skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read what I said more carefully. My point is that nobody was even thinking of digital duplication as an issue that required discerning between people doing it for love and people doing it for money. We were forced to develop an opinion, forced to draw this particular line by established interests crying foul ever since the '70s (and probably even before).

We weren't born with an innate sense that is wrong to pay for certain types of digital copies; our rational economic instinct is to try and get the best bang for our buck, not to investigate whether the seller is actually allowed to sell us that particular bang. That is why contraband is as old as the world.

It was a constant stream of threats and propaganda from established interests that taught us that there is a "good copy" and a "bad copy" and people selling "bad copies" are unworthy of getting our money. Now it's natural to think that there is a line to draw, regardless of where you actually draw it. That line wasn't there before "they" told us to look for it.

For taxis and hospitality, this process of education/indoctrination has not happened, because there was no real need -- these matters were settled in law decades ago through the (mostly democratic) process, and that was it. Established interests could draw the line at any time with a couple of phone calls, because you can't hide a hotel or a cab for long; there was no need to involve the public, no need to divulge the finer points of hospitality law or to develop in their customers a critical approach to doing business in these markets like the entertainment industry was doing.

Now Uber and AirBnB are simply bypassing these established systems by using scale. They make infringers small enough and numerous enough to make enforcement unpractical on the ground, and use that as a lever to remove established systems of control. Incumbents are forced to ask the public to do the enforcement themselves, like the entertainment industry started doing so many years ago. So now more and more people know that there is a line to draw in those industries as well, but in numbers nowhere near what the entertainment industry amassed in almost 50 years of continuous advertisement of "bad practices". That doesn't mean that they don't have the exact same reasons of the entertainment industry: "the law says X and these people are doing Y, please make them stop". (In fact, they probably have even more reasons, since regulation of these industries has some foundation in actual threats to the public -- hotels with no emergency exit, drunk unlicensed drivers etc. -- whereas nobody ever died because of an unlicensed tape.)
I guess you are being downvoted, because the fact "DNA can survive (re?)entry from space" is not a proof.
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So Bitcoin turns out to be the greatest sting ever conceived.
Even though the frameworks evolve quickly in JavaScript, nobody is stopping you with sticking to an "older" one if it works for your project.

It's true though that your value as a developer shifts quite fast depending on the trends. But I feel that a fast moving world is merely a consequence of super large communities like the JavaScript one.

By "stability" I meant that NPM and Bower are quite reliable.
Also, if you look at the usage stats for the top plugins, the still show in my opinion stability since you have a lot of devs contributing through pull requests.
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Coinbase supports ACH transfers. They're hardly anything I would call a "shady" website.

They're also backed by ycombinator and Andreessen Horowitz.

https://www.coinbase.com/about
What does Javascript have to do with anything? The article is about Python. It's about how we build the server-side, not the client-side.
In fairness, the article is almost as bad as the title. It isn't even clear at first that they are taking about belt electrons rather than cosmic-ray electrons, which have many orders of magnitude higher energy.

The gist of the article seems to be, "The sharpness of the outer edge of the inner Van Allen belt is due to scattering of high-energy belt electrons off cold plasma surrounding the Earth" but it's really difficult to tell.
So Much for the Tablet Market – The iPad Has Hit the Wall
Guessing that it's interesting when using an uniform endpoint for both forms and js-driven requests.
OpenBSD fixed it in 5.5 released in May.
If the host picks randomly, the chances must sum to 2/3, not 1.
You don't have to go SPA to avoid the page reload. AJAX works just fine with regular webpages as well, judiciously applied on the most latency-sensitive actions.

BTW, you're posting this on Hacker News, which is the ultimate in retro Web-1.0 technology. Heck, it even uses tables for layout.
But is that because you like Python, have a large code base that takes time to convert, is missing some tools, don't think javascript is mature enough or something else?

