skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, they do whatever they have to do to pay the bills! I think a lot of these tool chains, or fragments thereof, are going to be open sourced eventually, but all engineering (open or not) is being paid for by someone (at least indirectly). So a lot of these tools are only going to be make that move once the authors can "pay" for the time to do so. ('cause life is more than just software i'm told!)

You can talk with a lot of people doing numerical computingy things in haskell on the #numerical-haskell channel on freenode.
Just a note to check if there are any like-minded people:

Everytime I approach Reddit, I got a feeling of being overwhelmed by the interface complexity, to the point that a part of me wants to know more and finally get to use it, and another part, simply feels frustrated. The latter has always won so far, even after forcing me to create an account.

It just doesn't click with me. And I don't want to read no freaking 101 guide, because a clearly done interface needs no guide.

Anyone feels like that?
Even international law recognizes public health exceptions to freedom of movement. When you're dealing with a disease that has no known cure and a very high mortality rate, that's a good reason to invoke such an exception, notwithstanding the Ebola's lowish R0 of 2.
Looks like it's not (back) in the US store yet.
Thank you for the invite. I'm testing a new software on it. It's the perfect tool for that :)
HBO will let you watch their shows online – without having to buy cable
When I originally switched to Android a few years ago I definitely had Alien Blue jealousy, but Reddit Sync has come a long way. Now I have Reddit Sync envy on my iPad. Plus, Alien Blue was so dominant that the competition on iOS was quite stagnant in comparison to Android, where there are several high-calibre clients.
Is there a particular piece that you find confusing? I've never had any trouble, and it never really occurred to me that other people might. Upvote, downvote, click reply to reply to a comment. Scroll down to see more. You can pretty much ignore everything else if you want to.
As ~always~ with Google sites my Accept-Language header [1] is ignored and I end up being redirected to a different, 'more suitable' site. But yeah, those people can talk about SPDY and HTTP/2 and new standards all day long I guess. I'm sure that makes sense..

1: en-US,en;q=0.5
Another way to look at it is that they're providing a better "user experience" via an app and website to businesses that were just lower profile or invisible before. For example, I believe many traditional B&Bs also operate in some legally grey areas, in terms of council approvals, business registration, tax & insurance.
Off topic: It may be a good idea to prepend an "Ask HN:" to the title to get more visibility.
What was it missing? Does it have those features now?
Maybe they won't turn to other forms of crime. Maybe they'll get into the newly minted legal recreational drug industry.
There is JSCS for Javascript: https://github.com/jscs-dev/node-jscs#options
You can provide resources in multiple sizes, and Android will also scale as needed

https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_suppor...
MS14-063 Technical Analysis
Can you point me to a StackExchange site where I can ask "What are some good action RPGs like Mass Effect or Deus Ex which you have enjoyed?". In fact, I discovered and joined Quora when a very similar question of mine was deleted from gaming.SE.

In Quora, for most questions, I AM looking for opinion, not factual answers.
Interesting that the AG's report is titled AirBnB in the City, likely a reference to the classic NYC tv show Sex and the City[1].

Interesting, in that many people incorrectly call that program Sex IN the City, which the producers object to. They point out that the AND is deliberate - the City of New York is an integral character in the story, not just a location where the story (and sex) occurs.

In this dispute, the government is making a similar gambit - arguing that they need to be part of the conversation, via regulation and enforcement etc, not just the location in which the lettings take place.

In other words, the report title seems to mis-quote the name of the TV show. And in doing so it missed the opportunity to position the State more strongly as a central actor in this drama.

