skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably partially because there's stuff (think vitamin B12 for the most extreme example) you can't get or can't get easily from a vegan diet, needing (oftentimes expensive) supplementation.
The Unicomp Ultra Classic keyboard, or, the IBM Model M reborn (2008)
Actually, you only feel it if the force is applied differentially (which most forces we experience are). If your body had a volumetrically uniform electrostatic charge, which was not high enough to have charge screening, and you were acted upon by an electrostatic force, you wouldn't feel anything either. It is just that 'mass charge' is always distributed evenly along with mass, while with electrostatic forces this is a special case.

Forces can indeed be modeled as a curvature in space-time. However, there is a bit more to GR than just that, which is why it took Einstein years to go from SR to GR.
No, Vim plugins wouldn't work anymore. Vimscript will be transpiled to Lua under the hood, though, and other languages will be fully supported for writing plugins.
This was definitely the one that hit me the hardest...
One word: strategy.

Both quitting your job and engaging in a startup are absurdly risky if you don't have a very cushy safety net.

Steve jobs was a hippie who was fine with living homeless and dumpster diving for food, so there was no downside for him in screwing around with startups. Paul Graham completed his PhD in CS from Harvard, so he had a very solid alumni network he could turn to if he ever found himself unemployed. Bill Gates and Zuck both went to Harvard and had trust funds and/or wealthy parents.

The stories you're often told of successful entrepreneurs usually leave out one important fact: to be successful, you must eliminate downside risk. Once failure costs you nothing, then it's just a matter of how big your upside can be. You want to get into a position where failure is irrelevant. That's the only way you can fail fast, and fail often.

I recommend cutting your costs down to the absolute bare minimum and investing every penny you earn. Try to establish a steady income from consulting and/or investments. Passive income and cost minimization are the keys to freedom and success in the modern economy.

You mentioned that you're worried about dating. That's a whole other can of worms. I would say focus on dating while you're working on the preparation phase (passive income/cost minimization). Once you start engaging in startups, you may not have the time.

Good luck, and remember: only show up to battles that you're likely to win. Stack the odds in your favor. The more you leave to chance, the riskier a venture becomes.
Amazing work! Beautiful design as well. Relevant NPR story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/11/05/361433850/w...

Putting a face to the contribution bridges the gap. Sign me up!
I'm guessing that it's a luxury of choice. Poor people can't chose what to eat.

Except that's obviously wrong because plenty of poor people have strict dietary requirements.
They also have an article about it: http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the...

I love the reproducible science movement and iPython is perfect for that. Glad to see Nature talking about it.
> Yes, good drivers are going to get fined occasionally but it will be a very small fine. Why try to make a more complicated rule that never fines "good" drivers?

For one thing, any law that inherently penalises innocent people for a crime they did not commit is abhorrent to me. The scale does not matter. This is simply a basic principle of justice and fundamental to the state having any moral authority to enforce any law at all.

Even were that not the case, you have to deal with the practical problems of overheads. What are you going to do when someone inevitably disputes their $2 charge? Either you have a punishment without any due process at all, or you incur vastly disproportionate expenses prosecuting a case in court, or you cause the innocent person vastly disproportionate damage contesting their guilt. None of these is an attractive option.

You also have to deal with the practical problem that any such system will be cracked very quickly, and the worst drivers will be the ones most likely to get away with it.

My views have somewhat softened on technical driving offences over the years, in that I accept as a practical matter that having a black and white definition of what is permitted removes wriggle room for bad drivers who might otherwise tie the system up contending that their actions were not in fact dangerous or otherwise inappropriate. Nevertheless, the goal of road traffic laws should be to take the dangerous or inconsiderate off the road, and it is not always the case that things like exceeding a speed limit or driving through a red light necessarily have (or have any significant potential to have) actual negative consequences.

So while the laws prohibiting these actions are a pragmatic choice, it is not one that has any inherent moral basis to me and already one that sometimes prohibits perfectly reasonable actions that a responsible driver might otherwise perform. Abusing such laws so that even those who try to comply with them, while also driving safely and considerately, are still victimised is a big step too far in my book. And of course the systems we're talking about might not only be used to enforce technical laws to the letter, but could also be used to provide wriggle room for insurance companies after an incident.
I don't think Mirage is quite mature enough for that yet, but eventually, it should be possible to run at least an Ocsigen/Eliom (OCaml web framework) on it.
Instead of having my company pay 50% of our profits each year to the US government, I should get a massive rebate if I can offset those profits by hiring new employees over the following 12 months. I would hire 50% more people if this were the case. It's a major incentive and one that should be put in place.
And, you know, the real-time data backend itself.
Catcall video experiment in New Zealand
Also, their encryption had the key feature that it could be easily run on low powered devices. It was a big deal to run AES on a phone 10+ years ago, but apparently (I dont have a source) the eliptic curve crypto was more efficient.
Bungie released Marathon for free as well (including all assets and code).
A notable quote from Jean-Claude Juncker, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg:

> No one has ever been able to make a convincing and thorough case to me that Luxembourg is a tax haven. Luxembourg employs tax rules that are in full accordance with European law. [1]

I wonder how such blatant tax evasion becomes legalized?

