skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another great tool to get long(er)-form articles onto a Kindle: http://fivefilters.org/kindle-it/
It's the nature of information at this point in history that you cannot possibly consume it all[1]. Therefore, you have to have some selection criteria, which will obviously be biased. If you want to call that an "echo chamber", well I don't know what to say to that.

[1] - https://what-if.xkcd.com/76/
I have a cellphone site I bought from flippa for 4k that generates from $400-$1000 every month.

Tried buying other sites but they were all duds. This one has made over 25k since I bought it.
If the people who brought me HDCP[1] are the same people that will give me a networking switch inside my television, maybe I will consider using this Facebook switch after all.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_...
"The best card trick"

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/9754/magic-trick-based-on-...
He led his article with a distinction between the "enterprise" that you refer to, and the "modern enterprise" (Twitter, Facebook, Google, ...) that he discusses in his article. This article specifically focuses on the problems of those companies.
I'll have to try this on my Keon, its been collecting dust since Telenor Firefox competition in Belgrade last year.

When I played your video from JSConf, I was like "hmm, I saw this guy somewhere, but I don't remember where" :)
The slate articles says:

In 1959, Tuskegee defined its parameters for pronouncing a murder a “lynching”: “There must be legal evidence that a person was killed. That person must have met death illegally. A group of three or more persons must have participated in the killing. The group must have acted under the pretext of service to justice, race or tradition.”

So I was thinking from there.
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This is pretty awesome. Clausen seemed a bit snotty about the original theory not being in a peer-reviewed journal. Now the followup is, and the underlying science also blows a hole in one of Clausen's own papers. He messed with the wrong guy. Citizen science FTW.
Look, it's pretty obvious from your comments that you're not a fan of Go, but if you can come to terms with the fact that some people enjoy languages you do not (or their use is mandated by their work environment) then you'll also be able to understand that they would also like certain tools and libraries available to them in that language.

It's not about recreating everything in Go "just because", it's about being a Go developer and wanting those tools to be available to you.
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>Regular expressions are a natural fit for construction of regular expressions.

The particular syntax we use (which is not that great) is not THE "regular expressions" is just one syntax we arrived at.

That is, the "regular expressions" name doesn't refer to the syntax, but to the concept.
Named patient scheme is different. That allows access to a drug before it receives market authorization, not before the NHS funds it. Patients in the UK that could have benefited from Soliris were not able to receive it (without paying full price).

"Up to 70 patients are in the same position as Dianne Illingworth, 41, who have been forced to put their lives on hold, and risk their condition deteriorating, while ministers and officials argue over whether the NHS can afford the drug, Eculizumab, which costs more than £300,000 per patient per year."[1]

[1]http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...
The Microsoft of late is definitely generating positive impressions all around and I can't say I disagree with this.
This launch was/is going to be the first one without a boost back. Because of DSCOVR's mass and destination (Earth-Sun L1 point), there isn't enough fuel to make a boost back burn. That's why the barge is ~650 km off the coast[0] instead of the 350 km it was for CRS-5[1].

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zp15b_P5ERVk.kQ...

[1] https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/viewer?mid=zp15b_P5ERV...
Same for comparing and contrasting two newspaper articles, which is probably even more relevant -- if you can't do that, then you're immediately disqualified from pretty much every profession that pays a living wage. And that's not even a very high bar, considering that newspapers are written at what's supposed to be a 6th - 8th grade reading level.
Intern Avenue (London, UK) is hiring for Lead Data Scientist Engineer. Full-time, no remote working for lead roles.

http://internavenue.workable.com/jobs/40828

We are also hiring a full-time Lead UX/Front-End Engineer:

http://internavenue.workable.com/jobs/40812
I'm not much of a stickler for grammar, and I don't particularly care. I'd be happy if "whom" died off.

However, it's still taught in school, in college, and in any modern grammar book. It's clearly coming up on the cusp of disappearing, but it certainly hasn't been written out of the books just yet, and I'm not sure why you're pretending that it has been. This sort of mistake would have been corrected in basically every English class I ever took in the last five years. It would have been corrected not just by the professor, but also by a majority of peers if peer grading was utilized.

My rule of thumb is to basically never use "whom" in speech and to conditionally use it in writing, depending on the context and how formal it is. I'll generally use it correctly when writing posts like this on the internet as well, but anything less formal and I won't care. I feel like the threshold of minimum formality to justify using it is always rising, and perhaps in the next decade we'll see that threshold rise up above the level of formality of, say, a paper for a literature class. But that definitely hasn't happened yet.