[1] And lest anyone observe the title may be a coincidence, note that Eric Schneiderman is the AG of New York State, not just the city.
HYDROGEN STORAGE IN CARBON DERIVED FROM SOLID  ENDOSPERM OF COCONUT [pdf]
Under GAAP (standard accounting practices) any profits become a liability in the form of shareholders' equity. When the shareholders sell, they're taxed on the profits. So it's a reasonable argument that taxing the profits are a form of double taxation.
Typically those are done using configuration files of code-checking tools, such as .jshintrc[1] or .pylintrc.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/connor/1597131
I don't think that's really feasible, unless you have family in another country or something. It would be pretty tough to get a work visa so you can remotely work for a company back in the US.
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Yeah, when it comes to small B&B operators, there's actually not much difference between what airbnb does and the services of a listing provider like wotif.com or booking.com. Both take payment from the customer upfront and charge a percentage on bookings. Airbnb doesn't require you to be a business though to sign up.
> Part of the reason it's cheaper is because regulations have set up stagnant non-competing businesses who have no incentive to innovate or compete.

all those reasons are so obvious now, thanks! OTOH, it's interesting that from what I've seen a lot of people are "celebrating" the success of uber and lyft because of the lack of incentive to innovate or compete from the taxi/government side
Congrats to Alien Blue,their app is great!
Duncan's lab samples were sent through the usual hospital tube system “without being specifically sealed and hand-delivered. The result is that the entire tube system … was potentially contaminated,” they said.

/Facepalm
Taccgl – Time based 2d/3d graphics library
It's important to reiterate that this apocryphal event occurred under our current drug laws. Also, child neglect and abuse are crimes regardless of whether or not the child's parents are addicts.

Our current culture doesn't offer good options to addicts to break the cycle, and it certainly didn't help that child.
OK, I found it! http://rails-4-0.railstutorial.org/book

Thanks for the book.
> The post is nothing more than an attempt to shame Quora into opening up their data.

My post is definitely an attempt to shame Quora into opening up their data, in at least the sense of making it available to the Internet Archive. No bones there.

> There are many people that don't want everything they post on the internet going into permanent and searchable databases.

We may just disagree to some extent on what the norms should be, but I think if you're intentionally posting public content to a public website, that's part of the permanent public record. Especially when that website is about accumulating a knowledge base.

Wikipedia, another knowledge base, records everything. Though unlike Quora, you're allowed to contribute fully anonymously (without even registering an account -- in fact, come in through Tor, if you like). They have no problem allowing themselves to be backed up on the Archive, and I'd be pretty worried if they did.

In fact, Wikipedia's robots.txt is really interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt

There's some brief bot exclusions, a brief, now commented-out section asking the Internet Archive not to archive user pages, and then a very, very long section blocking various pages from being indexed by anyone. That long section has a lot of thought and history in it, including notes about the Internet's memory about users, like "Folks get annoyed when XfD discussions end up the number 1 google hit for their name."

I think it's totally fair to argue with Wikipedia about the choices it makes in its robots.txt, but ultimately what we're talking about here are organizations making these choices on behalf of users, not the individual users themselves.

If individuals are concerned about their contributions being preserved, that should be something they take up with the Archive. The Archive respects take down requests, both because copyright is a thing and because they're not interested in harming individuals.

I don't think we're working in the service of humanity by blessing companies that gate the future's access to massive troves of knowledge that was freely contributed to public websites.
Do you guys remember the Disclosure movie, I think 1995? It was the coolest SGI advertisement ever. I actually watched the movie again last year, and it's still cool! Exactly at that time we had both Macs and SGI workstations at the university and the Macs didn't even come close.
My first full-time job out of college was as an engineer at SGI in Mountain View. This is now Google's campus!

It was the summer of 1999. You can imagine how it went.

In retrospect, there _was_ a silver lining: https://davepeck.org/2009/02/11/the-luckiest-bad-luck/
After long back and forth I ended up buying iPhone 6 over Nexus 5. So the news of Nexus 6 was exciting but it still seems bit behind on hardware front:

* No 128GB memory option. This is absolutely important for me and it seems Apple is the only one of few company who gets this. I started running out of 64 GB long time ago.

* No TouchID equivalent which is excellent and works flowlessly on iPhones.

