skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Austinite, startup guy, gun owner, and libertarian... his demeanor is going to make the already-difficult fight, that much harder. Be bold but be tactful about it.
I wonder if rescue teams could use some sort of portable cell towers (thinking something like the Google [streetview backpack](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/trekking-grand-canyon...) to find cellphones and people.
That seems an excessively charitable interpretation.
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I'm curious what conclusions you'd say those are... and if they're good or bad conclusions?

That said, I'm sure I'm totally influenced by various languages I've tried in the past. And FWIW, Racket was also plenty far from my first experience with functional programming. I know so many programming languages that I've gotten pretty used to being able to just "pick them up" in a couple of days (Racket pretty much included).

Haskell... not so much.
And then a little while later the added revenue is lost due to more adblockers being used on their site.
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This is about more than reading news. It is about how the web works currently and the/a direction it should take.
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I find the alignment system interesting and conducive to working on your role playing. But if you don't want to be role playing in a straight jacket I would pick chaotic neutral :)
Lessons from a years worth of hiring data = Good points!
My employer treats us as 'fully formed adults' also. It's fantastic, especially after the years I spent in government, where we were all treated like children who required policies on every damned thing to guide us.

An obvious example is about how you use your computer. In my old job, it was highly regulated. Want to install Firefox on your machine? Sorry, that's against IT policy, we only support IE. Your machine is locked down to prevent unauthorised installs, and even if it weren't, you'd be up for a warning for violating the policy.

In my current company, the sysops still limit what they support - for example, they're not willing to support OS X Yosemite users yet, and recommend users stay on Mavericks. But, if you want to upgrade to Yosemite, you can, just don't ask the sysops for help fixing it. And if your broken Yosemite install is impeding your work, well, we trust that you'll resolve it one way or another.

Or another - alcohol. In the government, alcohol at work was banned. A beer at lunch could get you fired. When we had Christmas parties, alcohol was provided, but on a token-per-drink basis. Everyone got two tokens. My current company, the beer fridge is a treasured perk. There are no rules about how much beer you can drink, or when you can drink it. So far, no raging alcoholism has impeded work.

What I really notice is that when you treat people like adults, they respond like adults, and when you treat them like children, they respond like children.
Which part? Everyone you know prefers thinness over battery life? Or prefers having fewer compatible cables around?
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I was just interested as to what these storage systems are capable of supporting. While I'm confident they could all store 10 TB of Data (That's just barely Tier-2 of 6 for Amazon), I'm wondering if they have the back end capability to store 10 PB of data.
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>>> Oh, and be sure to get your regular work done too.

In a fixed day, is it possible to do regular work and also extra projects?

I think, if offered solution appears reasonable to management,then some of daily responsibilities need to be shifted to remaining workforce temporarily till that pilot work gets completed.
Manually?
Without getting too much into the politics of the Second Amendment, let me say that he seems like quite a character, he made me laugh, and I like him.

A little sad to see Stripe being a stumblingblock for innovation in this case. But undoubtedly there's legal risk that makes it difficult for anyone to provide service to him. (similar to the burgeoning cannabis industry)
Very much interested in this. I asked a while ago if I could build one myself, was initially told it was OK but was later told it's against your ToS.

Days, Weeks, Months, or Years?
An example of a power-play and widely deployed de-facto standard that we resisted at Mozilla, wisely: ActiveX plugins. Independent companies emulated some of the ActiveX COM APIs, plus basic MS COM, on Unixen, in the '90s and into the noughties. Lack of spec and open source were not a barrier, and MS documented well.

Was MS abusing market power? The US v. Microsoft case said they were. They definitely caused plugin vendors to support ActiveX _en masse_. And they then dropped the old Netscape Plugin API, which led many such vendors to drop NPAPI too, leaving those plugins IE-only.

Yet we at Mozilla resisted ActiveX, successfully. We did not just hold the line, we restarted NPAPI incremental evolution via the plugin-futures@mozilla.org list I created, and meetings jst@mozilla.org and I convened with Apple, Opera, Real Networks, Dolby, and Macromedia.

