skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stackexchange converts outbound amazon links to affiliate ones. (see https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26964/auto-insertin...) Would that be the same?
OpenStreetMap

Why:
'When there is a humanitarian crisis, such as the Nepal earthquake, OpenStreetMap (OSM) volunteers from around the world rapidly digitize satellite imagery to provide maps and data to support humanitarian organizations deployed to the affected countries.'

see other info + "How To Get Involved" :http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake

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"The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal"

How "crisis mappers" activate after a catastrophe

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/the-ma...

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"How hundreds of volunteer mappers are helping to keep Nepal earthquake aid from getting lost"

http://scroll.in/article/724301/how-hundreds-of-volunteer-ma...
Might want to reach out to MailChimp about sponsoring Letterlist.com (Newsletters + startups is right up their street) or perhaps an integration once you've solved the curation and discovery problem (which I agree is a problem in need a solution).

-S.
I use Fedora, as you mentioned, as a development platform. I develop software that manages, among other things, IBM MQ which technically runs on RHEL, but also runs on Fedora for development. Why use Fedora and not RHEL then? Because Fedora has the latest emacs, git, etc. which makes it a much nicer development platform. If I had to actually develop on RHEL I'd probably gouge my eyes out due to older versions of the tools I use. For a long time, emacs in particular was really, really old. I think it's better now, but I still like Fedora.
Having had a look through political compass's past predictions (primarily Australian, since I'm Australian) their analysis is very odd. I mean, there is no way that you can seriously put three quarters of the parties on the top right 16th of the chart.
Another issue is they have a bad attitude about quality.

Try to return a Fitbit product that is malfunctioning and you will talk to somebody who is very motivated to deny or delay an RMA as long as possible.
As of PCI-DSS v3 (January 2015), a transparent redirect qualifies you for SAQ A-EP, which is 100+ questions along with quarterly scans and annual pentesting. Basically, your website is "in scope" for securing.

The iframe option still qualifies you for SAQ A, which is the short questionnaire without scanning/testing requirements.
I agree about the difficulty in serving two masters and that The C Programming Language is well written in this regard. Most authors are unfortunately not in position to authoritatively declare portions of a subject undefined and get away with it. K&R is not really so much a handbook as a specification. Its strength is that it often specifies by showing rather than describing.
There are ways to "turn off" migrations [1] for testing. Also you can squash [2] your migrations which should help.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/28560805/176611
[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/#squ...
hey, love the idea, got a copy running; the install was easy as for me. ( on fedora )

however, im finding it really laggy. I type something and it takes a good 2-3 seconds for it to appear on the interface.

any ideas?

also, if you were a fan of terminal based chat wouldn't you opt for something like https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...
and then just use Irssi?
If indeed these drones are using Dirtboxes and are indiscriminately tracking people based on cell phone signatures, then I would posit that the combination of [1] and [2], and ongoing issues like [3], make what law enforcement is doing Baltimore disgustingly illegal and oppressive. Targeted and specific aerial imagery and inspection is a totally different ballpark than what these drones are doing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones_(2012)#...

[3] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-limits-police-stingra...
Toronto is one of the rare North American cities that has both a functional metro and street cars with significant coverage. Not that both don't have their detractors, and the city (or rather the GTA, which includes a lot of commuter suburbs) can't make up it's mind about scaling them up or down.

Having a transit backbone infrastructure like this changes the nature of a city, I think.
The total collapse of Lib in south west was also pretty clear. It surprised me.
Beer brewing. It's fun because it's a great mix of creativity and science. The possibilities are endless, you feel like you're constantly learning no matter how long you've been doing it.

It's also possible to achieve great results because your process can be really close to a professional one at a much smaller scale, plus it's easy to have access to the same ingredient diversity and quality as any microbrewery.

It's a great hobby overall but it's best to pair it with another one where you move. :)
our own (HN's) davidw coined Welton's law about this[0] some years back: "For each bit business advice, there is an equal and opposite bit of business advice” :)

[0] http://journal.dedasys.com/2011/05/10/weltons-law-of-trite-b...
The Austin one looks cool. But from what I see it's just 1 line. In crappy old Bucharest, Romania, even though trams are absolutely awful (they're very old and maintenance is... low), the tram network looks like this: http://www.ratb.ro/maps1/Tramvaie.pdf

Keep in mind that we have buses, trolleybuses and subway here, as well, and the metropolitan population of Bucharest isn't much larger than Austin's.

Still, glad to hear that things are improving :)
Why not use a memory safe language?

It looks like this is a real christmas tree of protocol implementations in C/C++ facing the network.
All of the other white noise apps on the Play Store sound awful to me. Virtual Earplugs uses Brownian noise instead of regular white noise which makes it better at blocking out conversations and is more pleasant to listen to (in my opinion).

