skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the issue that there's not just one group of taxes: there's what your employer pays, and then there's what you personally pay. In at least France and Belgium, salaries typically include the former, but not the latter; whereas in the US, most people get their employer to withhold towards their personal taxes.
This isn't a dilemma. You can have net neutrality and also have Wikipedia Zero -- it isn't mutually exclusive. It might make it a little harder and Wikipedia may need to ask for more donations, but this is their goal, not anyone else's. Wikipedia isn't the internet.
The surface ocean and atmosphere exchange CO2 freely. So as long as the electricity input is carbon neutral, the process is carbon neutral.

i.e. it doesn't matter if you take CO2 out of the surface ocean or the atmosphere. Both will reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
This is crazy. Both John Nash and Nick Szabo are regular public persons whose non-identicalness has been thoroughly established. You can just enter their names in Google image search and see that they are different persons.

Second, I think it's already been established beyond reasonable doubt that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. There's not really any evidence against that except for his denial, and there's been plenty of evidence for it.
Oh, good to know. I wish we knew Mozilla's permanent Bitcoin address.
"ken doesn't have any popular repositories"

you just know that somewhere there will be teen/20-something hotshit brogrammer startup CEO/CTO types who will refuse to look at his resume, go first to his GitHub, be totally unimpressed ("lame! just a talker, not a real hacker, etc") then skip over him.
Serious question, as I don't really have a strong opinion on zero rating either way:

In a scenario where zero-rating is available to all actors at equivalent prices, is there still a problem? It would raise the barrier to entry for internet companies perhaps, but probably not by too much. I guess you could argue it encourages bandwidth capping?

I'd like to hear arguments from both sides.
Do you have plan for integrating a version control system like git into Taskulu ?
This is great advice, I think. Wordpress and Drupal are both growing very fast. They are easier for beginners to get involved with than a language like node.js, because the beginner is not starting from a blank screen. The software provides a structured and documented API for them to learn from.

And especially in Drupal, there is a lot that you can do without writing a single line of code, just by installing and configuring modules. This is often called "site building" expertise, or sometimes a junior "developer" (despite the near-lack of actual development). And there is actually demand for it, because real developers find that work tedious and boring; but it is a huge part of building almost any Drupal website.

The way to get involved is to find local meetups and start chatting people up. I know of at least a few people in the DC area who went from nontechnical jobs to senior Drupal developers making 6 figures this way--just showing up every time, working on volunteer stuff, and eventually getting some contract work or an entry-level position. From that point it's all about hard work and delivering.
Microcenter has a lot of this stuff now a days.
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The article mentions one rationale for stripping diacritics and I won't deny there are others. That being said:

Stripping diacritics from text will annoy people whose language uses those diacritics. For us the difference between an e, an è and an é is significant. An ü is something entirely different from an u. Calling me Muller when my name is Müller is like calling someone Jan whose name is Jon.

Just as the article says: "But then again, removing diacritics is already linguistically nonsensical. Nonsensical operation is nonsensical."
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Good point. Here are the constraints:

> No exchange of payment. The Wikimedia Foundation does not pay carriers to zero-rate access to the Wikimedia sites and does not receive payments from carriers through Wikipedia Zero.

> Wikipedia Zero cannot be sold as part of a bundle. Access to the Wikimedia sites through Wikipedia Zero cannot be sold through limited service bundles.

> No exclusive rights. We try to partner with as many carriers as possible to maximize the number of users that can benefit from the initiative.

> Open to collaborating with other public interest sites. Our main goal is to promote free access to knowledge and we want to help other similar services interested in doing the same.
If you imagine the same game but with a million doors and in the end there are only two doors, then you realize that there is a strong asymmetry and that the initial door is special. Going to the limit, with infinite doors to choose, the best thing you can do is choose the initial door, all the other doors are just to confuse you.
I was in my local RadioShack (or is it "The Shack" now?) looking for a Hall effect sensor. They didn't have one, but they did have Arduino and Raspberry Pi kits along with some Arduino shields.

Sadly though, the electronic parts + kits section of RadioShack reminds me of the PC games section of most game stores now. It's so underwhelmingly small that, if you can manage to even find it, chances are it won't have what you came for anyway.
I always associated CueCat with WIRED magazine, I had no idea RadioShack was an investor.
Noticed some fun SEO hacking at the bottom of the page:

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So Facebook created an architecture to solve a problem their new web framework introduced?
"Two other bay area places that have changed a lot are Frys"

One of my fondest memories when I was out in SV in the early 90's was Frys and Weird Stuff Warehouse.

