skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like bad luck. Within San Francisco, 4th and Mission seems like one of the less likely places to be held up at gunpoint since it's so busy.
There really aren't any. The best simply argue that net neutrality wouldn't be necessary in a world where ISPs had to compete against each other to enough of a degree, that they had to promise their customers net neutrality.
And yet the nutritional supplement industry has grown by leaps and bounds while making hand-wavey claims about the efficacy of its products and slapping on a figleaf along the lines 'these statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.'

You keep dodging my point; if drug regulation is so burdensome, why have none of the drug companies taken a promising product and tried marketing it as a nutritional supplement instead? The worst that could happen is that they get slapped on the wrist and told to label it differently. 'Nutritional supplements' are notoriously under-regulated at the moment, so what do the pharmaceutical companies have to lose?

My theory is that despite all the complaints about the regulatory burden and the nightmare-inducing sums of capital at risk, pharmaceutical firms in the aggregate are actually doing great business. I am simply not persuaded that there is massive opportunity cost in undeveloped medicine because otherwise firms in less tightly regulated markets should be cleaning up by making drugs that don't have to meet the FDAs efficacy standards, and there should be a thriving black market in importing them to the US. We should be deluged with stories about great drugs that reduce mortality by improving clinical outcomes at affordable cost that are widely available elsewhere but not in the US or EU because of gloomy bureaucrats.
And that way you can live on Mars some day. :)

Actually we must let people make progress where ever they are interested.

After all the guy who built the first brick didn't know someday they would used to build pyramids.
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I am glad to tell you that I have just become Pakistan's first Zend Framework 2 Certified Architect.

http://www.zend.com/en/yellow-pages/ZEND016047
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In the UK, unbundling has had a very limited effect on pricing when compared to straight-up nationalisation.

Excluding Virgin's cable service, the last-mile infrastructure is wholly owned by BT Wholesale which, despite the name, is "independent" of BT Retail. It's operations are heavily bounded by legislation and politics - it is, in effect, a public corporation. So tied down are they, in fact, that they have a flat price list for almost all customers. Pricing innovation is precisely nil. I've have a copy from two years ago, but I'm under NDA wrt specifics.

(Note that none of the above is a criticism, the idea of letting them free to do what they want is horrifying.)

The result of this is strange to observe from an economists vantage point. On the one hand you can catch a glimpse of what perfect competition might look like in the consumer market as a thousand companies vie to maximise market share with an almost perfectly commoditised good, which in reality means packaging (with TV, phone, mobile, insurance, pretty much anything.)

Aaand on the other hand most of the country is paying £30/month ($50) for 6Mbps down/0.2Mbps up at 50:1 contention and a fair usage policy to boot.

Of course this is much better than straight up nationalisation as the private companies will at least innovate on peripheral services like billing and support, and will use a stronger punch when it comes to motivating BT Wholesale to stay on their toes.

Is this better than the US situation? Most probably. Is this the ideal solution? Most probably not.

I have a 152Mbps connection from Virgin which is around the same price, and am now in a super-exclusive club of Brits who get to moan about not being able so saturate a servers pipe (I want my downloads to read 18MBps every time, dammit!)
Market street is not a very vibrant part of the city. Nevertheless:

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=coffee&find_loc=San+Fra...
Jeu vidéo: de nouveaux footballeurs s’invitent aux matches pour Noël
When I asked Chris Lattner a week and a half account at the LLVM dev summit, there was still no decision yet, ...
Sad news, such an original individual and truly a giant of Mathematics. To imagine he invented Lebesgue measure theory on his own in his late teens. I remember reading that when he was sent to study under Schwartz and Dieudonne in Nancy (if i remember correctly), he solved the equivalent of seven phd thesis problems in nine months. His work with radical ecology is also highlighted in the article.
It's true. I can count it on my own 10 hands.
>Why are we doing that kind of help for free? Aren't there liabilities? Don't businesses charge thousands of dollars for that kind of support/freelance programming work?

