skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who tried to run such a service years ago, I mostly agree. Even the very best stories written through this method were troublingly self-inconsistent. On the other hand, they were often hilarious a well. We published a few anthologies of short stories written with this method here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

The experience for writers was surprisingly rewarding, but the end result was not for mass consumption. Still, as a writing tool, it showed great value.
It would be interesting if once a certain revenue threshold was met the paywall would be removed.
Another unanswered question is how the "supported lifetime of the device" is going to work for people who build their own systems. Is the freebie license that people are going to get for upgrading only going to be good on that one machine?

If that's truly the case, I'm not at all looking forward to having to re-buy a license for a different machine when the one I'm on finally lets out the magic smoke, moreso given Microsoft's previous arbitrary activation rules on what constitutes a "different machine".
Perhaps you should have a "Trie of stories" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie). Every possible sequence of letters, and thus every story, is simply a path down this trie, where each node has children containing the letters of the alphabet and punctuation. Users could mark down notable places on the trie where there is a story.
I think generally reading, learning & connecting with more people will help you to link ideas from very different aspects of life. The more you know, the more interesting conversations you can have. Just my 2 cents
No need to wonder, it's a matter of public record: "U.S. Drone Policy: Standing Near Terrorists Makes You A Terrorist"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/drone-attacks-innoc...
per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
the phrase is attributed to Stewart Brand
"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."
Let me just put here a notation about the vast majority of JS programmers that are not complaining about all the libraries/options. And there are whiny, bitchy people using other languages, too. It's easy to generalize, so I understand the impulse.
Is 'Osama was an unarmed civilian' even under dispute? I thought that was the official story.
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This seems like a mighty conspiracist view on the topic. There haven't been any inklings, covert or overt, that the recent actions taken by governments are for anything other than their stated goals.

How can you confidently say that this is about control and not security?
Only positive drug studies have a good chance of being published
"Talk smart" is not exactly a good way to describe this.

You should be able to improve by simply slowing down and considering what you want to say before you say it.
Know any tips for my new product's rollout?
I am looking to launch a new product website, but I do not have extensive experience with how to grow a customer base from scratch.

Phase 1 - Rollout and Launch:
During this initial growth phase, I know I need to continually improve how each customer type finds my product, and I need to make sure that my product is tracking "enough data" for generating some reports that I can understand how to pivot + enhance + prioritize based off how each customer type uses my product. Right now, I am tracking customer free trial signups and customer conversions to a paid plan. Am I missing anything obvious as I look to roll this out?

Phase 2 - Growth:
What tools and or products will help route customers to my website? I used Google Analytics before with some success for searching, conversion tracking, and adwords. I am sure there are more so what others am I missing and what tools did you find effective for helping draw customers to your new product? I have heard about https://kissmetrics.com/ through another startup, but it is pricey without knowing more about it ($200/month for the basic "starter" plan and a 14-day trial is not long enough to realistically figure this all out).

Phase 3 - Growth + Engagement:
After I have enough customers (~500), I want to start engaging them and transition from purely growth-focused to growth + engagement to increase my revenue per customer and customer retention time. Are there any approaches, best practices, tools or products that will help during this growth + engagement phase? I have heard that converting all my simple html links to "deep links" with something like https://bitly.com/ will help me analyze how each customer type uses or finds value with my product. What other tools and or practices would you recommend for product refinement? I was looking into https://mixpanel.com/pricing/ which sounds like a potential solution.

I have added details on the product in my profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jayjohnson
Ancient Babylonian Tablet Is Oldest Customer Service Complaint Ever Discovered
The Future of Remote Work Is Telerobotics
Subreddit for the discussion of this project: http://www.reddit.com/r/GitHubNovel/
Thanks, from a cursory view that is what I saw, but figured I may be missing data.

At least to me DO seems like a great place to do a proof of concept and even maybe an early release, but we have real paying clients and while I'd like to reduce our costs, I don't want to introduce significant risk for our clients in terms of reliability or capability.
You should report this to the government agency in your region in charge of telecommunications signals. If it is anything like the situation in the United States, disrupting a licensed signal like this is probably not allowed.
> if radix sort is faster, and not due to better cache performance, what is it due to?

Uhm, perhaps its time complexity?
I'm curious to know more about these. Are any free? Are any open source? These aren't rhetorical questions, there's a ton of Java stuff I'd want to test it with.

I tried robovm, it actually worked nicely but apparently only does 32 bit. Also, the simple reference HelloWorld was nearly 10MB, the build process took 20 seconds, and running it took 15x longer than a comparable one in Go.
I don't mean to knock it, what it does is amazing, but it's not a viable replacement for simple static command line tools.
There are good reasons to see your doctor periodically even if you feel fine. It's a lot easier to treat diabetes and hypertension before they become symptomatic than it is to find you a new kidney.
Even 'civilian' in that context is misleading. Technically true, but misleading, as it's trying to play up the innocence of the person.

