skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice if there were some indicator to where I start. Many colors look the same, and I have trouble finding my "lightcycle".
I really wanted that customized joystick. Damn...
One thing I've observed many times over the years is that the government likes to have its cake and eat it too. For instance, they ruled that gold coins were legal tender. Then one bright employer started paying his employees in gold coins from the US Mint.

If I give you 12 $50 gold coins that are legal tender, I've paid you $600 dollars, right? Say your salary is one of those a month. What should you claim as your income on your taxes? $600? That's well below the $4k and you don't even have to file.

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

But the IRS decided that it didn't matter that they were $50 legal tender, and took him to court where the court rules that the "value" of them was what mattered.

So here they are literally claiming it is one way when it's convenient to them and another when that is more convenient.

The laws are written, always, to give maximum power and flexibility to the government and little to none to you.

Expecting consistency out of them would be a mistake.
Thank you, I was not aware of that. I feel slightly foolish.
Right - I didn't recognize the ability for what it is until I taught myself programming - since then, the amount of things I feel like I can achieve is pretty high, simply because I know "how" to learn about things I don't know about.
"and by failing to implement and maintain an adequate anti-money laundering (AML)
program designed to protect its products from use by money launderers or terrorist financiers"

I believe not implementing the AML program is the real issue.
I came here to mention Armagetron, too. No other game stole my time quite like Armagetron did. If you many people out there want something new to try, give Armagetron a chance, you won't regret it!
Two paragraphs to say we have no idea. I guess there is always the extortion option.
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There are multiple reasons that you should talk to a lawyer before going ahead with this, not least the cease-and-desist letter you are sooner or later going to receive from Paypal complaining about infringement of their trademark.
Brand.com has filed for bankruptcy
So I guess this is when libertarian says: if only there was no state to help stupid corporations enforce these ridiculous restrictions on their customers!
This will only cause people to flee to the virtual currency and stay there, over time. It literally incentivizes staying in the virtual currency... just like people like to "stay" in cash, now (in fact, just today a contractor offered me no tax if I paid him cash...)

How the powers that be do not see this, astounds me.

As soon as the first cryptocurrency acquires some semblance of price stability, it becomes more dangerous to the old system.

Given 2 options, one with a lot of friction and one without, no matter the "marketshare" of the first, the latter one will eventually win.

The only way fiat can prevent this is to stop punishing good actors with AML/KYC compliance.

The fact that these laws still refer to and try to regulate geographically-focused transfers of money (which make literally no sense in an Internet cryptocurrency context... If I fly in a plane and have a Bitcoin wallet app on my phone which gives me access to spend 15 grand worth of Bitcoins anywhere (including ON the plane, if it has wifi), do I have to "declare" the "carrying" of more than $10,000 "cash"?) shows how behind-the-times this worldview is.
We're not talking about programming per-say - we're talking about being able to teach yourself, without much outside instruction.

If you wanted to learn to play the guitar, learn to take good photos with a nice camera, learn how to decorate your house in a tasteful or fashionable, basically anything you don't have any experience or knowledge in, how do you do it? The people who haven't learned how to learn either simply DON'T do it or they use their social group to find someone to teach them or pay somebody.

You can get pretty far without being able to teach yourself things, but for some skills especially those you have no idea about you have to be able to research and learn yourself.
As these virtual currencies become more practical as currencies, there will be less transactions between them and the banking system. It won't be immediately cashed out after the transaction as they are now.
Dude, just stop. You're only making yourself look worse.
Here is the gist:

"Essentially overnight all of the tools that we utilized didn’t work.

Google even went so far as to remove both Brand.com and Reputation.com from its search engine….

What I learned quickly was that you should never build a business model that is dependent on another platform, especially an SEO play on Google’s platform. e.g. Brand.com’s success was dependent on Google’s algorithm.

Business was great until Google’s engineers decided that they would change their algorithm [to] adversely [affect] many of the tools we used at the time to run ORM campaigns."
A huge shortage of devs, and yet somehow their wages remain suspiciously flat:

http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-mi...
Every generation says the next generation is worse. It's actually true.

Western civilization reached it's peak right around 1776, the height of the Enlightenment, and it's been going downhill since then.

Every generation is worse than the last, and Western civilization will not last much longer unless the trend reverses.

