skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should be able to understand everything in that sentence if you have taken a typical undergraduate curriculum in physics including quantum mechanics and electromagnetism. Though it depends on what you mean by "understand". It should be clear what "quantised magnetic flux" is roughly about, but I have no idea what constitutes the "modern knowledge of quantised magnetic flux" in this context.
A lifetime, or long enough that it would feel like a lifetime. The real question to ask is that how you really want to spend your life? The fact that you're asking makes me think you've already chosen another path.
Yup, it's a classic poker situation referred to as a "race".

Interesting visualization!
IANAL either, but I'm guessing you'll get sued, whether or not you abide by the law, if you become very popular.

You might win the case, sure--but expect to be in court someday.
Reading on reflux I find the architecture makes more sense to me. The dispatcher in flux seems redundant and clunky.
>It fits the definition of "combat" used by almost everyone.

[Citation Needed]

>basically no-one would define it as "execution".

I would.
Testing LibHN 4.0.1? LOL me as well
They use Square, so you set up a payment method attached to your phone number, and they use your phone number to check out.
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>It fits the definition of "combat" used by almost everyone. And basically no-one would define it as "execution". So there's your problem there.

A simple search would show you that your assertion is mere bravado and puffery, attempting to paint things in a black and white light. "Almost everyone" and "basically no-one" are weasel words. The issue is nuanced.

Published news articles calling it execution:

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a14627/obama-lethal-pre...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-k...

http://socialistworker.org/2013/02/12/execution-by-drone

Some cross-aisle input:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/02/06/drone-strikes-murder-mob...

Academic journals debating the implications of drone warfare:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...

http://se.asee.org/proceedings/ASEE2013/Papers2013/157.PDF

http://www.e-ir.info/2013/07/18/just-war-theory-and-the-ethi...

A book on the topic:

Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control: http://goo.gl/cghukG

Though, frankly, I picture you more like the cross-section mentioned in this excerpt (pg. 210, bottom of the page):

https://books.google.com/books?id=RcGZ_x96exgC&lpg=PA210&ots...
COPPA doesn't ban Google from providing services to kids. It just means they have to put additional precautions in place if they do - which obviously costs money, so their default position has been to opt out of servicing kids at all. This youtube announcement obviously represents a realization that that cost may be worth bearing... presumably because raising a generation of youtube-savvy kids is going to build their market for the next generation.
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I was on the fence for a long time. Married for 8 years before having kids. There just came a point where my nieces were really cute and I felt like my own ambitious projects were not progressing. I remember thinking one day, as I played a computer game -- I'm just wasting my time. It's time for a new adventure.

It's a very special feeling to be loved and looked up to by other little humans. I treasure my kids 15 min at a time. That said, you can't turn them off without being a jerk or negligent.

It's just the relentlessness, and the extent to which boundaries between adults and children have been erased in our (Canadian & US) culture.
This still doesn't answer why it is so large. Or more accurately my experience as a Netflix customer doesn't reflect the apparent size of all these backends. Compare to something like Reddit where every page is customised, I go through lots of them, and my interactions are frequent. My Netflix interactions look like recently viewed being custom, and everything else being generic (same for all users). If you told me my recommendations are recalculated once a month I'd believe you. The majority of time is spent viewing which is just periodic progress updates. In other words my user experience suggests Reddit having an infrastructure many times larger than Netflix.
FYI, Go is missing a full featured IDE and Go is picking up steam. Not much competition in this space yet although JetBrains I think started putting real effort into the plugin.
As of Jan'2014, stopping YouTube ads requires blocking the following domains:

ads.youtube.com
s0.2mdn.net
s1.2mdn.net
googleads.g.doubleclick.net

Many routers include functionality to blacklist by domain, eg. Netgear: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20483/~/set-up...
> the risk of death associated with the use of a variety of commonly-used substances.

But just looking at risk of death isn't enough. I'm pro legislation, but I think downplaying risks does harm.
OP here, happy to answer any questions about the game, my experience with Swift, or my experiences on the App Store (been doing it full time for almost 4 years now)

This is my first attempt at a game so I'd love any feedback you guys have. It started out as a side project to learn Swift (yup, my day job is making iPhone apps and I have side projects making iPhone apps) just working nights and weekends but I ended up spending the last couple months working on it mostly full time. Many many tweaks and gameplay iterations later it's finally on the store.

Edit: Also, I know I messed up the app preview video (landscape video for portrait game). I really hate iMovie fwiw. Update is on the way today. :-(
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I don't smoke but I don't care if you do.

Because of my field of work, I am subject to drug testing and I like my job so I don't partake but it really doesn't matter to me if someone else wants to.

It doesn't make any sense to me to spend billions of dollars every year to try to stop people from obtaining and ingesting a plant.