A drug cartel kingpin is technically a "civilian", as is the head of a global terrorism network, as is the head of a human trafficking network. None of them are members of a recognized country's militia, but they still command significant force.
Why? That's a super-enlightening question if answered honestly & in depth.
Ha, nice. Your choice of images is...interesting :)

https://github.com/crobertsbmw/deckofcards/blob/master/stati...
Nope, I knew there'd be a regular humorless hn down voting dickhead. Oh right, I'm not supposed to mention that, or I'll get more dread down votes lol.
Great question, thanks for asking this! Love the responses so far.

This doesn't answer the question, but this video gives great perspective on how one can be perceived depending on his body language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk_SMBIW1mg

It's not always about words, body language is very important in making the impression.
It does seem like an interesting experiment, but after browsing a few random commits - and personally, any group project needs an initial structure for it to work. I can't remember right now but I have a faint memory of the subject somewhere, probably in college.

I would go over to http://creativecommons.org/choose/ and pick the least restrictive license or which ever works for the group / project.

You could integrate it with gitbook as fendent mentioned (I have no experience with gitbook past the homepage), or leanpub. I personally use leanpub which integrates nicely with github and the royalty fee is sweeter when compared - despite whether it will be the goal of the group or not. Or the funds can be donated, whatever gets the group motivated or is in line with the group. However, you do need to provide some sort of direction to the group. But as you mentioned, if it's just an experiment (the replies here are in itself data) go for it.

If you do decide to give it structure, you can take a look at a very basic book I set up a while back.

https://github.com/teichopsia-/valse_of_silence
There are others out there that are better but I don't know of any.
Neat! Possible typo:

> After two weeks, if actions have been made on the deck then we throw it away.

Might be "if no actions"?
This isn't a sci-fi authors message board. If all you want to do is listen to the sound of your own voice you should go elsewhere.
Hm, as a professional spy, I don't know... it just comes naturally.
As an anarchist myself, I know better than most that libertarians are all mostly full of hot air.

While I don't necessarily think that seasteading is worthless as a concept, this project is pie in the sky. You don't build cities. They grow. And if you want to grow a floating city, you have to build floating homes.

Build a seastead that supports just one person--one!--without logistical support from any landmass, and keep it afloat for a few years, and I might consider that you would one day be capable of a floating hamlet. But a whole city in 5 years? I call bullshit. Reichee Sowa did more with Spiral Island, and he couldn't even raise $15k on Kickstarter for life jackets and fire extinguishers.
Windows 1.01 in Your Browser
Wow that's actually impressive. Don't you miss autocompletion, compiler warnings, being able to run the app with out having to open the app multiple times? I'm mostly an iOS developer so interested to hear other people's work flows.
You have suggested so many wins here. Gallons of win.
If someone can figure out how to make these vessels as fool proof as a car (reasonably hard to ruin, owner operable, easily stocked with energy, affordable) they'll have no shortage of disgruntled citizens waiting to try one out.

You mean... mobile homes. John Steinbeck, in Travels with Charley, was very positive about the motorhome's possibilities. But we know how that dream turned out.
I think this is the best advice, and combine it with don't say anything if you don't have anything to add.
This is what I was responding to:

>They had the idea that developers could live on the ship and freely visit Silicon Valley.
While working on one contract, I sat next to two devs who spent at least a day trying to get Ruby 2.0 (back when it was new) and associated libraries compiling and running properly on OSX. I don't know how long they spent, they were still at it when I left that evening.

All my Linux (Mint) setup is in a bunch of scripts that live in Git. I can have a fully configured dev machine running in under an hour, starting from a fresh OS installation.
+1 This is something I've been meaning to introduce. We're slowly moving from the idea of hacking away and making things work to the idea of making production ready code and this mentality is not getting through to everyone
Or start prefixing the versions with something and start the numbering back at 1, like Adobe did with Photoshop CS :) (I know, Creative Suite contains a lot more than Photoshop, but still).
At $150 a battery its a pretty good deal. There is a guy here in Ontario Canada that sells them for that price as well. His site is http://cartguy.ca/ ( E-mail: sales@cartguy.ca

Toll free: 1-888-905-2278

Our Location: 2933 Hwy 35 S, Lindsay, On K9V 4R4

Our Mailing address: 2 Peel St, Lindsay, On K9V 3L7)

He also has the Trojan T-105RE for $199 a piece.