I think I first heard of WSW and Fry's in a book written by Guy Kawasaki [1] who was a big deal in the late 80's.

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Fry's in 2006 when I was in town for an conference. Then later in Las Vegas last year. Fry's of 2006 was no match for what I remembered in the early 90's. But nowhere near as bad as the Las Vegas store which to me was like a large Best Buy.

Another great store that changed was Micro Center. They had all sorts of little parts, tools, gadgets and a great book section. When I recently visited that it had also changed greatly and there was a slop of merchandise as well as empty shelves and little to call a book section (which was a total mess). That was the store in Pennsylvania. They still had the logos of companies in the store as part of the lighted signage such as "Okidata" , "Creative Labs", and so on. They never even took that info down even though from memory most of the companies from their golden era didn't even really exist anymore at least selling to that market (Oki exists but not selling the same type products that would be sold at a retail store like Micro Center). (I had an Okidata 2410 in the 80's loved the sound of that printing things high speed..)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kawasaki
This is a really good "getting started" article. But I would add a couple more pointers for anyone out there who is interested in getting started with FPGA programming. First, it is not programming. It really is hardware description. I did a lot of the things they said in the article but the thing that helped me the most was first, getting a board (I started with the Terasic DE0 but there are a lot of good cheap ones out there, you don't need to spend a lot of money). I started out using the Altera Quartus II development software because it has a facility in it that allows you to draw a schematic diagram of standard gates and flip flops and it will then generate the equivalent HDL code. What that did for me is "learn by example" and helped me bridge the gap from real hardware to the Hardware Description Language.
Don't be ageist.
Fair enough. That being said, -Wunreachable-code would have caught that.
It's totally apt. Why is peeping into someone's window bad? It's because it's a violation of their privacy, and even if they don't know that someone is watching them, peoples' reaction to the prospect of that happening is enough to justify a social norm to dissuade such conduct. The operative mechanics,[1] are the same when it comes to looking at leaked pictures online. The act of looking doesn't metaphysically cause injury. It's the knowledge or the prospect of people looking.

[1] And that's the value of analogies--not just to help us understand things that are novel in terms of the familiar, but to help us think about how things are similar or different, which helps us cut to the heart of why we think about a thing in a particular way.
At the time, the battle over products like Quattro were with competitors like Lotus, and not MS.

And Borland sure did their part. There were a number of great products they acquired and then destroyed. The Brief editor is a near and dear example for us developers, but they also went out of their way, it seems, to destroy dBase and the whole Ashton Tate thing. And Sidekick was a really cool app that they managed not to handle well, too.
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It sounds that it adds too much burden to developers to simply communicate to some host over HTTP. It sounds pretty hard to convince every single developer out there to replace net.Dial with that.
I honestly believe it was a malevolent attempt by Joyent to oust Ben for joining StrongLoop.
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Hmm.. I don't think there's a difference. In two out of three cases, one of the remaining two doors contains a car. If the host opens the one that does, ok, bummer, you lost. But if not, there's a good chance that the other door contains a car. Remember that you always had only one in three chances of choosing the right door, this doesn't change.
So google-users are non-bots and non-googlers are bots? That sounds extremely poor. Especially considering you solved a captcha to create that same google account.
Ask HN: When was the usage of “News Flash” appear?
This might be an impossible question to answer, but I was just wondering how the saying "News Flash" started.
> If you have callback hell, it is an expression of muddled thought.

No. It's an indication that you're using a FOTM runtime environment. There's a reason why no production-ready runtime uses continous passing / callback models.
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I'd be willing to bet that this is exactly the way it was at most, if not all, corporate RadioShack stores. On the other hand, the franchise stores (which mostly no longer exist) could be great places to shop and to work, because they were owned by actual breathing human beings, not faceless corporate overlords.

My first "real" job after high school was at the local RadioShack, which was owned by one of the most amazing people in my early adult life. I had shopped there for years as a teenager, as it was the only place I could find electronic parts without cracking the Mouser catalog. This was the mid 90s, and there was nearly no e-commerce yet. One day I was in there looking at the HTX-202, RadioShack's entry into 2-meter amateur radio handsets, as I had just been licensed as a Technician Class ham for the first time. Richard said "Hey, Morgan, you still looking for a job?" "Sure, but what happened to Dennis?" I replied. He said "Well, Dennis kinda died." Poor Dennis, his only employee and an elderly gentleman, had suffered an aneurysm and just like that, he was gone. Thus, thanks to the untimely death of a nice old man, I got my first and only RadioShack sales associate position.

