surprised there is innovation in the web ?
It's just hard to boil down the dynamic to a statement like that, Google is an X company. Google invented a search engine where everyone found stuff on the web easier than other methods. They then built an advertising platform that complimented it. The two are highly interlinked. They invented and got good at both.

You can look at things from a distant POV with too few details just like you can look at it from a perspective that's too close, to many details. There is no method apart from using your faculties that can replace having good faculties and the ability to apply perspective.
I live in North India and my mom used to give me a varied breakfast every morning. It includes
Aloo da paratha with Butter or Cream
Parantha with Hot cup of milk
SOmetimes Daliya or vermicelli
Many a times I used to get cooked spicy vegetables with baked bread (roti)

My breakfast was never boring. Everymorning I ate something different from the last 7 days.

The breakfast on sundays used to be memorable.
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> Are her parents doing anything else but preparing and then washing dishes

I imagine you could pop saran wrap on those dishes, put them in the fridge and keep eating the leftovers the next couple mornings.
+ google doc has error in HEX2Dec function :
B1 cell formula: "=HEX2Dec(B2)"
B2 cell is empty
result : #ERROR!, Ms Excel returns 0.
Different currency has different conventions?
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Chiming in here and presenting my try at a Hacker News website using Angular JS and Bootstrap.
https://github.com/lekoaf/HackerNews

My only problem with the API is that you need to do an awful lot of Ajax calls just to get something out of it. The topstories endpoint just gives you an array of IDs and then you need to do one Ajax call for each ID to get the story.

Oh well, the site is a work in progress. Not done yet.
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I can't remember the title, but I vividly remember reading this description of a naturally athletic person in a novel when I was a kid: "He was a gifted sort of person, his left foot naturally followed his right arm."

Or something to that extent. I don't know why that stuck in my mind to this day, probably because at the time I was the exact opposite of such a person.

Also, I just tried the "mimic a static part of running" and I figured out why I got it wrong, despite having just run 5km this morning. My left foot was forward and so was my left arm. BUT, when I played out the motion to its end I figured out why - my back foot was about to swing forward and my front arm was about to swing backwards. So it was actually correct even though it might seem wrong upon casual inspection.
How did Veneuzuela end up like this ?
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The Bitsquid developers are very, very savvy programmers and I find myself agreeing with almost all the design decisions they made in their engine - in fact, my engine uses a lot of similar patterns and constructs.

I wasn't aware they had sold to Autodesk though.
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Share your X11 socket/cookie, and now everything you input (keyboard/mouse,etc.) is readable by a so called "contained" application; this is not a secure solution, but more of a comfort solution, and it should be used as such.

On a side note, I've been doing this with chroot/debootstrap for years, but lxc/docker provide a nice "engineered" solution.
Guessing many of you use iTunes so might like to use this!
Highly recommend trying to mimic the drawings, it feels hilarious!

Right leg forward, right arm forward.
Left leg forward, left arm forward
It's not a cop-out because any such system will include its environment.

Your alternative is basically saying "it's theoretically possible, but in practice impossible". If so, the theory is incomplete: it fails to account for the human factor.
Because it doesn't fit into anyone's narrative.

Pro-Zoey - You really don't wanna bring up any legitimate criticism of her when you could be playing up the victim narrative.

Anti-Zoey (AKA mysoginists) - The man is obviously a hero for giving that bitch what-for.

Pro-Journalistic-Integrity - Who the fuck is Zoey Quinn, and why can't people shut up about her?

So while he may be a classless dickhead, he's not high on anyone's agenda. Nobody in the trenches cares about Gavrilo Princip.
(1) Check whether the economist peddling this view incidentally has a lot of gold he needs to unload, or is running a shop or fund for gold.

(2) Check whether the economist peddling this view incidentally is funded by the Russian government (e.g. works for RT) or a similar entity interested in pushing up US treasury yields.

(3) Check whether the economist peddling this view has been repeating the call for a collapse bi-weekly since the Carter administration. A clock is right twice a day after all.
This reminded me of the epic running scene "World Record" of the Animatrix film. [0]

The director of the scene Takeshi Koike said the following: "When I first read the story, one thing that really excited me and that I thought could add something that no one else could do, was the running in the sprint. I thought I could draw that in a unique way."

[0] Synopsis: http://youtu.be/rYBcz9B6D20?t=2m36s
Mostly agree, but economical high voltage DC is a definite improvement in power transmission.
I agree. It is similar to learning Maths which does not mean to make all people to be mathematician.
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How does that add up? If I send money via my internet bank too person or company the bank has to do zero work (other than maintain their servers). Anything that requires manual work has to be a lot more expensive for the bank!?

Here, transfers are free and any "paper" business such as check cashing/bill payment has steep fees.

