skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does google maps know this route?
C and Java are not the subject here.
you're clueless.
the internet is my source.
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I honestly thought that Valence was a way to view renderings of the desktop versions of Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE within Firefox. Anyway, congratulations at the team at Mozilla for creating this. Can't wait to try the WebIDE for editing remote code.
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> They should be paid using tax money based on how well they're doing their actual job

So.... if the police do a bad job; and crime is rife; we get rid of the police department?
Or conversely, if there is no crime, we give more and more money to the police?
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Surely there are more granular metrics than that.
Yes, definitely.

These discussions often ignore that we have done very, very well for certain cancers.
Let's put another perspective on this. If you are buying clothes produced by child labour then yes you are contributing to the continuance of child labour. "Sooo... what?" is a terrible ignorant view of your actions in this world.
> This is not about a TLD, it is about the abhorrent treatment of a small nation at the hands of a large one.

That's nice then re write the story without the link bait title designed to sucker HN users in.

It's a good story in it's own right but obviously people other than yourself don't appreciate being lied to and fooled.
What? You really don't think there would be a single additional murder if murder were legal?

> If anything the law protects the murderer - without it, retaliation would be far more appealing.

...which contradicts what you just said.
> expressiveness should correlate negatively with complexity

I don't see why that would be true. In my experience, the most expressive languages often produce the most impenetrable spaghetti code. Can you explain your reasoning?
I got asked to interview for google due to python code on github, others I know have had similar invitations to interview as a result of python experience. They seem to be on a hiring push right now.
Those particular geese only lay golden eggs until you kill them.

My guess is they got greedy and then got attention. It was fine and good when they took PimpDaddy's caddy because drugs, but not so fine when they took his grandma's house too because he parked there for an hour last tuesday.
There's barely a tech site where you won't be offered a free t-shirt or similar reward for installing their free client.

Their downloads graph probably looks up and to the right.
And an army to back it up.

Might may not make right, but it certainly helps. Other states may have some moral obligation to step in to defend a human rights violation, but only the government of a state is expected to protect its legal rights.
Unnamed new venture | Los Angeles (Santa Monica) | Designer, Full Stack Developers

We're looking to form a new team inside of a medium sized business (180M revenue last year). I have a history of doing work with these guys and will be joining full time to do this.

We will be developing a new product for brand management and content quality across world markets. I'm convinced that there is a need for this service and that the existing client base of the business will put it to immediate use as it comes into existence.

The office will be somewhere on the west side of Los Angeles. We're looking for people who can work several
days a week in Santa Monica, Venice, or thereabouts. Some work from home would be fine, along with time flexibility.

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What do we offer?

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This will be greenfield development with control over technology choice and processes, while at the same time working reasonable hours in a stable and profitable company. Benefits will include good health insurance, 401k matching, and options in the parent company (held by private equity, liquidity event about 4 years down the road).

===================

Who would be a fit?

===================

We're planning to get to initial launch with 3-4 team members:

- A designer with UX chops ("Academic" UX is relevant to the application domain, and would be valued, and any interest in CSS or other frontend development skills is great too)

- 2-3 Full stack developers, where at least one person is very strong with Angular or Backbone and is in general a real Javascript engineer

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What technologies are relevant?

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Generalists who have experience in several technologies are ideal.

The plan is to collectively decide what technologies to use as the team comes together. My own recent projects have used:

Angular / Backbone

Python / Ruby

Rails / Django / Sails.js

rspec / unittest / mocha

Sidekiq / Celery

Postgres

Riak

Redis

SOLR

Ansible / Docker / Vagrant

I also have past professional experience in C++, PHP, Java + various frameworks, and C# with the MVC framework.

My opinion is that rails has a small productivity edge for this type of project but we may want to optimize for other goals.

informal inquiries are welcome, please put Hacker News in the subject line. I'll be at the AWS conference this week if anyone is there.

doug@coderinger.com
Those are both extremely fallacious measures of whether the police are doing a good job.
This is such a gem, a part of history. Thanks for unearthing this.
I like where you're headed, a lot. I'll try it out, as I am in-market. I'm also using Poachable, if you're not aware of them check it out. And hired.com
So before I go to prison, I should earnestly develop a sincere desire for, say, pancakes every day, then it'd count?

I understand that law interpreters are not mindless robots. However it seems very arbitrary to support kosher and halal, but not Pastafarian diets.

It's as silly as only granting conscientious objector status to "real" Mennonites.
The same McDonald's that was used as a home base for the ISEE-3 crew this year?
Here's one I know of:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546783.2011.62...

