skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I understand this, this is a problem with git on Windows. Shells work just fine with Emacs on Windows, it just can't supply the git password for some reason.
The "role of government" phrasing makes this sound more anarcholibertarian than I think you meant it, but it's really not that notable.

The use of "compliant" is a little misleading. This is a court ruling, not a regulation. It just says that you have to pay for your employee's expenses, which is sort of a "duh" thing to me. Companies have "compliant reimbursement policies" for travel and purchasing and client schmoozing already, and this need be no different or more complicated.

If employees have to pay for stuff you have to pay them back. That doesn't sound like over-regulation to me.
A million Yuan is $163,000 US dollars, and 80 square meters is 860 square feet. I would imagine that is just about impossible for a migrant worker to manage.
I've always felt that a part of the problem on sites like reddit is that upvoting has essentially zero cost: just move your mouse and click the up arrow on whatever tickles you to do so. This means that a lazy comment which mildly amuses 1,000 people will get as many upvotes as an incredibly thoughtful comment which profoundly touches 1,000 people, and ten times as many upvotes as one which only 100 people appreciate, even if the appreciation runs far deeper.

If each account had a limited vote rate (perhaps tied to that user's activity), I think this might help to reduce this effect somewhat. Much the same analysis probably applies to downvotes: currently users will click the down arrow on anything they disagree with, rather than only downvoting comments that severely detract from the conversation. Of course you'd have to be careful about this system being gamed, but all voting systems can be gamed and it's not obvious that this approach is any more vulnerable than usual.

To some extent I think Hacker News' greater discussion quality is due to its poor user interface, as weird as that may seem. Upvoting/downvoting on a mobile device, for example, generally requires zooming in to hit a small target, whereas on reddit I don't need to do that on my iPad at all, and on my iPhone not as much. Commenting on Hacker News also requires visiting another URL, whereas on reddit it happens more effortlessly. These are small things but they can be the hurdle that causes someone not to bother to post that joke or upvote the 17th reply in a meme sequence.

I know this probably sounds like a technical solution to a social problem, and I don't mean to deny the important effect that cultural norms and community policing play. After all, subreddits have widely varying qualities of discussion depending on their community standards, and there's no question Hacker News' quality survives in large part due to community vigilance. But I do think the effortlessness of voting on reddit is a factor which contributes to the prevalence of lowest common denominator comments, and I'd be very interested in seeing reddit or other social forums experiment with imposing a scarcity of voting power.
That is me! That is why I said 'One cannot easily run ssh..'. There are work arounds, like using plink or cygwin emacs and more. But it seems that every one of them is broken in some aspect. For eg, If I use cygwin, the cygwin file paths send to other command line programs (non cygwin) wont work with them. When using plink, the display of escape sequences in the command prompt, like "^[]0;vagrant@ubuntu-14:", and difficulty in working with programs like vagrant that uses ssh indirectly.

And as far as I saw, none of them provides a working auto completion in the context of remote file system. Another thing is that I cannot push to a remote repo using http authentication.
Did the “Man with No Name” Feel Insecure?
Why is this even an issue?

If I were running a company, I'd just give you a corporate phone that the company completely pays for. This seems like a no-brainer.

BYOD (bring your own device) always seemed like a non-starter to me. Do you really want your employer to have any access to your personal device? I sure wouldn't.
San Francisco has excellent (for long term tenants) rent control.
> The fear of it being misused is currently unjustified and without any proof.

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/uidai-gets-first-complaint...

http://kractivist.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/india-your-aadhaa...

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/aadhar-scheme-how-safe-an...

I know at least 22 cases that have been suppressed so far. You can safely assume the number to be much higher, misunderstood and often under-reported. Dig deep and you'll find a lot of unreported reality!
IIRC, w3 was an external program while eww is built entirely in elisp.
If I understand correctly, Number26 is not a Bank.

It's a Berlin based FinTech Startup, that is building an app for a partner (german bank). This app integrates your MasterCard, and using an API it can track your Transactions. While this is really cool, it's not really new. There are other banks doing similar things in Germany.

Also,it will always take two days for transactions to show up on the statement of both parties of a transaction, as long as one of them doesn't have some sort real time transaction processing. It's not done if only one side has the disruptive technology.
Exactly, but that doesn't tell us if you're actually religious or not! You may or may not have a personal religion. That's why I found it weird in this case, where the while point of the survey was to know if people are religious.
A good first step to any potentially crazy idea is to simulate it on a computer. If it doesn't work there, either your simulation is crap or the idea is bad. If it does work, either your simulation is crap or the idea might work in the real world.

