skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last.fm still continues to scrobble because it's a preferences setting not a client plugin(?)

But the Last.fm plugin no longer works:
https://open.spotify.com/app/lastfm
People have been able to access the Internet from a C64 (1982) - there's even several browsers available ( http://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/Webbrowser ) - and that's a far less powerful machine than this Mac. Compared to a 1MHz 6502 with a 64K address space, an 8MHz 68000 (32-bit!) with a few MB of RAM and a 16MB flat address space is spacious.

Too bad the demoscene didn't really catch on with Macs for some reason... the hardware is theoretically quite capable and I'm sure they could've done some awesome effects with it if they tried.
Mostly photos and videos of my kids and their activities and whatnot. I do auto-backup all of it, but I like having it local on the device. Music and other media/content I try to keep and access solely from the cloud, but I like having all the personal media locally. I've been using a 32GB Moto X for a little over a year and am already getting close to the limit. I would imagine as these devices become more and more of a primary computing device for people, the space will be easier to fill up too.
You don't need to pick up the key, you just need to observe it as the correct color.
A union that many of my friends are members of recently had a massive debate, and was near split, on whether or not it was okay for workers to take contracts that are BELOW minimum wage [0]. That's how systematic the oppression by employers upon labor is. Even members of longstanding and powerful unions find themselves believing they aren't worth fair pay, because they've been told and exploited over and over again.

[0]: AEA, w/r/t the LA 99-seat plan.
Redis in a python module
Boxing reconfigures the brain all right. Just not in a good way.
Study conclusions using vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy are reported about twice a month now. http://vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_id=3421
There are 46 clinical trials listed for pregnancy with vitamin D intervention. http://is.gd/PregDTrials. I am aware of several which are just being started, but not yet announced.
I've read thousands of papers. I read the abstract and the summary. Those tell me if I want to read the paper.

They also tell me how to write a paper because everyone else is doing the same thing. Tease in the abstract, please in the summary.
Read the JLS. This is Java as defined by its creators, absent of C++.
Weird, because y_to_the(1/41) of 200* is about 1.1379 for an annual gain rate of 13.79 - which does not match 9.8 plus 2.

*the 41st root of 200... n such than exp(n,41) == 200...
Have you thought about loading up an MITM proxy and seeing what's being routed where and why? That might lead you to a fist-pump or two ;)
I don't think it's meant to be taken entirely seriously, and I think the use of Node-WebKit is supposed to be part of the satire.
One could argue that Singapore's competitive advantage is that they can attract top talent from neighbouring countries by offering a better quality of life - which, anecdotally, is the case among my friends - in which case a Singapore with more equal rights might actually be stronger economically.
Thats a myth. IT employees get paid in bands just like any other worker. The difference is that you hit the ceiling sooner than a similar gigs.

If you're in the Bay Area or Wall St tribal units, the numbers are higher, but they are higher for a reason... Your expenses or costs are way higher.

Everyone is replaceable. If you are the keeper of the keys of some magical system, you'll be replaced with the system when you become a liability, unless your employer is a moron.
I delivered a Social Media session at a business conference many years ago (07? 08? Back when that was something novel), and ran a quiz on Website Logos with Pez Dispensers as the prize.

I also wanted to make a point about hype and bubbles and evolving business models over time (what I guess we would now call pivoting). The Pez Dispensers were a way to discuss unbelievable bubbles, and e-Bay which evolved from a Pez swap & sell site into the auction juggernaut.

I'm sure some of the people in the room were laughing at inflated values for Pez and Tulips, while also investing their money into mortgage-backed securities.
I'm pretty sure I picked it up in the previous level. How do I 'observe' it?

Edit: Seems I need to match the colors. Didn't read instructions.
Co-founder Harshil here. We built this when we saw how the payments experience was a mess in India compared to the western world. The payments in India are much more complex than USA and Europe because of the strict regulation, multiple payment methods and unreliable bank gateways among other things. Consequently, the on-boarding experience sucks and failure rates are in double digits. We aim to tackle these issues and shield the merchant from them, to provide a seamless, easy to integrate experience. If you have any questions, fire my way!
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Keep in mind the fact that lots of high level employees play the role of mentor on the side for other start ups, and at the same time, many high level employees are individuals who have started their own successful ventures at one time or another, and now prefer to work for someone else for various reasons. These two roles are far from mutually exclusive. I also never stated anywhere that it would be acceptable for a mentor to haggle about his equity stake. ~0.5% is a rough estimate of what most mentors receive in exchange for their advice and help. Frankly, you're right that most mentors do it out of a desire to help and their equity position should be just enough to have some skin in the game. However, those mentors also have a responsibility to help you. That help comes in many different sizes and shapes. My point was that some of the things a mentor does to help is to make connections that can take lots of time to otherwise make, and to help overcome hurdles that otherwise would likely prevent success.