Yes, many companies have large lines of business just providing support. At the end of the day it's all about the value it provides your company and your clients. If you're able to retain and attract users/clients then some free support could be worth it as a sign of cooperation and goodwill. If they're already paying customers you may need to better define what's covered by your SLA and various support agreements. However, if they are asking for advanced help outside of those agreements then you can just say you don't provide additional support. Or if your company has the resources you can always charge them for engineer support (for example, MS charges $259/h for advanced support during business hours).
That was canceled due to a patent lawsuit. It would have cost apple a ton of money to pay a patent troll to be able to open source FaceTime.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20236114
as a desi female, we are not included in eeo, tbh. tell me the last time you looked at any one of us and thought, "man, s/he could use a break." never, that never happens. honestly, to me, this circumstance in the letter to the board is the opposite. some idiot desi set-claims herself as a stanford grad and nobody bats an eye. again, no way to prove this to you, but I am desi. i can promise you, everywhere i work, without fail, if there's some random question that involves a degree, they always run to me. i'm always saying "wait, i went to law school, though, i don't get how the urethra works." yeah, no, my take: they just didn't care to check. she probably has dirt on someone or who knows. all we know is they're all a bunch of sleaze regardless of race or gender, iffffff all of this is true and wasn't doctored.
Amusingly enough he concludes with a link to an online store, and sure enough you can buy any of this stuff without a prescription, thanks to the following disclaimer: Note: The FDA has not evaluated or endorsed this product. It is not intended to diagnose or treat any specific illness or medical condition. Please consult your physician prior to using this or any other nutritional supplements or medications. This product is manufactured in Russia and the packaging text is in Russian.
VTSMX is the same as VTI, just VTI is an ETF and VTSMX is a mutual fund. For most normal cases, it doesn't matter which you have.

Having some international exposure is fine too and diversifies a little, but historically, as long as you don't sell off during a lull in the market, the US total stock market has performed admirably as long as you can hold your shares at least a few years.

VTSAX is the "Admiral" version of VTSMX. Same index, but cheaper to own (they take a smaller amount out of it every year for management fees.)
Yeah. And just a 90% confidence interval projection basically.
At this point, why would a terrorist even use a cellphone?
Yeah, I was unable to execute $!
It really makes me wonder if a non-government entity is currently a nuclear power.
So it sounds like... yes and yes. Guidelines are guidelines. If they are more than guidelines they must be enforced at the language level.

Undefined behavior is another thing. Surely, it's poor form to rely on undefined behavior. However, that doesn't mean it isn't possible for such a situation to arise. An accurate description of how that can happen doesn't deserve a downvote.

On the contrary, it's quite valuable for a newbie (like myself) to learn the facts, not just the dogma. Downvoting an accurate description of the behavior of the tool because you think the situation shouldn't arise in the first place is simply a misplaced use of a downvote.
I imagine that making user functions would require leaving the one-symbol-one-function spelling system that J programmers are accustomed to, and that spelling system is part of the appeal. Also, if the idiomatic form with primitives is shorter than the name, it's tough to consider the name an improvement. :)

Thanks for your response.
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Almost killing someone with a drone
"if you care about, say, responding to load within ten seconds, VMs aren't a great choice."

That's actually exactly why I would use a VM..
Your circle is very square.
The Nobel prize is a Swedish (and Norwegian[1] award) so that makes sense.

The Turing award is organized by the ACM, an US-based non-profit. It has nothing to do with the UK, apart from being named by someone who was a hero for that country and then was persecuted until he committed suicide. He was only pardoned in 2013.

I think your idea is well intentioned but I'm not convinced it is appropriate.