Cool writing style, too!
China's historic grandeur is overstated. Consider this eye opening quite from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations 1776:

The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe. In the neighbourhood of Canton many hundred, it is commonly said, many thousand families have no habitation on the land, but live constantly in little fishing boats upon the rivers and canals. The subsistence which they find there is so scanty that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. Any carrion, the carcase of a dead dog or cat, for example, though half putrid and stinking, is as welcome to them as the most wholesome food to the people of other countries. Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them. In all great towns several are every night exposed in the street, or drowned like puppies in the water. The performance of this horrid office is even said to be the avowed business by which some people earn their subsistence.
“One thing well” misses the point: it should be “One thing well AND COMPOSES WELL”

If the implementation isn't respecting The Rule of Composition it's actually not adhering to the Unix philosophy in the first place. The tweet is referring to one of Doug McIlroy's (one of the Unix founders, inventor of the Unix pipe) famous quotes:

"This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."

Pure beauty, but it's almost too concise a definition if you haven't experienced the culture of Unix (many years of usage / reading code / writing code / communication with other followers).
ESR's exhaustive list of Unix rules in plain English might be a better start for the uninitiated (among which one will find the aforementioned Rule of Composition).

For all those seeking enlightenment, go forth and read the The Art of Unix Programming:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Unix_Programming

17 Unix Rules:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Eric_Raymond.E...
Edit: Cannot reply to "monsterix"'s comment. The only relevant line in the posted link [1] is "However, a complaint regarding misuse of address proof was received". Is there something I have missed?

[1] http://www.rediff.com/news/report/uidai-gets-first-complaint...

Edit: I see two more new links.

One of them talks that a NGO has filed a case against UID agency. Government's welfare schemes now require UID. Why? I have given some of the reasons in the first paragraph of the parent comment.

For the second link, government wants everyone to have a bank account. Because now the money from different welfare programs will be directly transferred to the bank accounts. No need to go to government office and collect money. Please read more explanation towards the end of the article you posted!

Edit: Your claim: "I know at least 22 cases that have been suppressed". What you have provided: 3 links from a quick Google search, that too without checking their content.
I can think of several prominent startup couples that have made this work successfully. Wildfire (acq. Google) comes to mind as a recent one.

There have also been some spectacular meltdowns too, and in general, intimate relationships between senior executives tends to correlate to dysfunction.

A lot will depend on your personalities and skill sets. You will get pushback from some investors (though traction has a tendency to quell pushback of all kinds). But you could do worse than starting with someone who deeply understands your target audience -- and with whom you know you're compatible.

I'd do a "pre-nup" agreement on which one of you is going to bounce if it doesn't work, and call it an experimental situation.
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It's not clear because secularity usually means the subject - usually an institution - is not tired to a specific religious order (like your definition implies). But unlike institutions, people may have personal religions/religious beliefs, so "secular" doesn't actually tell us if they're religious or not!
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> ...100k at the very minimum...

If its a big corporation sure, but not at a startup.

That said, he could also live in one of the various co-ops in SoMa for not too much money (if he's fine sharing a room). And the inner-Richmond does have cheap rent as well (~$750-1000 per single room)
> Shells work just fine with Emacs on Windows

Except they don't. File-name completion replaced all backslashes with forward slashes, thus breaking cmd.exe's built-in commands. I reported a bug; it started a short discussion; i was asked whether I had to use cmd.exe (YES, I have reasons for why I MUST use it); nobody really acknowledged it was a bug; the discussion died off in talk about some internal details. (The 24.4 binary package is not yet available for windows so I couldn't test it.)

See the thread here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8132
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Hoverboard? Still in the Future
A typical FPS control setup maps one hand to movement, and the other to observation and actions. If he can work out a control scheme that moves actions to the movement hand (i.e. Q and E on top of WASD if he’s a PC gamer) then observation controls could be moved to the position recognition of a VR helmet?
I was hoping for something more like this: https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin or community made ;)
But thanks, even though I had already found the list you wrote.
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Show HN: Luakernel – Lua + SQLite + musl libc running on x86
Haha, wow. I didn't put the usernames together. Good luck and I hope you figure out a solution!
Do you even know the context of the speech !! It is from Chaos Communication Congress, a hacker meeting.

From wiki: The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual meeting of the international hacker scene, organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues.

If a hacker community does lecture on political issue, it is not exactly discussing morality of free expression. They are discussing ways in which you can get busted by the police. They are simply paranoid of conviction.

I can't downvote this comment but someone who can please do so.
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I myself have the experience of overestimating myself drastically many times. Also there are a few things I got good enough in. Therefore I think, when you get feedback and the person giving the feedback is wrong due to their lack of skill, not yours, then you are not really hurt. The only thing that is harmed is your impression and respect for that person. When you are sincerely hurt, it's often you who's lacking.