The idea is that some types of problems are best solved with the focus you can provide at your peak times of day. However, "insight" problems might benefit from the reduced focus you have at non-peak times.
They won't stop, they will only pause... so that they can spend some time bickering over whether or not lack of generics makes Go unusable.
What kind of training get the police men? Is it police training or training how to be a crook?

There is one saying in the bible -- I don't want to preach, but some wisdom can be even found in old books -- "A man reaps what he sows".

It seems, this state sows crooks.

It worries me, that these things are known now for several years at it seems, but all attempts of change have been blocked.

To differentiate between right and wrong belongs to the building blocks of society -- of all societies. But you can also see in history and in other nations, what the result is, when such building blocks are missing or when they are repeatedly violated. That is something that makes me fear for the US. When they train those people, that shall uphold the differentiation between right and wrong to be wrongdoers, when legislation fails, because there are to many interest groups, when even judges are judging for money .... the way downhill will be steep!

Already today, as others also posted, the trust into officials is rapidly going downhill in society. Broader and broader parts of society disband legal living, because legality is also often only an excuse for wrong doing. The officials give the example and the complete nation goes downhill step for step.
Quite an intriguing offer. We've got a few ideas. Contact us at groupon@gnome.org and let's talk.
It's listed in the Counterfeits category (a real Nike Air Yeezy 2 Platinum sells for $2,000). It's a good fake though.
they started applying it to affluent white people
It's trivial with Rails, at least.
Discussion on the New York Times article yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8581889
This should serve us all as a reminder to keep the law enforcement accountable at all times and reject any loophole, regardless of whether it makes their life of catching criminals easier or not.

Any right given to authorities will inevitably be misused, sooner or later.
Algorithms should never be used based on confidence, only whether they work or not. Try them out and let me know your thoughts!
man you're not even trying with the racial dogwhistles here but it speaks to a deeper truth
It also highlights just how terribly Microsoft fumbled with MSN Messenger. They had hundreds of millions of active users and just sort of pissed it all away. MS could have launched a social network just with Messenger to generate the graph and whatnot. They sorta did something, but it was a confusing experience IIRC. Then after they lose their users to Skype, they buy Skype and repeat the process, it seems. (The Skype client hasn't gotten much better and I've not seen anything interesting come out of the purchase.)
With the wrong incentives given, it is clear, that those things multiply ... and it is sad, because it also means, that mischief has multiplied in those people that should uphold justice.
As @roymurdock posted, the NY Times article has a video of the guy being quite explicit in the "benefits": http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-w...
I wouldn't cite Coindesk for any reliable report. [1]

1. https://ihb.io/2014-11-09/news/official-coindesk-longer-voic...
The way it works is that you get commission when someone buys an item from a list you have reviewed. Even if you disliked the item. When lists are submitted they are shared with a limited number of people so that the commission isn't split too many ways.
> It's a larger data-set not a more complex problem.

Ummmm... yeah, scaling the kinds of algorithms that one might apply to this sort of problem up to larger data sets is often extremely difficult.
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you mean "they didn't have"
Does anyone know if the 60.000 in the chart means 60 or 60,000?
The Internet, in general, can be very unreliable.
The virtualization and containerization of computing is a long term net win, but there isn't a lot of huge benefits financially or otherwise for the scale most companies operate at.

For example, I witnessed a co-worker spend days messing around with docker to host incredibly simple PHP/MySQL and Ruby apps. Instead of renting a few VM's on say Digital Ocean or Amazon and spending probably $50 a month, my co-worker spent at least 50-100 hours of time to put everything on Docker and Puppet.

Let's say the net cost of that orchestration was around $10,000 in terms of billable time. You could rent a separate VM for every project and still come out ahead without trying very hard and still spend less time doing the project.

The total cost on that was way out of whack AND docker continued to be a source of bugs and ongoing overhead costs in terms of time.

My point is that these tools are great when they save you time, energy, and money, but a lot of people are overinvesting in tools like docker too early and they will never get a good ROI on their investment.

I don't know at what scale these tools start to make a lot of sense, but I imagine it is somewhere over 20 or 30 machines or projects before containerization shows itself to be a good investment. I'd be curious to see someone run the numbers on that.
Totally true.

It's a useful heuristic approximation that

n! ~ (n/e)^n

That is, multiplying the "n" factors from 1...n is close to multiplying (n/e) upon itself "n" times.

The actual Stirling approximation is just a sqrt(2 pi n) bigger than the above, and usually it's fine to throw that away (as above).
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Matt Taibbi has an interesting book out "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap."