Working there was an absolute blast; the pay sucked and the only commission to be had was on Primestar satellite sales, but Richard was like that cool uncle everyone has. I learned a lot about how to run a small business from him, and there was never a day that we didn't have fun. Christmas season could be hectic, but in a good way, with parents who were delighted to see that we carried batteries for all the toys their kids were getting (along with some nifty toys like R/C cars, too).

Even after getting a better full time job a couple of years later, I stayed on part time with Richard for over a year, until he could hire someone to replace me. I still drop in when I'm in my hometown to say hi, and we still keep in touch via email. It really saddens me to know that he'll likely have to drop the RadioShack name one day soon, but I know his store will continue operating for the foreseeable future. His kind of salesmanship stands far above what you get at the corporate stores.
There's also content providers, content owners, or other ugly term. They aren't participating in network traffic, but deeply shape structure and demands of at least network services and consumers above, consumer ISP in some cases.
doesn't do negations
Not mentioned in the article is that Wikipedia refuses to pay to participate in zero rating. In the world you envision only profitable commercial sites would be available.
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Seems like I've got mates around the world sailing on same boat. I've got almost 7 yrs of experience and yes I can always come back.
My plan is not to stop programming while I do PhD. I'll keep pushing small chunks of code to GitHub once in a while.
Best of luck mate !!!!
Yeah -- from the sound of the title, you'd think they'd discovered this thing:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Galactic_barrier
can't do negations, e.g. ^[ ]
It's definitely fascinating! Though I feel like attributing this to the intentions of the host is misleading, because it implies something mystical or quantum might be going on. It's more straightforward to just say it depends on the actions of the host.

Specifically, the host in the first formulation never reveals a car, even if she wants to. The host in the second formulation reveals a car roughly 1/3 of the time, even if she'd rather not. Thus, intuitively, it makes sense that the former leaks information about the place of the car, and the latter doesn't. [0]

Of course that's just a rewording of your point, based on my sense that "knowledge and intentions" are concepts that apply readily to game show hosts, but awkwardly to rule-following systems in general.

[0] To the extent that revealing something can not leak information about it...

Edit: To elucidate my quibble further, as a third formulation: "The host chooses one of the two remaining doors at random, which, by coincidence, is always a goat." I assert we should always switch: The intention of the host is the same as in the second case, but the behavior of the system, magically known to us, is that of the first. We make decisions based on that.
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Thanks for the heads up. It seems Mozilla were hotlinking directly to our digested button image URLs, which recently changed.

We're reverting to the old images now to fix this issue.
That's what I was thinking. I don't want to live with regret. Thanks a lot !!!!
Awesome! Gonna spend a weekend on this.

And an easy way to share my personal all-time favorite title sequence, Delicatessen:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/delicatessen/
For some of these services, I would likely choose to not lock myself into something that is quite expensive per month after the 3 or 6 months provided by the program. Obviously, if you were gonna use them anyway, it makes sense to get them free. But, with subscription services, I tend to think long and hard before going down that road, if there are one-time cost alternatives.

And, it's easy and cheap for subscription services to give away a few months for free; it's a proven marketing model, in fact.

That's not to say there's no value here. For people that will use these services and get real value out of them, it's a win-win; the companies providing the services get a new qualified lead who will likely turn to a paying customer in 3 to 12 months, and the developer gets to launch with less capital invested.
No. In the first case, the fact that the host shows you a goat has not put you in any new state of the world (the host was going to show you a goat regardless of what happened).

In the second case, you now know that you are not in one of the states of the world where the host accidentally opened a door that had a car behind it. They could have opened a door with a car, but they didn't. That gives you some information - it stands to reason that since they didn't open a door with a car, it was probably a bit more likely that they would pick a door with a goat, which makes it more likely that there are two goats than that there is one car and one goat, which is equivalent to saying that it's a bit more likely that you have already chosen the car.
This is exactly right. It drives me nuts that most explanations gloss over this.

If you're a mathematician you don't tend to introduce any additional assumptions unless they are stated. Assuming the host has knowledge of what is behind all of the doors (or at least where the car is) changes everything. Some wordings of the question include it, others don't.

Of course a non-mathematician might assume things about the game show host based on their knowledge of game show hosts but a mathematician is entirely correct to simply take the question at face value and not inject additional unstated assumptions. Otherwise what is preventing them from putting in other completely wacky assumptions like "the host wants you to win the car and knows you know about the monty hall problem and is using reverse psychology"?
Hmmm... I'll ask the professor !!!
It looks like Coinbase's CDN uses unique identifiers for static assets to prevent caching, and the one Mozilla used for that image is out of date.