Even if it were a deadly poison, it still wouldn't make sense to me.

For example, if drinking Hemlock infused tea were to became fashionable and people were dropping left, right and center from it, I would still think it's absurd to spend billions of dollars to stop consenting adults from doing so.

Since it makes no sense in that case, I have not heard a convincing argument for prohibition of a much less harmful (and often helpful) plant.
Consuming anything with a sort of deadly, self-destructive intent can lead to death, one way or another. But I'm sorry, if you're going for an LD50 experience with weed, you're not going to get there --ever. Its just not possible unless you've created a medical experiment designed to kill the subject, and to get to that place I'm quite certain additional drugs would be required.

Another fruitful Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ld50+marijuana
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For me, that's where it gets interesting: as I understand, it is perfectly legal for Google to provide services to children, but they must obtain parental consent, first [1]. The problem is that isn't something they're interested in doing.

[1] http://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/comp... Parental
My business is in the IT security realm.
The problem is, it just doesn't matter. Even if 90% of the people making apps came from different industries, if those industries are decreasing, that's hardly Apple's fault. To use the old analogy, the sales of whips and saddles went way down after the invention of the car. What does it matter by how much the sales went down? It doesn't matter.

There's no negative impact. There can't be. If Apple destroyed any industries with their products, that just means those industries aren't things people want anymore. It's not like Apple is giving their products away or forcing people to use them. They're high-end, premium products. If people still wanted a GPS unit, they would buy one. If people still wanted whatever Apple replaced, even if people left their jobs to create apps for Apple, others would fill in the old jobs.

The number isn't counted because it doesn't matter.
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There's also a reason why every contract has a severability clause. There are certain things you cannot legally do, even if you have a contract saying you can do them. This is pretty close to that border IMO, but such situations really come down to the judge.
Some of the code examples given here are perfect examples of what I hate about javascript.

assign(new Dispatcher(), {methodName: function() {}})

Why can't I just define a regular class? Even worse, in the following code snippet the arguments seem mismatched with the previous one:

assign({}, EventEmitter.prototype, {methodName: function() {}})

I can accept this sort of thing if the payoff is high, like getting access to the performance and simplicity of virtual DOM operations in React, but these examples just seem to be to create basic objects.

Maybe object-assign is one of the javascript best practices that keep changing every 2 months and I'm just not paying attention enough? ES6 can't come soon enough.
That's nice (and can be easily fixed to handle negative coordinates), but extremely slow (imagine a simple square cycle with side length N. Her solution takes N^2 steps.
8:30 - Wake up (iPhone alarm), briefly scan Twitter feed

8:35 - Get out of bed (second iPhone alarm)

8:40 - Shower

9:00 - Get dressed

9:10 - Finish preparing Soylent (everything but oil done the night before)

9:15 - Leave for work

9:30 - Arrive at work
Whats it rating and how badly will it get abused?

Imagine a youtube video of President Obama's October 2nd 2002 speech on Iraq policy (not making this up, there is one...)

Or there's a classic nuclear winter / climate change-ish interview with Dr Carl Sagan right before he died in the early 90s.

Or any video that presents atheism or islam in a non-negative light. Say, a BBC interview with Richard Dawkins WRT his biographical book.

I suspect they'll be more than a little political gaming going on here, although theoretically a kid doing schoolwork could stumble upon them as a legitimate primary(ish) source.
have their sober girlfriend pass the test for them.

Good point. It needs some form of seat sensor that turns the engine back off if the person in the driving seat changes.
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Why is that silly? Renewable energy doesn't mean it's more expensive, especially as non-renewable sources begin to run out in the future.
I'm not sure I can get my head around a debt owed to America the country that is not implicitly therefore owed to the American people. Teachers taught at schools that produced the professionals that built Google. Engineers designed the roads that workers built. I could just go on and on listing this stuff. Google benefited from an infrastructure built by all Americans.

I think there's an element of the narrative fallacy implicated in the idea that the historical figures have a cause to be proud of American achievements, but ordinary people don't. Ordinary people are instrumental in everything achieved by those historical figures. The contributions of historical figures are immediately available to our consideration, because our stories revolve around them. Availability is usually a pernicious bias rather than a helpful signal.

later: it's also worth considering whether the fallacy might be in our concept of "pride", and who "deserves" "pride". There are practical reasons to attribute American successes to America; it reinforces them, motivates us to continue doing what works. There are fewer practical reasons to accord accolades to historical figures.
The price variation on this domain is absurd. I looked for another host that carried .gg, but it was actually $250 there.

Still, $75 is a lot for another vanity domain I don't need and probably won't use.
>Also, some portion of this will come right back to them, as it means employees have more money to buy their goods with.

I wonder if Fordism is coming back into style?
5:30-6:30 AM. Every. Single. Day.

Saturday morning "I need help wiping..."

Starting your day sleep-deprived and having to wipe a toilet-trained person's ass is just degrading. Parenting in modern times -- basically degradation with eventual benefits.
Aaaand.. they're gone.
Just about every concept (mathematical and physics) in the arXiv paper linked from the article is covered by the end of a typical undergraduate course in electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. The ones that aren't (specifically with respect to certain particulars of fluid dynamics and flux) are easily supplemented with material of the same depth and complexity (i.e. undergraduate level).
> if it does not occur to the common user to do so then it is "hacking".

This is the path to madness (and it's the one the "justice" system is on). Adblock? Hacking. Network connection blipped? Hacking. Using a new browser that better protects your privacy? Hacking. Changing number in URL? Hacking. Using a VPN? Hacking. Leaving page open for months in a forgotten tab? Hacking. Running any program that isn't a web browser? Hacking.

If our society is to have a digital future, the only sane definition is congruent to ownership and control - your computer functions wholly as your agent, and their server functions as theirs. Servers must be properly configured to enforce the desired business rules, and not doing so means different business rules are in effect.
True. I wasn't necessarily trying to imply that anybody does. It was more to illustrate that we live in one of those countries now. In most of the US, you could get thrown into jail but it's fine as long as you're where all the politicians are.
Agree 100%. Yeah my comment was brief and pointless, but really, the above suggested .com is so obviously better.
Go look at the Comic-Con registration then. Theirs is something like 130,000?
They deserve their part of the blame. They make a subcategory of software known as "malware". And they're perfectly aware of it (companies making "software" usually don't have to hide from antiviruses).
When this happened to my son, rather than deleting everything and losing all his contacts and emails with his auntie etc etc, google just demanded I pay a bribe of 50 cents on a credit card, on the hilarious assumption that the only people in a family with access to CC are parents. At least this is how they did it back in the good old days.
Exactly what I was going to say with 1 & 2. Your point #3 is arguable. It's more secure to encrypt a block than files, but it's not always nearly as convenient. You wouldn't want to sync a multi GB block to S3 every time it changes. You have to encrypt filenames, and pad the files, but file-level encryption has its uses.
To really, really get it? The standard electromagnetism semester and a QM semester, both "for majors" (not the simplified general version), and something else for the "inviscid compressible fluid" (fluid dynamics, I assume, this might require some stuff that won't come up until semester 2, not sure), and a factor difficult to express in terms of semesters that you are not merely aping the mathematical results you are being taught by rote, but actually understand how to manipulate the math and follow deeply when you see other people do it. (Which I mean quite straight, not sarcastically.)

I'm pretty sure this would all be accessible to an undergrad physics major who passes my math criterion above. It would probably be beyond them to do the work, but they should be able to follow it.
To answer your question, wood is the most natural foundation for honey bees. They generally live in wood, and cutting it does't alter it materially. They also live in stone.

As organic beekeepers, myself and many others reject the use of wire, plastic, glass, and anything except wood in the hive. Most of the equipment in the modern commercial beekeeping stack, which is also sold to the backyard keeper, is invented to sell you more stuff, and no good for beekeeping.

I disagree about the less work and less destructive point, and that's the main point I was making. I think this machine will cause more work, in the form of maintenance. I think it will cause you to open your hive more, and will require regular washing and cleaning to work.

Lastly, about killing bees and destroying their home, the common Langstroth hive is a pretty poor tool for working with bees and avoiding crushing them. It is heavy and frames are clumsy. However, it is possible to work Lang's gently, so that very, very few bees are crushed. That includes comb removal and extraction. An experienced keeper (outside of the commercial industry where automation and machinery crushes bees like nuts), doesn't crush many bees.

Even better, there are hive designs much older than the Lang, that are even easier to work. I use a design based on a Christ hive, which is light and easy to work. I just never crush bees, even during harvest.

So my point is that, while I do think technology and beekeeping go hand in hand, I prefer tech that makes things simpler, rather than more complicated. I think this gadget is a gimmick and would be difficult to use in the real world. That's my two cents, as an experienced beekeeper. Cheers!
Good. Kudos. Too many times my kids surf their way to something weird starting from Peppa Pig or something ;-)

thanks Google.
"Yodle’s chief executive, Court Cunningham, so values being close to other employees that he does not want a private office."

I've had a few bosses/CEOs who said they loved open space and forced it on everyone. What always ended up happening is that said CEO/boss would then informally requisition the shared conference/meeting room as their own personal office (when they spend 90% of the day in there, it's hard to see it as "the conference room" rather than "X's unofficial office"), and people would be stuck taking Skype calls/meetings in the open space, contributing to ridiculous noise levels (oh and my favorite part was the CEO who'd then step out of his meeting room to tell us we were making too much noise).

