skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good idea! The problem with these squiggles is that they look abnormal and would draw attention. It would be interesting if these can be tweaked somehow so that they are still bot readable but can also be interpreted as patterns by humans.
Three huge queues?

You queue to say what you want and get a ticket. You take that ticket to a different queue and pay for the item and get a different ticket. You take that ticket to a third quue to collect the item.
I agree, it's really cool to see. I always write like this for the opening paragraph when I'm trying to get the hook right. It sets the tone for the rest of the article, which tends to flow a lot more freely.

Ahh I'm now hyper aware of it and realise I've chopped and changed that ^^ first paragraph a ton of times.
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1. Stop using frameworks

2. Build project from scratch with well structured JS.

3. Build another project, but first extract the generalizable bits from the first project into a module that solves common problems.

4. Open source this module because it could be useful for other people writing single page apps.

5. Go back to step 1?
I am a big fan of this:

http://www.handwritingsuccess.com/write-now.php

I had no penmanship, and I had to print in order to write anything legible. I went through the book, and I now have a usable and readable cursive style, which looks much better than my old printing style. I'm not an artist, so it's not pretty, but it's readable and efficient.

Bonus: the entire book is hand-written in the style that it teaches.
More or less scary than the code generated by a compiler? The JavaScript you get out of a ClojureScript compiler is pretty scary, but it still runs reasonably well. Though I suppose it would be pretty hard to write additional JavaScript to interact with the generated code.
Because the software I'm attempting to demonstrate/distribute is specifically designed for running VMs. That is its sole purpose--sorta like OpenStack.
> Giving money is currently costing more for the administration than the money given out.

The administrative cost in giving money in status quo benefit programs is tied up in means-testing, use-enforcement, behavior-testing, etc. -- making sure that all the variable inputs that control who gets which benefits, how much of those benefits they get, and how those benefits can be used. That's the whole problem unconditional basic income solves. You have very simple qualified class (all citizens or all legal residents, whatever is chosen as the target population), everyone in the class gets the same benefit, and there are no use restrictions associated with the benefit. Administrative overhead eliminated neatly -- and at the same time, the perverse incentives that go with the same restrictions that the administrative costs go to enforcing are also eliminated.
Question about the Flux pattern in general, why is a dispatcher/store more desirable than an observable model? The biggest difference I see is a component can add or delete an object with no knowledge of a store just the global dispatcher, but why not just have a static method on a traditional model for adding and deleting?
A novel packing heuristic based on rigid body simulation
With a basic income, they can find work for other people (and other people can find work for them).
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I wonder what would happen if you run this program letter-by-letter, possibly the readability could increase.
I guess the only times (in recent history anyway) that states vigorously defend their borders is when it impacts their tax revenues.

Are there big differences in how Washington and Oregon are taxing marijuana?
sid == trunk

sid is then branched into a new codename which moves through the testing phase and then stable.

"Testing" and "stable" are rolling names which always points to the branch currently in the testing or stable phase, respectively.

(Well, simplified. There's also the experimental branch, but that's not something you can run. Then there's oldstable which is the phase after stable.)
I agree with your general sentiment, but what happens with a car is decidedly not private. You are on public roads and more importantly, your driving affects the safety of others.
> Steganography is solidly a "security through obscurity" thing.

I never really understood why is it so.

Encrypted data must be indistinguishible from random, thus, if you replace any random projection of a file with your data, the result should be completely unrecognizable. It shouldn't really matter if your algorithms are public.

Is the problem that it's hard to get random projections from modern data? If so, why not use older formats?
> DC is the first place to vote for legalization on the East Coast.

Well, DC is a city, and Portland, Maine actually already voted to legalize marijuana in 2013[0].

If DC were a state, it'd be the first state on the east coast, but it's not. It's the first city that is not part of a state (and therefore not subject to constitutional rights allowed states), which is what makes this case very interesting.

DC is tricky because it's such a special case, but remember that it's much easier to pass an initiative at the city level than at the state level.

[0] http://www.mpp.org/states/maine/
you do realize the guy literally says "I am white but an immigrant from Europe" right? Unless he is speaking a different language or with an obvious accent most people won't know he's not American if he is in America.

Sorry man but if you are blonde, blue eyed, and 1.88 m tall (not sure what your height has to do with anything) and aren't actively speaking there is little difference between you and every other blonde, blue eyed, tall guy born and raised in America.

The point you ask? That there are certain things IN AMERICA that you aren't going to have to deal with strictly because of you're appearance. You may speak differently, but cops aren't gonna be stopping you walking down the street because you have a hoodie on at night.