This reflects my general belief that grammar is a spectrum. It's less about the mindless application of rules and more about pattern recognition. Rules of grammar are best understood as being part of a context, and that context is not just the rest of the sentence or paragraph; it includes the social context as well, the mode of communication (written, verbal, etc.), and basically everything else you could think of. My description above is an example of how one rule -- that rule pertaining to the usage of "whom" -- morphs according to context.

To summarize, grammar is the art of satisfying two constraints simultaneously: (1) making sure nobody else thinks you've made a mistake; (2) making sure your efforts at (1) aren't going to distract people.

(1) could be seen as maximizing acceptance of your grammatical decisions, and (2) could be seen as minimizing social offense. "whom" is a great example, because in certain contexts people might recognize it as correct but they'll think you're only using it because you're trying to show off how smart you are. You've unnecessarily distracted them by using it, which violates (2).
Your stock options? The whole 0.01%?
Unless you own > 3% (and there is little dilution), or the company is the next Google, then you may be in for a surprise...
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My gut says this is just an MVP and there is actually a small person inside manually doing things and navigating the robot.
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I agree with you: package versioning in Go is solved already.

I think the thing that conflicts people most often is that there is truly no "official" opinion on the subject aside from what you mentioned: use a different import path.
A lot of great thoughts, thanks for taking the time to write it.
> In this environment, a language like Go has the opportunity to shine.

Go has another advantage over Scala (and any other JVM langauge), which also happens to be it's killer feature - green threads, the ability to write non-blocking concurrent code in a synchronous style without callbacks. Yes, I am sure Scala has some "leaky abstraction" over what are essentially just callbacks, as does Java, but it's not quite the same.
The name "War for the Overworld" was the first sign that this game was going to lack in aesthetics, which was such a big part of the old Bullfrog games (sound design, graphics, general feel, humor etc). To be fair though, Dungeon Keeper III was going to be named something along those lines, and actually, despite the delays, WFTO seems to be doing pretty good.
Or go on Medicaid? Or receive an ACA benefit that pays for insurance?
San Francisco and Vancouver are in the same boat. Bids for property that are all cash and 20-30% over market price are commonplace.

Hopefully with the USD strengthening to foreign currencies, 2015 will be the year this trend reverses, as foreign investors advantageously start to move capital back into their home countries.
Obviously with current rockets, it's necessary for that energy to be expended nearly all at once (8-12 minutes). But is that a law of nature or just a drawback of current technology? In other words, could you travel slowly into space?
>Due to excessive spam certain IP ranges, referrers and languages had to be banned from accessing the site. The most likely reason for you seeing this page is that your language is set to 'ru', sorry if that is the case for you.
I'm not entirely sure what I'd do with 1.28 Tb/s of switching power.

Though, 30 years ago, in Neuromancer, William Gibson wrote about the city of Los Angeles transferring megabytes (yes, whole megabytes) of data each second, so he probably couldn't have imagined what someone would do with the gigabit switch on my desk.
Print version, http://www.amazon.com/Time-Chart-World-History-Histomap/dp/1...

Digital: https://www.google.com/search?q=histomap+high+resolution
Having spent a week playing godus on my iPad (probably a few hours in total play-time), I felt it was quite a lovely game if you accept its limitations and play style. It does require patience though.

It has it's flaws but I feel like I've got my money's worth (I spent some money on IAPs cause there was no other way to pay for the mobile version).
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How it works in Canada: whether you pay off the phone entirely or not, pay 3 months in a row to the carrier you bought the locked phone from and then you can pay an additional $50+tax to have it unlocked. While it's nice the CRTC (our FCC basically) required this, it's terrible in that most carriers were either doing free/cheap unlocks after 3 months or $50 anytime after your device was paid for. Feels like we ended up with a mandated "worse" option to me.
You may be interested in some open source work I am doing:

https://github.com/commonform

https://asciinema.org/a/16221
I would disagree with this - it's a very broad statement. While building frameworks often encourages developers to abstract to the nth degree and add far more flexibility than is required, if you have specific requirements what's the problem?

We built a microservice architecture in Go at Hailo which runs approx 170 services. Abstracting core functionality into a 'framework' allowed developers to build and deploy services extremely quickly, and let the platform team get on with adding and improving core platform functionality, such as monitoring, instrumentation, tracing, provisioning, configuration etc etc.
So here's the financial segment of Johnson and Johnson's 2013 annual report:

http://2013annualreport.jnj.com/sites/2013annualreport.jnj.c...

(linked from here: http://2013annualreport.jnj.com/financials )

In one place, it says this:

Advertising

Costs associated with advertising are expensed in the year incurred and are included in selling, marketing and
administrative expenses. Advertising expenses worldwide, which comprised television, radio, print media and Internet
advertising, were $2.5 billion, $2.3 billion and $2.6 billion in 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

That advertising number most likely does not include money they spend directly marketing to doctors and so on. So the Global Data report referenced by the BBC implies they are spending $15 billion directly marketing to doctors and other medical people/organizations.

