skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if they were aware of each other's locations and made micro adjustments to their timing to sync each other. They could cross flight paths.

On the other hand, wind isn't uniform enough to really allow this.
Best practices for Slack
Our team (8 people spread across 3 countries) loves Asana - it works great for us for prioritizing and communicating on tasks.

We recently added Slack for team communication. It has been very useful for internal communications but to be honest, it is still kind of a glorified / searchable / organized instant messenger for us. I still prefer to have all of our files saved in folders on our shared G-Drive for searching (otherwise we start having to search Slack, e-mail, AND G-Drive for files). And while it has cut down on e-mails, it has by no means "killed" e-mail.

I feel like I am missing the value of Slack - can somebody enlighten me?
One way to describe it in words is that it's like a normal wind turbine, but instead of 3 blades, you have one wing that moves in a circle like a blade. And instead of the energy being extracted by a generator where the 3 blades meet, the energy is extracted at the wing itself, by many small turbines.
Yes, the actual savings of water from restaurants only serving on request is negligible. But it reminds people we're in a fucking drought. Maybe — just maybe — that awareness goes home with them, and they don't run the tap while brushing their teeth before bed that night. Or they take a 3 minute shower instead of a 10 minute one the next morning.

Yes, these things are all token by themselves, and yes, residential use is utterly dwarfed by agricultural use, but every damn bit helps.
Design comps/wireframes are frequently shared as pdfs. Designers do not like storing their source files in git.
The drawback in this reasoning is that with Newtonian mechanics alone you cannot know whether your measurements are in the domain for which it is accurate or not. For that you need relativity and quantum mechanics. Newtonian mechanics alone is seriously wrong, but if you know (because you understand relartivity and quantum mechanics) that you are in a domain for which it is sufficiently accurate, then you can use it to produce accurate results.
An app that focuses on positive recommendations people want to share instead of being an outlet for all the whingers and whiners? How novel!
The diamond still sparkles though, even after a car wreck.
80% of California water is used by agriculture and antiquated water allocation laws lead to massive inefficiencies in the agriculture sphere.

Stopping serving water in restaurants, putting bricks in your toilets, and turning off the fountain outside your company are all effectively irrelevant in helping conserve water. Everything of importance in solving our water issues can be found in the farm fields of the central valley.
I think i'm older than you. I learnt in the school they were different letters, and also I remember when they were removed at the beginning of 90's
I had pretty much the same conversation, and also bought a ring that wasn't too expensive. I did feel a bit stupid for even spending that much once I saw AliExpress had a similar ring for $2:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/GH620-Italina-brand-Classic-d...

I actually ordered one to see what it's like: The band looks exactly the same (I'm guessing it's just plated or a alloy though) and the fake diamond looks more shiny and isn't as heavy as it should be.
Yeah, I wish I could edit my post, but I believe I was wrong about the MAC address needing to be the same. The major point is that the network needs to be unsecured and/or you already know the password. At that point, creating your own faux base station doesn't make a lot of sense when you can just sniff the packets on the wire or do arp poisoning to route traffic through you (if you want to modify traffic in real time, which is what I'm assuming he was referring to when talking about the SSL stuff).

Either way, Wi-Fi security certainly != "a misnomer."
if you're using anything other than distilled water, who knows what kind of minerals you're rubbing on your screen.

it's still inexcusable from apple, but don't be surprised if rubbing tap water on your glossy screen screws it up.
Let's do some math. USGS says California consumes about 38 billion gallons of water per day [1]. Coincidentally, there are about 38 million residents of California. That's 1,000 gallons per capita per day. Even if every single resident dined at a restaurant every single day, and was served a glass of water, and they didn't drink it, that would be 1/16,000th of the water consumed for that resident for that day.

[1] http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3977#.VQkNfxDF-L...
Yahoo's New Disposable Passwords
Massive Coalition of Japanese Organizations Against TPP Copyright Provisions
OK then look at the CVEs for the last couple years. The reward for finding a 0day RCE in a MS product is so high, I don't think it's accurate to say it's just the low hanging fruit.
Part of me hopes that will happen. I doubt the California regulatory system will change unless the system hits rock bottom.
I wonder if a nuclear reactor would qualify as falling under the "Economic Exclusive Zone" (between 12-200 miles out from shore)?

Maintenance would be expensive on the floor. Why not put the reactor at the end of a string of barges?
It's hard to know what the outcome of your education is going to be, so the risk of not being able to pay off a loan may just be too great. I am not aware of any elite colleges publishing statistics on things like the job placement rate and post-graduation income of lower income students. (On that note, if anyone knows where to get these numbers I would love to take a look.)
A $6 commute with Wi-Fi, USB ports, and coconut water
I would consider both positions more 'attitudes' than well-formed opinions on how one should act. You've been accused of having a 'bad attitude,' which I think is fair, but it ignores where you're coming from. You may be relying on this attitude to counterbalance a history of fruitless attempts at relating to people with seemingly little to offer. I bet you feel emancipated from worrying about doing something you don't actually feel inclined to do. That's fine, but just note that you may, later in life, find that people who are different from you might have a lot to offer. Or you may not. You can't make a definitive statement about this sort of thing.