As far as their role, if you need a mentor to tell you that you suck at XYZ, you're probably not ready to run your own company yet. A great founder knows his weaknesses and surrounds himself with people who fill those gaps and raise the bar for the entire team. Sure, there are inexperienced founders who need to be told this, but if that's the mentor's main job then that start up is going to have bigger problems than the equity stake of the mentor vs a high level employee.

I think you might've misunderstood my point. I wasn't saying that $100K will buy you someone who can do what a mentor can do. I was saying that a mentor can help do many of the things that a $100K employee would otherwise need to do, at a fraction of the cost and much more efficiently. This is of course dependent on a founder making a prudent choice of mentor(s), which if he was the type of founder described above, he will have done.
This is the #1 most annoying thing in my recent conversion to working with a Mac. There is literally not a single way I can find to copy the current folder that I'm at in Finder for use in another finder window(ie, open/save files) nor for use in a terminal. Best bet is to two finger tap, get info, copy and paste the messed up "Macintosh HD"ized path, manually convert the Macintosh HD crap to an actual path, and then probably it works and you just wasted 1 minute of your life.
No. I'm guessing you haven't either, since no one can. Such confidence in the market. Is/was the market price of Thalidomide, asbestos and cigarettes also perfect?

edit: I'm not saying that Tetrapaks will turn out to be terrible, just pointing out that things are priced with complete ignorance of their eventual externalities.

And how is the cost of the plastic fragments in the ocean factored in in this example? It won't be zero in the long run.
Effective Computation of Biased Quantiles Over Data Streams[pdf]
If Spotify fires one of their engineers for helping a third party dev on the weekend, that'd be pretty disgusting... there's plenty ways someone could help OP without revealing IP.

If an hypothetical engineer gets fired for revealing IP, then the onus is on the engineer to not reveal IP. Not on OP for asking help.

This whole idea of not asking someone a question in case they would answer and be put in some Kafkaesque corporate politics nightmare sounds insane to me. How is this scenario what comes first to your mind?
If what you're building is actually a table, use table markup; that's the semantically correct markup. Just don't use it for something like a sidebar or footer, or otherwise for positioning.

If you're building a navigation area, a callout, or some similar semantically significant sidebar, take a look at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#sectioning-c... for the nav and aside elements.

But even if you use a div, as long as the semantic content makes sense without the div, you're fine. For instance, put one div with your article content starting with an appropriate heading tag, and another div for your navigation. Without the CSS, it still makes sense to have a section for content and a section for navigation.

Also, there is actually CSS markup to make something look like a table, if that's what you want; see http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-table for instance.
"sans scripting"

The Lisp scripting is the entire point of Emacs. Who cares about the keybindings. I don't really see the point. Can't you just compile emacs? I remember 25 years ago when people thought emacs was too big, and small emacs clones were popular, but in 2015 no one cares, right?

Rather than solving these easier useless problems, why doesn't someone solve the harder problem of making a better emacs clone with a high-performance Emacs Lisp clone. Then Emacs could be used to replace Visual Studio, Xcode, etc. Emacs is an editor construction kit:

http://ergoemacs.org/features.html

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
fantastic, I'll give this a go as soon as I can. I have a floppy writer in my server so I'll write it on that. Cheers guys
The online voting form should still allow for people to ignore the rules and submit an invalid vote though, just like they can with pencil and paper.
Interesting to hear. I don't have a particular opinion about the book, beyond having heard some praise, but I do think that blurb is assinine.
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I have it running on Yosemite. Instructions for enabling accesibility settings are a little different though. https://thequantumself.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/enable-acces...
Haven't tried anything fancy but verified it works
> You are justifying executing someone based on whether or not they broke a state law, not on whether or not they broke a moral law.

What are these moral laws you speak of? Your opinions on what is right and what is wrong?

The cases you present for firearm possession is simply a case of false dichotomy. Firearm possession is not inherently immoral. The armies of the country would definitely need them to protect the country against others, especially for Singapore who is surrounded by hostile neighbours.

Citizen ownership of firearms, on the other hand, is a highly impractical thing. It is illegal to own firearms in the country and that is just how the laws of the countries were set up in the first place. I would not go as far as to say that owning them is immoral, but by intentionally breaking the laws of the country, what are you trying to imply?
Mobile startup Adtile unveils 3D VR for any smartphone
I hear ya - fatigue happens.
> Display: table is cheating, and essentially conceding that you should have been using tables all along.

Not at all. "display: table" (and the related "display: table-cell" and similar) mean that you've written something which is not semantically a table, but which should use the browser rendering conventions of a table. That's a perfectly reasonable distinction.