How can your banks provide you with the labor intensive service for free and charge for what is cheaper to provide? Aren't they creating a customer behavior they don't want?
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We mitigate through compartmentalisation: Instead of one password for everything, each user has different username/password combinations, and hopefully different passwords for most services they access.

That is the key point here: The moment you introduce a backdoor you have painted a target on the parties that needs to hold those keys big enough to be seen from space.

Meanwhile, with compartmentalised keys, some users accounts get compromised all the time, but no single leak is sufficient to get everyone.
Quick update to everyone. Prasanth has already found something, which will keep him working for the next few keeps, probably end of November. If he is job less again at that point we will continue.... boom, another success! :)
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Funny you say this. I hate monopolies as the next guy. Reading Thiel's book right now. What he says is that monopolies can have luxury of innovation while in the perfect market conditions it is all about as low margin as possible without cash flying around to spend on extravaganza like innovation.

AT&T: telecommunications company that employed Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kerninghan to figure out software to play chess. Dudes created C language and UNIX OS in the process.

Which low margin cash-strived company will do extravagant stuff like that for kicks?
No one knows. It's a black swan. It's not predictable as a rule.

I fully expect it within 30 years simply based on the rate of progression, overall (not in the field of AI specifically).
Well, I cannot find a real source right now but if you look at the same problem for horses, the thing goes to the limit (four legs in the air, all stretched, the back ones to the back, the front ones to the front).
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I suspect donations are not going to have any impact on the effectiveness of MSF’s lobbying efforts (i.e. I don’t think MSF’s lobbying for military intervention by the west is money constrained). I am more than happy to be corrected on this if anyone has any data.

What I am hoping by my comment is breaking people out of the thinking that this can be solved by donations to NGO’s like MSF. I believe it is far too big now for any NGO to deal with no matter how well resourced. If we can only get on top of the outbreak by military action lets stop messing around and start lobbying for this directly - every day we delay is only making the problem bigger and harder.
I, uh, don't understand. No sane environment commits straight to prod. You stage to an integration environment. The integration environment can break, no problems. But you only migrate staged dev from the integration environment to prod when all the test pass. Is that not how everyone does things???
OK, define "police state".
I think the trick is to organize this the day before and prepare things for lunch/dinner that easily transfers as extras for breakfast. Cold meat, feta-cream, olives, cous cous-dishes and other things that fits cold the day after. And ofcourse some proper bread which is completely impossible to get up here in north Sweden... The industrybread here is awful.
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As artist, you would want to draw persons facing towards viewer. It makes pictures usually more compelling. When drawing correctly, you would efficiently cover half the body or rotate the person away from the viewer.

Running is awkward pose, as half the body seems to be rotated the other way always. But in a art, it is preferable to have subject moving one certain way.

So it is only natural to pose people like this, if you are uncertain how they are in real life or it does not matter. Because it is way more aesthetically and understandable for the viewer. In creek example, you could show persons genitals and upper muscular body, not only one of them.
the real threat is that this disease is going to come to more Westernize countries and fester amongst poor populations who already do not trust their local officials. combine this with a sense of entitlement far too many people have when it comes to travel and restrictions of such, already in the US there is push back from those being monitored who had contact with the Dallas patient. We even have protesters rallying because a dog was put down.

How do you contain irrational actions, the mutation of the disease may occur or not occur, but damn if a bunch of people aren't exercising self destructive behavior.

People love to ridicule the Africans suffering through this as backward and superstitious all the while ignoring that entitlement, arrogance, and such, will cause similar containment issues in supposedly better countries.

The fact that traffic hasn't been stopped already is criminal, its starting to read like World War Z. Europe will have it worse as they cannot easily control people getting in, the US has an ocean but air travel tends to mitigate that.
Outside of baking, you really don't need to be that precise. Bakers typically weigh their ingredients to get the correct measurements.
(4) Check whether the economist peddling this view describes themselves as an Austrian or a follower of praxeology. Those are the "Creation Science" of economics: Faith-based and with no successes to their name. They even deny the role of evidence in economic theory, because if evidence is flawed and sometimes biased it should (apparently) be discarded entirely.
Maybe this?
http://www.voxforge.org/home - "VoxForge was set up to collect transcribed speech for use with Free and Open Source Speech Recognition Engines (on Linux, Windows and Mac)."
(caveat: I have not recorded on this from (any) of my machines - I don't have the right plugin apparently)

Maybe also:
https://librivox.org - has audiobooks read by volunteers, plus the book text.
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cool link (time). So many cardboard boxes.
Call to Speakers Digest – quite useful
That's really awesome!

I'm too lazy to make myself any breakfast ... so I usually just stumble into work and then my stomach tells me at around 11am that I'm missing something important. It's too late for breakfast by then, so I just hold out for lunch.