To give an example from my life, a few years ago I realized I had become completely out of touch with "mainstream America," so I decided to make a project out of discovering why so many people live such apparently bland lives, watched so many television shows, liked fast-food chains, etc. Since then I've learned to relish conversations with people who seem to have nothing to offer me. I'll ask them probing questions and try to expand my own mental framework to incorporate a reality where their answers make sense.

Turns out a lot of people who hold positions of great responsibility, such as entrepreneurs, executives, and politicians, live quite boring lives by my standards, and I learned through this inquiry that there's a very good reason for this. Obviously this is a lossy generalization, but it seems to me that in many cases, because they are so burdened with risk in their work lives, they need to counterbalance this with total security and banality in their personal lives. And then others just see no reason to challenge themselves. C'est la vie!

On the flip side, I've also, like you, learned not to spend too much time with people who don't challenge me. Sometimes that means making difficult decisions, and sometimes it means maintaining a sour attitude temporarily. We all have our own energetic-emotional phase-space to navigate.
This is the reason I won't buy anymore Apple products. I simply cannot trust them to make a device which is practical.

I have the same problem, it was caused by my (then) 12-month-old toddler touching the screen.

I cleaned the screen with a slightly damp microfiber cloth, the same one I use for my glasses.
No-one said 'costs be damned'; no-one suggested that Apple should spend the cost of the laptop or more on warranty repair. The costs mentioned are less than 10% of your stated price.

And without 'costs be damned', your final line does not work - if you sell a product for a premium price, you do have an obligation to make your customers happy.
I have a 9-digit PIN. So I guess I'm immune from this type of attack? (In any reasonable time, at least.)
My 13" MB Air does not have this pattern. I've used a microfiber cloth dampened with isopropyl alcohol (no smears / spots) to clean the screen quite a few times without any problems. I don't think the alcohol is a problem (though the solvent could be -- I used lab-grade isopropanol).
Or just terrible syntax choices like in Java or Rust.
http://www.quora.com/Which-countries-in-Africa-were-never-co...

Alternatively, you could compare countries that had "more" or "less" colonialist control/influence, and see if there is any correlation to their current performance. Though, as with all social-sciency it's very difficult to isolate the variables to get deep insight into possible causal links.
Poor people stay poor because there are so many systems in place that squeeze them, from usurious payday/title loan shops to rent-to-own places; and the stuff poor people buy is never built to last. There's something to the Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

The people who run these systems have free reign to squeeze the poor because the poor have virtually no political power. (When was the last time you saw a politician throw a 50c/plate dinner?)

Assigning any part of poverty to poor people's inability to assess gold seems bafflingly detached from reality.
Back in the day it was always interesting to watch his finger posts before all this newfangled tweeting.
you might be interested in http://try-racket.org . Quick online tutorial. Haven't worked through it myself, but spent 30 seconds with it to make sure I wasn't embarrassingly wrong.
Or more likely people get pissed at the restaurant for trying to cheat them.
I suppose it's always possible, but I've been spending approximately a third of my time in a chair at a computer since I was 12 (I'm 27 now). Essentially everyone I know who does the same has had issues, but I never have.
California feeds a lot more than just its own residents with all that agriculture production. Pretty sure we produce more than the next 2 states combined.
>> Apple has been more than willing to extend warranties and repair issues once they're sure the problem is a defect.

The problem is that this can take a long time. So long, in fact, that it can be too late to get any benefit from these repair/warranty programs.

Some people who had the problematic 2011 Macbook Pro had already sold their laptops for parts at a loss before Apple finally acknowledged the issue (check out the huge thread on the support.apple.com forums).

I was lucky that I kept mine (it bricked itself a few months before the repair program was announced) because I had a feeling a replacement program might come out of the class action lawsuit related to the defect.

I ended up buying a new laptop when my 2011 Macbook Pro died because I wasn't going to fork out $500 for another defective logic board. I had already replaced it once while it was still under AppleCare, and it developed the same problems as the original within 6 months. Some people replaced their motherboards as many as 5 times with the same results.

>> Paying 4 grand for a laptop doesn't magically mean Apple is obligated in anyway to make you happy, costs be damned.

