skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://github.com/aurelia/framework under Running the Tests. Looks like it uses Karma for unit testing.
Downvoting for disagreement is beneficial because it often stands in as proxy for an inflamed response. A down vote might be better for the community than a flame war or accusations of trolling or wasting energy trying to convince people that they are wrong.

There are times when the community is better for point->counterpoint and times when it isn't. When I suspect it won't be after I have written what I am inclined to write, I down vote. It's often the best among my alternatives after avoiding threads likely to produce crap comments, trolling, and everything I can find elsewhere on the internet.
Also possible that this could be related to his sale of Ars Technica. Massachusetts imposes its own capital gains tax, and he may have been liable for a significant portion of that, especially given that it sounds like it was MA domiciled. Or maybe not, but there's lots of ways that he could be legitimately liable for MA taxes while living in a different state.

Sounds to me like his beef could be with the Chicago CPA. CPAs are not created equal, and even the big 4 accounting firms make serious mistakes when things get complicated - has happened to me. Usually, when that happens, the CPA is responsible for fixing the problem (paying late fees, filings, etc.), but you're still liable for the underlying tax burden that they may have missed.

In any case, would be nice to know what the resolution was!
In fairness, I suspect reading a paper written in the first style would be even worse.

EDIT: I can totally get behind the "classic" style referenced in the Pinker link elsewhere in this thread.
A whopping third of people surveyed had more than 20-30% of their net worth in bitcoin. I wonder how many of those people are storing it themselves vs storing them with Coinbase or some other exchange?

I imagine most of these people saw a medium sized investment increase in value significantly, which made it a larger part of their net worth as opposed to putting 25% of their net worth into bitcoin.
It's not as sinister as it sounds. You have to upgrade capacity to handle the power produced by neighborhood capacity or you burn out the lines.
Some people just find al dente to be more pleasant for certain pasta shapes than the soft texture of fresh pasta.

Finishing the pasta in the sauce is always a good idea when it's possible, but you'd still aim for an al dente final texture (e.g. put it into the sauce when it's about a minute away from being al dente).
1. What bodily sample types can you start from? The CDC page gives stool as an example, but can you work from blood or mucus as well? What sorts of preparation/purification steps (if any) are required in those cases?

2. How long does it take with your system to get a positive ID?

3. How often do you get false positives/negatives? How much does this matter (from a clinical perspective)? Are the phenotypes similar enough that it's not that important?

4. Can you rapidly/correctly classify any E. coli at the strain level, and not just STEC? What about other bacteria?

5. Have you considered taking this system to the clinic? Have you investigated whether there's demand for it from clinicians? Bacterial diagnostics haven't really benefited from the GAIN Act the way antibacterial therapeutics have (http://www.nature.com/scibx/journal/v7/n41/full/scibx.2014.1...). Do you think the path to market will be significantly eased/improved for IVDs by the impending change from cost-based to market-based reimbursement (http://www.analysisgroup.com/uploadedFiles/Publishing/Articl...)?

6. For clinical purposes, how would you compare/contrast a NGS-based bacterial ID platform to an AST-based one (e.g., $AXDX's ID/AST system: http://acceleratediagnostics.com/our-science/culture-free-mi...)? Do we really need the genotype, or is it just the phenotype that matters?
I hear what you are saying but if it means than 330k people still with IBM can keep their jobs (as opposed to the whole thing going under) it could be a good thing.
It has, and TextSecure is excellent. But being owned by Facebook, and their previous security record, has massacred WhatsApp's credibility amongst many users I've spoken to it seems.

To the point where friends have been talking to friends on the technical merits of them, and some have chosen to use Telegram, which is… um, not of the same quality of design as TextSecure, I'll say politely. But it's not owned by Facebook, and apparently that counts for a lot because people really do distrust Facebook that much. (Despite saying that on Facebook, I gather. Irony.)

I have the feeling TextSecure/Signal is frustratingly close to perfect. If it gained the ability to do voice and video well, gained a good desktop client (a slim one, without ads!), and could use usernames instead of/as well as phone numbers, it'd be poised to replace most of the common uses of Skype.

Add metadata protection in some form (onion/garlic routing?) and a distributed network (Tox used DHT) and we'd really be onto something. Although metadata protection is a particularly hard set of problems, especially when you want essentially real-time communication and low battery life. Still, we're in interesting times, and we have tools to make a whole new set of interesting design tradeoffs!
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It's actually a misconception that solar power is only competitive with subsidies. In the past, it has absolutely been true, but today solar power can really stand on it's own two legs in terms of LCOE(basically the metric that gives a reasonable cost/watt).

Your example (and the OP's) is from rooftop solar, which is a different market. It's much more expensive than utility scale solar, which is the real winner right now in terms of solar power cost performance. But don't get my wrong, I do strongly support subsidies for solar power, it's benefits are many-fold: less GHG, more energy independence, more money in solar R&D further bringing solar power to grid parity in more and more states and markets.