I use C# myself and would not like to convert our whole app to js but I could be ok with Dart or TypeScript instead (or Go but that is not a scripting language).
If you're in Europe, you can do a SEPA transfer to someone on localbitcoins - you don't have to meet in person.
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After going for several minutes I gave up.

In addition to a leader board, it needs to:
- Have a time limit and see who can get the most calculations done on that fixed time
- or, have a fixed number of calculations and see how fast people can answer them
- or, it could get faster as you progress

The calculation of the "you are better than X%" needs to be fixed because everybody in my office was better than 100%
Don't get me wrong, I'd vastly prefer competition. There just isn't much reason to be optimistic it will arrive.

I do have a horse in this race, my employer just struck a very non-neutral deal with a wireless carrier: http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/more-music-freedom.htm
The New Yorker also published an excellent piece on Perelman and the solving of the Poincaré back in 2006: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/28/manifold-destin...

It's interesting to see the political implications behind breakthroughs like this.
Radioshack, want to save you business? Turn every single one of your stores into a hackerspace.

You don't even need much. Get a laser cutter, a 3D printer, a drill press, free WiFi, some tables, and a stack of arduinos and you'll be doing awesome.

Then build an instructables-esque community website for people to show off their projects.

I'll even consult with you guys on this if you make a big enough donation to the hackerspace I help run in Phoenix.
The question is phrased ad-hoc. We know the host picked a goat in both scenarios. Decision time. Do we switch or no? It didn't ask: "On an infinite timeline where the host might not always pick the goat, should we switch and if so when?" Which I think is what op was trying to say.
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The cost for this energy is $3-$6/gallon according to the US Navy's estimate. I get about $9/gallon if you include the costs of solar power provisioning. Or $126 - $378/bbl.

That's not cheap, but it's a damned sight better than pretty much any biofuel alternative, which runs about $1000/bbl.

And fuel is essential for transportation. Some transport can be liberated -- you can run passenger cars on batteries (for a price). Within cities, buses and even delivery vehicles can be electrified (possibly with on-board batteries for short off-grid excursions). Rail absolutely can be electrified.

But a lot of uses cannot be.

It's difficult to run power cords across oceans (though you might be able to electrify some barge and river traffic). Especially if you want to tap into them at sea. An electrified marine cargo business isn't an option. Your primary alternatives are sail power, biofuel (including possibly pelletized wood ships, an existing proposal), or electrically-generated synfuels as here.

Airplanes handle electric cords even worse than boats do. There are numerous airline industry initiatives looking at biofuels, but Boeing's "biggest breakthrough there is" bet really doesn't pan out. Unless you want to cover _all_ of Oklahoma and Kansas, as well as parts of Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, and Missouri, just to supply fuel to the aviation industry.

Worldwide, shipping and aviation account for about 5% each of total petroleum consumption.

Or you could create the fuel. Yes, shipping prices, airfares, and air cargo rates would increase. But you'd still have them.
I see what you're getting it, but I think it's kind of odd. I'm curious: would the same sequence of pitches be more or less meaningful if they came from the brain of a specially trained dog?
I feel that if you go the whole react and SPA route you should use the tool mostly used with that : grunt/gulp, npm/bower, browserify/webpack. Even MS is going this route the VS 2015 projects will use grunt/npm/bower in the starting template, don't expect to have updated Nugget package for all those JS lib you will use for so long. And the is no Nugget packages for most lib you will have to use with React. The only thing that make it interesting is for the initial render but I don't know if it is easy to set up.
Thanks. Sounds like they didn't really figure out what the problem was with the Erlang implementation but instead reimplemented with C++ systems that were existing, built in-house, and better understood. Makes total sense but shouldn't be taken as a point for or against Erlang as much as it's a point for using a stack your team is familiar with (or has a deep motivation to get familiar with).
It's such a small town that I doubt that would work. That said, he's the only place in town to get things like scanner radios, small electronic parts, certain tools, and a wide selection of batteries. He'll probably just revert back to the original company name before he became a franchisee, and source his small parts from Digi-key or Mouser.
weren't they the ones not fulfilling orders when the value of bitcoins fluctuated "too much"...
The T-Mobile deal seems great at first blush. You get more stuff for free - yay! But, what if you're a startup streaming music service, and T-Mobile does NOT include you in their list of cap-free streaming? Good luck competing with the other providers.