[1] The Nobel Peace Prize of awarded by a Norwegian committee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize
"Sometimes people work faster with code formatted like they are used to" - Code Creator
"Well, if we all standardize on the same style we can get used to working faster with the same format giving everyone a net win" - Me
"Well we'll have to do it after... later... deadlines... shipping" - Code Creator
I inadvertently said there were good arguments 'for' net neutrality, but I meant there were good arguments 'against' it. I think the arguments for clearly outweigh the arguments against but smart people have their reservations.

They're usually centered on the ability of the government to enforce neutrality and whether companies would have the incentive to continue to upgrade their infrastructure. Another decent argument is that some files and services deserve higher priority (live medical data, critical VOIP, etc.) which would be illegal under NN. I think more broadly, NN is market distorting by design and will lead to many unintended consequences.

Andreessen - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/21...

Progressive Policy Institute - http://www.progressivepolicy.org/issues/economy/regulating-o...

Some good answers on Quora - http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-strongest-arguments-agains...
Would you really consider one piece of work by an author to be a commodity? Not all of the author's titles mind you, just one.
David Cameron calls on web companies to wipe Islamic State propaganda
This article is largely correct. Although we do cloud now, my company started as a access provider that was pushed out of the industry once Michael Powell changed the rules eliminating competition. If people knew what Internet access costs to deliver (small fractions of what you are paying) they would be shocked. Sadly, in the long-run it leaves the USA behind the rest of the world.
Government planes mimic cellphone towers to collect user data
sqlite 3.0 later seems to be thread-safe.

BTW, how's datadraw compare to sqlite?
Show HN: Reactive library, useful project or just fun experiment?
That defect tracker is nice. I've never used mercurial so I can't comment on that. Github keeps getting better, I'll bet if people asked for improvements to defect tracking we might get them.
If you flip your fingers like bits, you can count up to 1024. Using your toes would get you up to 1048576.
> I think this is Google quietly admitting that Google Code is all but dead.

Well, I doubt that Google Code engineers or project managers had much, if anything, to do with the decision to move the Go project.
Show HN: My First Libgdx Android Game (Animal Puzzle)
havent looked too much into it but I dont see why it couldnt. use s3 website, event notification to notify a user accessed a file (web page) and generates a new custom file in your bucket. generated file has some sort of preshared known info between the two in the file name (eg client ip address or cookie). accessed web page either sends back a page reload to the new generated page or just an async page that will render the custom content.

edit: oh also delete the generated file once accessed using lambda by either delete on get notification or just a lambda scheduled event.
Why didn't investors put money toward creating the real actual moonshot? Because, amazing idea that it was, there was no sustainable business there.

Just because an idea is inspiring, amazing, even culturally transformative, that doesn't mean it can be a business. And generally speaking, investors are only interested in ideas that can be businesses. (That's what makes them investors instead of philanthropists...or politicians.)

Here's another reason--new technologies don't always win, because older technologies improve too. When I was editing a tech e-newsletter over a decade ago, a major hot new technology was called organic light-emitting diodes (OLED). This display technology had a huge viewing angle, did not need a backlight, and was super power efficient. It could be printed onto plastic substrates that were flexible and even translucent. It was going to kill the LCD.

Except, it didn't. LCDs improved fast enough to hold onto the market--they got LED backlights, power efficiency, higher and higher resolutions, better viewing angles, better colors, and (maybe most importantly) cheaper and cheaper and cheaper because the volumes were so huge. And it turned out that OLED's had some problems that were not so easily solved. So while OLED is used commercially today, the volumes are small. LCDs, so far, have kept on winning.
While at the same time the x in x-mas means the greek letter Chi that represents the ch-sound. just to get ahead of any confusion and to bring this thread around full O.
Hey guys, I’ve just released my first Android Game called Animal Puzzle.This simple puzzle game is primarily aimed at children under four (4) years old. The goal is to entertain the children while learning to recognize the names and sounds of some animals. It is a very simple game and try to avoid frustration by providing a puzzle that is not too difficult.