* No slow-mo videos at 200+ frames per second.

* From hardware perspective N6 still stuck in 32-bit world. Plus it lacks motion processor that monitors my movements and fitness data all the time without draining batteries.

* 8MP camera is actually better than 12MP and gives better low light performance. Higher MP is actually deal breaking for me (if sensor size remains same).

* At 10mm thickness, that's actually going backwards from 7mm for iPhone 6. Every mm of thickness adds perception of "hugeness" dramatically.
As a user, I also find it cumbersome to pull out the sidebar. I wish there was a setting to at least show it once when coming to a subreddit that I never visited before [0]

Aside from the rules and expected behavior, some subreddit just don't make any sense without prior knowledge of what they are about.

[0] "never visited" could be tough to implement, perhaps instead "not part of the last 1000 non subscribed subreddit visited", or something like that.
>So they are the same old taxi drivers and motel owners. We are just paying less because it's illegal.

No. We're paying because we need taxi service and a nice/convenient place to stay. The old system has been very strained and limited with regard to availability and service options - hour long waits for a cab and only very limited hotel/motel options with regard to the room/suite type/format and location.
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Facebook, Apple pay to freeze employees' eggs
Are you saying we can write Android apps using node.js with this library? If so, AWESOME! If not, then I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
How to create products that people crave for and pay for?
I love the illustrations!
Really? Does it allow to do so without adequate proof? I think not. That's the point I am trying to make here: There were no hard facts - apart from her not feeling well.

Would it have been wise to quarantine her and keep her from traveling? in hindsight definitely.

Is it justifiable to restrict one's individual freedom on such a weak basis as "she's not feeling well, but is below the temperature threshold established by experts"? Here you can IMHO lean either way. If you are more utilitarian, you might argue for it. If you are more about individual rights, you might argue against it.
How we increased our EC2 event throughput by 50%, for free
Have you ever attended a conference? I live in a small town in Alaska, and I don't know anyone else in my town who writes code. I started attending Pycon, and it opened up a world of connections for me. Pycon is in Montreal again in April, if you're interested in Python at all.
In prefs, you can hide submissions you've voted on. Turn that on and then start voting.
I spoke with old timers at Cray and they were all shocked by the laxs work ethic at SGI: people coming back from months of paid vacation and not being sure it they worked there anymore.
My understanding of the 42 day waiting period was slightly different. I didn't think it was 21*2 to allow for an intermediate unknown person. I thought it was that the 21 day incubation period is something like the 95th percentile, and the 42 day period is the 98-99th percentile.

From the article: "The 42-day period is twice the generally accepted maximum incubation period of the virus. However, some incubation periods are longer - that WHO said that in 95 percent of cases the incubation period was between one and 21 days. In 98 percent it was no longer than 42 days."
One of Linus's key strengths is that he's good at listening to people and honestly evaluating new ideas based on their merits. Good code goes in, bad code stays out. He's not an ideologue like Jobs or Lucas. He's a pragmatist, and that's what makes him a good BDFL.
What's that got to do with Ireland? If the US believes it's entitled to taxes, then it should make that the law. I don't see how some third party county can modify local US law.
Will.i.am Unveils World's First Untethered Smartband Wearable at Dreamforce
I'm not a native English speaker. Does "should not" mean it is obligatory or is it a recommendation?
> A 'predictive model' should say 'if you do X then you will end up with Y' - and the X cannot be adjusting some number. The X has to be stuff like 'building ETU's in West Africa', or 'canceling all flights',... A predictive model should be able to say 'don't bother canceling flights, it's no use - instead do this...'.