The next step would be to figure out what they are spending paying employees (with 120,000 of them, quite a lot), but I can't find good numbers on that.
The customer doesn't care what happens to the first stage after it has done its job. The next launch scheduled after this one will not leave enough performance margin to attempt a landing.

The next landing attempt will be with the CRS-6 launch, likely in April.
Classifying my position is not the same as answering it.

Suppose an anti-vaxxer says "there are two types of people: type A who believe vaccination is a personal choice and type B who believe that everyone has a duty to vaccinate when they can."

If you make a case for why people should vaccinate, and the anti-vaxxer says "oh look, I spotted a type B person," that isn't an actual response to the argument.
Is A4 sized paper hard to get hold of in the US?
OK: I think it's clear that the patch that I (and some other users) want isn't welcome, so I won't be wasting any further time on it.
"Marketing drugs to doctors" is not exactly the same as "total sales and marketing budget". I don't even know if "cost of sales" includes the cost of regulatory approvals in various countries.

Also note that there is not necessarily anything bad about off-label use of medicines.

Medicines could be off-label simply for the reason that the regulator - out of pressure from the public health insurer, or more bluntly just the Department of Treasury in the country - does not approve using a medicine for some purpose, even though it is known to be efficient and without bad side effects.

In fact, in some cases patients are complaining bitterly because they cannot get the medicine that their doctor knows would help them, because their regulators do not approve off-label use.
Brute force attacks are too easy to mitigate. I'd like to see the energy go to defaulting against brute-force attacks.
Do the exact mechanics of Chris McCandless's death really matter? He didn't take the wilderness seriously and that's what got him killed. We shouldn't romanticize his stupidity.
Yeah, funny how this video was on Reddit's frontpage a few days ago, and this dude just happens to write a blog post about it without even mentioning the video.
I no longer work there but I can ask the usual suspects. Email is in my profile.
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No idea in the case of this map, but in Why the West Rules--For Now, the author comes up with a fairly complex social development index which factors in things like population, largest city, agriculture, etc. http://shc.stanford.edu/news/research/why-west-rules%E2%80%9...

He focuses solely on the Western and Eastern cores however.

If you're interested in the topic, you might want to check out that book. (It's a good read as a whole as well.)
The "presets" are less than pleasant overall. They are missing a nice warm color for reading. Colors are either too prison-like or too red.
I was expecting a link to something like this, but more advanced

http://opencores.org/project,mac_layer_switch

and some links to digilent dev boards for hardware, however the linked project is a bit more ambitious, all full of custom ASICs and such.

An open source switch made out of COTS FPGA dev boards would be interesting. So you'd use something like

http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400...

But what to use as a COTS "just unpack it all, plug it all together, upload the firmware and go" backplane?
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I only hear the term "full stack" coming from people who mean "web developer" when they say "developer", forgetting that there is more to life than web-apps.
Well for those that do take the wilderness seriously, as something of a tautology, yes it matters.
I have a question: when will XNA be open-sourced? There are tons of people that want a sequel and MonoGame could use a quality boost.

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...

Also C# on XBox One had been promised like a year ago but nothing happened:

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...

What is the point of User Voice then?
I cringe every time I get a WP red-line back, too.

In case you're interested, there are actually some legal use cases for WP that make sense. If I'm not mistaken, the Office of the Reporter at the Supreme Court uses WP due to its superior hyphenation, kerning, and other publication-quality print readiness features. The clerks, justices, Reporter, and print staff can all work in the same program from draft to distribution to GPO.

Historically, at least, WP HTML export was also much cleaner, lighter, and more machine-readable than Word's. The Supreme Court of Texas has opinions online, for instance. Last I heard (a couple years ago) that HTML was exported from WP.
We track user specific actions too but that is more for providing a personalized experience for the user (this is specific to our use case). We notify users of why we are collecting that data. To get an idea of what feature is popular we don't need to know WHO is using it rather HOW MANY are using it and for HOW long? Another reason to do anonymized tracking would be to address any privacy concerns users might have. If someone raises such a concern we have data we can show that says we did not do any user specific tracking.

This is specific to our use case and in other cases it might be important to track who is using what feature.
Also, aren't they planning to launch from California and/or Texas in the future?
I remember reading that in Perú in the 90s, Vladimiro Montesinos, the president/dictator's right-hand man, would bribe a lot of power brokers to take the administration's side on various matters. So far so boring: the interesting part is he video-taped the bribery, so we have a pretty accurate idea of how much he paid whom. Judges, IIRC, would get about $10,000, while owners of news channels (technically channel owners who agreed to have their press coverage take sides with the government) would get $5,000,000. In Perú. In the 90s.