I would love to hear some feedback from you guys on what you think about the game. Install from Google Play
Fukushima Radiation Detected Off California Coast
It is true that exactly the same commands are sent to the genuine and counterfeit components, but on genuine FTDI parts it does literally nothing. Here is a commented decompilation: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/525202516816842752

It is very hard for me to picture any purpose this code could serve other than deliberately bricking counterfeit devices. FTDI has offered no explanation. There were some tweets (now deleted) from FTDI which didn't outright admit to it, but rhetorically asked for a better way to fight counterfeits.

USB is sort of a baroque and unpleasant protocol, and much more of a pain in the butt than RS232. But it is probably less of a pain than depending on a supplier who will deliberately damage end users' property in the field and insist they did nothing wrong, before insisting they did nothing at all in a denial that insults the reader's intelligence.
Absolutely. If lots of reddit's employees are living in the East Bay (feasible since the office is in Soma), a company move to Daly City would make their commute an absolute nightmare. A normal BART ride would turn into a reallllly long BART ride (if the office is anywhere near the station) or a soulcrushing commute over the bridge. I commuted from the Sunset District (essentially Daly City) to Oakland for a year and it was horrendous.

Meanwhile, moving from one office to another within Sunnyvale won't change much considering there are many ways to get in and out of there.
Unless you have enough income to be over the Roth IRA contribution limits and want to make yearly backdoor Roth IRA contributions (non-deductible traditional contribution followed by a rollover to a Roth IRA). If you have a traditional IRA there can be some tax complications due to the pro-rata rule. If any traditional contributions are instead in a 401k the conversion is a lot simpler, and tax-free.

The other way around it is to open an individual 401k if you have any self-employment income, but that involves a bit more paperwork than an IRA.
If everything you state is true, then your sister is the exception to the norm. My wife works in HR and pretty much everything mentioned above is true. There is a very large, fortune-5, company going through a name & blame game with another very large supplier over an ignition switch problem and the PIP process mentioned above is what I've seen too. HR folks are not your friends.
I've always read that the primary difficulty in building a nuclear weapon isn't necessarily the difficulty in producing the bomb or detonator, but in producing the fissile material in large quantities. (U235 is something like 0.7% of bulk uranium we find in nature, and separating it from U238 is prohibitively difficult. You need 80% for "weapons-grade" according to wikipedia.)
Now all we need is Jeff Bezos to buy Github :-) That would be funny.

But on the story this is a great move, Github is much nicer than Google Code and more actively supported. I had not heard of Gerrit before and that was a really pleasant discovery. Now to figure out how to get that setup at the office.
does this mean that I can import other python modules directly in to the thrust app?
I heard you like music
BART is not your conventional subway, and the 'couple stops' are a lot further than usual.
> IntelliJ IDEA runs everywhere and is a lot smarter than Visual Studio out of the box. The community edition is not only free of charge, but open-source as well.

Perhaps he meant "automated code refactoring" but used a brand name instead. I've never knowingly used Resharper whenever I've used IDEA community edn, but perhaps it's been running anonymously beneath the surface. That's why I asked what it was. His whole comment read like an advert for brands like IDEA, Resharper, and Groovy so that's why I questioned it.
> Welcome to web hosting in 1999 guys.

Sorry, where were you getting servers in 1999 that existed for fractions of a second?
Why the downvotes? Bigots?
Thinking aloud in terms of a "solution" - is it possible to build crowdsourced blocklists that can be subscribed to by users, and will refuse to let their phones connect to "fake" celltowers?

P.S. I'm not a wireless guy, so I don't know if there's any kind of a digital giveaway that can distinguish a fake cell tower versus the real one it is spoofing. If there isn't, then perhaps the fault lies with existing wireless comm. standards.
My new kickstarter, a cell tower locator and a high power green laser pointer. When ever the device detects a cell tower above 500' AGL it activates the green laser pointer and directs it at the detected tower signal. :-)
Congressional Re-districting by algorithm (USA)
I cannot find that price anywhere on their site. Where did you get that from?
They're independent operating environments, but that doesn't mean their memories are isolated.