They don't have to make you happy "costs be damned", but they should be obligated to at least fix a product that is defective.
The two problems are definitely not always related. There have been plenty of times where traffic is mild and buses simply aren't coming.
"Why Many Smart, Low-Income Students Don't Apply to Elite Schools"

Seems rather self-explanatory, doesn't it? "Elite" schools are typically outrageously priced so unless you (or your parents) have a bunch of money to throw around, accumulating Ivy League debt would seem rather stupid.
Well, one can still remote wipe if the phone is lost. So, while this may still be an issue, it's not as bad as what it would have been if that weren't an option..
The very study you linked to actually disproves your comment. For most students, there isn't much of an economic advantage to attending an elite university.

However, as Krueger highlights in the NYT article, for underprivileged students attending a prestigious university does have a significant impact on earnings (even after controlling for ability). So the very students this NPR article is talking about are those who would most benefit from attending a prestigious university.

> So one answer to "why many smart low-income students don't apply to elite schools" may be that these students are really quite smart, and do actually know better what's right for them.

Nope. They would almost invariably do better by going to an elite university. Doing so will provide a significant earnings boost, not to mention that it's usually free. Intelligent low income students will usually get the best aid package from an elite university (usually a grant covering tuition, room, and board), thus making that choice cost effective even in the short run.

We need to encourage more low income students to realize that elite universities are a great option for them. On the flip side, middle income students should wake up to the reality that attending a second rate private university is a terrible economic decision.
You say that like we can magically stop using water for agriculture production and divert it all to residential use and there will be no consequences.

California produces a staggering amount of food, there would be a lot of consequences if agriculture production is disrupted. We need conservation efforts on both sides.
How exactly am I being cheated by having to ask for water?
Good point!

This other NPR story is very fitting to your comment: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-r...
I damaged mine (very slightly) with a Clorox wipe. It was my own damn fault. I've had good luck cleaning my sunglasses with them and figured it would work for the computer.

I accept responsibility for this bad decision.
Nope, not even close. There is plenty of water for the people living in CA. Residential use consumes less than 30%. Some farms will have problems, so food prices might increase slightly. But there is also plenty of food being grown in the US -- it is not even the second largest line-item for most families.

And this is not counting all the water we waste on unnecessary things like watering lawns and taking 10 minute showers.
I think this is as excited as I've been for a Windows release since '95. Which isn't saying a whole lot, but still, this will be the first time I've felt any desire to try upgrading to a new release as soon as it becomes available in 20 years.
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that not serving water at restaurants will reduce water consumption by less than 1/16000th.
Even RMS has been saying that not all proprietary software is malware and it used to be less common for it to be so. Being unethical doesn't make it otherwise malicious, but the power it gives is today often abused and thus is indeed malicious.
Those things aren't the problem.

80% of the water use in California is agricultural. If not serving water helped people think "hey! this land isn't sustainable on its own!" then maybe it would do something.

But the other stuff is just theatre so politicians look like they're doing something.
That would make a great light source for a DIY projector.
First feature-complete release candidate of Meteor on Windows
How is that article relevant to my comment?

Finance is the last reason in the article, but likely the most influential factor. The hoops required aren't worth jumping through to go to a "selective" school anyhow, unless you want to take the opinion of people who work for the most selective school in the country. That'd be pretty naive, wouldn't it?

btw... this other HN page is very fitting to your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
IE 4 was far and away the best browser in its day. Nothing else was as fast and as reliable. Netscape had devolved into a steaming pile of garbage which had horrible resource usage problems aside from being massively unstable. Other competing browsers weren't much better than netscape either. It wasn't until years later that things changed.
There are much much better ways to remind people.

And how many people (as a percent of population) go to sit-down restaurants anyway?

And even those that go will have a waiter ask: Would you like some water? And that's about the extent of it. It's not going to remind anyone of anything.
https://twitter.com/jamesthomson/status/527498251176796160

http://www.panic.com/blog/transmit-ios-1-1-1/

Neither of the apps got pulled. They got a warning. Whether the guidelines they were supposedly breaking were fair (or even existed) is a different thing.
Winston Churchill once said, "If a man isn't a liberal in his twenties, has has no heart. And, if he isn't a conservative in his forties, he has no brain."
Yes, but this figure is also a little misleading. For example, if you live in San Francisco or several other cities in the Bay Area, 80% of your water comes from the Hetch Hetchy system. Very little of that water is used for agriculture. If the snowpack is 30% of normal, than the water entering the system is 30% of normal, and that's a problem.
While I don't have a survey in hand, my impression is that few historical linguists believe there to be a demonstrated (genealogical) relationship between Korean and Japanese: they are generally considered to be isolates (i.e., languages which have no demonstrable relationship to any other extant language; Ainu, as it happens, is also thought to be an isolate).

