skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree there is a superficial similarity, but it seems strange to focus on that little detail.

What prevented people in the USSR from visiting their family wasn't the requirement of ID per se. It was the fact that the government could confiscate all your documents and basically turn you into an unperson.

In my country, which had a recentish authoritarian past, the Constitution (we made a new one when we changed the form of government) says that everyone has a right to an identity, and nobody can take that away from you.
There are ways to provide free internet to millions, while NOT compromising on neutrality or providing convenient network leverage to Facebook and Reliance to pick winners.

How is X megabytes / month for free but with ads (this is network neutral) not better than Internet.org's current model? Why not let those millions decide which are the essential internet services for them? Do the poor millions don't deserve choice?

Let the user chose for himself. How hard can this be?
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Nope. I just happened to have one handy and tried it. A cocktail shaker does not a Faraday cage make.

http://cl.ly/0X0K280n1Z06
Significantly less so. The Vacuum pot predates the french press, percolator and auto drip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_coffee_maker

They're also a huge pain in the ass to use.
In my experience, most of the evils of enums can be traced back to the lack of exhaustive pattern matching in C++/Java. When programming in Rust or Haskell, enums are used much more often, and the exhaustiveness enforcement by the compiler means that these kinds of use cases tend to be encapsulated inside helper functions, which end up being equivalent to the members of the "tuples" presented by the author. Any additions or changes to the enum will automatically make the compiler force you to update these functions.
Scaling a business like Homejoy while maintaining quality is virtually impossible. There is just not enough people who can consistently stay motivated to do a good job in that line of work 24/7 (well more like 8/5).

I ran a similar company in Germany and when Rocket Internet decided to pump €44m or whatever ridiculous number it was into their own version it was game over. They were charging less than we paid our cleaners. Even with those resources (and tagging it off the back of their airbnb ripoff) I don't think they will succeed. I know we made a lot of mistakes like bootstrapping too long but having done the business for long enough I came to realise that high staff turnover is inevitable which adds another extra cost which in turn makes the business cost structure unsustainable. Hiring and training is expensive and time consuming and people just don't want to be cleaners long term.
Oh poor you, all these people providing you with free tools. If it solves your problem, use it, if it doesn't don't.

Do you really believe that the motive behind this charity is 100% altruistic?

Oh man, I gotta an ocean front house in Arizona to sell ya!

Joking aside, these people publishing and releasing these frameworks to the public at min looking for reciprocal treatment in terms of improvements to their product made by the community and the general adoption of it by wide segments of the community making it easier for them to recruit and integrate new team members with minimal costs in training and sunken costs.

So, this symbiotic relationship between us devs and these corporations is neither altruistic nor patrimonialistic
Their eventual goal is for every rocket to land and not have problems. Providing enough fuel for five seconds of hovering is a waste of valuable fuel (see how they're already so low that they run out in the process).

Also, falling over almost certainly also leads to a writeoff, as otherwise they'd just fly the rocket into a big pit of fire retardant foam blocks.

I'd imagine that the lateral stresses involved in a crash landing are more than enough to write off the rest of the rocket, and so the explosion would just make the barge slightly harder to clean up.
They used something similar in The Incredibles movie.
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I poisoned the squid cache at my school and made a fake sex offenders website with all of the teachers on it. Times have changed.
Hey, very nice. I knew about the "new" format() but didn't know it was so powerful.
Looks like the landing leg on that side collapsed during touchdown. The thruster did all it could, but alas, it couldn't keep firing forever... nor did it have enough thrust to actually hold the rocket vertical all by itself, for that matter. An A for effort though.
The counter-response is the Elgin Marbles issue. The Greeks want them back, to put on public display in their native location, the Acropolis.

The Acropolis is important enough in Greek culture that during their war of independence, they supplied the enemy with ammunition so it wouldn't be destroyed. The Turkish garrison was low on ammunition, so started pulling apart the columns of the Acropolis to get at the lead joinery. The Greeks supplied them with enough lead to stop that from happening.

http://www.ahistoryofgreece.com/revolution.htm

What better place to see ancient Greek sculptures than the very temple they were built for, curated by people who honour that location? It's not like the British Museum doesn't have other items to put on display...
I've always imagined that the big bulls-eye wasn't painted on the barge just for decoration. I don't have any hard info though. Come to think of it, it would be hard to get video through the rocket exhaust.
If you employ the violence of the state to keep me from walking on so-called "private" property, then absolutely my freedom is impeded.

What's "private" space without the violence of the state to back it up? By what right can you exclude me from walking wherever I please, under some guise of "freedom"?
Yeah,running a public program and are handling a lot of submissions (pretty typical), handling the volume of bugs and evaluating them quickly can be quite tricky. Not only is it important for the company because you want to make sure you're aware of what's out there, but you also want to make sure the security researchers have a great experience.
On the live feed, just after +1:30 I heard "Recovery platform has acquisition signal"
While this made me laugh because it's an exact description of the last 3 years of my professional life, I am happy new frameworks keep popping up. The holy grail of front end frameworks hasn't been invented yet but with each new framework we ( hopefully ) make some progress.
Benjamin Eberlei argues for the same approach here: http://www.whitewashing.de/2014/10/26/symfony_all_the_things...
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Hi, so I've made a templating engine that I am quite proud of and I'm sure that a few people will also like it but I have no idea of how to get feedback from people on what they'd like in it so that I can improve it. I've got feedback from a few colleges but I'm finding it hard to get anything else. I want to know what I can add to it to improve it for the whole programming community. Any ideas on how I can get this user feedback? Thanks

Cheeky link to it if anyone wants to check it out - https://github.com/DrRoach/templator
Personally I have little to no need to search many files. I use Launchy to index a specific folder for applications/files I often access and simply use the search in the start menu for everything else.

I figure most developers/people who benefit from being able to search within files use UNIX-based operating systems and not Windows.
And THIS is exactly what the EU antitrust trial is about.
Thanks for this great product. Definitely going to try this out.

What are your plans to push this into market and How are you planning to attract both app devs and end users to use your product?
One summer in France while I was a kid (from the states, visiting for 6 weeks), I wrote a spell checker in 6502 assembly in a notebook...as I had no access to a computer and my french was terrible, so I had more alone time than I should have had.

I then typed it into my Commodore 64, at home at the end of the summer.

It didn't compile at first (of course) but it was mind-expanding to have so much time to think about the algorithm.

I had totally forgotten this entire incident until this moment.
Exactly, and that’s why the EU trial is going on right now. Shopping and Places are two of the main problems the EU sees right now.
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Are you on your phone?

Coz it's working here on my desktop and I have Ad Block installed on the machine
Shouldn't this all be in a config file or vehicle database in the first place and not hardcoded?
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Because there is no tradition of funding civil society organisations in India, CIS is mostly foreign-funded. That puts them under the purview of FCRA, which means they are explicitly forbidden from lobbying and politics, at risk of having their funding cut off. They necessarily have to limit themselves to policy research.

CIS is not and will never be the EFF of India until the FCRA rules change. We need another organisation.
>>why no internet is better than free limited internet with facebook + google search + wikipedia?

Eventually these companies will work towards making internet difficult to access so their own sites can have the monopoly.

Internet isn't impossible to provide eventually every one will have access. But to do it this way will create problems which takes decades to solve.
Is this access offline? Because some of the friend suggestions are from pretty recent contacts. So if the access is not offline they'd have had to email me and only then give FB access.
This was on his website. "Let them know you demand an honest government that works for the people - and you oppose shooting me down. (If you are in favor shooting me down, call that number, but wait until tomorrow.)"
Wow, Python 2.4 was last updated on October 18, 2006.

Since Centos 5 still has about 2 years of life but fewer and fewer Python packages support 2.4, it might be worth looking at Pyenv:

https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv

Good overview of what it lets you do:

http://fgimian.github.io/blog/2014/04/20/better-python-versi...
I have my own scheme-esque language that I use for scripts. 16 of its 48 primitive procedures ~correspond to unix system calls (open, close, read, write, seek, select, stat, link, unlink, mkdir, lsdir, chdir, fork+exec, wait, sleep, exit). It was very instructive to work on, and using something I know inside out is a welcome relief from the uncertainty I feel when intuiting (ba)sh.
What exactly are you objecting to here? "Either you do X or we shut down Y" is an ultimatum. Are you confusing ultimatims with blackmail?

It doesn't have to be phrased as a demand. As a friendly opportunity it's still an ultimatum.
It is not only about IIS. Various other SW use this API. For example Citrix Remote Receiver. And also various Antivirus Programs, use this HTTP interface – to be accessible from central management. Just try to execute “netsh show http urlacl” and you will see how many programs use it. Or you can use TCPView(Sysinternals) to see which ports are bound by "process" SYSTEM (pid 4).
True, not all. But there is a pretty big swath of population between Netherlands/Spain/Italy/Hungary/Poland/Denmark ..
I don't know about Google, I do know about one project manager there, who felt that it wasn't good that I finished his pet project about six months ahead of him.

Then I told him that my stuff is all OSS and he was welcome to crib from it.

At a robotics society meeting in Palo Alto in 2010, he told me that I was just a hobbyist and my project didn't exist. My 'bot had just run circles round his when his stopped working, in front of people.