There are issues in the US beyond just the seizing of assets, the question is how do we fix it so that everyone can prosper? The idea of the United States is still awesome, but have we as a country ever come close to the ideal? Is it possible to reach the ideal?
Fair enough. I was kind of trolling and deserve any downvotes I get. But I was partly serious: I would like, in principle, to learn to touch type; I take my text editor very seriously and have learned the language that it is customized in fairly deeply. But when I start to learn to touch type, I immediately start to get pains in my fingers that I've never felt before, and my instinct is strongly to let sleeping dogs lie here: it is my profession and if I don't currently suffer any hand problems I think I should carry on as-is.
I am not sure why the names are randomized, but you can still check in the folder if you wish. The outer profiles.ini is all you need to map in the right folder name (on Mac / Linux at least...).
The out of the goodness of my heart ignores the inefficiency of such a system. Government funded programs are much more efficient at ensuring a clean environment, good roads, universal education, universal healthcare, etc. Also it ignores human nature and the free rider problem.
The racial aspect of this is a great big elephant-in-the-room stomping-on-your-toes issue in this situation. I figure if you're gonna whistle about it, whistle loud.
It might not be possible, to reach the ideal. But what I currently see is, that justice, freedom and democracy are loosing very fast in all the world around us and fastest in those countries that once where the first democratic nations.

It is totally frightening and a bad sign for all humanity.
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A driver would actually be listening to the two-way radio fitted in the taxi to stay informed of traffic conditions and incidents; in real-time and with far more information to plan alternate routes.

Sometimes the existing technology is still better.
I'd guess financing and marketing generally, and lease cycles in the US specifically, are the main drivers (pun intended) for the pattern in cars. The analogy sounds nice but it is a little stretched trying to explain codebase size in OSS projects.
Actually as mentioned it's illegal for employment, not investment, and also, my suggested line of reasoning would not be illegal, even under employment law. (It's not illegal to interpret a blank resume of a 45 year old in a more negative light than a blank resume of an 18 year old.)
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What surprises me is that this hasn't been declared unconstitutional. I thought you couldn't be deprived of property without due process? I know it has survived numerous court cases so I'm baffled.
You're being a little vague. Can you give a couple examples where software projects were done in "powerful languages?" I can certainly appreciate that higher level languages are better. However, it seems like in practice they are not used as often as you would hope.
Fallacious = based on a mistaken belief.

synonyms: erroneous, false, untrue, wrong, incorrect, faulty, flawed, inaccurate, inexact, imprecise, mistaken, misinformed, misguided, misleading, deceptive, delusive, delusory, illusory, sophistic, specious, fictitious, spurious, fabricated, distorted, made up, trumped up
The media attention has been going on for decades too. It's just that nothing changes.
He describes how excited the cops were to steal a guy's car. He even says "and gulp we had to give it back" because they didn't follow procedure. Put aside the inanity involved in stealing people's property in cases like this, it's a pure greed motive where cops are looking at the population to go raiding.

They sound little better than privateers.
>Religious diets are not voluntary, but choice of religion is voluntary.

Care to elaborate on this? Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but I cannot see how a religious diet is not voluntary. Surely someone on a religious diet could eat certain foods if they choose to or not, no?
CRDTs are probably the best thing out there, and the most understandable. They focus on data that does not require complicated leader election algorithms - and this is coming from Facebook and the Cassandra team.

Why? Because these systems are very weak and prone toward failure, just check out some of http://aphyr.com/ 's stuff, he tears a lot of popular databases apart. Even if the theories are "proven right" the implementations are often wrong.
What should I do if I am in the United States and a police officer asks me how much money I have?
also, we can't confound "normative" with "moral" .
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Well yes, I did that, but then I realized that means giving Insync access to my data and that was a tough pill to swallow given that trusting Google with my data was already pushing it. I mentioned this already without naming Insync, but yes, I have a license even before 1.0.
Whether or not it is a valid thing depends on the substance of the contract (it is written down, right?) rather than the name.

You should be thinking now about how the exit scenarios might play out. How would it affect your equity and payout? What if the company succeeds? What if it fails or becomes a zombie? What happens if you leave after a year (whether it's your choice or not)?

From the limited information you've provided, my guy says that all stock granted (except in return for actual cash investments) should be subject to a vesting schedule. You may want to search for something like 'founder stock should be subject to vesting' and read up on vesting, cliffs etc.
Possibly more so.

I think it was someone working on Curiosity that said mars has just enough of an atmosphere that you have to worry about it, but not quite enough to be useful.

And bearing in mind that when your spacecraft hits the martian atmosphere, it was traveling at interplanetary transit speeds, much greater than orbital speed.
My Binary Lambda Calculus is specified in a few paragraphs in http://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html and includes basic IO. It blc-zips to only 29 bytes (size of self-interpreter).

The 25-lines-of-obfuscated-C interpreter is on the very shirt that I wear on my (clickable) homepage picture.
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it's almost as if the original american political ideals are corrupt enough to afford chattel property rights over human beings and aren't actually built on ethical grounds
Yes, you are right.