Perhaps a solution would be to classify types of services, and then make ANY company in that service eligible for the cap-free streaming. So, if you're a startup in the music streaming space, you are automatically included along with all the others. Then the telcos could provide packages of free services without harming innovation and competition.
How about a Dummies book :)
http://design.altera.com/New2FPGAeBook
"Stekhlov Institute"

It should be "Steklov Institute" because there's no х to be found in "Стеклов".
It's still quite unlikely. The original biochemistry needed a liquid aqueous environment to form and replicate, and you won't find that condition outside of a reasonably deep gravity well in a solar habitable zone. Only Venus, Earth, and Mars would be plausible candidates inside the Solar System for an early incubator of life, and relatively speaking, there wasn't all that much matter transferred between these bodies. Early life probably wasn't as tough as modern bacteria, and likely used something less robust than DNA. The problem with the idea that life could have originated from outside the solar system is that Earth has a laughably small "absorption cross-section" with respect to matter ejected from another solar system, plus the fact that it's very unlikely any information-bearing polymer could survive the integrated radiation flux over its long subrelativistic journey between the stars.
I am curious about this seemingly common perception that Wordpress is an insecure product. Is Wordpress, when configured correctly, far less secure than other platforms? (My main thinking is that it is an obvious target due to its incredible marketshare)

A client I had was recently terrified of using Wordpress because an 'SEO expert' had filled her head with conjecture about the insecurity of Wordpress compared to Drupal, referring anecdotally to the White House website using Drupal as some sort of indicator that Drupal is infinitely more secure.

However, looking at CVE data, I don't find massive discrepancies, in fact Drupal had more listed vulnerabilities (almost double) than Wordpress in 2014. Compare the CVE statistics for Drupal http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/1367/Drupal.html vs. Wordpress http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/2337/Wordpress.html

I'm just curious if you believe there are inherent risks in Wordpress, or if you meant specifically Wordpress in the wrong hands and with the wrong plugins/extensions etc.
@dllthomas

I've written the simulation, and you're right. It is 50% when the host chooses randomly!
Kind of nice, basically turns form submission into a bare-bones API call.
If you've been to Radio Shack recently, they have a decent number of Arduino kits and the like.. however I don't think people are not dense enough to pay $60 for a kit you can purchase for $20 on Amazon. I think their was a point where they could have course corrected though I think they missed the exit half a decade ago.
I agree there are some serious problems. But a lot of the problems are worked on, like modules. I agree they should be in the language and it looks like they will be in ES6.
Regarding the different languages on the server and client you don't really have a choice. JS is what runs in the browsers. If you want the same on the server the server has to change. Very few people seems to want Java in the browsers again. And you can write gateway systems in Node that then connects to servers further back which may still use Java/C#/Python or something else. This seems to be the natural route for many projects.
Yes! That's a really good implementations of linked lists using only preprocessor macros.

sys/queue.h is also provided in all Linux systems.

Easy to use, type-checked by the compiler and a lot faster than a "generic" linked list with pointers to the data.
Here, the next/previous pointers get embedded in the payload struct itself.
In fairness, you have to look at how standards get somewhere - this is an editor's draft which is a starting point of an idea rather than a done deal. Don't be surprised if the final product winds up being significantly different than this - even better, get involved in the conversation to make it what we need. That's not to pour cold water on it: It's good as it is, but there are changes which potentially help explain the magic of participating in form encoding and submission which may be better and allow more adaptation and experimentation over time.
Submitting files with this form encoding is of course going to have the base64 overhead, but otherwise this looks great!
It's the day before turkey day, you don't deserve the negative links, even if it was a cheap comment, as you made me think of that ma's laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9D6w1GzGY

Also, is laughter a conserved 'shape' in nature, and what is the shape space of nature anyways, is it restricted to the 4 dimensions we inhabit in a way?
Agreed, this is the very reason I created a small script [1] to install them on non-OpenBSD systems. They are excellent for as references when coding C and to check what is most likely a GNU extension when writing portable shell scripts.