So I put one of my production logic boards in his hands. It had through-hole parts and was spiky. Then I squeezed his hand around it. Hard.

"So, if it doesn't exist, how is it making you bleed?"

(My American friends told me that I did not handle that well. My Italian friends told me that I handled that masterfully. I tell this story to highlight differences in culture.)
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Many people fall prey to well engineered propaganda. Example, Jobs pronounces PC dead. Media picks it up. People believe it because Jobs and media says so. Media constantly announce some random percentage decline in yearly shipments but fail to mention that the absolute numbers still out number tablets by a crazy margin.

Same story with IE. I use chrome exclusively. My friends, coworkers and family members do the same. People in conferences use chrome too. So I believe IE is "dead." Catch my drift?
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Strange rituals or cannibalism? Neanderthals manipulated bodies after death
It's tricky because it can't hover, one engine on minimum provides too much thrust.

So if you do raise it up, you'd have to stop the engine, then wait a little and re-light it again.. which I think is tricky to do, and the engines only have so many "re-light" cycles in them, so you don't want to use up too many , else you can't re-use the thing for another real flight.
No, we weren't trying to sell a blogging platform. What we created was not what we wanted to create either. What we ended up creating was supposed to be a tiny piece of a much bigger overall vision.

I don't really want to go into a lengthy explanation right now but basically companies (especially the bigger companies) all do something called social responsibility. My co-founder's idea was to provide a different way of reporting their activities and a create a new standard for reporting and become the center of it.

Our vision/mission was to increase consumer awareness; bring 100% transparency and honesty to every single company; and motivate all companies to do honest social responsibility activities.
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That's gotta be the most American thing ever. A .com website that sells you drugs so you can work harder. And the website is designed to look like they are selling you lollies.
Today. But that can change whenever some politician decides.
Yahoo and Foursquare both lack a clear strategy moving forward. I'm not sure adding two struggling companies makes a strong one. Reminds me of Microsoft/Nokia.
The Never-Ending Job of Painting the Golden Gate Bridge
The Facebook Like popup got through uBlock on Chrome.
I'd say Mozilla's Persona delivers it best:

* Mozilla doesn't have any information on you

* Mozilla doesn't store your password if possible, and instead falls back to your email provider (but they do NOT learn which site you logged into)

* It can eventually be decentralised and browser-integrated (though this may have been abandoned)

* The site only knows your email address

I can't remember, but I don't know if Mozilla knows which sites you log into, either.
We will eventually have some premium services that developers can get access to that will help them engage with their users or administer their services.

As for "Anonymous" login, that's Facebook's term for the service they promised (and we don't use it in our own description of the product for exactly the reasons you mentioned). We act as brokers between apps and users for their data, which includes an identifier that can be used for login. When an app chooses not to ask for personal data, we let the user know that we won't be sharing any of their information with the application.
They've completely pulled out for some services and conditionally for some others.
ds = data scientist?
Exactly: It's not simply an amplifier, it's a repeater. It's similar to two-way radio repeaters used by amateur radio and emergency communications, with the major difference being that this sounds like a full duplex device on one frequency, whereas radio communication repeaters generally use two sets of frequencies in a half-duplex configuration.
It probably would explode before crashing. The various machinery in the engine expects fuel to be there, providing resistance. From what I understand, if gas was to be sucked into the engine, the end result would be a rapid disassembly.
It was serious. I agree with you here though about simpler tax filers. They should be able to make it easy and free for 1040EZ filers. State taxes make it a bit more complex but whatever.

I'm not holding my breath though.
Watching it made me realize I only had an abstract idea of how difficult it was to even attempt this. It's insanely hard, and they're so close!
>>It is surprising that both Flipkart and Times Group pulled out of Facebook's initiative

They were counting on people's sentiments to fall for free services/products. They realized it could back fire big time. That 'we are for net neutrality' argument is plain B.S. They are making a virtue out of compulsion.

Flipkart has a string of screw up's off late. The Xiaomi flash sale, the big billion dollar sale, other price related issues.

They are already falling out of fashion. Last thing they need is to perceived as a 'yet another baniya company'.
Maybe because the contributors are mostly men?
How on earth are they going to do it for "half price"? These are already very competitive industries where the pricing is largely based on time (and estimations thereof). And the estimating is based on stuff that's going to be hard to capture in an algorithm that doesn't involve a physical person going to $wherever and punching in a bunch of estimates of various things into a web form for processing. At which point your algorithm isn't a tremendous advantage since the trip cost is what dominates the equation, not if it takes the estimator 5 minutes or 15 minutes to come up with a price.