Otherwise, would you suggest that every use of "font-family: sans-serif" is cheating and essentially conceding that you should have been using a <font> tag all along?
Yeah, similar frustrating experiences here led me to cancel my spotify premium subscription today and try Google play music, which apparently has all but one of the albums I regularly listen to. Normally that'd bother me but Google lets you upload your own songs and they're treated like first class songs, so I'm super happy with my choice.
Not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but dragging a folder from finder into the open/save dialog will normally change directory to the one dropped in.
For undergrads I would highly recommend getting into a combined BS/MS program if you can. Depending on how many credits you have when you start you may be able to do it in 4 years (maybe plus a summer).

It was a great experience for me. I got a publication on my resume, a chance to see what academia is all about, and decided it wasn't for me - then I graduated with a Master's and went to work in industry.
I'm curious why you can't? I'm guessing that seawater permeation would alter the isotope distribution, but I also wonder if the alteration is predictable in some fashion. Does seawater affect the decay rate in some fashion?
> For what is worth, I'd rather be executed than to "live" in an American prison.

Same. I'm not sure whether capital punishment should still be a thing, but anyone given a life sentence should have the option to choose death instead. Life in a supermax prison is deeply inhumane.
Your observation rests on a truism that, hey, people look out to maximize their self-interests. Unsurprising. The point here is that the two sides of labor and equity exerting pressure and regulating each other (in an informal sense) is not inherently bad by any means, and mostly desirable over one side becoming stagnant in its dominance.

There are obviously many arguments that can be made against labor unions, but appealing to things like "the real world" and "attitude of entitlement" is silly. Especially considering that many people who make propositions like this are then just as quick to defend rent-seeking activities, as long as it creates liquidity it's all fine in their world view.
Hey Harshil,

This looks good! What details do I need for activation? Can you charge customers in other currencies?
I haven't lived here for as long as you, but I reached similar conclusions.

In addition, the idea that it was some sort of backwater place before LKY is something of a myth, along with the "no natural advantage" canard. Its strong economy grew in large part due to its strategically positioned port, which has existed since 1819. Can't really take credit for that.

That isn't to say that the country couldn't have been run into the ground in the 1960s, but they had a far larger head start than the ruling party likes to admit.

Interestingly, probably one of their most successful economic policies is one that is stridently ignored by the rest of the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore

San Francisco in particular could afford to take a leaf out of this book.
You can click on the folder icon at the top of a Finder window and drag it into an open/save dialogue, or drag it into a Terminal window to get the absolute path. This works with individual files, too.
Although it was a little late to the party, flexbox solves a bunch of issues with css layouts.

Here's a working example that doesn't use tables: https://jsfiddle.net/q8zxxr3b/

Or, here's the inline example:

<div style="display: flex; height: 100%; flex-direction: column; align-items:center; justify-content: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h1>Hello world</h1>
The following green square should be centered:<br />
<div style="display: inline-block; width: 30px; height: 30px; background: green;"></div>
</div>
</div>
I was curious about this, based on a cursory search it looks like the water claims are because the grain that most megafarm chickens are fed is a water-intensive grain.

It looks like one loaf of bread is supposedly 288 gallons of water due to the wheat.
It actually comes with a monospaced variant.
the site included additional JavaScript from an external server, ivote.piwikpro.com. (Piwik is an analytics tool used to track site visitors.)

What is really disturbing is that this JS is not even tangentially related in any way to the actual voting process. Why does a voting site need to track its visitors at all?!
I'm sure the support agents you've been speaking to are just saying what they've been asked to say. Let's not kill the messenger here. This is likely a decision that is way above theirs and most of their developers' pay grades unfortunately.
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I guess this is related to your previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9246840

But without context it's very difficult to understand what's going on. You may try to write a blog post later with all the information.
You can just signup in 2 minutes and start using it in test mode. Meanwhile, you can fill the activation form with basic KYC stuff to go live. The activation form should take you about 15 minutes to fill with everything on hand. Right we only support charging in INR but we do support international transactions. Support for other currencies will be coming shortly.
>Given that we're generally happy to trust online banking, my feeling is that there is a way to make electronic voting secure enough. Where you want to draw that line is subjective though!

I don't think this is the right analogy.

* Citizens constantly monitor their bank accounts
* Citizens are *extremely* upset if an error harms them.
* There are procedures for reversing errors.
* There is a legal system for recourse if errors aren't reversed.

If a party wins an election fraudulently, and gains power, we don't have a good, non-traumatic mechanism for correcting that.

Changing $15,000 back to $18,742 is an easy, painless process. Replacing the ruling party is anything but.
Have you considered the possibility that someone could get fired for helping you with this?

In which case, the Spotify engineer would simply not respond. The Spotify engineer is going to be far more aware of corporate culture than the outsider who can't get any info out of them.