Oh right:

> The new European Commission formally takes office on Saturday under [new President] Jean-Claude Juncker ... [2]

[1] - https://twitter.com/dimits_/status/530105602312515584/photo/...

[2] - http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/juncker-s-eu-commi...
I guess I'm questioning why the assumption is that they support drug laws because it makes them money. They may be supporting it for other reasons (strongly support law and order).
30 years spent living in the deep south. Maybe it wouldn't hit 51% but I guarantee you it would be a lot higher than 10%. You're also assuming equal voter turnout and no voter suppresion. These are both, shall we say, optimistic.
Yup. The right-wing Australian government have just moved the retirement age from 65 to 70. What a joke.
> every website coming up with their own clever solutions

I take it you're not a fan of open source, then? :-D I don't think the problem you describe has anything to do with decentralization, though. You can have people thinking they know better than the rest of the world writing COBOL for AS400s.

Further, I don't think you can soundly argue that decentralization is a bad thing. For one, it's the the only way you can scale horizontally whether that's done on the server side or by deferring appropriate work to be done on the client side. For another thing, as OP's article states, round trip time has a theoretical lower bound. The only way to improve performance past some a point is to distribute closer to your users.

I 100% agree by the way that if it can be cached it should be. I don't, however, think that necessarily extends to a SPA. JSON is just as cacheable as HTML if the interface is designed with proper REST semantics.
I think this is pretty much the German Pirate Party's "Liquid Democracy" internal voting model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiquidFeedback
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I wonder how different this is from the feelings you get from traveling to somewhere very different from the place where you normally live.

This is pretty corny:

Every year I go to Burning Man. It's the only "real" vacation I really take. I completely detach. No phones, no television, no news from the outside world, and except on days when I have volunteer shifts, no sense of "time".

It's pretty amazing how much you end up detaching from "default" world (which is burner parlance for the world outside of Black Rock City). By a few days in, default just feels impossibly far away, like none of it matters whatsoever, and you are completely detached from it. BRC is on another planet, and Default Planet doesn't matter.

All of the social conventions are different, all of the interactions or somehow (although indescribably, at least for me) different. Everything just feels different somehow.

Do most people get that feeling on "normal" vacations?
Did China order hackers to cripple the Hong Kong protest?
I'm a little confused. For many months now, Watsi has charged my card each month for the amount I specified whenever I first signed up. Each month, I get an email explaining which patient my recurring donation was directed to that month.

What is different about the Universal Fund? Is this just the formal announcement of what was already in place? Also, will Teespring be matching the recurring donations that were already in place before this announcement? Thanks!
Although I agree it isn't cakewalk to memorise an onion URL, it is possible and many people do it usually by grouping or mnemonics. I'm not against any change/improvement to the current address generation system in Tor; there are certainly other better possibilities for both security and scalability.
Oh we're not talking trivial bugs or single-site XSS.

Disappointed that 'mediocre' vulns got interpreted in this thread as 'trivial'.

Mediocre doesn't mean trivial, extremely scoped or useless. Mediocre means that it is for sensitive but not widely deployed software, for widely deployed software on default config but is post-auth or is not reliable, or it is reliable and yiels high auth but requires pairing with another vulns (i.e. memory disclosure) or extended recon (revision number, etc).

A MySQL bug affecting recent revisions that causes arbitrary file overwrites with semi-controlled content but that requires unprivileged (guest) auth would meet this criteria.

Apologies for the confusion with the word 'mediocre' - I figured people here would know.

In general organizations in the offensive world will pay more than those in the defensive world. This is not a hard and fast rule, but mostly it is the case that offensive network operations stand to gain more from the use of 0days than vendors stand to lose by not paying for the disclosure to patch them. It's not really a good calculus to use data from vendors sales to calculate the other.
What advantage do you see in the individual language products over Ultimate? Just simpler configuration because they only do one language?
Yep, that's one of the examples Wikipedia gives. I'd be curious to hear about how it's worked in practice.
Why Your Brain Wants to Help One Child in Need – But Not Millions
When it becomes a viable business model for a nation-state?
Curious: what's the alternative to naturally aspirated engines? Space-bound rockets?
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I wanted to share this as relates to the Watsi post trending now. https://watsi.org/universal-fund
Typos:

"Simply start using Pibox Facebook App
or sign in to website using your Facebook account
and never loose [lose] access to your files"

"All of your Facebook friends are already
Pibox users – just drom [drop] them a file
like if it was a file storage inside Facebook"
Great idea for people who want to stay involved. Sometimes its easy to forget to give especially with a busy job and so many other things fighting for our attention.