You can't turn the United States into a Hugo Chavez-style system and expect a different outcome than the one in Venezuela.

Western Europe is more robust to socialism because the culture within each country is so homogenous, but even they won't be able to last forever. Especially with crackdowns on free speech.
> "internet in the system"

I don't know if that's a typo but I really like it.
Ripple is semi-centralized, so unlike Bitcoin they can in fact enforce actions against them in a way that affects all of the protocol users.
My side? Where did I align myself with a "side"?
? The iPhone is less customisable hardware than the old Nokia candy bar phones.
You should really work on your language skills as a founder, it does not reflect so well on you (and Coding House) if you can't even spell properly when you're trying to defend your creation.
There's an arrow next to your dot.
Not possible. The specs on their site say 2.0kW continuous and 3.3 peak power per power wall.
Thanks for the tip re: Timbuk2. They are offering a bike share if you leave your driver's license and CC as a guarantee. I really wouldn't want to leave my CC; I wonder if this is legal.
What you find acceptable is not relevant to the bodies of others. This is why "condone" is inappropriate.

It is simply classless and rude to insinuate that your notions of what is or is not acceptable have any relation whatsoever to the bodies of other people.
You are as soon as they want you to be. I'm not being facetious. The laws, especially those relating to regulating finance, are written as broadly as possible to give them as much power as possible. If you hit their radar, they can send you away for a very long time.

On top of that, the legal system has little to no understanding of technology and it appears from the cases I've seen (as a layman) that the courts take analogies as fact. Thus if someone testifies "it's like doing X with Y" even though X is very different because it's digital than the literal concrete X, they take it at face value.

This is why scraping data on a public website is treated as if it was breaking into a computer system, because "its like trying all the doors and finding one that's unlocked and then going in and taking the houses contents, your honor!!!1"
>> Life appeared on Earth early pretty much as soon as conditions arose that would support it (as soon as the planet cooled enough). So that would point to life being "easy" to form.

>That's quite a stretch.

What is a stretch? That life formed as soon as conditions supported it, or that it may indicate that life is easy to form? The earth formed 4.55 billion years ago, the moon formed 4.5 billion years ago, and 4 billion years ago was the end of the late heavy bombardment, and the first formation of life.

I do agree that changes in conditions could prevent a second biogenesis event, but there seems to be enough time with the initial conditions that it "should" have happened more than once. But that is just my initial impression from the simplified versions of geologic timescales that are presented in various pop sci media.
Some of the worst traffic in the country is in the suburbs. I'd rather drive in Manhattan than Northern Virginia.
Context: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/im-so-so-glad-this-guy-e...
It's open source; somebody install it on another server so we can actually play...

https://github.com/Elao/curvytron
There was a relatively recent bug in X11 which would cause X to crash when any arcs were drawn on screen with certain beginning/ending angles. This might be what's affecting you at the moment.
In Bulgaria, food waste feeds the pigs, which are turned into food themselves pretty soon.
Show HN: First site I've built, Personalized Makeup site for Beginners
Hi HN,

This is the first site I've built. I know it probably won't be interesting to most of you but I think it's pretty helpful to people interested in makeup: http://www.savvyist.com

I hope to make it easier for anyone who wants to get started with makeup, as it can be a really useful tool, and I know firsthand how overwhelming it can be.

I learned Ruby on Rails to create it using the amazing book/tutorial by Michael Hartl and some good codecademy courses. I was formerly a User Experience Designer at Nokia & didn't know how to code before then. If you want to know more about how I got started, feel free to ask me, I can give you my email address. I would love to meet more female coders in particular!

Hope you like it :)
Not a defense, but I feel part of it is due to the value we place in our society in on being busy, see: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-tra...