If you think about it, fossil fuels will fluctuate, but always trend up, they are limited. Solar power will only go down. In a hundred years, I would be surprised if the grid was 100% Solar/Nuclear(fusion power will be only 50 years away, in a hundred years), with geothermal and hydro here and there.
I've had something similar to this happen with another state agency (not the state in which by business is incorporated). We had opened a tax account in another state as we intended to convert a contractor to an FTE, but we ended up terminating the worker's contract. Time passes, and Chase processes a levy on behalf of a collections agency authorized to collect for the state department of revenue. They had automatically been calculating tax owed for one FTE, even though we had never filed a statement indicating we were withholding. Then fees, interest, penalties, etc. added up and it made for a very bad day or two here.

It took a few calls between us, Chase and the state agency, and a simple form to get the levy order rescinded before Chase fulfilled it (30 days after their receipt, for most such orders). Our funds were released within minutes of calling them to confirm that the state sent them a fax rescinding the levy order.

I've heard numerous horror stories about dealing with Chase on matters like this. I didn't find those stories to be true, in our case. I suspect the author either handled it (one would hope), or closed his tax account and chalked it up to lessons learned (a regrettable, but understandable decision to avoid further anguish and just "be done with it").
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That's a great way of getting robbed even without anyone needing to take your money, you would be effectively giving it away.

For example, the closing price exactly one year ago today was $880. Yesterday it was $248. So if you had $20,000 in savings and put them into Bitcoin, you'd have $5,636 now. What a wonderful savings account a 75% loss...

I swear the only reason people keep suggesting Bitcoin as an "investment" is because it is a pyramid scheme and they themselves are already deeply in the red, and see bringing in others as their only saviour.
I expect part of the problem is that people who are attracted by clear writing and thinking are turned off by the academic fields that suffer most from overly academic writing.

In math formal language is easier to read than the informal one. Mathematicians write proofs in informal, paragraph style while newcomers are taught to read/write proofs in the most formal way because the latter is much more structured and clear.
They've become smaller and more maintanence-free than you might expect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
The T-I calculator is awesome
Elite's crazy tokenized string routine
Betteridge's Law of Headlines holds up once again. The answer is emphatically "no".
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The Average Lifespan of a Webpage
Superman vs. Baseball
A drone in robotics does not have to fly, it just means that primary direction comes from elsewhere, whether or not the drone itself has any smarts. As alex_duf mentions below, the rovers currently on Mars are drones. 'Drone' has had this meaning long before Parrot and Predator drones existed (which seem to be the things that popularised that meaning).
I think people are taking the GP's comment out of context since the original headline was "Predominant.ly: great execution of a simple idea" (https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/posts/794421357279814) and it has since been shortened.
Noticed the author's complaint at the end about recovering the funds. No massive legal fees are necessary to recover them if the agency rescinds the levy. Just a fairly simple request for refund. I think he, like many in this situation, got indignant and had a flame-out emotional response. The lack of follow up suggests that it wasn't ultimately as big of a deal as he thought, IMHO.
A product which provided actual value and novel functionality to end users has been swallowed up by a larger corporation with maybe a 25% chance of actually getting any kind of continued life, if this plays out as these things usually do.

And once again, this is pitched as winning the trophy, because the culture has become more obsessed with collecting a payoff than actual long-term growth and innovation.

In the 1990's when Creative Labs bought out and shuttered Aureal and basically killed 3D audio in its crib, it was a fucking travesty that audio buffs still mourn to this day.

If that'd happened now, in 2015's "startup culture," we'd be expected to cheer that they got theirs.
If you'd like an easier way to toggle this setting. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/happy-bonobo-...

I wish Chrome would provide this setting too.
Yeah, don't get me wrong, it looks good for what it is, and certainly some of the best products come from skunkworks and hobby.

Is there anywhere I can read about the specific problem at bitly you built it to facilitate? I mean, I've seen a lot of these systems where there are integration and timing concerns, so some kind of message bus is useful. But if they do get to a point where things needs to be distributed, sending messages without order and delivery guarantees just seems to be passing the buck to downstream systems to not mess up.
so i believe one of the StackExchange founders left full time work at SE to build a start-up directed to here. (http://www.discourse.org/). i I think this was maybe two years ago--no idea about their product.
It looks pretty cool! Do you happen to know any real website or webapp developed with D or vibe.d?
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He's been wrong about a lot of things for a long time. I'm surprised people still listen to him.
Plain JavaScript event delegation
You might be interested in NoScript. With this addon, JavaScript can be blocked by default, and allowed on pages of your choosing.
Tell them it will speed up their computer.
Whoop, I got that backward - it's as soon as the rate of money going out exceeds the rate coming in.
Its particularly interesting in that it gets ALL my local ip addresses. This seems quite dangerous. Could they just start probing around my local network or does cross domain stuff kick in?
Beautifully put.
Marginal innovations are like a greedy algo, & its not like the lofty goals are devoid of funding. Progress there feels so slow because the search space is so complex/expansive and there are so many local minima to flounder in.
Right down to the name, SNet (it was called Xnet in Little Brother).
Also, the article opens with the following quote: "If hiring managers were doctors, half of new patients would be dead in 18 months."

I can't see Doctors lowering themselves to participate in this charade, but clearly, programmers should expect less.
Yea, in the original announcement blog post (which became the design doc):

http://nsq.io/overview/design.html
I think that other weapons and combat forms pushed the sword to be limited to duels and mainly duels of honor. Fencing came from training to duel. The foil is a learning weapon and even though the entire torso is a target, most attacks ideally aim for the heart. Epee you really see the dueling roots. In epee many points are scored off your hand or foot. Duels of honor were commonly fought to first blood rather than death. First blood was typically a wound to the hand or other body part close to the action.
Ahh Boom! Google Fu pays off.

http://blog.ramen.is/design/we-lost-a-customer-this-is-how-w...
This is ridiculous. Groupon hired the people that set that valuation. It's completely reasonable to mock Groupon for it.
Please don't. I realize this was said tongue-in-cheek, but the ramifications of using local encryption without understanding it are large. You have to be willing to take on key management, or you risk losing every bit of data or being just as insecure as you would have been without encryption (with a slower computer as an added bonus).

Unfortunately, it takes at least a little buy-in from the user to make encryption work. We need better tools, for sure, but that final piece of holding the key needs to be taught and the responsibility accepted.
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It looks like about 1/3 to me. I would say that is significant. I wonder if the study would have the same conclusion now that oil costs about 1/2 of what it did several months ago.
GOV.UK launches SSO including verification with online verification
Here in Cali there is no green energy credit market for residential solar, so all I got was the 30% federal tax credit. With that credit my break-even point will be just under 5 years. Without said credit, my break-even point would be just over 7 years, which was still a no-brainer for me.

Note this is personal experience with my cash purchased system, as I'm not a fan of consumer debt. Any time a company makes more money off the 'financial products' they sell than the actual physical products or services they sell, you're probably better off paying cash.
C++ management can of course be workable with enough care. I worked on Chrome for a bit while at Google, and saw that it more or less holds together with enough reference counting and smart pointers. At the same time, it still requires a lot of care, and plenty of bugs have been caused by subtle mistakes in this kind of code (which is why Chrome uses a sandbox around the actual rendering engine, because it's far too complex to be trustworthy). But even Blink/Chrome is moving to a garbage collector (http://www.chromium.org/blink/blink-gc) for C++ objects because of all the memory management complexity.

What I'm hoping is that you can have a GC that allows you to avoid all these issues without having to be super-careful all the time, while mitigating the pause issue by reducing the garbage using pools and similar techniques. My hypothesis is that most of the little allocations that game engines perform are homogenous enough that moving them to pools will be fairly easy. And that this will be sufficient to avoid big pauses. But we'll see how it plays out in practice when I get some hard data on big scenes.

Finally, memory management isn't the only reason I'd prefer to avoid C++. I'm particularly sick of long compile times (they could really kill you on a big project like Chrome), and among other things I believe that Go's concurrency model will prove a big improvement over C threading.
"Provided actual value" but unfortunately couldn't extract enough value from their users to survive independently.

The choice was likely between shutting down and going on unemployment or finding a soft landing.
> Fresh pasta is not better than dried pasta, just different.

That's true in the trivial sense that "better" is subjective, so nothing is inherently better than anything else.

OTOH, plenty of people do find fresh pasta better than, and not merely different than, dried pasta.

> You can't get an al dente texture with fresh pasta, for example.

Untrue. Al dente texture can be achieved with fresh or dried hard-wheat pasta; you can't get it with soft-wheat pasta, and soft-wheat pasta is easier to work by hand, and is for that reason increasingly popular as fresh pasta -- but you can make fresh hard-wheat pasta, and it used to be more common than it is now among fresh pastas, and you absolutely can make such pasta al dente.
She never said what her contribution to the project was, beyond the "idea".
What is the difference between 'cutting' and 'slashing' as you refer to them? It seems they would be the same to me.
See for yourself: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1
Functional reactive event handling in Rust
SRECs are completely different and separate from net-metering or electricity purchasing requirements. In states with an SREC, you can sell renewable energy credits to clearing houses or companies who use those credits to cancel out non-green practices (like buying carbon offsets from Al Gore).
Kochs Plan to Spend $900M on 2016 Campaign
Apple to Shut Down Old TestFlight Website in February
I'll kick of the discussion, the existing government gateway system can be a bit troublesome for those with forgotten details and deadline tax returns.

I helped out a collegue today login to their tax return and avoid a £100 fine.

The verification is based upon identity documents (Passport/Driving license), bank transactions (given payment in month X) and other sources of data.
I would expect that trains have to accommodate the fact that they're trains as well. I would expect trying to stop/start a train traveling at 60mph without damaging the tracks on which it runs would require rather more time than a car.
Yeah, no one tell the author of that article about where the money for the Internet came from.
They seem quite rational to me.
Holy cow. Browser devs seem to become crazier by the minute. Combine this with the lack of a same-origin policy in the JavaScript websocket API and you can really poke around in the local network.
Having had solar panels on my roof for nearly 15 years now I can tell you that the 25 year warranty is optimistic at best. Our panel maker, Sharp, cannot replace panels under warranty (180W) because they no longer make them and have no replacement stock. We discovered this when we tried to exercise the warranty on a panel that failed.
Yeah. I just got done doing a very large SPA using Knockout, and I'm now starting a little side project with React/Flux.

Pain points I found with the Knockout based app: Performance, stupidly messy data flows, hard to test, lack of isomorphism. My choice of React/Flux for my next project was based on that: React makes a big deal about performance (virtual DOM), sensible data flow (flux architecture, one-way data flows, events, etc.), testability, and isomorphism.

I clicked on OPs link with some apprehension; is the stack I just chose already outdated? Not according to the blog post. They still need a "bunch of work" on performance and testing (which implies that it's not there yet, and also raises questions about priorities; testing seems like it should be more than an afterthought). There's no mention of isomorphism. And while technical details are sparse, it looks like there's no virtual DOM; no strongly enforced event model (like React has with Flux). Maybe it's there, but...

...given the amount of experience the author has writing JS frameworks, I'd have expected a lot more details on how this framework solves problems the programmer might have with other frameworks. I mean, the very first bullet is "Aurelia is written with vanilla ES6 and ES7 but transpiled and polyfilled to work on today’s Evergreen browsers. It may just be the most forward-thinking framework you've ever seen", but speaking just for myself, I've never ever thought to myself "man, this framework is awesome, but if only it had been written in ES7 and transpiled to work in my current browser!" I'm struggling to imagine why anyone would think that.

Now, maybe it's just a bad blog post. I'll do some more digging. But the message I'm getting so far is "this framework was created to solve the kind of issues framework authors care about, not the issues developers using the framework care about". If true, it's not a good message.

In short: Get off my lawn. :(
[Author here] Definitely never intended to claim that this was an original discovery; the original paper using the term is ~25 years old [http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~mturk/Papers/mturk-CVPR91.pdf].

Nonetheless, I've found it to be an interesting concept. There is indeed a homework from the Coursera ML course for computing and visualizing eigenfaces, and the course (and the Stanford CS229 notes) discuss PCA further. I decided to explore the ideas further and distill it into a blog post specifically on eigenfaces.

Goal is for it to serve as a condensed tutorial on an interesting topic! I definitely learned a bunch writing it, and it may be interesting to others who have yet to come across to concept.
I wonder if we can access it from outside Cuba? It would be cool to poke around.
I wish I had that kind of class growing up. Even a basic life skills class would be helpful. It would be much better than all those "teachers aide" classes I took in high school.
You can use WebRTC Block on the chrome store
Basically the whole real estate agents industry is structured in a way to make itself relevant. There is generally no incentive for the buyer to avoid using an agent, and in some cases it is hard for the seller to get enough exposure without an agent because other agents won't work with them.

http://www.realtor.com/advice/who-pays-the-real-estate-agent...
True enough, but the initial comment from chrisBob was about the immediate situation.
The proofs are publicly available, though I can imagine there would be significant... overhead involved in adding functions to the system.
Having tried nearly all the JS frameworks, I really like KnockoutJS. There are a few bits missing from it, but for someone like me who doesn't want a 1 page app knockout fits into a many page website really well. You can enhance pages as you go. Add a few nice GUI bits, some ajax to load and save... knockout makes it all very lovely.

But all the frameworks, the view syntax/binding gubbins is horrid. Hard to debug, easy to make syntax errors. Bleugh :(
How would becoming a vegan materially affect carbon dioxide emissions (or more saliently, the ratio of CO2 in the atmosphere).
I don't see how. WebRTC may leak your local IP, but that doesn't mean someone outside your local network can interact with it (without compromising a machine on said network).
Except for the fact that it has the tacit approval of the authorities and is monitored by volunteers for pornography or political discussions. The Xnet system in "Little Brother" was feasible because it was working on top of a well-established existing infrastructure. A system like Snet could not operate in defiance of the authorities because it could easily be dismantled by taking down the key links and arresting the operators.