When I fund a watsi patient, I usually post it to my facebook and try to herd a whole bunch of my friends into giving to the patient.
I had a bad habit of using it to remove style from pasted text. Shift+CMD+V (or something like that, muscle memory) does the trick, but I didn't know that a few years ago.
1) Flat fee – it's a software-as-a-service model where merchants choose the best subscription package for their marketing goals.

2) Merchants benefit in three ways: more frequent customer visits, higher average check size, and increased customer satisfaction. You're right that the data/insights are valuable, but only in as much as they can create monetary benefits for our merchants.

We accomplish revenue increases for our merchants in a number of ways; here are two examples:

A) Provide transparency to consumers throughout the reward process: whereas many loyalty programs make it difficult for consumers to know/find out now much progress they have earned toward their next reward, Thanx provides consumers with real-time insight. We think of loyalty like a race, where if you put too many hurdles, your customers drop out. You can read more in this article we wrote for QSR Mag: http://www.qsrmagazine.com/outside-insights/race-long-term-c...

B) Automated marketing tools: we just launched a product we call "Winback." Basically, Thanx analyzes customer activity and identifies previously loyal customers who seem to be churning out of the business. These previous loyalists then automatically receive an incentive (relevant to what made them loyal in the first place) to return in store. This reignites the relationship and increases revenue for the merchant that they would not have otherwise received.

3) No.
100, 6-sided polygons :) Though it looks pretty good with as few as 50
I replied up above - happy to answer other questions that come up. Thanx for writing.
These are ballot initiatives that didn't go through the legislature. And for what it's worth, DC doesn't make it especially easy to get something on the ballot.
It's fairly easy to estimate. Assuming an average salary of about 50k between a grad student, a postoc, and a PI (a typical mix for a scientific publication), one only needs to ask how long it took them to do the work. Estimating about 6 months with a 3x infrastructure multiplier, I get about $225k.

This is of course giving you the benefit of the doubt that you were actually wondering, and not passive-aggressively implying the government should not fund basic scientific research. Which is understandable, because that's a ridiculous position for an educated person to articulate explicitly.
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"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

-Bjarne Stroustrup

Every piece of tech involves design tradeoffs. Most software benefits from network effects -- there are advantages to using what everyone else is using. Because of that people inevitably end up using software with design decisions they disagree with.

It's worse in programming because their are fewer hard design limits. Everything comes down to preference.
Hell, isn't it what it's all about? Trying out new things, even if they are impractical, challenge yourself and learn things, and maybe leave them a bit less broken. It's a bit dispiriting to read "get-off-my-lawn"-style answers, especially about something genuinely interesting and which isn't filling half the frontpage at any given time.
I just think that's a bad way for it to work. It should look for the thing by the name you give it and then find that thing, or not.

edit: This portion of a down thread comment captures my complaint well:

"In a sane framework, errors are meant to direct you to the cause, not simply to announce that something somewhere is written in a way that the framework doesn't like because of complex reason foo."
> "Also the author doesn't describe one "weird" guy as you suggest. She describes an individual "

Just as the person you replied to said... it's one person who is a FAR outlier example. So you agree she described one person.

> "Being white gives you the ability to brush this off as not your problem"

That's just reversing racism. No skin color of any kind is an automatic anything. There are trends but being "white" is not a panacea for all life situations.

> "If you value that guys right to be overtly offensive and racist"

I'll just quote the original comment.. " I'm not saying weirdos are good or correct or shouldn't be punished, but I am saying that trying to portray weirdos as as "a black women problem" is extremely inaccurate."
Maybe I am being dense, but why is Proxygen a better solution here?
'Big pharma' has no interest in marijuana because it's not their business model. Since there is no patent protection the generic manufacturers would squeeze out any profit to be had the medical marijuana market.
"Duke Engines' 3-liter, five cylinder test mule is already making a healthy 215 horsepower and 250 lb-ft of torque at 4,500rpm – slightly outperforming two conventional 3 liter reference engines that weigh nearly 20 percent more and are nearly three times as big for shipping purposes."