It's not just in the workplace that we equate being busy with being important.
Great to see a startup in the mental health sphere. There are a lot of people who could really use the tools that CBT provides. Best of luck to you guys!
"Apple is talking to music labels about discontinuing their free-music-streaming licenses with Spotify,..[]"

Newbie here. It is this legal?
Of course some people do great without studying. I got a perfect score cold, FWIW (~nothing). However, the population of people with great scores also includes a disproportionate number of fairly smart kids whose parents are able to shell out big money for private school and test prep, and those students are a private college's bread and butter. If the schools happen to also pick up some poorer but equally good at test taking students in that population as well, so much the better.
This really, really needs a button for the room controller to lock it against new players. Busy rooms end up as an alternative 'game' of whack-a-mole trying to kick all the new arrivals so the game can begin
Awesome read and still quite impressed by Aerospike.
Its still amazing how much we sort boys and girls based on gender and not interests.
Auto-correct strikes again. I've edited to fix, because it was a stretch to use that phrase anyway. For those who aren't familiar I'm making a reference to a Monty Python skit.

Here it is on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0

So, if it's not clear- sometimes I'm baroque- in this situation I'm sorta being Dennis the Constitutional Peasant here. EG: I'm making fun of myself with the reference.
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You're describing one trip through "the loop". Remember, the state will react to crypto growth too.

There's a transitivity aspect to it. Ultimately taxes need to be paid in fiat, and large organisations will eventually get stomped on for accepting crypto if it subverts government control.

On the second trip through the loop, you have crypto which can be used for small (in a sense, black market) transactions and fiat which can be used to pay things like utility bills or buy stuff from companies which must accept fiat. Individuals will provide exchange services (buy iphones with crypto!) at their own risk, basically by subverting KYC with small transactions. [We are already here].

What's the nth trip through the loop? I'm personally not sure, but interested in your views.
Thanks! Glad you like it.

Yeah been thinking about a paid tier with more customisability. Do you think it's something you would pay (a small monthly amount) for?
John Carmack technical talk on rendering techniques for the Gear VR
It's not SO or Google but something like Zeal or Dash is useful for offline documentation:

http://zealdocs.org/ (Linux/Windows)

* Zeal is an offline documentation browser inspired by Dash, available for Linux and Windows.

* Quickly search documentation using Alt+Space (or customised) hotkey to display Zeal from any place in your workspace.

* Search in multiple sets of documentation at once.

* Do not depend on your Internet connection.

* Integrate Zeal with IDEA, Sublime Text, or your favourite IDE with a variety of plugins.

https://kapeli.com/dash (OS X)

* Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs (for a full list, see below). You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included.
My co-worker glanced at my screen and thought I was reading about erospike, which has a decidedly different feel, especially given the phallic imagery on the page.
Thanks!

I really like the idea of connecting the sounds to the data. Need to get playing with the web audio api!!
Most of our kitchen scraps go to the chickens, but most people don't have chickens (USA).

Is this institutionalized in Bulgaria? Is it collected from restaurants and delivered, or is it up to the individual/organization to arrange it?
> Newbie here. It is this legal?

From later in the article: "The Department of Justice is said to be looking into Apple's practices."

This suggests that there are, at a minimum, substantial questions about that.
Hi guys, the server is fixed ... for now ;)
Thanks for all the feedbacks, you guys are awesome.
We'll be working hard on the majors problems you observed:
- Where am I?
- Background colored player
- Crashes!

Thank you all again.
Optimizing multiple things at once - logistics for suppliers, specified land use on adjacent parcels ( a nod to developers ) , but mostly tax revenue for the town where zoning happens.

The British invented optimization in the WWII sense of the word, so yeah.

I don't know Britain beyond what I read of it, but I understand there's the concept of "little Britain" as a thing so maybe that's why small shops exist. In Montreal, I know there are actual bodegas in the city center and American-style convenience stores in the 'burbs.
Because it leads to another interesting police/EMS interaction, I'd like to shed a little light on how Eric Garner died. He was not 'choked' to death. The choke hold only lasted a second or two, and wasn't even really an effective choke hold.

He died because he was placed on his stomach, with his arms handcuffed behind his back. This, combined with the fact that he was overweight made it impossible for him to breath effectively [1].

The 'interesting' (and depressing) thing is that the EMS crew that responded should have recognized this and had the cops reposition him. Instead, they just went with the flow, and didn't intervene... The one positive that has come out of his death is that his case is now the go-to example used to show EMS students how not to handle situations like that, and how to be an advocate for their patients.