Let's not shame people for openly asking questions when they've already tried to solve the problems themselves and also failed when using the 'official' channels.
Please come to Costa Rica! You can work with the Banco Nacional which has a partnership with Paypal also. We need to have a developer-friendly service.
Adding to my sibling post, the USAF hires a ton of professional engineers. Many officers are engineers by education, though higher ranks are rarely engineers by trade. Many LTs and Captains do engineering work, but career progression is harder if they want to stay in it so they either switch or get out and continue as a contractor or civilian after 4-10 years. On the civilian side, there are many thousands of civilian engineers employed at the depots and other locations, but not as often at the operating locations.
Less Estimation, More Trust
It depends on the difficulty of the field, but I think on average it takes about 30-80 articles to get into a divergent field. Review articles can help a lot, but you don't always get them for hotly moving fields.

I also think it helps a lot to be aware of popular experimental designs and statistical techniques.
"He never articulated it because it was clear from day one that he was going to bat for me and everyone on his team. The results spoke for themselves."

True leadership is serving.
I used to have an Applescript app that I made a default icon in the Finder action bar that would open a new terminal tab and then cd to the path of the Finder window, but they introduced this a few versions ago and I think it works fine: http://lifehacker.com/launch-an-os-x-terminal-window-from-a-...
>You could say the same thing for the UK.

You really can't. There's no comparison to be made between the way Singapore treats Bangladeshis and the UK treats Poles.
That's just creepy. While I can see how it would be nice to have Netflix, I don't wish to be tracked. I'd rather pay cash for a DVD at a retail store; that way I won't be tracked.
I'm an mg guy who uses Emacs when he has to. Unlike Emacs, mg is an editor. I don't know what tool-class Emacs properly falls into, but as many people here have pointed out, it's closer to a general-purpose scriptable environment than an editor. Editing is a side-effect of the other capabilities, very nearly. I know at least one person who uses Emacs as their shell.

For those of us who just want a clean, fast, light-weight editor, mg is great. It's what Emacs would have been had it been an editor, instead of something else.
elm-d3: Front-End Development Without Frameworks
The pricing is Stripe-like if only handling domestic transactions. If a customer wants to sell internationally too then there is

* 5k setup fee

* 5k annual fee (excluding service tax). Approx $90/yr.

* 2% per transaction

Instamojo provides a nice payment experience too and with a fee of 1.9% per transaction (if you don't use the hosting feature).

Wonder why the more expensive pricing. A simplified per-transaction pricing would be nice to sell internationally. Maybe increase the per-transaction charge for international transactions or add a fee like $0.5 extra.

P.S: I'm not affiliated with Instamojo in anyway. I've been on the hunt for a payment solution recently and settled with Gumroad actually.
Check out Fabrice Bellard's QEmacs. Has unicode, at least.
Project synthDawley: Creating a synthetic dissection model for education
Safari is the last holdout for prefixing the CSS3 transform properties. http://caniuse.com/#search=transform
Ask HN: YC Application Advice
The deadline for the 2015 Summer YC Batch is on Mar 27. What advice do previously successful applications have to offer founders applying for this batch?
I would love a way to join the "supply side" of this company aka pickup some quick scraping/scripting tasks for cash.
There were a lot of weird errors in the article.

> tur- boprop-powered XB-52
> missilessiles
FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
Not so much worried as curious -- if I'm missing something, I'd genuinely like to know!
> I develop HTML5 gambling for a living and this anti-javascript sentiment on HN is getting really tiresome.

I've been using websites since the early 90s and this pro-single-page sentiment is getting really tiresome. You are breaking the web. You are destroying users' security.

Sure, there are plenty of reasons to use JavaScript, and plenty of places where it's appropriate. It probably is a good idea for games and so forth. But requiring users to load and execute constantly-changing code from across the web in order to read a page or submit a form is in-friggin-sane.

Some one else pointed out that it'd be nice if browsers offered more support for things that certain types of developers clearly want to do. I completely agree; it'd definitely be nice to take advantage of many of the technologies which currently exist to do more, in a more structured way. But requiring code execution in order to read data is madness.
Actually it is the lack of currying that is a stumbling block when you go back to a language that doesn't have it.
First up, congrats to you and Kumar. It takes a tremendous effort to tackle something like this in India.

0. How does your product compare against juspay.in and payzippy (which I believe has been discontinued)?

1. How much development do you plan to do open source?

2. Who have been your mentors?

Merci.
To summarize, with this pre-print, Google's "FaceNet" holds the current record on performance on the LFW unconstrained face verification task with an accuracy of 0.9963 +- 0.09. Looking at the other top results on LFW, it's clear that the LFW data set is saturated.

http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html
This looks like its good for a quick prototype for inexperienced devs (or non technical people or people who want to experiment). Depending on what work you can do, college students may ask you to do their homework.