She became a convert. “It’s fun,” she said. “That’s the reason I wouldn’t want an office. It’s fun — if you like the people you work with.”

Terrible way to end the article, dismissing all of the concerns that were raised. But it's probably a submarine article planted by the architecture firm anyway.

I have a private office now, and I'd put it in the top 3 of the best things about my job. I have a hard time imagining going back to open space without losing most of my sanity and productivity.
The difference I believe came with the ability for the app to automatically be run in the background and for control over which one was used for Tap and Pay, which given today's announcement from Google makes sense.

Maybe this was fixed in Android 4.4, but I would swear the experience changed for me sometime right at or after 4.4.

Notably, I didn't have to make sure the app was open and wallet unlocked first, whereas with Android 5.0 it "just works".
exactly! for this reason, this can't be used for production.
I think assign should be replaced by having a native class in ES6. I've thought of it like

assign(some newly allocated object, base class [, base class...], object with methods).

It seems to get around the funny stuff with new, prototypes and references.
DHMO is pretty bad too: http://www.dhmo.org/
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I do digital advertising for tech companies as well as "learn to code bootcamps" etc. IMHO Adwords is overpriced. You're much better served by Facebook or Twitter. The social context is likely key for a play like this. I would also tend to stay away from Linkedin based on price. Although if your ltv per customer is high enough, it may make sense. Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like to chat about it. I'm always happy to give out free advice.
Noticed in an incognito window that Google is testing the Roboto font for SERP
It does not take a lifetime. It took me about 6 months to cover upper-division electricity and magnetism and quantum mechanics, which is probably all that you would need to get the most basic but complete understanding of this paper.
Gamify your development projects
Are 529 plans another force to drive up college tuitions?
Given that one silicon valley bus route pretty much act as a homeless shelter, not surprising.
I don't know enough about COPPA to know who to blame. There are two possibilities:

1. COPPA goes too far

2. Google has done a cost/benefit analysis and decided that it's cheaper to ban children than to lead the charge in teasing out the edge cases

If #2 is the case it's absolutely reasonable to blame google. Of course, deciding who to blame isn't productive, what we really want to do is lobby for change. Now that google is playing the lobbying game they're a reasonable party to appeal to regardless of whether #1 or #2 is closer to the truth.
I must be missing something, I see a lot of boilerplate code for minor gain.
This list looks very tempting and who is not dreaming of a 2-letter-domain? But there are two gripes and I think there is no domain on that list which you should get. Why:

- Most TLDs on this list are way to expensive—everything above €50 for a side-project or some domain parking is too much, it's only worth if it's a killer domain; so what I want to say: if you give me a nonsense two-letter domain for a normal .com price like 7€/year, yes I would take all from the list, but for €50 or even above €100 I want something really nice

- Even if you find your initials (I found mine), with the prices it's nonsense: you will keep a domain with your initials quite some time and maybe you get locked in because you want to use it for you mail-address and then pay 50-100€ for an odd TLD nobody knows

- The only ones which have reasonable prices are .gs, .lc and .gy with €39 and .io with around €50 which is for my taste still too much (again: for a nonsense two letter domain); however I did a search in the Unix' words file if there is even under the cheap TLDs any good and meaningful ones which would justify €39a month

Ending on .lc

talc

Ending on .gs

dags
digs
dogs
togs

Ending on .gy

Algy
bogy
dogy
edgy
eggy
fogy
logy
orgy
pogy
sagy

Ending on .io

agio
apio
Clio
meio
moio
naio
Ohio
olio
thio
Trio
trio
Unio
unio

Surprise: none of the ones above is available

Maybe there are some good words in your local language (I found one) but again the prices are ridiculous and make only sense if you know that the project you will use the domain for will get serious business in some way.
Microsoft's attitude towards open source is no longer adversarial. They also contribute to Mono...
I recommend checking out ClojureScript. The community is really moving in this direction. I find cljs takes React from good to great (I wrote a simple blog post about that here [0]), and up and coming frameworks like reframe [1] are going to make it even better. reframe and even vanilla Reagent/Om/etc are heading in the direction you desire. ClojureScript still has some warts to iron out, but all in all I feel like it's our current best bet for some truly amazing apps in the browser.

[0] -- http://www.mattgreer.org/articles/reagent-rocks/

[1] -- https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
Thanks damoncali for the reply!
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You should write an article or a blog post about that and submit it. I'd upvote it! This thread isn't a good place for your point, which isn't germane to the article.
"Gamify all the Githubs."

Using a terrible meme as your company slogan is ill-advised.
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> are you really going to forgo having Facebook on your phone because it asks for a couple of slightly-objectionable permissions?

That sounds like you meant it as a rhetorical question, but "yes" is a reasonable answer.