[1]: https://github.com/ninjin/ppod/tree/master/hck/openbsd_manpa...
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All true. I graduated with a EE degree during the dotcom bust, so I worked at RS for a few months.

We were told stories of a sales associate that managed to make about $80k a year. He managed this by getting customers a RS credit card and loading up the customers' shopping cart full of stuff. He did this by telling the customers that their monthly/weekly credit card payments would be $X, which might seem like a reasonable amount to the unwise. The funny thing is, that guy's store wasn't even profitable (well, from what I heard).

Anyways, by the time I worked there, RS had transitioned to being a cell phone retailer more than anything else. I think I've been in a store maybe twice in the last 11 years.
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Different levels of India judicial system didn't find any evidence against him or wrongdoing on any sort. In fact, he took steps to prevent riot which was commended by Special Investigation committee. The link you posted is from a magazine run by people who were sworn to malign Modi at any cost (think of republicans who said they'll do anything against Obama). For other side of the story, one can go to http://www.gujaratriots.com
Of course. The primary goal of academia is the advancement of human knowledge.

Unfortunately, the current ecosystem of journals is to a significant extent failing at that. Possibly introducing a clear [0] profit motive into that system would result in it working more efficiently and better serving academia's primary goal.

[0] I say "clear" because a lot of the current system of journals is primarily driven by profit motives that are only slightly veiled. There are notable exceptions to this, e.g. PLoS, Journal of Statistical Software, etc...
If you needed to do this in PHP (or any other language with the ICU transliterator):

transliterator_transliterate('Any-Latin; Latin-ASCII', 'Input string');

It's not exactly the same thing - it will convert letters into ASCII characters that sort of sound right, not just strip diacritics.

It's possible to simply strip diactricts too, probably something like:

'NFD; [:Punctuation:] Remove;'
We got approved for the accelerate track, and frankly it's awesome. And they keep upping the benefits. Parse credits just got bumped to $20K which we use, so it's like free money. I don't quite get what FB is getting out of this, but they are certainly earning a lot of developer goodwill.
No. Even in the case of a single trial, it matters.

If the host picks randomly, and the host picks a goat, and you switch, your odds of a car are 1/3, just as if you'd stuck. There's no point.

If the host always chooses a goat, and the host picks a goat, and you switch, your odds are 2/3 in favor of now having a car. You should always switch.

Intuition suggests this. Statistics proves it. If you implement this in software, you will see it happening to you in black and white, right before your eyes.
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Use the numpad.

If you don't care about the setting:
1. Click "Play game"
2. Press 2, Enter, Star once it loads.

Make 24. Enter the two intermediate results. Numpad plus repeats the question.

I don't know if this is a good place to start if you have trouble hearing but might be fun for practice anyway.
Had the same exact reaction. Wikipedia surprised me.

But no, I didn't add a page for him ...
It looks like a fun project.

I did notice something odd in the example on your github page:

$ tubemaps path --from "Euston" --to "Hammersmith"
# Piccadilly Line: Hammersmith to Barons Court
# Piccadilly Line: Barons Court to Earl's Court
# Piccadilly Line: Earl's Court to Gloucester Road
# Piccadilly Line: Gloucester Road to South Kensington
# Piccadilly Line: South Kensington to Knightsbridge
# Piccadilly Line: Knightsbridge to Hyde Park Corner
# Piccadilly Line: Hyde Park Corner to Green Park
# Victoria Line: Green Park to Oxford Circus
# Victoria Line: Oxford Circus to Warren Street
# Victoria Line: Warren Street to Euston

It may just be me, but it seems you have "from" and "to" reversed?

(NOTE: Trusting my judgement on such directional things tends to be a
bad bet since I'm ambidextrous and dyslectic --I don't know left from
right, and for me, it often doesn't matter. ;)
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Ok, and if we can start clean?

(I'm in the process of build a toy language).

Is this more a problem for a language with baggage, or is general? I wonder if for example in Go, Erlang is less of a issue...
Ockham's razor is either useless, or a special case of Bayes' Rule. People argue endlessly about it because they fail to recognize they are assuming different priors.

If the Urey experiment is reasonably representative of conditions on primordial Earth, no further work is required to get amino acids. So for some people P(terrestrial primordial amino acids) is ~1

If the Murchison meteor and other evidence is correct, amino acids are common in the universe. Data from the Philae lander may tell us more about this. So for some people P(extra-terrestrial primordial amino acids) is ~1

Nor are these exclusive groups. It appears amino acids aren't all that hard to make, so they may have both fallen from the sky and been created on Earth.

But... amino acids are not life. There is a further step that is required for the actual pan-spermia hypothesis: the synthesis of more complex molecules, like RNA and DNA. If you think P(RNA|amino acids) ~ 1 then pan-spermia becomes at best irrelevant: not impossible, but not very interesting.

If you think P(R/DNA|amino acids) ~ &epsilon; then pan-spermia becomes very important, because it is far more likely than not that life on Earth is due to RNA or DNA that descend from an original synthesis that happened elsewhere.

Evidence suggests RNA synthesis given amino acids is not very probable. I don't believe it has ever been observed to happen spontaneously the way amino acids are spontaneously synthesized in the Urey experiment. So pan-spermia cannot be dismissed on the basis that it is uninteresting.

DNA propogating itself across the universe is also not very probable, so the two hypotheses remain in competition, and it isn't obvious which is more plausible. Pan-spermia requires things like "DNA can survive re-entry." So the OP is correct: discovering that DNA can survive re-entry makes "Life originated elsewhere" more plausible.

You'll notice I never used the word "simplicity" in any of this. There is no simplicity: only probability and plausibility. Evidence is more or less probable. Propositions are more or less plausible. Bayes' rule is the only way to update our beliefs consistently, such that no matter what order we get the evidence we come to the conclusion.
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Accessing Elasticsearch Cluster over https
ameen, but you need to understand too that almost all culprits of bomb blasts in India were muslims, majority of mafia is run by muslims, most riots happened between hindu/muslim, or sikh/muslim, or recently bauddh/muslim. While I agree, majority of muslims are peaceful and just like any other person, Islam in general is failing to corroborate that image. Instead of blaming other about how they perceive islam, time is ripe for muslims to work for cleaning up image of islam.
I was making a chat application that would show all the user's friends so they could create groups of their friends. When a friend not currently using the app was sent a message, I was going to prompt to send an invite. The full friend list is important to my particular application. I'm unsure why FB game apps only get access to the full friend list.
Quite a few comments about how Radio Shack lost their way and squandered their opportunity, but really their business model was dead. Nothing they could have done would have changed what happened.

It was a store with a very large number of SKUs that they could only sustain through very high profit margins. Sure that works great when it's Sunday and you need that resistor now, but the vast majority of times people would just order online.
While I appreciate your thoughtful response, all of your points evade my questions.

Especially your (iii) which makes a pretty invalid assumption about paid traffic all paying the same rates. Do you know this is true for current paid traffic? I would bet it's entirely not true. Even if it is, paid traffic being prioritized over free traffic is essentially reinforcing the internet slow-lane.

Nothing of what you said replies to the difficulties in competing against Facebook or other internet giants when they're paying to prevent competition from newcomers.

Sorry, but you sound like a telecom/cable apologist.