skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, "!!variable" works, and in my case I used ".length > 0". Boolean(variable) works too. It's just unfortunate when you're assuming that the expression or typecasting works like in JavaScript, and then AngularJS had to invent these unnecessary rules that make no sense. JavaScript's type coercion is tricky enough, you don't need to make it worse.
Very cool. I noticed there is not a version for iOS. Have you looked at Music Stream https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/music-stream-free/id91402690... It supports streaming between iPhones.
It looks really neat, but as a new user, it was pretty fast. I'm not really sure what happened.

Edit: It also seems to start before I see it, like when I've opened the page in a new tab. I didn't actually know there was a video until seeing this comment.
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And they are at it again:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tjgxgzbtt25bqf5/Screenshot%202014-...
The comment you're replying to did specify eggs as being more important in poor diets than other animal meat, which would square with my mother-in-law's experience growing up in the Philippines.
OT: Anyone remember VRML?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
I mean you say that, but nyc has one of the toughest stop and frisk policies which seem to largely target black men. I think we are talking about a different kind of comfortable.

I believe in NYC the type of comfort is more forced and the wage gap is probably much larger. It's more of a "deal with it because I have to" and being comfortable with black folks because it's easiest, not because they see black people as equals. My suspicion is mostly because of the support NYC'ers seemingly have of elected officials that espouse "zero tolerance" and "stop-frisk" policies.

I'm speculating quite a bit here, it would be nice to here if my theory matches anyone’s real world experiences with both places.
Welcome to Chicago. It's a great city. Shoot me an email if you have an questions or need any help.

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For anyone curious like me, here they are: http://www.ebay.com/sch/tbhs575/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&...

They're going for between $50 and $500 (most seem to be around $50 right now).

They're all in pretty bad shape. :)
I take great joy in seeing libcom.org linked on HN.
Wow, so many insightful comments here. I'm a black engineer and can relate to a lot of what was said in the article. However, I learned early on not to compromise myself to try to fit in. Instead, I knew the importance embracing one's cultural community and always sought out like-minded and like-cultured groups with which to associate, as was suggested by Woodson in the "Mis-Education of the Negro."

Upon entering the workforce, it was much harder to find that sense of community, so I started a black social network in my spare time so that I could still have that exposure. During the day, the only other black person I saw at my job for 6 years was the janitor. And I had a better relationship with him than the people I actually worked with...

My perspective is that it's much more enjoyable and easier to thrive in a culturally homogeneous environment. And that it's challenging to be a token member of a culturally diverse environment.

A decade of being a minority in technology has crystallized my opinion on the matter; I don't believe that taking a homogeneous group and tossing in a few minorities is the best way to embrace diversity.

Instead, I am a proponent of encouraging the creation of a diverse set of culturally homogeneous groups. And yes, I realize that what I'm suggesting is basically segregation. The difference is subtle, but all the issues Erica lists in her article can be addressed by this shift in diversity strategy.

To paraphrase: As a black person, I would rather be part of a mostly-black team/company than be one of the few black faces in a mostly-non-black team/company.
One month without Google – 10 Reasons you should do it too
You are mistaken. Existing negotiations are geared towards the production of a preliminary draft that would then be subject to legislative debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_(trade)

http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33743.pdf <<CRS is the Congressional Research Service, a useful resource for anyone interested in policy matters

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/195858-white-hous...

(so much for the legislative branch)

I could say the same thing about the executive branch, which persons like yourself seem to think should merely administrate the legislative will. Our constitutional design institutionalizes tension between these two branches of government, and very explicitly grants the President power to make treaties, subject to a 2/3 approval from the Senate for ratification.

Trade agreements are not exactly the same as treaties, but there is ample precedent for Congress pre-emptively authorizing the President to negotiate them. The consitutional basis for this is discussed in some detail near the start of the CRS paper linked above.
Pirate Bay Requests Support for Its Imprisoned Founders
What does endianness have to do with it?
This is a really cool idea :-) looks like you guys are using Stripe's recurring billing features?
Texas still has a lot of dry counties that would probably fight pretty hard against marijuana legalization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S....
It's not new language, just syntax sugar. And optional.
Angular is awful. I took one look at the docs way back when we were evaluating at BigCo and walked away.
So, basically every thing you listed can probably be directly related to Alcohol Abuse. Maybe, just maybe, giving people a healthier and less abusive vice will make your job easier.
TL;DR: AngularJS is a horrible framework because it can be abused by newbies and is too "complicated" plus some other non-issues.
Lawyers doing discovery will definitely want to know about this.

So will document retention specialists trying to foil laywers doing discovery.