If we had nothing to go on other than the volume of these bribes to say who had power and who didn't, I'd say...turns out, the media is pretty powerful. A news anchor is probably more powerful than 100 judges. And so, in some way or another, the American Government has to figure out a way to keep news outlets as happy as they demand to be, or suffer the dire consequences. While corruption in America exists, it isn't like the government could simply give them billions of dollars (could be wrong here), so they try to please them by enriching the conglomerates that own the channels in other ways. Primarily, nowadays, that means perpetuating copyright monopolies, under more draconian laws, in overseas countries that can be made or enticed to play ball.
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> Retro-computing is a weird hobby of mine.

I hate to criticize the very first sentence, but I want retro-computing to be mainstream, and calling it "weird" seems to cover for the author's lack of confidence in his hobby. I'm trying to find a rationale for calling one's own hobby weird--I can't find one.

I have technical hobbies--resurrecting a Lisp Machine, collecting 80s and earlier computer keyboards, duplicating websites in Emacs--that I call "hobbies", not "weird hobbies".

Related examples (especially to my "covers for lack of self-confidence" point):
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1mspk9/reddit_wh...

https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/1e6pzh/rteenager...
Go libraries are typically highly composable because they operate mostly on primitives or strictly defined common interfaces. Orthogonality is a key feature.
In my country (Mexico) there was a law for them to sell you unlocked phones/unlock them on request.
The biggest company had you fill a stupid request and you couldn't fill it if you had your phone for less than X months, something which was not allowed by the law, that ceased after a series of complains to some branch of government made to "protect consumers"

Anyway, I wonder if AT&T is kind of going with it and saying yes we'll unlock it BUT as a way to kind of cheat on the law, or if the law really allows them to do that.

edit: I guess I forgot most people here have prepaid phones, so really I ignore if that was the case for phones on plans, too.
> For practical or business purposes, this is a nice bit of incomplete information to help make a decision

Titbits of incomplete information are often placed as a result of publicity campaigns. In the specific case of the github source info for this graphic, the languages near the bottom of the list can easily have that information manipulated by their backers scamming the stats. All you need is one change to be pushed during the measured period for a project to be registered as active, a data point which I know is being scammed for at least one language near the bottom of the list.
I felt this was a good example for people to consider when they hear someone say "We've got new battery that crushes the competition!" Batteries are a great example of technology that has been around forever and yet is still not completely understood.
Is the TPP still planning to criminalize fanzines & archivists, i.e. non-commercial infringement of copyright?

http://japanitlaw.blogspot.com/2013/01/tpps-effect-on-fanzin...

" In this ecosystem, the requirement of a complaint in the copyright law works as a mechanism to respect the intention of the rights holder on whether or not they want to intervene. Although the complaint requirement is only the prerequisite for prosecution, in practice, it is rare for the police to commence an investigation without a complaint by the rights holder.

However, this situation may change. The draft of the request of the US on Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) 15.5(g) stipulates, "its authorities may initiate legal action ex officio with respect to the offenses described in this Chapter, without the need for a formal complaint by a private party or rights holder."
Haven't had that happen for ages...
No, there is a line in the article that says its been in use since 2009...
"Just down the road in Silicon Valley, El Camino Hospital has been using the bots since 2009"
Prompts to enter your password to install something perhaps? Windows pop up out of the blue a fair amount. You only have to make a mistake once.
My view is that Chrome won because they provided the best developer tools, so developers began building with Chrome in mind.
30% ? -- yeah...idiots living dark ages lol.
The general area of San Francisco Bay.
One case doesn't demonstrate anything. There are a million reasons why a someone might suddenly start putting on weight.

Luckily there has been a rapid uptake in FMT and we'll have good correlational data sooner rather than later.
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I don't recall hearing the term at all in the '80s or '90s; I first encountered it some time in the last decade, around the time people working on web sites started to use "developer" as a synonym for "web developer".
> we do have universal values and thought processes

If there was universal agreement about what is meaningful, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I think you would be pretty hard-pressed to find very much that is absolutely universal to the human experience.

But even if there are things which are highly prevalent in the human experience, that is not evidence that these feelings are "truth." We have direct evidence that our brains are pre-programmed with tons of cognitive biases and nonsensical beliefs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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Balanced ternary is superior to them all.

http://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/105...
When someone is raped, they aren't ostracized from society, and they don't spend the next five or ten years in prison, and unable to find work for the rest of their lives.