And if you're worried that we are talking about different things than my original post then yeah. We kind of jumped the shark with the whole the Nazi's still killed my granddad thing.
Please report bugs or privacy problems in Zenefits to them directly: support@zenefits.com. Provide as much detail as you can, such as a copy of the email (XXXing out your personal info).
> To celebrate us not getting a YC interview

I loled
You have a lot of copyrighted works on your home page, like Spawn, The Little Mermaid, etc. Are these just ripoffs or are Disney, etc being compensated?
We only really live about 6 and a half years longer than we would prior to the industrial revolution on average. This relatively modest number is obscured somewhat by overall life expectancy averages which are buoyed by drastically reduced infant mortality.

In any case, the political/economic response has been to move up the age of retirement, which isn't helpful to the long term knee health of the hypothetical farmer worker here.
People do often overestimate how many prisoners are in privately-run prisons, but at the same time, if the US suddenly had 10% fewer prisoners, those privately-run prisons would likely be the first to go.

As far as lobbying, the other 92% of prisoners are guarded by very powerful public sector unions, whose incentives are the same.
A number of IDE's already do this. Eclipse has some nice features that do this.
There is a very simple way to get both maximum cache (without cache round trip, I.E. the ETag or Older-then) and reliable deployments - use version identifiers on the url and no expiration cache.

The only thing that the browser should always load is your base html, and have a single linked js/css that is concatenated and compressed, whose url changes every deployment - most web frameworks already have a way of doing it (Rails, Django etc...).
I think the biggest difference is that Stores don't necessarily contain just one object. They are state containers, so where with a Model you would have singular object based static methods, in a Store you could have methods to manipulate or return any of the objects it contains.
This looks very similar to this

http://divisbyzero.com/2010/03/14/an-application-of-graph-th...
I love algorithmic art.
After 4 months of hard work and joining both the Debian JavaScript Packaging team and the Debian Multimedia Packaging team, I have managed to get Groove Basin [1] accepted into Jessie [2], just in time for the freeze!

[1]: https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin

[2]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.changes....
Although exponential is technically correct when the base is 2, I find it really masks what real exponential growth is like.

When I hear "exponential growth," I think 256, 65536, 4294967296, 2^64, 2^128
Thanks! The attribution can be tucked away in an info page or a credits section. Doesn't have to be a big deal. I get your point tho!
To be fair, the idea itself is much older. It actually reminds me of the Japanese approach to mastery: do something, do the same thing again, repeat until you have mastered it.
Maybe you're not using ng-app? In that case, document.querySelectorAll("[ng-app]") wont return any elements, and it wont find the root scope. Replacing "[ng-app]" with a selector that finds your root element should work I think.
Comparing Steve Jobs to Larry Ellison is ridiculous, so it's obvious you've got no idea what you're talking about or you're de-valuing the role of a founder/executive to the point where they're just some figurehead.

Jobs built both Apple and Pixar, two companies with enormous influence in their respective fields. Those companies have organizational structures that are radically different, each one optimized towards their business and core ethos.

Ellison built Oracle, an interchangeable enterprise software company, and a World Cup team. Impressive but not nearly the same league.
Somebody just modded you down instead of answering...

No. It couldn't be used to tech an OCR. Well, technically, it could, but all the OCR will learn is how to read text from this bot, not how to read text written by people.
Yes, finding one of those is a piece of cake when you're heavily depressed and unemployed.
Sorry. Skyline, class of 1980. Never attended Horizons or EQUIP.
Or simply consult the Debian website https://www.debian.org/releases/
Mac OS9 users created filenames with spaces at the front. They did this for years. Their goal was file sorting. When they wanted a file to sort higher, I believe they simply added more spaces. I've never seen any other computer users do that.

And also, I did not realize that you could create filenames that contained spaces at the front (or back) on Windows systems. In fact, I'm not sure that's ever been allowed on Windows... has it?

About 15 years ago, I had to migrate an entire Mac OS9 office group (200 systems) to Windows PC. I wrote a Python script to validate filenames and fix them in cases where they contained illegal Windows characters. We would ftp the files up to a Unix system, run the Python filename cleaning script then ftp down to the Windows PCs. It worked rather well, except for cases where the accountants named files something like this, "Summer-Report-07/15/1997.csv"

Mac OS9 file names allowed many characters that Windows did not and OSX may have inherited some or all of these things.
He never said that isolation can't exist for white people. He said that an externally white appearing person has most likely fewer problems fitting in with other externally white people.
s/capitalism/oligarchy
If cotton is an inferior crop, why would we want to keep planting so much of it?

In this scenario where hemp & marijuana are legal, cotton farmers could start growing hemp too if that is more profitable.
Yes, profitable. For example, prison guard unions lobby ferociously against relaxing drug laws, in order to protect prison guards' jobs and salaries:

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/

http://mic.com/articles/41531/union-of-the-snake-how-califor...

EDIT: Here's a cute quote from Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies:

"any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them." [0]

[0] - http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9N...
Can you specify some of the forthcoming improvements? I want to like Angular, but every time I've actually used it has been a practical and conceptual headache. (Also, the idea that they're creating a new compile-to-JS language seems strange and unnecessary.)
It's been hanging at 35% for a few minutes now.
Well, its not like BC can independently legalize/decriminalize it. All they can do is not enforce federal laws.
> Because it would undermine HN's goal that we vote for and comment on content on its own merits, not whether it was posted or commented on by someone you like.

That's hardly HN's goal, though. HN itself has code and features that encourage some users to vote for content purely based on who submitted the content or what company they work for. HN's certainly not a democratic voting society where votes are treated equally and we're all encouraged to vote purely on the merits of content.

I do like HN a lot, even with that lack of fairness built in to the system. I agree that letting normal users follow each other would make the 'problem' worse (this is what brought Digg down, as a core issue), but it's not like HN sees this as a problem, exactly.
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Uh what. Do you use Excel as your database?
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Certain economic actors don't want it to catch up.
The Mysterious Mental Side Effects of Traveling into Space
How to Use Docker on Windows
Basic income is not a necessary condition for that.
I don't feel that growers currently have much voting power or even enough money to influence elections.
It's also at the base of TDD: if you don't understand a problem, write exploratory code, then throw it away, write the specification (i.e. tests) for the parts you understand, then write the minimal code that satisfies the tests, iterate until you hit the next bit you don't understand, repeat.

And the entire "build one to throw away, then build the real thing" (i.e. prototype first) ideology is also tooting the same horn. Except that one is much harder to explain to non-programmers because they think "if it works, why throw it away?".
Furthermore, pushing most of the UI layer to the client reduces server load and results in a more horizontally scalable solution.
Neat project, I think I'll take a look at running it on the new CubieTruck in my basement.
Maybe try to release something VERY early and collect feedback from people. That way you know EXACTLY what to focus on because people will use it. Motivation level: Awesome!
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I've been trying to re-learn cursive for about the past 6-7 years and am still not thrilled with it. I find that I tend to try to write too fast, and this makes it sloppy. Something about the connection between brain and paper has been accelerated by typing. When I am able to slow down my writing, so that more thought goes into each word, it looks good. But practice, practice, practice!

Also, try different pens and different paper. I write better with "rolling ball" pens, the kind where ink just sort of flows out of them, rather than cheap ballpoints where you have to press down on the paper. But cheap paper causes the ink to bleed and look messy.
I've been in Texas 10 years, and I don't see this happening until things change at the federal level. Same with gay marriage.

Things don't change in Texas until the tanks roll in.
People might do that, or not... but the fact that someone had to impose these restrictions in the first place, to me, is a warning sign that many places inside the respective software will have parsing issues/issues with handling of "weird" filenames.
The Class Imbalance Problem in A/B Testing
Everyone "sells" themselves to the "majority" in order to make things work. There's too much of a "precious tulip" assumption here - I'm sure you're a great person and all your friends love you, but you just can't be 100% quirks and doodads at work.

Source: white, will-die-from-lithium-poisoning bipolar, has to keep it together to make it work at... work.
Maybe because not everyone on HN is from US and it's not illegal everywhere? In fact, it is de facto standard in some countries(as sad as that is).
I think /cordite/ tried to make a sarcastic joke. Or did he...?
I don't like that you're playing off the name of an established firm.
It is. I need to reverse engineer that stuff one day.
The issue of personal safety is almost always overblown. The difference between the best part of town (i.e. where you feel comfortable) and the worst part of town (where you are uncomfortable), anywhere I've ever been, has been at most a relatively small degree. The perception of the issue is almost always caused by the "not fitting in" part.

Further, career stresses are frequently underplayed in the tech environment. Certainly, I would feel very little worry about saying, "Adios, and I'll leave my badge on my desk on my way out." On the other hand, if you are not part of the tech culture and everyone you know is either unemployed or working, say, outside the tech field, the potential of being punished simply for standing out is a bigger worry than I suspect you really think.

In other words, it isn't the same thing, but it's not as absurd as you might believe.
In my opinion the best place to start is the tutorial on python.org, for whichever version of python (2 or 3) you are learning.