Now, this doesn't mean they're not genealogically related. But, (at least prehistoric) languages change rapidly enough that it is probably impossible to convincingly reconstruct an ancestral language spoken more than a few thousand years ago, so the shared ancestor probably would have been spoken farther back than the comparative reconstruction method can look.
I typically use isopropyl alcohol as well. Although I've periodically used Windex on my 2012 rMBP; no issues thus far, still looks brand new.
I think "firefox is slow" partialy comes from people using css3 animations eg. this
http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js/#/bored
works smooth on my MBP as well as on my Ubuntu desktop
whereas seems sluggish on FF (on both platforms)
It does, yes. See the comment at the top of the file: It requires cscript.exe, which is more or less just the Windows Script Host.

I pointed out the script ostensibly because of the similarities of ES6 and TypeScript both having specs written in Word, and of a desire to convert into a much more web-friendly format. See specs.md: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/tree/master/doc

Speaking more honestly, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek and trying to bounce certain eyes onto the TypeScript repo in the continued hopes that its transparent, optional, gradual type system be further considered for future versions of ES (such as 7...wink?)
I am not a fan of government oversite, but I wouldn't mind putting a few regulations on Precious metal dealers in the
United States?

I would like to see some standards in weighing the metals, and maybe minimum amounts required per gram of metal?(tied to market values)

The fine for breaking the law would be just enough so the average shop would think twice about ripping off the public.

No, I wouldn't expect the FBI to run regular stings, but if
shop owners knew they might have a federal agent on the other
side of the counter they just might not be such horrid individuals?

I rember being swindled over some silver when I was younger, and really desperate. I still think about it whenever I pass
a pawn shop, or gold buyer.

(actually, I think some states/counties already have some
laws regarding weights & measures, but precious metal buyers
never get caught? I know some larger recyclers are inspected, but these little places open 24 hrs/day get way
with absolute thievery? Maybe they think every sale is stolen? Or, they just don't care?)
True that, but even if I didn't get to implement my ideas, at least my boss had always been aware of them. There wasn't ever a situation when he'd thought that I was simply 'bored'.
It's not even "no input". Your approach to the car is the input, it's "no extraneous action to provide input". You're using as the input normal user activity that precedes a necessary response.

Sorry too if that's too pedantic.
This is not a particularly new attack. It's been used for years against simpler devices, especially where you can access the flash chip and force it's write protect on.
It seems to me that the high-level issue here is that Unicode is caught between people who want it to be a set of alphabets, and people who want it to be a set of graphemes.

The former group would give each "semantic character" its own codepoint, even when that character is "mappable" to a character in another language that has the same "purpose" and is always represented with the same grapheme (see, for example, latin "a" vs. japanese full-width "a", or duplicate ideograph sets between the CJK languages.) In extremis, each language would be its own "namespace", and a codepoint would effectively be described canonically as a {language, offset} pair.

The latter group, meanwhile, would just have Unicode as a bag of graphemes, consolidated so that there's only one "a" that all languages that want an "a" share, and where complex "characters" (ideographs, for example, but what we're talking about here is another) are composed as ligatures from atomic "radical" graphemes.

I'm not sure that either group is right, but trying to do both at once, as Unicode is doing, is definitely wrong. Pick whichever, but you have to pick.
It's still worth doing from an awareness standpoint. Everyone in California needs to internalize the scarcity of water, and this is a reasonably effective way to do so. It is no harm to anyone to have to ask for water.
If was so, Poppler or MuPDF were better solutions for better rendering engine and much better performances.

But Github uses client side the PDF.js, that draw the content of parsed PDF file in a canvas.
With this particular tool, probably. You're a lot better off using an alphanumeric passcode and Touch ID though.
To be fair, proper codepoint processing is a pain even in Java, which was created back when Unicode was in 16-bit mode. Now that it's extended to 32-bits, proper Unicode string looping looks something like this:

for(int i = 0; i < string.length();) {
final int codepoint = string.codePointAt(i);
i += Character.charCount(codepoint);
}
Hello! Thank you for your question. I’d like to try to compare it to my previous experience of practicing English through Skype. I did around 10 conversations over Skype with a native speaker from http://preply.com/en/english-by-skype. And I was pretty satisfied with their Quality. I think they have a strong teaching quality, following their course curriculum now I can speak English like a native they also provide local tutors, but I Want to try another option.
That's really not a fair comparison here. With a monospaced font, it's much more comparable:

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func[Future[List[Option[String]]]]
> And I'm of the opinion that an attitude and approach like Linus' is fine - if you're Linus.

I'm of the opinion that it's not. And, it provides a really poor example to the younger people in the field.

I've known a lot of programmers. Many of them far smarter than Linus. Funnily enough, the better they were; the nicer they were.
> iOS already tracks time since power on IIRC,

Records it in photo EXIF data, for some reason.