So will hackers looking for sensitive information, and security specialists looking to avoid sharing sensitive information.

There probably really ought to be an "erase history" function.
Not to mention private prisons have never been a large fraction of the prison system. The drug war dates to the late 1960s - and goes back further culturally. Corporate prisons were even less relevant when the drug war started putting tons of people in prison circa 1980, than they are today.

The problem is the US Government, and always has been.
default binding planned to be one-way.
There might be value in having an image[2] [container?] file format that is explicitly incompatible with EXIF and other metadata. This includes not having any kind of "comment" field or free-form data such as JPEG's "APP1" location where the EXIF data is stored. It would specify only height, width, ppi, gamma, and some enumerated bitfields to identify the pixel format and any necessary compression options (i.e. lossy/DCT vs DEFLATE).

Even better, it should have some sort of self-checksum of the entire file, so it is harder (but not impossible, unfortunately) to extend the format beyond the original spec.

This would make it far simpler to encourage better behavior: the average person isn't going to bother if you tell them to run exiv/exiftool. Instead, saying "Normal image files are not safe! Only upload $SAFE_FORMAT files!" will get at least some people to strip the files, and those that don't should at least get a more useful sense of what is safe/risky.

In the (very hypothetical) future, once the format was used, it would even be possible to for browsers to explicitly deny upload of JPEG/PNG/etc or they could auto-convert other formats.

Security doesn't work when it relies on complicated methods that won't actually be use in practice, so changing the format of stuff that is used might be necessary.

[1] the same idea would obviously apply to audio/video/whatever files
Former employee protests Amazon tactics, vows to hold vigil at HQ
looks cool. will try later but i noticed this doesn't do YouTube? my music collection is 90% spotify and 10% youtube.
that is so impressive, wow. thank you for the link
Allegiance [1] is an example of this happening in the MMO space.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(video_game)
They moved away from that idea: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/133
Is the MD5 Hash Dead?
Our Time is Up
How Sandstorm works on mobile, plus app updates
And stop caring so much about laws. Seriously ignore all laws that don't fit into your self serving reality distortion field. Don't worry, VC's will give you extra props for those "legal hacks."
The more separated someone is from a situation the less they relate. People buying smartphones are removed enough from the working conditions at Foxconn that it's of little significance.

It applies in almost every corner of the world. If Ebola didn't start in a struggling, impoverished and black country there would be a lot more attention being paid to it as a crisis.
Somebody really needs to write an open source Firebase clone. There's a gaping void in the market for something that doesn't lock users in and supports on-premise installs. This could be a pure open source project or open source business like MongoDB.

It doesn't need to be exactly Firebase. But Firebase sets a high bar. To my knowledge, there is no production-grade datastore that supports realtime sync, range queries, and eventual consistency in the face of intermittent connections.

Email tristan@sense.io if interested trial customer / sponsor.
Umm...that's one way to twist EFF's findings.
Your startup idea doesn't have to be new
Time to change
Not mobile, so I'm not sure if it's the comparison you're looking for, but I sell an app that has a nearly identical version for Windows and Mac. My conversion rate for Mac users is nearly 10x that of Windows users.
Improvely: https://www.improvely.com

Conversion tracking and click fraud monitoring for online ads. I've been working on it for about two years.

Over the past few weeks I gave it an API, which was a major milestone feature on my long-term TODO list. Adding an API opens up a new market segment for me, since many SaaS customers weren't able to track customer lifetime value well without one.

I also set up 'real' load balancing for the first time. Round robin DNS, HAProxy on all the frontend boxes, and a new sharding & replication setup for the databases.
I see things like this and am immediately humbled. Impressive work, the bar just got raised a bit.
I see your point, but what you are saying is very extreme.

Look no further than Tableau's valuation. The "traditional" BI market is still huge, and if anything, direct SQL-level access benefits a small portion of the entire BI user universe.
I typed

///how to parse json

and it waits...
Any tool has.
Except DC which was built on a swamp.
I wish this could apply to old WoW expansions.
I follow ReactOS and other alternative operating systems like Haiku and AROS to see if they made enough progress to use them to replace Windows.

I'd like to see them at a level where the average person can use a DVD or USB stick and install it on their main PC and get apps for it to do what they want.

They haven't gotten that far yet.

I donated to the ReactOS Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaigns, but they never raised enough money for the Community edition. One feature I did want to see was NTFS support so a LiveCD of ReactOS can run an Antivirus scanner to clean an Infected PC that uses NTFS.
The government makes a lot more money locking people up than the private prison industry does.

It's 11 times larger. That's a lot of tax money to roll around in, and generates a ton of profit in the form of slave labor manufacturing, graft, jobs that politicians use as platforms, labor unions that get kickbacks and get to dole out well paying jobs.

What's the difference, when we're speaking of "profit" when it comes to whether the corporate prison generates a 7% margin, or whether that 7% goes to a union at a government prison? There is no real difference, it's just a matter of whose pocket the cash ends up in.
Hi! I meant the early section where you were talking about giving the prospective user more detail on the product or service, as opposed to just changing the call to action from 'sign up!' to 'get started!' or 'Begin somethingizing!'

I was thinking of the recent trend for just offering a very brief video or textual pitch and inviting submission of email and other details - what you talked about as examples of asking for blind commitment without adding value. I think those issues are worthy of full articles in themselves.

On-revisiting the page to check your original wording I was amused to see how well your pop-up exemplified the argument you made! I'm not big on salesmanship but found your material of a much higher standard than average, thanks.
In the "Uber for X" era, we have to be careful to not let the digital services industry evolve into a new kind of lower class servants
Rock Health's curriculum for health startups now available to anyone
People who take their lives do it because they feel like that is the only thing they still have control over. You can't even put yourself in that mindset even if you truly wanted, which makes it a little strange to make such a statement about suicide.

I'm not sure if we read the same article.
this is awesome, watsi!
To me Angular seems like a bunch of Java folks took a look at font-end programming and decided it should be more like Java.
Show HN: Scrape.it – Change-Resilient Web Scraper
As a former Basis engineer, we were doing "insights" almost three years ago. In terms of biometrics, I don't think anyone comes close to Basis.
WhatsApp blue ticks
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Learning with Python: Interactive Edition 2.0

http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/inde...
The idea that morals are a fetish or a luxury strikes me as a dangerous point of view. If I went to a country where businessmen frequent 12-year-old prostitutes, would you expect me to do that as well so as to be a good guest? I kind of suspect that in reality, there are things some people do that you simply wouldn't, and you are specifically dismissing veganism because you do not agree with their morals.

I wonder if you feel the same way about Orthodox Jews or Muslims eating pork.
Homeboy: Accessible home security system
So how often do they share bugs? Has anyone seen it happen with any regularity?
We're talking about veganism, not vegetarianism. You obviously didn't read the link you posted.

Edit: I'm responding to your recent edit. No, eating insects is not vegan. Why would you think that? Crickets and cockroaches are quite tasty with soy and sesame oil but not vegan.

The subject of the article would save his health and mind if he consumed eggs and milk.
Ask HN: Follow your passion or be realistic and practical?
Is it a good idea to quit the safe job and work on a startup full time. I am a bit confused about this.

I am already 28. I wanted to do a startup since I was 18. I started a few things on the side in the past 7 to 8 years and learnt a lot from each of my mistakes.

I started a few months back (my latest sideproject) and got my first paying customer ($400 per customer). I have a 9 - 6 job.
I have trouble following instructions, paying attention and very restless. I have trouble focusing on work that I don't own 100%. I am a terrible, error-prone, procrastinating employee. There is 0% chance that I will be able to work for other people.

My question is: Do I quit my job and pursue my passion full time? Steve Jobs, Paul Graham, Tony Hsieh and host of other entrepreneurs suggest this route to become a successful entrepreneur.

Or should I be resourceful and just grind away. Like how Gary Vaynerchuck, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patio11, James Altucher and a bunch of others recommend.

You know, work on the day job. Do the appropriate amount of work and get back to grinding on your project from 6:00 pm - 2:00 am everyday and 10 hrs per day on the weekends. This is what I am currently doing by the way.

If I screw up, I will lose the savings I built up. (I don't mind it too much.) But it will screw up my dating prospects. If I suck it up and date/get married/have kids and continue working. I might end up not giving my project 100% and I might regret later in life that I did not take the risk and that I compromised. I am afraid I would get stuck in a job for the rest of my life. Some of my colleagues do great work and they seem to genuinely be enjoying coming in to work everyday. Unfortunately, my brain is not hardwired that way.

So, do I take the big risk and follow my passion or just suck it up, be practical and grind away till I get a lot of revenue from the sideproject and then quit?
I don't think that follows from what I wrote. Laws (at least in theory) are supposed to be consistent. Different people's general opinions of what does and does not constitute an asshole are very inconsistent.

For example, your family might want you to be home in time for dinner and your team might want you to stay at work late and help them finish their project.
This comment was downvoted for some reason. I don't know who I offended by providing an unbiased, informative comment that could've saved some marketing critter a headache down the road, but whatever.
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As though the 92% isn't attempting to hold onto its massive profit system. There's vastly more money flowing into pockets in the 92% than in the 8%, that's logically obvious.

Jobs, graft, construction, maintenance, slave labor, etc. - huge sums of profit derived from the government prison system, far more than in the corporate system.

As though the 92% of that equation is looking to give up its jobs and tax dollars. Because we just know how much the government likes to give up its spending.
Ouch, they really did put a dent in my day. They were beautiful, however, and reading them really humanized Xu Lizhi more than simply reading about him in the article.
Is there anything that actually comes close to doing this and doesn't fall into the problem of "...turns into an exercise of shoehorning your data into a system that just can't accommodate it."? Sadly, from what I have seen Salesforce is probably still the best solution beyond building your own apps.
Sadly, I don’t think the game companies are going to accept this – they are probably afraid that legitimizing this will make development of replacement server code start early (in anticipation of the shutdown of the official servers) and that the existence of working code, even though it will somehow be illegal to run, will still be run by many people, loosening the company’s iron grip of the players through the official servers.
Holy crap that's expensive!
《冲突》
"Conflict"

他们都说
They all say

我是个话很少的孩子
I'm a child of few words

对此我并不否认
This I don't deny

实际上
But actually

我说与不说
Whether I speak or not

都会跟这个社会
With this society I'll still

发生冲突
Conflict

-- 7 June 2013
The term "persistent malware" does not seem applicable in this case; the infection resides in the Windows Registry, so simply restoring a disk image or reinstalling Windows (among other approaches) will remove it. "Persistent malware" seems more appropriate to infections that reside in places like the GPU: http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/09/26/2024236/malware-now-hi...
Casting smaller doesn't hurt if the numbers are small and you're little endian - because the ptr will still point at the meat of the scalar (instead of the high bytes with zeros in them as it would if big-endian)
Like vaccination, homeopathic remedies work on the principle of like cures like

What's the emoticon for <fistbite>?
Sales of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ Intensify Streaming Debate
Say No to the Repository Pattern in Your DAL
Received the camera today. Designed in Australia, shipped from California. Very well done packaging/unboxing.

More important is the software and the accessibility. It starts talking to you as soon as you plug it in! Although I have to say we got off to a bad start when it said "put your network in WPS mode" and I didn't know what that was.

The app gives control over the device and lets you monitor and clear alerts, and share with others.

Very impressed with how well they've made it work end to end. There are a few rough edges but anyone working on Internet of Things products that have a human in the loop should take a look at this, because there are some really good ideas here.
At this time though, the only reason farmers are not allowed to grow hemp is because hemp is related to marijuana. We would have to assume, that if marijuana was legal to grow, hemp would be as well. Legalizing marijuana probably would upset the cotton industry.

edit: Just re-read the parent comment that spawned this exchange. I get the distinction you are trying to make.
Another Kickstarter/IGG scam?
Since he took the rather bold step of actually ending his own life I would think that his outlook on life was sufficiently bleak to warrant at more empathy than that.

Regardless of if he was clinically depressed or just very unhappy, are both not tragic?

Please re-read his words and decide again if his plight was shallow-hearted.

"...Every time I open the window or the wicker gate

I seem like a dead man

Slowly pushing open the lid of a coffin."

--------

"...I want to stand up more than anyone else

But my legs won’t cooperate

My stomach won’t cooperate

All the bones of my body won’t cooperate

I can only lie flat

In this darkness, sending out

A silent distress signal, again and again

Only to hear, again and again

The echo of desperation."
These are pretty much exactly the questions I wanted to ask.
Verizon: We Will Sue FCC Again If “Hybrid” Net Neutrality Happens
Anything's possible, but just due to timing that seems unlikely. The Council says they probably won't submit the legislation for review until December or January.
Veganism when used by it's self is not clearly defined as seperate from vegetarianism.

"Dietary vegans (or strict vegetarians) refrain from consuming animal products, not only meat but, in contrast to ovo-lacto vegetarians, also eggs, dairy products and other animal-derived substances. The term ethical vegan is often applied to those who not only follow a vegan diet, but extend the vegan philosophy into other areas of their lives, and oppose the use of animals and animal products for any purpose.[4] Another term used is environmental veganism, which refers to the avoidance of animal products on the premise that the harvesting or industrial farming of animals is environmentally damaging and unsustainable.[5]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism

PS: Also if you actaully read the link: "Jains are either lacto-vegetarians or vegans."
Are you equating eating eggs and animal fat with having sex with twelve year olds? Are you going to Godwin the conversation next?
No, the point is the black market wanted Prop. 19 defeated, because if you legalize it they lose their profits. (Some parts of) the black market wants drugs to say illegal.