Python 2: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/index.html

Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

Also start browsing through the modules listing, so that you don't reinvent too many wheels:

Python 2: https://docs.python.org/2/py-modindex.html

Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/py-modindex.html

And the answer to whether you should learn 2 or 3 is:

2, because there are still 3rd party tools that don't support 3. Or because your friends are using 2.

Unless you know you need 3.

Or if all your friends are using 3 (because that's where a lot of your help is going to come from).

https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3

But it doesn't matter overly much. Unless it does, for your job, but then they'll tell you.
I think the end of the article explains exactly what you are saying. In other words. I agree with you.

"Restraints make people more creative not less."

From the article: "The moral is that sometimes rules (the string) may seem like a huge burden holding you back, but more times then not they keep you (the kite) making the right decisions, and keep you flying at your highest."
I'm using the deferred bootstrap indeed. Changed to body and now the script works, thanks!

By the way, very nice article, and after working with some real time angular apps, the thing that haunt me the most is the number os binds.

People just want more information, and it can hard to explain that we have a limit.
You do still miss out on doodles in the margins however
Apparently it was at one time. According to this, "NextStep" and "OpenStep" were written a number of different ways. Strange times. http://www.objectfarm.org/Activities/Publications/TheMerger/...
Why Bitcoin will do to banking what the cell phone did to communication
It's not just the privately run prison complexes, but also suppliers, consultancies, police equipment manufacturers, arms manufacturers, and so. That's the 'industrial' in prison industrial complex.
No one is trying to raise anyone to Sainthood here. However, Jobs certainly had enough repeated success that it's really hard to say that he just got lucky. I certainly wouldn't put Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Schwartz in the same category; Sun was sold for less than Skype.

Larry and Bill definitely ran great companies. And Bill does have a second act. He's trying to change the world on a larger scale. Good for him, and the world.

Anyway, you're still missing the point. Caught in some endless loop. Your version of Mighty Mouse vs Superman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxNidpRNA0g
Where does $0.65 come from? He says he ran it for:

> I found that I was able to run the algorithm in about 10 hours on an AWS large GPU instance bringing it is at about $0.65 plus tax.

According to Amazon's AWS calculator running an on-demand GPU instance (they only offer one type) for 10 hours comes to $6.50. They're $0.65 PER HOUR. It didn't take one hour to do.

Even if he has a reserved instance it likely won't be $0.65 for 10 hrs since you still need to calculate out the cost of setting up the reservation ($200+/year).
The reason we went with GCS is because AWS limits you to 100 static sites (buckets). That's a block for our hosted solution.

The code is MIT, so do with it what you want. May be a little bit more complicated then just switching out the build layer, but if you can get something working that's configurable, feel free to send in a PR.
The dependency injection thing is really a non issue. Just use something like ng-min before you minify and you are set. Just for the price of another entry in your grunt.js file.
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My son's granola bar fell apart and so did he
A nit-pick -- Jobs bought Pixar, then let them do their thing with minimal oversight. Pixar was great because they were great. They just needed funding.

> Ellison built Oracle, an interchangeable enterprise software company

You may view Oracle as simply interchangeable and expendable, but in their respective space they dominate. They don't sell "sexy" products to consumers no, but as we've seen with all consumer-faced companies -- their time comes and goes -- while enterprise is constant.

Do you even know Ellison's story? It's far more inspirational than most other tech titan CEO's. It's the rags to riches story, and now he owns an island, world class sailing team, one of the world's largest yachts, and one of the largest enterprise-space companies in the world. Really the cliche "American Dream"
There is a lot of different infrastructure for large scale cotton farming versus large scale hemp farming. Those heavily invested in the former have obvious incentive to keep it profitable rather than having to retool. That isn't to say that it's economically most efficient, but that it can certainly motivate propaganda and eventually legislation (and my understanding is that there's some historical evidence that this is what happened, but that it's not completely conclusive).
RaceSplitter rejected after three years for using a slider control
Yes, you could write a large jQuery-only application. But it won't be as "simple" as the fiddle provided above.
A collection of IPython notebooks for music information retrieval (MIR). Work in progress: https://github.com/stevetjoa/stanford-mir

We began using these as instructional material at a summer workshop on MIR at CCRMA, Stanford [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/workshops/music-information-retri...]. For many years, we used Matlab, but we decided it was finally time to move over to Python. The GitHub repo includes a Vagrantfile that allows you to use Vagrant to provision a Virtualbox VM with all the audio libraries preloaded.

For included technologies, see the Vagrant box website: https://vagrantcloud.com/stevetjoa/boxes/stanford-mir/versio...

Your feedback, including pull requests and issues (and stars!), are most welcome.
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