Even a convicted monopolist couldn't ram ActiveX down other browser vendors' throats, when it could and did do so to plugin vendors and some web developers. Google with Chrome is not yet near MS IE's monopoly share. So again, I think you should be more skeptical of your own assertions and assumptions about "no choice".
I realize this probably isn't quite what you want, but have you looked at using MIDI? A lot of modern MIDI gear is quite cheap, connects to your computer over USB, and with the appropriate software can be used to control anything on your computer. There are MIDI devices with just about any kind of physical input you could want - pots, sliders, pedals, buttons, pressure-sensitive pads, optical and sound-based inputs, and much more.
I really want more clarification on the first paragraph. From the author's awkward lingo ("safety key") I get the impression that they do not grasp the technical or legal differences between a semi-automatic AR-15 clone and a fully-automatic M-16. I have a hard time believing that Wilson manufactured a functional M-16 lower, assembled it with a full-auto bolt carrier and had a journalist fire it. That is an unequivocal violation of federal law (since no new machine guns have been allowed for Form 1 manufacture since May of 1986) as opposed to constructing a semi-automatic firearm for personal use. Such confusion in the opening paragraph makes me heavily discount the rest of the article.
So is outsourcing.
Sure, except, the context of this sub-thread was started by someone claiming that winds in the upper atmosphere "can be very fast." So the link was to correct/explain to them, not to claim that the Google Balloons would be stationary.
No problem, we'll consider it next time.
"We're going to make a door that's perfectly flat and seamless, and we're going to paint it white just like the walls. It's going to be the most awesome door ever and people will love using it."

If web designers could actually stop and think about the virtual things they do in physical terms they might be able to see how foolish they're being, but I don't expect that to happen any time soon.
The logical conclusion of your codify-everything approach is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule

Every functioning organization requires faith in the people you work with.
Seems really unlikely that template has licensed all those images either given it's from a template farm that looks like they churn these things out and the many sources.
I wouldn't have called most of the classes in my MBA program easy or unrigorous. I didn't find just about any extremely challenging as I found some of my undergraduate engineering courses. It probably didn't hurt that I had worked for a few years and probably had significantly better work habits when I got my MBA.

It's also true that the non-quantitatively inclined do find some of a good MBA core curriculum pretty hard. I did some tutoring and in economics, among other things, and I had students who couldn't a simple equation. One once asked me to "explain how graphs work," i.e. basic x-y axis price elasticity, etc. Every few years there seems to be a book written by someone who really struggled with basic math in business school.
I was going to point out that the article misspells the "Pannini" projection, named after the italian painter and perspective professor after whom it is named, not to be confused with the grilled sandwich, but apparently both spellings are valid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Paolo_Panini
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If you bought a real domain for this, I'm sure people would find it to be useful.
What evidence you got that it is more sexist?

Girls don't like sexist people, they like confident people and I have learned it from life.

As for the last claim, I don't know how you read it from my comment.
It would help if social media didn't erupt into massive storms of outrage every time someone took a photo of themselves with a dead lion that they shot on a safari ranch.
is vc behavior homogenous?
probably not. I think both pieces of advice are valid.
know who you are dealing with, and if you don't know make the error on the safe side.
Accidentally clicking a link wouldn't be a problem if you got the chance to back out early once you realized you'd touched it. For example, touch and hold might work. You press on the link, and it starts visually zooming into the link to alert you. If you keep pressing for half a second, it takes you to that page. If you let go, it zooms back out - no harm done. If you drag, it zooms back out and scrolls.
Thanks for the feedback, Chris.
"Hierarchical and multivariate regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between artificial water fluoridation prevalence and ADHD prevalence after controlling for natural water fluoridation prevalence and SES, and SES respectively."
...
"Moreover, results did not appear to be confounded by
socioeconomic status because they remained consistent after controlling for this variable."
...
"Moreover, artificial water fluoridation prevalence [compared with SES] even appeared to be the more robust predictor."

Even if you have a problem with the stat analysis (i don't), The fact that it's a stronger predictor than SES is quite damning regardless of controls.
"Any new system should have EDI interchange with at least all Fortune 1000 companies."

See Freshbooks. They also started as a dead-simple invoicing system. I think without EDI. And I believe they still don't have EDI. They've grown very nicely over the years.
The item vectors are generated from the text: customers and stylists write text about the stripes, or maternity, and word2vec associates this with the item in question. How that happens is treated in the next section about summarizing documents (a 'document' here is the collection of all text about an item).