It's commonly accepted that most mobile SoCs operate this way. See the diagram/text on page 2 of https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12... . To the extent that a specific Qualcomm processor might avoid such a design, it's impossible to know due to their longstanding culture of security through obscurity.

AFAIK, the Raspberry Pi is setup the same way, with the black box GPU being the master of the CPU that is commonly used to run Linux. This setup is only less problematic because the GPU lacks an unobservable network link.

Even the i9100, with an independent modem, was found to be setup with shared memory for communication - http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxySI...

Models like the Samsung i9300 have the modem chipset as an independent unit, although I've seen a block diagram indicating that the eMMC flash and modem RAM are in the same package, which is worrying.
And even that not completely...
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I think Google also thinks this would be great, but they haven't figured out how to do it yet. Hence the many bets on new technology.
I wrote this primer on "Public and Private Market Investing" which I think is a good place to start: http://sapan.svbtle.com/musings-on-markets :)
http://searchengineland.com/google-25-of-queries-are-new-add...

25% of google searches are unique. I bet another 25% would be so rare and numerous you couldn't possibly have time to tune them. In fact, when you think about how much revenue a single search brings, a search is going to have to happen on the order of 1,000 times (at least?) before you can have a human hand tuning them.
True enough. But I'm not a member of the organization. :)
Yeah, some things are so common and small as to not merit their own name except in a tutorial. It might be fun to try using those to construct really garden-pathy code. Stick the fork `+/%#` (average when used on its own) somewhere in a train, but use the dyadic case, or position it so that parsing splits it up.
I'm a minarchist. I think the government should ensure people's minimum expectations are met (safe potable water, low violence, 20MBPS internet, etc.) but that's it. So I am not against "internet fast lanes" beyond the basics where both sides have to pay for them.

That said, I think it's just good policy to have the same for startups. A minimum level of protection (bankruptcy protection, as well as a level playing field) for new entrants. I think that on the level of Netflix, they should indeed pay for special agreements. After all -- come on -- Netflix does special peering agreements with Tier 1 ISPs and their traffic accounts for 34% of all traffic to consumers. So basically, I think the general principle is:

REDISTRIBUTE THE ECONOMICS TO ENSURE THE MINIMUM LEVEL THAT MAINTAINS INNOVATION, FREEDOM, BASIC EXPECTATIONS, BUT BEYOND THAT, LET THE MARKET BE FREE (BARRING REGULATIONS TO MINIMIZE AGAINST NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES).

PS: If you downvote, I'd love for you to actually reply with a reasoned comment.
NL's infrastructure is orders of magnitude more bike friendly than California.
Why Did Yishan Wong Resign as Reddit CEO?
Completely agree and we try hard to do just that.
Indian is not in the middle-east, it is South Asia
Employee Handbook. A lot of the big tech companies have something similar but it's pretty bad at Amazon. You cannot write any code in your personal time and submit it without being approved. I mean anywhere, homework questions or telling a person how to write a bash script that copies a file each day.
My previous company came to reddit with an ad buy with a floor of ~5k/mo and a budgetary ceiling nearing $10k/mo if we saw better then expected numbers. The strategy was to target city specific sub-reddits with contextual ads. I went ahead and utilized PRAW and US Census data and brought that together with our internal data to target the top 300 cities for us. After doing all the legwork and presenting the reddit advertising execs with resources I put together we were told they couldn't scale to that level, and to instead look at targeting 3/4 cities with the same ad. This is probably the biggest road block I see for reddit trying to monetize at a level that Conde Nast was thinking when they "acquired" the company.
Radiation level per cube feet of water is low.

Is there any study on the Radiation level in fishes and if there are any significant concentration of radioactive materials in fish/crab that lives in the bottom of ocean like Alaska King Crab or Halibut fish.