This is just wrong. A predictive model does not necessarily have any "action" input. Example: weather forecast.
You shouldn't forget that Star Wars would not have been the phenomenon it is/was without such attributes.
Still got my SGI machine. I boot it up every now and then, just to have a wonder about what it would have been like if SGI had just pushed a bit harder, made a laptop, beaten Apple to the "coolest unix workstation vendor in the world" target, and so on. Frankly, I'd rather be typing this message on an SGI laptop than a MacbookPro, but that's history for you.
Undefined is the opposite of defined, and threading in C++98 was `not considered` or `unaddressed`?
Which one of you is the AI? :)
The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond [pdf]
It definitely has a lot of interesting content but I think it favors "insiders" too much to retain a broader appeal.
Meet the economics Nobel laureate who explains net neutrality and app stores
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The only point I am making is not, as you assume, that all of our philosophy and knowledge is useless, nor that no part can be separated from the whole.

My point is that we don't know which part is useful and which part isn't, and to presume otherwise -- ie to believe that we can effectively, if you will, "play God" with some future society after we've blown this one up -- is hubris (not to mention likely contraindicated in the Bible somewhere).
>3. Because people can still see the difference. People still claim Apple made the end-all solution when with the retina displays "you couldn't see the pixels". As it turns out, not being able to make out individual pixels does not mean higher PPI stops adding value. Returns are diminishing, sure, but I sure as hell prefer my text rendered on 500ppi devices compared to 300ppi devices.

I agree with you if the comparison is between 500ppi and 300ppi, but anything higher than 400ppi seems like a waste. I could easily distinguish pixels at 300ppi if I looked close enough, but I cannot distinguish individual pixels on an iPhone 6+ screen no matter how hard I try.
Its worse then that! The ABI is different for debug and release version of the same library resulting in crazy, crazy bugs.
It has been illegal for so long now, and kids are still exposed to it, now even more than ever. I have no idea how people still think that prohibition makes drugs go away.
Fortunately, we use tools, but we are not just machines.
For a Twitter client, Fenix (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.mvilla.andr...) is beautiful and fast, and doesn't make me miss Tweetbot when I'm not using my computer.
>How much of the old model was there to protect monopolies and how much of it was there to provide for consumer safety?

when medallion costs $200K-$600K is it to protect monopoly or to provide for consumer safety? Tough question :)
Speaking of HDMI CEC, I think you may like a Chromecast

>> All these new boxes make you switch inputs and remotes all the time. I have too many remotes already.

The Chromecast can turn on a TV (and the TV can turn on the audio receiver) via HDMI CEC. I was surprised when the Chromecast icon was displayed when the TV was off. Lo and behold, it just worked.
Oh really? Source, please?
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Two rational people cannot end up at s different conclusion. If they do, one of them has faulty logic, or incorrect priors.

People against drugs mostly tend to have wildly inaccurate priors. Sort of like creationists. If you have a terrible understanding of evolution ("monkeys randomly turned into people, fish randomly got legs and started walking just because ") then you'll end up at an invalid conclusion. Likewise, if you believe the very inaccurate drug info out there, your conclusions will be wrong.

Less often, someone has good beliefs on the actual drugs, but poor beliefs on personal freedom, or faulty logic on the drug war.
Nope.
Imagine that you change a function prototype:

void drawBox(int X,int Y,int W,int H);

void drawBox(int TL,int TR,int BL,int BR);

Having an extra safety for mature code offers an immediate protection, in a much more accessible fashion then competing ideas like 'concepts'.
Luckily, this has already been proposed: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n402...

I really hope it makes it into the language. A stable API for external functions and whatever ABI you want for internal functions.
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There is an ABI most C++ vendors conform to already:

http://www.swag.uwaterloo.ca/acd/docs/ItaniumC++ABI.htm

Almost every major vendor has been working towards this for a long time now.

Microsoft of course remains "special".

Regardless, the C++ standards committee did look at creating a portable C++ ABI in May 2014:

https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/05/n4028
Twidere works quite well for Twitter.
Does anyone know the details behind the 21 day time period for declaring someone to be infection free? Is that some kind of biological max for how long the virus can live or is it a statistics thing where the virus is not there 95% of the time?
Yup, that's it! I make it a policy to keep all the old versions online, as you can see here:

https://www.railstutorial.org/#previous-versions
> [...] economic models should always be critically approached from the perspective of the exploited.