Never the less it's important to think carefully before criticising others. You are absolutely right and I'll try to keep that in mind next time I want to tell someone how bad they are.
So here's a question for the readers: would you rather live/work in the Berkeley/Oakland area or in the south bay?
Nice, it seems like you've found a good transit solution that works (which is rare in the Bay Area) and I'm happy. A couple of questions came to mind, and I mean them in the nicest way --

1. Do you live in the same place that the accelerator is -- in Downtown Oakland? Is that considered a safe neighborhood? You compare that with your founder commuting from North Beach, which is not a business district, so he likely lives there. North Beach is good neighborhood that lacks an underground lightrail but is otherwise a desirable neighborhood -- plenty of bars/restaurants, walkable from downtown, close to the bay, less crime, etc. I think it is unfair to compare commuting from Downtown<->Downtown with Community<->Downtown.

2. There are many commonly biked routes in SF that have no gradient, failing which, one can always walk, muni, or ride-share over to the destination. Owning a car is pretty unnecessary in SF (like it is in Oakland).

3. As someone who has done the BART + 181 journey more times than I wanted, in my experience it takes 1:30+ reach downtown San Jose from east bay. Which is kinda acceptable if your destination is in downtown San Jose. Even a few miles out (N 1st St., Cupertino, Mtv., or Sunnyvale) and you're in for a 2:30 + hour one way commute using the public transit. What I realized was that nothing beats a car in South Bay.
Why do you say that San Jose is more easily accessible from Oakland than from SF when SF has a < 1 hr bullet Caltrain that reaches all South Bay cities' downtown?
Yes, Apple keyboards are ergonomical disasters.
Quoting someone does not make it right.
BYOD does not mean the employer has access to the device, it means that the device is used for all work related purposes that would require such a device. In some jobs, that might require giving the employer some control, but that is not nessasary.

The main benifits I see are: not having to carry two phones, and having more freedom to choice what device you use.
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Will the downvoter exercise his freedom of expression to tell me what is wrong with my comment above.
Looks like it does quite well (on good images with closeup of a single bird).

Some fails:

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Washington-...

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/181/1/e/eyes_on_a_bir...

A couple that barely made it:

http://www.jlvaillant.com/Animals/Birds/Egrets-Herons/i-CDVT...

http://www.nps.gov/calo/naturescience/images/IMG_1399_edited...

On the whole, its very impressive though!
Great interview. In my experience it's amazing just how many people are talking about "Big Data" and just how exactly none of those are the ones with the necessary PhDs in statistics and algorithms to get anything of any value done.

In my experience there are very few domains within Machine Learning where you don't need to be an expert in the field to yield useful conclusions out of the data.

Even if you have a high-level conceptual understanding of the statistical methods, tuning the parameters to yield something relevant, or much more so, adapting existing algorithms to meet your needs requires some pretty serious dedication to the field.
I agree that there's quite a few leagues you will have a hard time mastering without that extra keyboard hand. However I think without that but compensated with strategic skills, you will be able to beat a range of players (plus one player campaign). Remember Starcraft ranks you among your equals, so unless you are the 'worst' player, you'll always find wins and losses balanced out to some extend.

With one hand you can still switch between mouse and keyboard for the most basic (grouping) shortcuts. Maybe there's even computer mice with some extra keys that you can configure to act like key presses.
There is this incredible tool called Karabiner (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/). Among the many things it can do are Emacs key bindings. I used it to enable more Emacs key bindings in OSX, for example M-f and M-b.
As one of the downvoters: I object to the mindset that prefers people to suffer so they can build some character over attempting to cure them strong enough that I felt a downvote (and a flag for that matter) was the appropriate response.

I'm fine with expressions of faith, this isn't one of those.
If anyone is looking for a starting point to Gardner's vast works, I highly recommend "Aha! Insight."
Also downward spiral is not very clear in context the article discusses.
Another tip: don't do colored output. I don't want to deal with ANSI codes in your output.
Agree, had to use it extensively several years ago, it saved me so much time. But even then the development seemed to have stopped on this tool.
As far as I'm concerned, the world isn't optimistic enough about China. Yeah, growth has slowed (eventually it must, simply because of the law of big numbers).

But data just came out today, 7.3% GDP growth for this quarter versus the same quarter last year. Slower than hoped for, but still very good.

People may not have noticed, but China is already a consumer juggernaut. Lenovo is #1 in computer sales. Lenovo is the 3rd largest cell phone maker in the world (!!). And they've barely even closed the Motorola deal.

Alibaba was the biggest IPO ever, and the Agricultural Bank of China was the second largest ever. When the Hong Kong-Shanghai stock connect goes live, they'll have the second largest stock exchange in the world.

They're the largest market in the world for luxury goods. They have 1.3 billion people, the middle class is growing exponentially, and they're highly educated.

People talk about innovation and talk about iPhones. China owns the solar business (so much that the US puts tariffs on Chinese solar companies), and invests more in clean technology than anyone. They've got some incredible technology companies and innovative industrials, even if none of it reaches our shores.

The future belongs to China. You can say what you want about too much debt, overpriced real estate, manufacturing, etc..., but they'll figure that out. All one needs to do is visit China, see their markets, see the consumer goods and what's happening over there to know that they own the future.
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People keep saying that and, honestly, compared to what it actually means to see companies leaving countries and regions, there's much talk and little evidence of a substantial change in trends.

The big software companies and well-funded startups continue to flock to the state. Obviously not as much as before for the simple reason that the Valley is only so big and living expenses are a very substantial part of the cost, but that has little to do with employee regulation (which is comparatively weak in the US compared to many other developed nations for which, apparently, it ain't much of a problem) and more to do with the cost of living in other areas such as housing demand and infrastructure.

Other states and countries should consider that a good working environment, not just in the office but in the protections afforded to employees, is pretty damn attractive for talented individuals.
Surely there are better ways to identify someone than get their fingerprint, especally if they bothererd to called everyone to the police headquarters to get their fingerprint.
In an interview today, Ginni Rometty sounded like a TechCrunch Disrupt participant on HBO's Silicon Valley. "We are reorganizing this company around analytics, around cloud, around social, local, mobile" I can't believe she actually said SoLoMo.

Then later in the same interview: "Clients asking for more flexibility in our software to deploy for new workloads — social, local, mobile."

If anyone else caught her in Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit just a few weeks ago (available on youtube), she appears anxious as hell with Warren Buffett in the crowd watching her. No wonder with a 0.02 EPS to report and a last minute ditching of the 2015 roadmap.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2014/10/20/ibm-ceo-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bixGVxcTLc
I think that there are plenty of people who do what you describe in the terminal.
How did you get 38 kilobits?
Here's Apple's Plan to Turn Around iAd, One of Its Biggest Flops
yep--ditto for online gaming (eg, online poker, casino, sportsbook). The chargeback rate is outrageous--thought i put the decimal in the wrong place first time i prepared a monthly report. The credit card owner of course claims fraud--ie, someone stole his credit card data & played online poker and lost a fortune all on an account liked to the poor guy's visa. As anyone can guess, a large fraction of this cases are 'remorse fraud'--ie, the card holder had began losing, kept playing and kept losing and panicked at what his wife will do when she sees the $5,000 partypoker charge on his card, he does some research, learns that a "CNP" transaction has certain protections, and in this case means the he can blame someone else and the merchant has to prove otherwise.
I'm confused by your reluctance to move up the corporate ladder. Why do you want to do the grunt work?
The cost for an employer gets cheaper as an employee makes more money, not more expensive. There are no increasing marginal rates for employer payroll taxes- just the employee state/federal income taxes.
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I can't recommend a browser extension like Vimium highly enough. It allows you to browse the web efficiently without a mouse. Also: shortcat for navigating OSX dialog boxes, and Divvy for resizing windows with the keyboard. I hardly touch the gesture pad anymore (external one), and my shoulder thanks me for it.
In C, you need header files so that vars are declared before they're used. How does cython deal with this? I find headers painful, and would appreciate a memory foundry language more if it didn't suffer this.
CloudFlare SSL Issues Again
My first thread about this a few day ago was killed. This is not a support forum for Cloudflare and I absolutely realise that.

I merely want to point out that after the launch of Universal SSL (great idea) we're seeing a ton of SSL related issues from CloudFlare, especially out of their Singapore POP.

I'd just routed around the issue and CloudFlare's dashboard broke on me with a message indicating a possible DB issue.

There's a bit of irony in here somewhere: http://imgur.com/YRaheQU.

While I love their service, it's worth bringing this up for discussion if nothing else.
That's so nice. Cell transplantation has increased rapidly in western countries. And saved many lives.
There is an interesting kind of a puzzle / challenge where a set of objects is presented that follows some certain rule. The rule can be arbitrary -- these objects are all circles, these objects are in the top portion of the box, these objects are pictures of cats, etc. The objective is to identify the rule in the set given, that does not fit any of the objects in another set (also given) . I can't recall or be able to find the name of this kind of puzzle, though!

Edit: They are called Bongard problems.
http://www.foundalis.com/res/diss_research.html