So we don't do any fancy deep learning from the images themselves, although this is on the horizon :)
I think it's more like an api. You hack it to get what you want.
Thanks Jacob, will do.
No, if it does work people will tell you that your code just sucks and is really awful and bad and you are terrible and suck at this …

Your perspective here is absurdly reductionist and doesn’t reflect any reality anyone lives in. It’s not that simple, it just is not.

These are the people arguing about fucking spaces vs tabs and you are going to try to honestly tell me that all that matters is whether the code works. Are you serious?! Like, actually, really serious?
That's not true at all. Many were pivoting from their original idea back when the funding amounts were far smaller than they are now.
the image was from PG's twitter but it looks like he deleted it.

and +1 to your response - it came off as whiny from McClure 10 seconds after he said he was a greedy capitalist. What gives?

All for everybody acting in their best interest but seems hypocritical of him the way he presented the rant.

I do believe founders should look our for early investors - but thats what pro rata rights should be used for.
Thanks! it was years ago I made these. The interactive ones are made in just straight Raphael.js (in js/1dscreen.coffee). The cube animations are just plain canvas (in js/iso3d.js)
It's often still there, because there are politics, and people cover their ass/don't want to take the risk of breaking things.
"Paid is a simple API" and you are comparing to Oracle?

"Paid is a simple API" but yet you "Many large companies require EDI"?

"It's just an invoicing program." aka "Instagram is just a photo sharing app". Btw invoicing programs aren't trivial (speaking of experience). Even when looking at basic features it is still about actual money.
>Likewise, a good fraction of credit card disputes end up being resolved in favor of the merchant, not the customer.

Do you have any evidence of this?

>I already told you submitting an FTC or BBB complaint is no more work than submitting a credit card chargeback.

But then right after you said I would need to compile all the evidence to do so. So what is it? No more work(and I just have to fill in a form) or more work?

Also you realize the BBB is a private company that has no teeth right?

>True if you go to the FTC. Not true if you go to small-claims court:

I see bitcoin people recommend small claims court all the time. It works great when the merchant it local. It doesn't work so well when the merchant isn't since you have to file in their county. So add on travel time, missed work, etc to travel to where ever they are(assuming they are in your country) and it becomes a lot less likely someone is going to go this route.

>I did and I found 2 stories, both resolved in favor of the customer:

Both of which involved around a week of hassle just to get their product. And if they weren't newly accepted and watched by the bitcoin community at that time what would the result have been? Also if you'd looked a few results down on google you'd have also found this story https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/coinbase-extreme-bitcoin-tra...

This was a big company and if you read the correspondences they were more than happy to ignore the people until a 3rd party stepped in. This works great on rare occasions but bitpay isn't going to be able to afford to police transactions with their fees.

I'll also note you skipped over the miner disputes in your response.

You admitted already you have never filed a dispute yet you seem to talk with authority about the process? I've filed 2 disputes against merchants both found in my favour neither required submitting evidence and 1 dispute due to fraud that required me to submit a signed letter confirming I didn't make the charges.
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heh :)

Seriously though, few role-playing games have an alignment system, especially the ones that promote themselves as being more about roleplay than levelling.

I remember one story about a guy whose group played 'evil' D&D characters, and one of them pointed out that what their characters were doing was 'naughty', but not actually 'evil'. So they tried out playing actual 'evil' characters. I can't remember all the examples he gave, but one of their plots was the kidnapping and raping of a princess. He said that campaign didn't last very long and his group found it pretty disturbing. I guess the point of this anecdote is that a lot of evil characters get played that aren't really 'evil' or close to it.

Alignment systems might help roleplaying neophytes, but if you've been around the block once or twice, they really are quite limiting. Is that noble warrior 'good' because he works tirelessly and selflessly to promote the cause of his kindred? Is he 'evil' because he knowingly and tirelessly oppresses others to do so? Is he 'neutral' because he can't be placed unequivocably in either camp? Why not just let him be a complex character on his own?
I did a BA+BS in History and Economics in undergrad intending to go to law school. Did undergraduate law review and everything. About junior year or so I realized I actually did not want to do that.

Now, 5-6 years out of undergrad I am a professional software developer without a formal CS education. I took a few CS classes and plenty of hard math as part of my Econ degree, but I don't hold a CS degree (or even a minor).

But I was always a computer geek from a young age. Through many years of interest, motivation, and self-teaching I worked in IT, then QA, and now development. I also work with many other non-CS-degree developers that are great.