Seems convenient to use a pretty lame reference engine to make yourself look good. 3 liter engines have made near 1000HP for years now.
It's apparently in current development.
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Beautiful visualisations of screen resolutions based on analytics data. Grab your top 10, top 25 or more screen resolutions and generate an image to show the different screens used to access your site, app, ...
I completely agree that solutions probably don't lie within politics as usual. But, from the perspective libcom would have you adopt, we should go to "liberatarian communism". The real irony here is that libcom is trying to spread this brand of communism by highlighting a tragedy in a country that has seen the fastest rise out of poverty in the history of the world due to, ahem, free market economic reforms.
Was honestly just commiserating that I couldn't use my keyboards hot-keys to start / stop Google Play Music. This is really useful! Thank you!
The other side of the coin is forced induction, using a turbocharger or a supercharger or even both. "Natural aspiration" just refers to engine with intake air at atmospheric pressure.
There is a phenomenon that is fairly well documented and known among high-altitude mountain climbers, in which climbers high on the mountain develop a strong sense that they have a companion with them. They don't see anyone when they look around--it's not a visual hallucination--they just sort of know that there is another person there with them. The only reference I can think of off the top of my head is Greg Child, who wrote about it in his book "Mixed Emotions."
http://git.dzervas.gr/c4 An attempt to make this readable :) (at least with right syntax...)
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I'm going to offer a contrary opinion here and say that while the work is technically impressive, it's also crap. It's purely a case of "if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". It is also NOT just HTML and CSS. Most of the real work is done in JavaScript. Given that, you might get better performance writing a software rasterizer that puts the whole image into a single rectangle and put that on a single div without 3d transforms. Another more "pure" implementation would use XSLT to convert XML into SVG with 3d transforms along the way.

What we really see here is a JavaScript 3D engine with a CSS backend. Impressive - yes. A good idea - not so much.
Does anybody recall 'Toy Shop' for the Apple IIgs?
http://bit.ly/1s6dl4z

It was a software program with 20 cardboard models to print and build. It had a Zoetrope, a rubber band car, a balloon powered steam engine and a model plane.
(That's what I thought this link was going to be about.)
Marketing a “Justice as a Service” company
My startup, CellBreaker, empowers consumers by making sure they're not shouldering any weight their not obligated to shoulder. Our first approach is by getting people out of their cellphone contracts with no early termination fees.

With all the recent uproar about cellphone providers throttling data and the unsatisfactory customer service, I feel there is a huge opportunity to raise aware not only for this product, but also this social service of giving people what they're due.

What would be the best way to raise awareness for my service?
FWIW, there is a long history of illegal private servers that offer Vanilla and specific xpac servers for WoW. They are especially popular with people that are into player versus player because people tend to have certain xpacs that they believe were more fun for a variety of specific reasons, mostly related to balance between different character classes.
>Instead of using entropy, the researchers describe their system with a quantity they call complexity, which they define as roughly the ratio of the distance between the two particles farthest from each other to the distance between the two particles closest to each other. When the particles are clumped together, complexity is at its lowest.

When the particles are clumped together, the entropy is highest. Gravitation pulls in the direction of entropy increase. For a system of many objects spread around some volume their "complexity" is just kind of "parallel" to entropy, not really "instead". Thus it isn't surprising that they get the first half - clumping - somewhat right. The second part - bouncing back - is pointless to discuss in the framework of their model because such important factors as, for example, space inflation (vacuum "thinning") were omitted from the model while that inflation is the key for enabling new Big Bangs in the old/inflated/cooled down Universe which thus becomes proto-Universe for the new ones.
Six digits sounds about right for a Tor bug for one target depending on the specifics. The RCE bug used by the FBI recently against the Tor Firefox Bundle would have cost something similar, though the payload suspended the process where it could have resumed silently. It's not clear where that exploit was developed (my gut says in house but who knows?)
I've done a couple of food delivery jobs prior to college - as a pizza delivery driver, I was paid to be available (I made boxes, did light cleaning and tried to look busy while I was waiting for a delivery) and got consistent ($4) tips per delivery (not to mention all the pizza my midnight b-ball crowd could eat).

When delivering food for a small Chinese restaurant I was paid per delivery but there was a set run (usu. 4-6pm) and I got to expense miles, etc. No sitting around.
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As a side note, you might have ADD. It might be worth looking into if the symptoms you described seriously interfere with your life.

Practically, don't quit until you have the revenue stream and then the decision will be easy. You have one customer, try for two.

There is plenty of time. Avoid the celebritization of entrepreneurship. Focus on getting the next customer.
> "You are expecting people to change their personal habits because another coworker may not approve of them."

I couldn't agree with you more here. I have been labeled MANY times as in the "after hours drinking group" by people that "don't drink" and I really not sure why I would care.

I don't talk about how people are in the "World of Warcraft group" and since I don't play world of warcraft you should come to the bar! ;) But really, those wow'ers should. It's fun.