Why? Also, who's getting exploited here?
Have you convinced yourself that we are all just to stupid to recognize some yolk that only people with your mindset can see?

Of course not.

I also don't understand the obsession with the market as rigidly defined by Anarcho-Capitalists.

The anarcho-capitalist position doesn't define markets particularly rigidly at all. "voluntary exchange" is pretty much it. How much more liberal a definition are you looking for?

Not all human exchange that leads to the benefits of market forces needs to be done through currency and its near analogues.

Agreed. I'm not sure why you think that position is at odds with anything I've said though.

As soon as there are two people and their Rights and Liberties come at odds, it is like starting from scratch every time. Who's Rights and Liberty trumps whos?

Again, this is where the optimism comes in. I'm optimistic that most conflicts can be resolved peacefully. Where they can't, there isn't - at the end of the day - any way I can see to prevent someone from using superior force to vanquish someone who possesses less strength. But that doesn't mean that we should institutionalize the use of force as a routine part of how we conduct business with each other.
In 1997 GNU/Linux distributions were still just something to play at home.

The 1.0.9 kernel released in 1995 was the first to support IDE-ATAPI controllers. Only rich people had SCSI at home.

To get properly working 2D graphics was a black art in itself, let alone 2D accelerated graphics or any kind of 3D support that could rival Graphics Workstations.
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The same kind of thinking used when they say things like "without religion, no one would act moral and everyone would just steal and murder". Some people might have a dark side trying to get out and assume these limits are keeping everyone at bay. Or, they've committed to the ideas of these limits in their own lives and are trying to justify it.
I feel like Agile assumes you basically know web development. It has lots of great material, but it's not structured to build up from zero, so I think the Rails Tutorial is probably a better place to start for most people.
There was a hiccup with our Redis provider. Should be working now.
Yep. Wayback machine specifically, on sites whose robots.txt I can no longer control, and I'm sure the trolls have hard copies by now.
I would say that's a great work. But, in order to write efficient code, you still need to understand both languages. It just saves you time to remember JavaScript syntax. Since we have google and stackoverflow, people can pretty much write more idiomatic code than machine. So the conclusion is not worth it.
>>it certainly didn't help that child.

Hard to say, the poverty I saw in intercity Chicago during the 90s might have been worse then foster care.
Ireland's motivations are irrelevant. I'm not taking issue with anything Ireland did, or didn't do. Again, this has nothing to do with Ireland per-se. What makes me sad is the way the US can seemingly dominate pretty much anybody (excepting maybe Russia and China, and I'm not even sure about that) and force other countries into following our policies.

Just to reiterate... I'd be sad about this if the other party involved had been any other country... Trans-Dniester, Sealand, Syria, Zimbabwe, whoever.
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@MarcBodnick - I do understand this perspective. But I strongly disagree with its tradeoffs.

Quora should find other ways to protect its users, and/or make users aware of their own rights to get their old contributions taken down. The Archive respects takedown requests.
i'd say the most damning thing i see here is that you are indeed getting feedback, but your answer is basically "sorry, you people are wrong."

your response to a bad review is to try to get apple to remove it? good luck with that. even if you could, which is doubtful, your response should be to figure out that guy's crash and fix it.

also, why on earth would you exclude the ipod touch? it has a camera, and therefore should be fully equipped to run your app. and i bet you are now going to state a reason for that which as lame as all your other "reasons."

i did much the same thing you did: i wrote an iphone app by myself, and did what i could to promote it. it was a modest hit, and ended up making me about 15 grand. but that was way back at the dawn of the app store, when the competition was less. my not terribly flashy app wouldn't stand a chance today.
Many other countries have lower defense spending because of high US defense spending.
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ maybe?