You can definitely make a successful transition.
How about an RSS feed for Betty. Lots of news feeds don't have ads in their RSS.
I would have thought something like Pulse or Flipbook, or even the BBC News App would be right up Betty's alley.
Admittedly, I left full-time in 2010 (remained an advisor and then board member when reddit when independent in 2011) but this issue of stolen nudes was something that Ellen and I discussed almost immediately after we were put together in the wake of the our CEO's departure.

We at reddit have always valued privacy (and our userbase has always valued that) and we missed a chance to lead, but with new leadership in place, we as a company decided this was where we wanted to start. Our community team has done an awesome job in the last couple of months since and I hope more companies will follow.

This is something we knew we needed to do in order to go from over 9000 communities on the platform to many, many more.
Thanks for the last sentence, I'll take it seriously
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My mom needs a webcam and Skype to chat with her grandkids.

She needs a USB slot so she can load a document from a conference.

She needs flash to play that silly train game she found online that the grandkids admire her for. She needs a decent CPU and RAM because webbrowsing requirements are legit ridiculous these days.
As you wish. Twitter even answered questions that only applied to reddit, e.g. "9. Will only certain subreddits be policed for this content or can it come from any subreddit? Twitter: N/A" and our community folks have been working with them, but I'm not the boss here :)
Wait, did you ask for a huge lecture on the canonical background universe for Traveller? No? Darn.

Anyway, Traveller is the least futuristic science fiction setting ever (maybe). In game mechanic terms you have to start rolling for age-related characteristic effects starting at age 34 - you could lose strength, dexterity or endurance. At older ages you could lose intelligence too. But overall it assumes human lifespans more or less like they are today.
How long to get from this to human trials?
The NSA is subordinate to the Department of Defense - it is part of the military.
I've been looking for a particular quote about this, and just found it. I thought it was a random forum poster, but it was actually John Gruber from Daring Fireball:

"The design of the iPhone software was entirely informed by the fact that this was a new experience, it was nothing like using an existing smartphone, nor anything like using a Mac or Windows PC. It needed training wheels to get people up to speed. Thus, to name one small example, why iOS buttons have tended to look so very button-y. To inform the user, as clearly as possible, that this is a button that can be tapped.

Look around you. Any street corner. Any office. Any shopping mall. Any restaurant. You will see people tapping on touchscreens. We all get it now. iOS-style computing is no longer novel; it is now the standard interaction model for personal computing.

The primary problem Apple faced with the iPhone in 2007 was building familiarity with a new way of using computers. That problem has now been solved. It is time to solve new problems."
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Very exciting stuff. I love how you can take simple building blocks and create something elegant and fun with them.

However, why are there words more similar to "vacation" than "vacation"?
The article finishes with the Pan(n)ini projection, which was discussed yesterday:

http://tksharpless.net/vedutismo/Pannini/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9182418
As usual, this compares nameplate capacity instead of delivered generation.

Falling solar install prices are a good thing, but they don't close down other generation types. Coal plants still have to burn even if there is a glut of electricity because of favourable solar conditions.

Solar boosters like the article author love to prove how baseline producers have to accept negative rates means that they are somehow wrong in the market, but having baseline producers run at loss or worse, close down permanently is not something that any of us want - especially in the middle of a harsh winter.

Some care is needed to have grid stability designed in - which also should give price stability - because a highly volatile generation market is not something that is good for anyone.
In order to purchase the Pixel, I had to create a Google Wallet account. This needed all my contact info.

Once I get the device I will use a different fake google account, but they can suspect there's a link between the purchasing account and the account that uses the machine.
If you're letting people enter in their credit card information at any point for any reason you MUST get an SSL certificate and force people to use a TLS secured connection.

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"An example of a power-play and widely deployed de-facto standard that we resisted at Mozilla, wisely: ActiveX plugins. Independent companies emulated some of the ActiveX COM APIs, plus basic MS COM, on Unixen, in the '90s"

Thanks for doing this Brendan.

I was at a young startup at the time and an MS dev team gave us access to the IE Trident preview with ActiveX [0] and you could tell it was a pile of horse, without even implementing it.

'*you what?* create a plug-in, only works on IE,
then everyone has to download it?'

Totally against the grain of how the web worked and still works.

[0] IE4 layout engine: https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipe...