skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry you lost the text - it is so frustrating when that happens.

Getting the government to change itself is a game - and a more opaque one. Which representatives in upcoming elections are clear wins for the way that America is waging cyberwarfare, including its use of domestic surveillance? There are no such choices. The complexity of the issues and the pressing national security concerns (from an awakening Ottoman Empire, revisionist Russia and ambitious China, to the hollowing of an old American-centered European world).

The wise player, I think, doesn't only criticize Microsoft, AT&T, etc. The wise player criticizes all of the players complicit in the game: voluntary actors (like Microsoft), the Administration, shadow government, global incentives, allied interests alike.

(The government itself would say: don't hate us, the player! Hate the world game where we are compelled to reach for these powers or lose control of [y]our global dominance.)

Hating the game means hating it all - not choosing an exclusive player. So I think it makes sense to hate on Microsoft while hating on policy and surveillance law.
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Yes - exactly my point. It is interesting to learn, as another commented somewhere in this thread, that my brain just invokes the appropriate "sequel" vs. S.Q.L. just from whether or not someone includes the ever-so-important "n."
and it sold for $179M

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/05/11/Picasso-painting-s...
R does not deserve to be called awful. It is a language that works for many people, people make a living from it and is one of the fastest growing languages.

[1] https://blog.javascripting.com/2014/07/28/fastest-growing-ne...

[2] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2480920/r-programming-languag...

[3] http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/01/14/language-rankings-1-15...

Yes I have read [R Inferno] http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
We had a similar outbreak of NETSEND at my high school. A couple of kids were suspended (for sending bad things) but the chorus of kids explaining how easy it was to send anonymous messages to the entire school caused them to actually secure the computers.
Interestingly, as the breadth and complexity of Google product grows, the need for true customer service grows, disproportionately. Very few of us needed "customer support" for Google Search, but for many of their newer, more complex products, it's a must. Google either missed this need altogether, or they decided that even with crappy/no CS, they could still make a killing with half-assed products/support. Thoughts?
>This does not sound compatible with your conjecture that pre-agricultural era banishment was not a real threat.

It doesn't have to be a real threat to be considered "extremely harsh".

That is, it's not just physical damage or potential danger that's "harsh". Isolation from the community you belong too could be considered just as harsh, from a social standpoint.
It was nice to find your site in addition the the Khan Academy's SQL course. Maybe I will try to direct my kids to walk through this.

I am curious if you know a resource that would start approximately where your site/tool stops. I know there are books and reference manuals - but I would love to see the intermediate SQL version of your tool - including things like cursors, stored procedures and Common Table Expressions.

Or does SQL at the next level lose too much of its uniformity? And, you would have to make separate sites for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server etc.
In the end game, Gamestarter will be an online platform, optimized to assist game creators around the world to collaborate on game projects. While there is focus on tools to directly work together, our main goal is to unite creators with others who share their unique, game vision.

So firstly, creators, find your dream game-making team through our platform, and get to work conceptualizing games.

While creators are hard at work, game players will comment, critique and rate these games.

This process allows the community to choose their favorite games from the pool, at which point GameStarter will work with the favourited games creators to develop said game.
For us techies, sure, but I wonder how many average joes have written off IE? For them the 'e' logo is and always have been the door to the internet. Now since Microsoft is planning on bundling both the new and the old browser in Win10, I am curious to see how many of these people will still stick with the old one over the new.
It's not like there's much else to spend the money on, what with being dead and all.
Chrome doesn't use WebKit, it uses Blink, a fork of WebKit. I'm only referring to WebKit, the Apple open source browser project that builds and works on every major operating system including Windows. If you also want to talk about Blink, Google's browser project that, unlike IE/Spartan/Edge, also works on every major operating system, then that's fine, too.

While we are at it, let's talk about Mozilla's browser and rendering engine that also works on every major operating system.
Good for him!

Fortunately, he can work anywhere in the EU. If the UK leaves the EU, it will be too late for UK subjects. (Under this government, "subjects" is more than a historical reference).
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I would say about 80% were okay, 5% was really good, and 15% were straight up weird. However the developers are actively talking with the users, and the interface recommendations seem to be getting better. Anyone can sign-up for an account, so I would register and a confirmation should come in a couple weeks.
Where are you going to go, though... all of the western countries seem to have this exact same problem. My home, Australia, is just as secretive if not worse, the UK is bust, and more and more info is coming out showing that no government is immune. It's really disheartening.

The worst part is, the Australian government really did foil a possible terrorist attack. Guess where the info on the perp came from? Mass surveillance? Their new metadata retention laws (okay, that's a cheap shot as it hasn't been implemented yet)?