Lol, you get skrewed. That is the danger of globally consistent systems, unless you have slaves to that master that got stomped that can do leader-election to survive the failure.
My guess w/r/t constitutionality would be that many seizures are executed in connection with drug prosecutions in which such rights are abridged. It's arguable this is also constitutionally suspect.
What exactly is a "hipster Ruby on Rails company"? For better than half their life (founded in 2008, mentioned they made the switch in this 2011 article: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/7/18/new-relic-architec...) the piece that collects data was ported to Java. Also, I'd think Twitter was far more hipster. :-)
This is Passenger Phusion +1. As was pointed out in a thread several months ago, the DNS resolves to the same place. The writing style is similar and the feature set far too mature for a 1.0 product.
Group threads have been implemented as MMS on all major smartphone operating systems. Unfortunately, Android didn't get it until Android 4.2 or something.

The key is that the recipient list is sent with the message, so the other clients know who else is participating in the group, and can also thread and send outgoing messages accordingly.
I would really like to hear their answer to this question.
In theory we live in a democracy that should make fixing this easy.
Not true in Texas, one of the large prison systems in the world.
Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat
Clojure has all of this in core.async - which is just a library, it doesn't need special support from the underlying language.

goroutines are certainly nice and CSP is a good mental model for solving many problems, but I don't think a feature like this should be used to justify switching to a whole new language.
If you're not getting progressively happier with your life under fairly normal circumstances, you're doing it wrong.

Seriously; unless there is something that has fucked your life so badly, you should have been spending your time thinking, reflecting and experiencing what makes your happy and more satisfied, and trying to pierce through the bullshit of society's expectations versus your own needs and wants.

No one is exempt from the tragedies of life, but there's not excuse for not being mindful of what enriches your soul.
Some of the same points other are bringing up.

1. HTTP Request Builder (i.e. Postman)
2. Web Proxy
3. Make the Web IDE for anything like Atom or SublimeText
4. CSS media emulation

The release looks great, congratulation guys. Looking forward to the future of this model.
> it's mostly based on ISO 3166 which is in turn derived from the names of countries.

The mostly is significant; in several cases the ISO was over-ridden and arbitrary but sensible codes assigned e.g. UK instead of GB. Many smaller territories were not granted codes in ISO3166 and had to be 'invented' for the TLDs

ISO3166 is in itself a bit of a mess, and since it became used for TLDs there have been dozens of requests for changes and additions based on new TLD assignments.
In order to more accurately compare iOS 8 Safari’s text-decoration underline implementation to SmartUnderline, I created a test page. [1] It contains five links to the words gesture, quitting, discovery, piggy, and eager, set in Helvetica.

To produce the iOS 8 version, I opened the page in Safari on iOS 8.1 pinched zoomed to the maximum amount while keeping all five links within the frame, and took a screenshot.

To produce the SmartUnderline version, I visited the SmartUnderline install page [2] in Google Chrome on Mac OS X, entered the test page URL, and clicked “Preview in a separate window”. With the screenshot from my iPhone opened next to the browser, I used Command+[+/-] to zoom the browser until the font sizes were the same size, then took a screenshot.

Here are the results: [3].

To summarize, I believe iOS 8 has some advantages and some disadvantages, but to me there is no clear winner.

Some specific points in no particular order:

- iOS underline breaks are always vertical cuts. Since SmartUnderline uses text-shadow to “white-out” the underline, the cut-outs are in the shape of the glyph. To me, this looks better in the “g” in “eager”, but worse in the “q” in “quitting”.

- iOS 8 shows a line between a “g” and ”y” (as in ”piggy”) and SmartUnderline does not.

- SmartUnderline’s underline extends less far to the left of the first letter and right of the last letter. This looks better in “quitting” and potentially worse in ”discovery”.

- In general, SmartUnderline sets a little more space around each descender.

- Both implementations show no underline before or after a leading or trailing “g”.

- Both implementations show the underline very close to the left side of the “y” descender. I think improvements could be made here with both implementations.

[1]: http://jsfiddle.net/adamschwartz/hyyerbq4/show/light/

[2]: https://eager.io/app/eA9ULux0UOJP/install

[3]: http://postimg.org/image/nf9b2ahd1/ (@2x http://postimg.org/image/688ricy2v/)
> There's no right to privacy in what you do in public that endangers the lives everyone around you.

It's pretty terrifying to see that argument in favor of the government tracking everyone's detailed vehicle statistics.
Thanks for that! I've added it to my Amazon cart for a future order. I'll try anything once. (Obviously... since we're in a Soylent thread)
See my comment above [1]. I think you’ll find that the iOS 8 and SmartUnderline implementations are closer than you think.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588492