When I'm back in India, I definitely try to take advantage of the awesome Udupi [1] options. MTR [2] @Lalbagh Rd remains an absolute favourite!

Coincidentally, there's a new breakfast business in Bangalore called Brekkie [3] that's getting a lot of rave reviews (disclaimer: started by a good friend of mine). They serve Indiranagar and surrounding areas with a variety of bites.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udupi#Cuisine

[2] http://www.mavallitiffinrooms.com

[3] http://www.brekkie.in
I don´t believe that in some countries one prepares 12 different foods for breakfast every day. This only reflects "pretending" attitude of those countries when they know someone is looking.
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I know at least one person working somewhere that has committing to TRUNK allegedly going straight to prod. Thankfully I've managed to avoid such mad places (more by luck than judgement, mind.)
> And in America, dressed as police, shooting any black man they care to.

False equivalence is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
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I think the reasonable link to DRM is that the only reason you would ever consider Adobe Digital Edition reader is if it is forced upon you by DRM requirements.

If not for DRM you could chose a different not-crappy platform.
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I understand the rightful distaste for backdoors. However, it occurs to me that any encryption system that could get widespread use would need some kind of mechanism to recover data in the event of loss of password/hardware/authentification device etc. The more valuable data is the more important backups are. I think that the general public would be reluctant to use any complete encryption product that could lead to loss of personal data such as email in the event of common human error. We need ways to recover data, and if those methods exist they could always be used by law enforcment. Encryption has to exist within the world as it is (with comprimises), not how you may want it to be. A secure encrypted backup recovery standard may actually make users safer, because what we have now is so much more vulnerable.
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> how these monies will be collected

No different from current welfare programs.

> what rationale there is for distributing it

Because it's right. Because the marginal utility of money is much higher for the poor, and because inequality is inherently harmful over and above the effects that low absolute wealth has on the poor.

> why it won't be inflationary

Even if it is inflationary, basic income can't fail to reduce inequality, because money is fungible. If we go from a world in which A has $1 and B has $0 to one where A has $2 and B has $1, we go from A getting all of the resources to A getting 2/3 of the resources and B getting 1/3 of the resources.

That said, the argument is that basic income increases productivity by a) improving the marginal incentives for people to start working or work more hours b) increasing consumer demand
Presumably very few people in that list are rich in purely cash or near cash terms. They're rich because they own businesses at the apex of their valuation? As technology changes businesses rise and fall which probably accounts for the turnover in the list.
Startup idea but found three large companies already doing it
In the back of my mind I am always thinking about startup ideas.

Last week I thought of an idea only to find three rather well established companies already have products in the market place. I would normally let this drop but I have been quite taken by the idea and now think maybe I can bring something new and improve on whats already in the market.

Whats the general view of creating a startup in a market which already has large well established companies? What are the early tell tell signs it might be a good move, or a bad move?
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it looks totally like raspberryPI compute module.
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Satellite control software: you enter tiny time intervals using scientific notation to command very short thruster bursts for realignment. User A, the usual guy, always uses lowercase 'e', no problem. One day he goes on holiday, user B takes over, and on his first day enters a value using uppercase 'E'. The s/w is not expecting this, and so interprets 7.6E-3 seconds as 7.6 seconds (e.g., exact numbers unknown).

Fortunately, after the predicable mass panic, they were eventually able to relocate the satellite.
I'm confused.

Yes, different conventions exist (in this case the thread drifted to bugs based on locales, so obviously we're talking about different conventions here). I .. don't understand what you're saying.

(and my original post is missing an asterisk in two places, as in 1?000 as OCR result for example - messed up the formatting in the middle of the night)
I think there is a lot more variety than one photo suggests. The link someone posted from time magazine, where the weekly food of a family is shown seems to be much more representative (look at the nice fresh vegetables and fruits in non-western countries).

For the record: my german kids breakfast: oatmeal without sugar, dried fruits, milk from the local farmers cow, fresh fruits from our own garden, tea. bread with home made jam (from our gardens fruits ;o). Toast with Nutella only on sundays, but my mothers jam was so much better...
Cool, thanks for the link. For anyone else interested...

"Fundefir created a model of self-managed financing called Bankomunales con K, based on the exclusive use of funds from members of community groups, as a source of financing."

"Currently, there are around 150 groups, or Bankomunales, in 9 Venezuelan states."
And what about the 16,000 kids that die everyday because of hunger?
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Nitpick: The rice porridge, 粥, eaten in China is only called 'jook' (zuk1) in Cantonese speaking parts, like Hong Kong.

It's called 'joe' (zhōu) in Mandarin speaking parts (i.e. most of China).
Google was late to search.

Facebook was late to social networking.

Apple was late to the MP3 Player.

Where would we be if they listened to
everyone who said they were too late?

It's never too late. Just do it better.

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