Nope. It was a tip-off to the national security hotline.
Tech community?

I don't know anything about politics in Costa Rica but they seem very US-oriented. You can even pay stuff in US dollars.
This made me think of this article by PG. Good luck

http://paulgraham.com/pinch.html
I dunno. I've seen NiFe meteorite material, and it's anything but shiny.
Do you see the "thus" there? It is references what came before it. And the whole thing is prefaced with "Here's the thinking". It is explaining a line of reasoning that leads people to be more suspicious of hitchhikers than they are of people in more mundane situations.

Anyway, whether hitchhikers are more often victims has no bearing on the question of whether picking up a hitchhiker is more likely to be dangerous than encountering some random person at a convenience store. Most people are quite certain they aren't going to murder a hitchhiker, so they don't worry about that in deciding whether they'll pick one up.
Interesting take away:
" a unique new category of vehicle dubbed “autocycles.” "

And this $6800 tron like gas powered tricycle with 84mpg - https://www.eliomotors.com/
Try Jennifer Widom's online course on databases:

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/...
We live in a global world; it's possible it was localized to a region.
this was mine, brutey

import itertools as it
a = 'dog'
b = 'food'
c = 'tasty'
letters = sorted(set(a+b+c))
for combo in it.permutations('0123456789', len(letters)):
mapping = dict(zip(letters, combo))
if len(c) > max(len(a), len(b)) and mapping[c[0]] is '0':
continue
f = lambda string: int(''.join(map(mapping.get, string)))
n1, n2, n3 = map(f, [a, b, c])
if n1 + n2 == n3:
print( mapping )
print( n1, n2, n3 )
break

seems haskell friendly given all the mappings, but not in the way that the blogpost did it. but also not with that big nested loop either.
For those asking more about GameStarter's process.
In the end game, Gamestarter will be an online platform, optimized to assist game creators around the world to collaborate on game projects. While there is focus on tools to directly work together, our main goal is to unite creators with others who share their unique, game vision.

So firstly, creators, find your dream game-making team through our platform, and get to work conceptualizing games.

While creators are hard at work, game players will comment, critique and rate these games.

This process allows the community to choose their favorite games from the pool, at which point GameStarter will work with the favourited games creators to develop said game.
What is Edge written in? I would have assumed Microsoft would use C#, which is garbage collected.
One thing which I don't get is why the DNS system isn't used as a authentication system. A domain name is really cheap these days and it is a great way of authenticating. It just requires some work to interface with public keys. Maybe you can set your public key at the registrar?
Do you have some reason for believing this, or are you just being cynical? (Not that I have any particular problem with cynicism, rather I'm honestly curious.) I know of some serious breaches of ethics early in the history of cryonics, however I know of nothing that would besmirch Alcor in particular at least. If there is something I'd like to know about it.
you're touching on some interesting ideas about what art is. the economic half of your question can sort of be answered by the irrational behavior of the consumption of Veblen Goods[0]. the existential question has been addressed by a few artists, popularly by Richard Prince and less popularly (but more fascinatingly, imo) by folks like Elaine Sturtevant[1].

Contemporarily, artists like Clement Valla[2] are doing nifty things looking at the limits and our existing fascination with digital facsimile.

Here's an old essay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_M... that asks some of these same questions (in particular the question of what would be missing). i think more interesting is the idea of what it means to own art and why we feel compelled to do it at all. Like they say: Everyone has their reasons.

this sort of question (which for me was triggered by Sturtevant) was hugely influential in getting me interested in fine art as a whole.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Sturtevant

[2]: http://clementvalla.com/work/wrapped-terracotta-neck-amphora...
The well regarded BBC World Service falls in the same category.
I really dislike JSX. Mixing HTML and JS is not elegant at all. Why is it so popular now?
If the lines end up converging towards a crater, then they are caused by ejecta from a meteorite impact.

The Moon is full of such lines - I've taken this picture a while ago, and the ejecta lines are clearly visible after some post-processing:

http://i.imgur.com/o81hb.jpg
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>An alternative course of action would be to stay and campaign against the referenced policies.

God forbid people do that and actually try to influence and improve the society they live in. It's all about the individual and their comfort. Their city/country etc either has to be as they want, or they leave.

(Some of them even think that this behavior helps, because their privileged decision to leave they think would somehow register as a specific vocal complaint (e.g. because they put it on a blog)).
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I've twice been to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam and twice I've been totally bowled over, overwhelmed with emotion, esp. toward the end of his life paintings. You can't see the same thing in 2D.
You do not abuse the user's trust like that.
Why so many Dutch people work part time
>people throwing meaningless public temper tantrums like this was an American habit

It is, it's just that in the internet age those can be adopted fast.
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We don't know. The actual freezing can potentially go extremely well even with current technology, but the problem is the unfreezing process. So far there's no good way to unfreeze someone and get all their cells going again.