Not sure if the advantage of the T-105RE is worth it.
Unfortunately, Sy Hersh has built a reputation for both breaking big stories but also getting big claims wrong. Personally, I find his description of his primary source a bit worrying: "(a retired senior intelligence official) ... (knowledgeable about the initial intelligence about bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad) ... (privy to many aspects of the Seals’ training for the raid), and (to the various after-action reports)."

That's four assertions about his source, and none of them indicate that the source had any official role in the lead up to or the execution of the mission -- or, indeed, that he was even active in the IC at the time. That, plus the source's use of Vietnam-era terminology, suggests he could have started his career in the 1960s or very early 1970s, and thus could be at least five and as much as 10-15 years retired from the IC (assuming he had a full career at the Agency), and relying on contacts still active in the community for his information. The only statement that indicates the source had access to primary-source docs regards the SEALs' AARs, and even then it's impossible to be certain that Hersh's phrasing actually means that.

In this, Hersh is starting to remind me of many conservative writers who relied on similar source of often dubious quality -- Michael Ledeen's close connections with SISMI (now AISE) being one example, or the network of former CIA officers who whiled away the post-Stansfield Turner years running private intelligence shops and flowing questionable allegations to the National Review.

If Hersh is right -- and "right" in this case, given the explosive nature of his allegations, doesn't even mean in the ballpark, just playing the same game -- then this story is huge, the sort of thing that would forever color Obama's place in history and would probably bring Hillary's political hopes crashing to ground. But extraordinary claims require &c., and the fact that Hersh had to publish this in the LRB rather than The New Yorker or WaPo (both regular outlets for many of his scoops) indicates that their editors were very uncomfortable with his sourcing as well.
Even so, being 'elderly' is irrelevant when the issue is holding enough political influence to do significant damage to others.
Only express ideas which you understand thoroughly and clearly, and do it in the simplest way possible.
Knowledge speaks.

There is no trick to become smart talker.
Just attain knowledge in the domain you work or want to become "smart talker".

Once you know enough things about the topic you are discussing you thoughts will be clear and concise.

So your question should be: "How do I become an expert in xyz field so that everyone get a good impression when I talk?".
I wonder how much good spanish wine these guys have had before the test
> any city worth living in is going to have government of its own, and some people living under that government's administration are going to end up feeling disenfranchised by it.

Precisely the point of the detached nature of the planned houses. If there are thousands of different (yet most likely similar) governmental systems in place, then there are two options in this situation:

1. Up and leave, travel to a new city which fits better with your current modality.

2. If a large swath of the population is disenfranchised the government must act swiftly in order to keep the city running, otherwise its state will fail and everyone will detach and live elsewhere.

We will no doubt see many more failed systems than long-standing ones, which is essentially part of the appeal in my opinion.
I wonder if returning SVG would be possible - https://code.google.com/p/vectorized-playing-cards/

Edit: Could be an excellent idea - 8 of Clubs is:

* 28kb as a PNG.

* 14kb as an SVG

* 4kb as a gzipped SVG
You are right. I should give better examples. For comma syntax I updated to this:

+ a
+ 1 2
, 3 4 5
;; which is also
(+ a (+ 1 2) (, 3 4 5))
;; and
(+ a (+ 1 2) 3 4 5)
The Linux Desktop has many problems, but I'm not sure stagnation is one of them.

If anything things are churning a little too much, and this is before the Wayland/Mir transitions have started to kick off yet.
Just my 2 cents. I can care less where you live. The 3 things that are important to me as an employer, in the order I care.

1. You are capable of doing the job and deliver when you promise or communicate when that isn't possible.

2. You have reliable infrastructure to do the job. Whether that is Internet, Phone or other means, you must be reliably reachable and capable of producing and talking daily. Without that it is hard for me to work with you as part of the team.

3. I can pay you and not have any government hassle because frankly I am just not big enough to deal with craziness.

If those things are doable I am generally good. I have friends in India who loose power on a relatively regular basis but I can work with them because they are reliable in their schedule and capabilities. Frankly, I think it is stupid of US companies or any country to think they have a lock on the best and brightest, just because you are from a war torn country doesn't make you less capable or intelligent than anyone else.

Good luck and I wish you the best.
You should not really be arguing about design and architecture in a code review - that should be done in design review.
The question posed is a false dilemma (also called black-and-white thinking, bifurcation, denying a conjunct, the either–or fallacy, false dichotomy, fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses, the fallacy of false choice, the fallacy of the false alternative, or the fallacy of the excluded middle) is a type of informal fallacy that involves a situation in which only limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
What the parent comment said, plus there's a technique from Improv sometimes called "Agree and amplify", and when both conversation partners are good at it there is fun to be had:

If someone asks you if you enjoy looking at elephants in tutus and you reply with “no that’s stupid”. It really hinders the conversation and stops whatever momentum you have. If you don’t think it’s a really strong topic, try to accept what the person says and try to improve it. You can improve it by saying, “what about ninja’s in tutus? It would be a lot funnier to see them run around with pink tutus and trying to be stealth, don’t you think?

http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/q19tp/improv_clas...