Broken: https://coinbase.com/assets/buttons/donation_large-36ee93618...

Working: https://coinbase.com/assets/buttons/donation_large.png
Actually, I just ran tests with your DSSIM and Mehdi's SSIM.cpp, and got very similar results. So never mind; the choice of SSIM tool doesn't seem to matter much here.
Morning Star is the best I've heard: https://hbr.org/2011/12/first-lets-fire-all-the-managers/ar/...
It was already taken by someone else.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rhIBqhu...

Github seems to have moved their user account to

https://github.com/ken-zz
Whatever the ethics of it, actually I am currently looking for a Swiss based hosting provider that looks a lot like cloudscale/exoscale. However Cloudscale is just "coming soon" and Exoscale isn't, so knowing about it was rather useful. Actually I had no idea that you could get advanced app hosting platforms like this that were regional. I thought Heroku was it.

Exoscale would get more money from me if they had hosted postgres as well as mysql though.
From memory:

* Dial-up in the 28.8k era was per-minute. Occasional $700 AOL bill. Mom was pissed.

* Dial-up in the 33.6k through 56k eras was flat-rate. Start a download before bed, enjoy it in the morning.

* Broadband, pre 3mbps era. Flat rate.

* Netzero: Back to dialup, but now free. (Especially if you replaced their dialer software with a pencil-and-paper key to the Caesar cipher they used for auth.)

* Cellular. Sorta based on SMS rates.

* Broadband, 10mbps. Some companies have caps. Only a subset of users notice them, nobody had their back.

* Mobile. Smart phones! But the device is the limiting factor, not the network.

* Broadband, every major provider has caps written into the contract, but few enable technical enforcement of the caps. I smell deception: "We've always had these caps, you must have increased your usage!"

* Mobile, post 3g: pay per byte, period.
I know what you mean. I use it with LiveScript.
They should remove that. It'll get them smacked by the google spam team eventually.
On top of this, if you're at all unsure about the wording, you can apply the meta-solution that it's best to switch, because the chance of it giving you the car is always at least 1/2 and has a non-zero probability of being 2/3. That gives an expected cross-universe probability of more than 1/2.
I know a lot of people running node in production, and getting very high performance out of it. It may anger hacker news that such a thing is even possible, but there you have it.
> I remember being able to buy all sorts of ICs, analog parts, interesting radios and kits.

They still do. Most radioshacks I've visited carry arduino kits and ICs, electronic parts, LEDs, resistors, capacitors, etc.
There is a difference. Write a simulation in your favorite language. You'll be forced to decide whether the door with the car ever gets revealed to the contestant. In those cases does the contestant get to switch and win the car? Or did you just throw those cases out in your code? If so, you made an assumption that isn't aways stated clearly in the problem.
I don't think that's how it works. From my understanding, a new address is typically used for every new transaction. What you are interested in is their wallet which would be the sum of their addresses.

On the other hand, it appears that they are using Coinbase. In that case I'm not sure Mozilla would have direct access to a wallet. Instead I imagine that Coinbase keeps track of their balance which is divided among Coinbase's wallets (sort of like a bank). I'm not too well versed however, so maybe someone else can clear this up.
Ensuring quality when you randomly generate things is hard.

I made a word generator tool. In doing so, for just 6-14 letter words, I had to develop a large amount of quality regulation formulas that would detect unnatural patterns ("xamxo" for instance might be a questionable pattern to have in a word).

Anyway, the thought of coming up with a generator to make a whole book (at least one that is coherent) is an interesting one - and much, much more challenging.
The other thing to note about hardware, in comparison to software, is that it is inherently "parallel"; i.e. electrons will flow if they can, if a logic gate is set to switch it will, you can't make it "wait" to switch until you want it to. This is why clocking is important, it makes sure that things happen in a synchronised fashion; without it it's a bit like an orchestra playing with no conductor and/or beat, a mess.
The notion of revealing the goat before you make your second choice is a bit of a distraction. It becomes a lot more clear if you realize that in your first choice, you're dividing the doors into two groups: the group you choose has a 1/N chance of having a car in it, and the group you didn't choose has a (N-1)/N chance of having a car in it. Now, imagine that without opening any doors, Monty said: if you're willing to switch to the N-1 group, you win if there's a car in any of them. Do you take it? Of course.
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Unless that price is zero, that's exactly what net neutrality is trying to avoid- an uneven playing field.
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