This is why the cryonics legal trusts are all designed to be financially self-sufficient in perpetuity: it's a long shot, but if you can get somebody frozen, you can potentially keep them as a meatsicle for Long Enough for somebody to invent medical nanites or machine-brain upload interfaces or whatever.
"I wonder how many average joes have written off IE?"

Lots of them. Many surveys show it down in the Safari region, for instance:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-browser-ww-monthly-201504-201...
The point is that works of art by great artists are world heritage artefacts, and shouldn't be held in private hands. Who knows if the new buyer will even loan the painting out?
I don't think this has ever been a throwaway term during an acquisition in cases where the investors proceeds were higher under their liquidation preference rights than they would have been under their pro rata stockholder rights.

Thinking back over all such deals I worked on as a startup attorney, I can't think of a single one where the liquidation preferences were not asserted by the preferred stockholders (i.e., investors).

The selling owners generally view it as a buyer's problem to figure out retention, which is usually accomplished by the buyer making equity grants to the team that vest over time following the acquisition.

Sellers sometimes have a similar incentive issue -- i.e., they need to incentivize a team whose equity will be worthless in an acquisition. This is often accomplished by some form of "management incentive plan" which can have all sorts of structures. But the gist is typically to set aside some of the acquisition proceeds for distribution to key employees or management.
Nothing to lose except the money you're spending on an icebox that you could've spent bettering the world you're leaving.
If you use long lasting TCP sockets for your 'bus' needs in your SOA - then clumping is a non-issue. Remember that TCP is an idle protocol.
I think because you just end up doing it anyway.

Note that this isn't mixing just any JS, it's only presentational javascript. Either you're using some templating language like Handlebars or Jinja/Django's or Angular's HTML attribute data binding, or lots-of-jquery-selectors-tied-directly-to-the-html, you still need some sort of view logic to build your DOM.

Don't get me wrong, I've never really used React/JSX in depth enough, and I'm not overly enthusiastic about all these 'HTML' tags in my JS. But lets not pretend this is any worse than the current approach of $('.modal').append(document.createElement('button'))
Having bought a new car recently, and having to drive 100 miles, past 4 dealerships, just to get to a dealership that was willing to give me a reasonable price (still high, but reasonable) for a car that is in low demand, I support every company's right to go around the dealerships. They are disgusting.

While sitting around waiting for 20 minutes "cooking" in a dealership waiting for the man to come back with a price for a used car, I heard 4 other salesman standing around, pretending to be customers, laughing and making fun of people who had come in to buy a car. Some pretended to be gangsters who had to "go geyt sum monnah frum muh baby mommah's couch". Another pretended to be school teachers who had to pay the down payment with 3 different checks. It was disgusting. I left after it was obvious that the man was making me wait for no reason, and when I left, he sent me a text message with a price for a base model, used car, for ABOVE the new price not 100 feet away from his desk, at the dealership next door.

It was a very abusive process. I've never been in another situation where you ask how much something costs, and they say "make an offer!"

That's like going into Walmart and asking how much a TV is, and they say "What's it worth to you?"

Gross. I felt like I was dealing with conmen from the start. I will never buy another car from a dealer.

Tesla has the power to lead the way into eliminating these middlemen monsters and I hope they see more support in that regard.

Note: I needed a pretty specific car because I'm extremely tall and I'm having back problems from having to slouch in normal sized cars. Because of this, I had limited options in the way of dealers.
I wish it wasn't vaporware. :(

I wish the best for them, but that 84mpg is an estimate for an engine that hasn't been built yet and might be outdated by the time it gets produced. (If it ever does.)
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I am torn back and forth whether to approve or disapprove art collecting. On the one hand I think you should never buy trash, but save for the very best of something that makes you really happy and buy the minimal amount of it. On the other hand I hate buying things just for the sake of status, especially when it has only idealistic utility.

When I am ever in the position to buy a Picasso, I hope nobody reads this comment, because I am going to casually put it on a wall in the hallway along with some prints. The troll fun you would have by your own would totally outweigh the status points you could gain by telling others.
>Where do you see nationalism increasing in germany?

In Germany's behavior within the E.U. and open desire to rule Europe?

In their characterizing of Southern countries (even in popular media read by millions, etc) with terms used in the past to describe Jews? (from "lazy" and "pests" to "traitors" and "PIIGS").