I don't think it's the best example, but the author isn't James Bond so I don't expect it to be.
A separate event, but one that they link against, and with identical format and almost identical categories.

Social justice warriors like you whine. I expose hypocrisy.
Fewer brackets, not less brackets.
You might want to check if digital ocean offers ELB or virtual IP as others might call it. Look at your detailed billing on AWS to help you make the decision. Another thing you might want to consider is how do you provision? How much effort would it take you to move from AMI to Ansible, Chef or such if you decided to move off AWS? You may also want to look at Linode (not affiliated with them)
One of the most straight forward things you can do to improve speaking, is to simply speak more slowly. Now I do not mean careful pronouncing every word, but instead focus on completing an entire thought before talking.

If you feel yourself beginning to ramble or becoming nervous. Simply pause, it might seem counter intuitive, but know that you are not pausing for a long as you think you are. And pausing is always better than 'umming' or 'aaahing'.

Also broaden your vocabulary, the best way is simply to read more books. So that next time when you as 'how to talk smart' you instead say 'how do I speak more cohesively'
Oh. Well, then I used to use XMPP with fb chat :-/

(I'm not sure when they killed it - chat secure doesn't appear to log in now, and the last message I received via fb was apparently on May 4th).
Check out this thread where I was investigating the issue, it has a lot more information on it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/yesodweb/LU1r1ygMuOY
For one second I thought there was a RFC for jokes.
> LXC in the kernel?

Sorry, I meant LXC support. Yeah it is comprised of a set of a features supported by regular Linux kernels + userspace tools. The feature set has been there for a quite a while.

> but I don't recall it being bundled as a part of it.

But it is in contrast to say OpenVZ which required patching the kernel to work.
Well, yeah, it will will undoubtedly already have a whole slew of cameras anyway.
> Or we can set this explicitly using Function#call (or Function#apply), as shown at the end of the example.

Or we can define a variable self in the class, set self = this in the constructor, and refer or that hereon.
Since Go is compiled it would be fair to see the other compiled languages, but I guess even Python and Ruby has some level of support.

OCaml -> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-4.00/manual025.ht...
Rust -> rustc -C link-args=-static-libgcc hello.rs
C -> gcc -o foo main.o -static -lbaz -lbar
Python -> http://www.py2exe.org/
Ruby -> https://github.com/larsch/ocra
DoD issued an exception to the policy for employees reading information released by the media on personally-owned computers; it's permitted as long as the personally-owned computer isn't connected to government networks. Reading classified information released by the media on government-owned equipment is unauthorized, if it's not certified to process classified material.

Originally members of the DoD were required to report accidentally downloading or viewing the leaked documents on their own computers, which required them to turn in them in to be wiped. After it was understood the huge amount of military members and civilian employees that would be affected by this, an exception to policy was published.

I can't find the order, but it was unclassified.
You don't say whether or not you're a native English speaker, but...

I am intrigued by erudite speakers. This could be Sean Connery portraying
James Bond, Kevin Spacey in House of Cards, or many others both
real and fictional, including my current manager. They speak slowly and
clearly, with carefully chosen words that feel calculated, but they always
manage to make a lasting impression.

I'd love to be able to engage my manager in a style of speaking similar to
his. How can I improve my skills in this area? Are there particular books
I could read, or podcasts to which I could listen? And, as always, thank
you in advance for your advice!

My advice:

1. Spellcheck.
2. Read what you write out loud to yourself, and edit anything that doesn't
feel 'natural.'
3. Brevity.
4. Read more.
5. Write more.
6. Try taking public speaking courses. Maybe check
out your local Toastmasters group:
http://www.toastmasters.org
Is the merge step really necessary? Let people create their own branches from whatever starting point they like best, and let all branches/versions co-exist. It's not a piece of software you're developing after all; there may be many different viable paths, and darwinism can take care of selecting the winners via attrition of paths. I realize things can get fairly chaotic. The number of forks or sub-branches of a given version can act as a good crowd-sourced indication of popular snapshots.

Disclaimer: we've been toying with this idea for a while, and here's a paper (and tool) that came out of it: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.3420/abstract
I don't follow, does something that was on the official Windows blog and not retracted or removed for months need to be "confirmed?"

Maybe "re-framed" for frankly lazy tech "journalists" is a more accurate summation of what occurred?