The only way it might succeed is if Google or Amazon can squeeze people harder than Homejoy or whoever already does. And that's a recipe for disaster, no matter if they're employees or independent contractors. If people can't make a living through your service, they simply won't participate.
My thoughts too, but I guess any ingress of sea water makes it necessary to junk the engines. Also, once you've solved the 'landing problem' once, presumably the method can be reused on each and every subsequent landing; if you are looking at many such landings it becomes worth doing it 'once' and properly.
If you worked an average of 34 hours per week, this arrangement was even worse for you than if you were salaried.
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If I were in the market for a laptop, I'd be pretty interested in this unit. Seems like it might be a bit of a hacker sweet spot, assuming they haven't resorted to lots of non-free shenanigans--a laptop that is fully supported by a non-bleeding edge Linux is much better than a laptop that is stuck with a particular Linux distribution.

Seems like I know a lot of folks "coming home" from OS X to other platforms. My homecoming was to an OpenBSD workstation because I decided I didn't want or need my work to be portable. But if I had, I'd be taking a long hard look at this machine with the larger high-res screen, decent CPU, and MacBook Air-ish design.
There's a plan to do some work on it (including trying to port it to 64 bit) this summer.
I agree, and I wish the concepts here were more widely adopted. Many people seem to equate low-consistency modes (offered by Dynamo/Cassandra etc) with CAP and guaranteeing availability in presence of network partitions. In practice, network partitions seems much less of a concern and the low-consistency modes are really needed to get reasonable performance/latency instead.
They can't turn it off and on. They can restart it once and it has too much minimum thrust to hover.
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File search is weak. Heck, file systems are weak. Instead of looking for a name or modification date match, I'd really like to find "that pdf I printed yesterday at work". But because all file systems are rooted in 1970's ideas, we can't add attributes to files (a-la relations). So search is crippled.
This.

This video is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. This is not a failure. This is an incredibly rich mine of data on how to do better next time.

This is how we improve the world, and it's beautiful.
It will be hard to measure effectively. When you see the breadth of chemicals considered nootropics, you will see why.
This seems to be insanely relevant: I'm currently working on transforming government documents into structured xml and I've had to be stopped repeatedly from implementing something like this. I have a treetop grammar now that (mostly) works, but I'm tempted to try this.
> A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result

It hasn't had ANY undesirable results. Calling it perverse at this point in time is definitely a pessimistic take on Uber's play here.
Right now the clinet+server-side (isomorphic) story for a lot of these tools is less than outstanding... React, or something like it will likely win in the end. Although I've also been keeping an eye on mercury, riot and polymer. Angular 1.x was too annoying in practical use, and wrt Angular 2, may as well just use React.
Not sure if I'm understanding you right, but this isn't really a fundamental difference between piston "prop" engines and turboprop "jet" engines. The mechanical design of the combustion chamber is very different, but in both cases, the combustion produces mechanical energy, which spins a fan, which propels air backwards.
I thought it was weird when I first heard it referred to as espresso, but the official name is "Aerobie® AeroPress® Coffee & Espresso Maker" and there doesn't seem to be any consensus on what _espresso_ actually is. The only common trait is that pressure is used to force water through ground coffee -- the Aeropress does qualify under that definition.
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Why not simple subclasses? E.g. class Truck extends Vehicle. From the article, the argument would be that "everything in one file" is desired, so you can e.g. parse it from other or for other languages.

There are also the downsides of the table approach. What does avg_km_per_liter mean for e-cars? With multiple classes they can have different fields.

Everything is a tradeoff.
Well holy crap, right you are. My point is refuted.
I believe the price is stopping it. Getting a telco to give you massively reduced rates on a few domains is drastically different than paying for internet access for everybody. Also, please correct me if I am mistaken, but I.org doesn't prevent you actually paying for full internet access?
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I'm not sure. But eventually they would rank sites from internet.org higher in their search results?
Thanks for your reply. I am definitely leaning towards Hetzner. Are you concerned about the DDoS issue? (related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6577465)
Thanks for the interest!

We're encouraging developers to use this alongside social login (or as a replacement for building their own email/password-based login). Developers can avoid having to build and design large amounts of UX around login, registration, email/phone verification, password resets, etc. by adopting Hoomi, while still giving their users an alternative to social login.

We plan to add a number of compelling features for both users and developers. These will increase the value of a Hoomi account as well as the benefit of adding Hoomi login to your applications.
The "Server" response header will usually tell you but may omit a specific version depending on configuration.

Use "curl -I whatever.com" to send a HEAD request and look at the headers in the response.
Those are individuals choosing to donate money, not Google. As I said above, any corporation is prohibited from donating even $0.01 to any candidate for federal office.