[1] It's actually a bit more complicated than that... if he were just 'resting' in that position, he likely would be fine, but his inability to breathe deeply prevented his body from being able to compensate for various processes that kicked into overdrive when he was resisting the cops, but the tl; dr; is that if he had been placed on his back, or sitting up, he would almost certainly still be alive. Placing him on his stomach was against NYPD policy, and both the cops and EMTs/paramedics should have known better.
Well, it looks like Apple named this particular API "OS atomics", a name which makes me cringe a bit.

But, a few points:

1. There is historically a distinction between "operating system" and "shared library shipping with the operating system". I think I am losing this battle though.

2. On a number of platforms (not sure if Apple's "OS atomics" concept counts here), the atomic wrappers are not even functions in a shared library. They may be declared inline in a header file. Or they may be compiler intrinsics, where the compiler doesn't generate any function call in any circumstances. Is that an "OS function"? Not really.

In either case #1 or case #2, I think "OS atomics" is a dumb name. We are really talking about CPU features, not OS features. If it doesn't generate a trap into kernel mode that doesn't very much sound like the OS doing the work.

Calling it "the OS" sounds more like a fundamental misunderstanding of dynamic linking and what it is. I hear so many variants of this core misunderstanding all over the place. Thinking that spinlocks need kernel help is one such manifestation.
Long version: http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=d5570d7646c5...

Short version: You're a money transmitter, and hence a MSB, if they determine that you're providing payment processing services w/o there being an underlying good/service which is being paid for.

Shorter version: Pick a different weekend project, or your successful outcome is "Stripe disables your account due to fraud risk."
Gonna ride this train and say that I also sent emails and never got a response. From Scribd or Jared.
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Don't worry, you have until November, 2019 to get them.
The Blade Runner world must look like a utopia rather than a dystopia to Californians these days. All that rain.
How expensive is a VPN which lets you stream sevetal Gigs a month with good quality?
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Thanks, I didn't know any of that. So my modified proposal is to add these words and phrases as deltas on top of your selected natural language. Still saving 99%+ of the work involved in inventing a new language.
They should be going after Proctor & Gamble because Tide is a form of alternative currency. http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
Oh boy, a rebranded NUC. And not even one of the fancy new ones with i7 processors.

I can't really justify buying this.
Interesting. They must have stopped that before 2009 haha.
The first rule of apologies is it's only ok to apologize for your own actions, not the behavior or feelings of others.
"I received a 1-year paid non-compete"
How'd that work?
Wordpress is an unauthenticated remote shell that also contains a blog
Zatacka!
Thanks! I've had it running in the background for a few days and it's REALLY motivating to hear peaks in app useage.

Interesting... I'll have to play around with way to manipulate the sounds based on the data. Thanks for the feedback!
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That's an interesting argument. Certainly to support it one would probably make references to the culture of the time. In the late 1700s there was sufficient level of education to make people think critically and consider alternatives, plus a great deal of philosophical understanding. Probably literacy reached a local maximum, or a higher level than in generations prior.

But one of the big challenges of success is that it's easy to take it for granted, especially each successive generation who grows up used to the benefits that their parents worked hard to win for them (or the results of major global conflicts in some cases. But even those result in post war booms.)

To take this out of the broad country level perspective, where technological and other advancements and history could be argued to be the cause-- we could look at the second and third generation immigrants to the USA. I suspect, and I hear this anecdotally, but I don't have data-- that the first generation kids are more industrious than the third or fourth-- and that this is probably true in the 1800s, 1900s and now.

In fact, I would argue that it was the presumption that prosperity (Which we've had) would result in ever higher levels of literacy (Which we've experienced) and thus higher levels of enlightenment and philosophical perspective due to ever better education and schools -- which we have not had.

Schools have slowly declined to the point where I suspect most schools don't even teach classical literature, let alone philosophy.

So, I think the lesson to learn from the USA is to never let the government take over the schools.
Do you have an example of a bad idea in Wordpress that has a real-world impact on a sizable portion of its userbase?
For all application-data events I consider postgres to be the ground-truth. That is somewhat unfortunate, because one can't easily place a queue in front of the database. For metrics and logs, the Kafka topic itself (which is persisted similiar to your flat files) would become the master. The use-case is pretty similiar.

Might it be feasible to have something like postgres work with an external WAL? That would solve the problem I guess, as well as leave us with a single "persistent" system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/opinion/joe-nocera-secrets...
Generally, this is called cohousing, and has had some success over the years.