In the frequent verbal attacks immigrants from Greece (for example) face in Germany, in shops and public spaces?
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Hi mswen,

Unfortunately, I don't know of interactive tutorials that cover the things you mentioned. The Khan Academy tutorial and SQL Bolt seem to have a few topics not covered by SQL Teaching, so that is a start! (Mainly, write queries)

SQL Teaching uses SQLite because that way I don't need to maintain a backend to the site.

But if there are more advanced topics that can be taught by SQLite, feel free to make a issue in the repo. Pull requests are also welcome!
I reflexively dislike the notion, but am trying to consider it with an open mind. The notion that a subtree of the DOM and some JavaScript that manipulates it, designed together to create a single functional component, represent a single concern and should be packaged together, is not unreasonable.

I think it is very different than the spaghetti pages found in jsps and php pages of yore, and the emphasis on component is a big part of why.
I assume it is no coincidence that I read about this on the same day that Microsoft published that Microsoft Passport will be integrated in their new browser.
That interview reads like it's written by a character out of Gregory Benford's 1993 novel, Chiller -- only here we are in 2015; it's just like Benford wrote about then.
Why not Ireland? You do have a .ie domain, afterall!
Welfare cuts, privatization, etc. "widen the already unsustainable systemic inequality that poses an existential threat for our entire species."? That's insanely hyperbolic, and it makes it difficult for me to take the rest of the article seriously. If our species disappears any time soon, it's not going to be because of welfare cuts.
Thanks so much for the feedback! I'll contact you soon after today's launch is over and I get some sleep lol. The problem we're tackling now is automatic citation in the spec. so that highlighting text gives you the column and line numbers.
I'm working on wits (written in the stars) - an app that takes western astrology into today's mobile platforms. It's kinda sad that there aren't any proper astrology apps in stores today. http://astrowits.com
I don't know what your reaction to that response was, whether you stuck with acme or not, but I'm now looking for another language to use instead of Go.

I thought at first that this reaction was just sour grapes ("nasty people on the intertubes didn't like my post"), but as I analysed it more I managed to pull out three elements:

1. If my sense of elegance and the Go team's sense of elegance is this divergent, then the language will probably get uglier to my eyes as it continues to evolve.

2. If this is the reaction from the team to this (relatively small and inexpensive to fix) problem, then we can expect absolutely no movement at all on the bigger and harder problems (dependency versioning, generics). I used to have faith that these very smart people will come up with an elegant solution to these issues - I still love the simplicity and elegance of the standard library - but my faith has now gone.

3. Brad's response was amazing and I'd follow him anywhere, but... I don't want to follow the rest. If I'm to commit my time and effort to learning (and to a tiny extent popularising) the language and being part of the community, I want to believe in the people building it. I don't any more.

Humans are weird.
It doesn't matter how big the empty part of the United States is. The Bay Area is as populous as Sweden and therefore big enough to do things its own way. It may in fact be true that the poor person in Pecos County, Texas, drives around in his own car, it is also an irrelevant fact on a population-weighted basis.
Sorry. Here's the dissonance: we're building tools (including secure messaging) that are government snooping safe. We care deeply about the privacy and security of our users.
And the web page that tells us that has mixed content warnings on ssl.

Maybe nitpicking, but security and OPSEC in particular requires insane focus and attention to every little detail. If you can trip up on the small things, I could hardly trust you to get the hard things right.
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Those sound pretty good numbers for a creative project, especially since watson cannot taste the results.
Highly unlikely. It would be written as a native C++ app. Whilst the .NET CLR is very powerful and highly performant these days, there just wouldn't be enough justification I don't think to design their web browser on it. Remember this thing will be targeting mobile devices too. So every little performance optimisation can save minutes of battery life which all adds up.

That said, I've always wondered what a JavaScript implementation built on top of the CLR might behave like.
But you know, new Microsoft proprietary "Microsoft Passport" authentication stuff >|
oops! I changed it but I'm not sure if this is the right way to do it
US state and local politics make much more sense when you realize that in any given area, the two most powerful political interests are likely to be car dealerships and real estate developers.
I do wonder, re: the rubies (and the same goes for diamonds)—would it be in the best interest of the gem seller (e.g. De Beers) to still put on a show of mining the gems, but in reality synthesize most of their stock?
I feel like I have legitimate reasons, from everything I know about humanity and history, to start from a cynical standpoint, especially regarding certain areas.

E.g. mails that announce me that I won some lottery. Random people offering to sell me cheap "authentic" Rolex on the street. Attempts to bring down some government to bring "democracy" to a country. Cryonics.
That doesn't sound like crowd-sourcing at all, that sounds like an endless hackathon combined with funnel to an incubator for game projects. Plus, the whole "give no information whatsoever, but make sure to ask for their email address, along with an appeal based on emotion and no quality" thing you got going on your website is skeevy as hell.