If you've got loud coworkers, roommates, or kids, give it a download! (It's free.)

This is my first published app so feedback is appreciated.
That should be how the political compass is drawn since it is based on human experience, no?

I think that chart is crazy though. The Conservatives are far from a far right party. Christ, if you dropped the Conservatives in America, they'd be considered a right bunch of commies - even the Democrats would be off the scale to the right by that chart.
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First thought I had after getting into the early sixties was, "Wow, no wonder we made it to the moon first". Talk about practice makes perfect...
Plus, it has the advantage that you can create a cool fort/tree-house for your kids, and gain serious "dad-points" (or "mum-points" if you're a mum).
Living in a decent-sized city, light pollution bums me out a bit. I really wish more municipal governments took this seriously.
Here in Minneapolis, the streetcar was killed by the Duluth Bus Company (DuPont/GM). The governor lost his job when he got caught taking kickbacks from the below market sale of the steel from the lines, which was organized by Meyer Lansky & Isadore "Kid Kann" Blumenfeld.

The MRTC was then taken over by the then president of Marquette bank, a one Carl Pohlad, who's offspring own the local MLB franchise.

Many of the MRTC cars ran in Mexico City for many years, the rest were burned. There is one 1/4mi long museum line by lake Harriet remaining (worth a visit). Meyer & Blumenfeld retired together and ran real estate scams until they died in the early 80s.

(Or so the story goes)
As a developer, I find it hardest to focus when I don't really have anything clear to focus on. On the other hand, if I have clearly specced small tasks that need to be done, it's quite easy to focus on those, even when there are distractions. If I hit a roadblock or realize I have to re-plan something, that's the moment when I usually lose focus.

Also, I'm not good at focusing in the design / planning stage, if the new feature is kind of ambiguous, and I'm not exactly sure about the requirements. I think it'd help a lot if I had some clear strategy about the design process. Sometimes, though, not actively thinking about something let's the brain sort everything out, and the right solution kind of emerges on it's own.

Currently I'm working on a task 'design and implement the billing system', so here I am on HN.

Edit: I also use https://heyfocus.com/ which bounces me back to work, if I 'accidentally' drift off.
They got "their hands dirty on actual politics and compromise" as (intially a minority) government in Scotland, and have continued to gain support ever since. I believe Alex Salmond was one of few political leaders ever to leave with a higher approval rating than when he started.

Apologies if you already knew that, but there's a lot of commentary about recently that seems utterly ignorant of those facts.

It's probably worth reflecting on your words here too: "never achieve anything, as they have exactly zero leverage to affect anything in Westminster". That's a double edged sword for people who want to keep the union together for the benefit of all.
Motorcycle racing. It's a surprisingly heady sport that takes intense concentration while you are doing it, and requires you to study and conceptualize what you do right and wrong to help improve your times. It's self-competitive and you have perfect metrics. You literally tick milliseconds off your lap times at the upper end of the sport. The racing part is secondary to the actual fun, which is going around the track at high speeds attempting to improve. Race craft is more about how to get around people that are in your way and slowing you down, instead of winning (though there is some of that too). The people involved are also, on average, very educated, smart and driven. This is party because it's an expensive sport depending on what you want to race, but also because the personality required to do well and stick with it has a ton in common with what a typical entrepreneur or other efficient businessperson requires.

Race weekend coming up, today is a practice day at the track ;)
There's no indication that ZooKeeper is bad enough to have a separate thread whose only responsibility is to periodically generate the heartbeat (a shockingly common implementation choice), but it is clearly not monitoring the health of the program effectively.

I spent a few minutes digging around in the source and found this:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/zookeeper/trunk/src/java/main/o...

Around line 1100 is the entry point of the thread that sends requests, and it's also what generates heartbeats, so it looks like if the receiver thread dies it'll just keep going...
Yes those NZ and German charts look a bit more balanced - but being from Australia, their 2013 Aussie election chart is just a bit silly to be honest - two of the parties listed had no chance of even getting any seats, and despite most parties being fairly centrist in their economic policy they all seem to be bunched up in the top right corner. My only guess is that the analysis was done using a small sample of international media.
Last Windows. Interesting concept, essentially what people have been asking since Windows XP days - the first consumer version of Windows that worked somewhat reliably, and didn't crash (sometimes) multiple times per day.

Having used Windows 10 for over 6 months, I have to say I'm impressed so far.

When running on hardware, it's fast, smooth, has very low memory consumption. Generally gets out of your way. Multiple monitor support is best I've ever seen on any system. A lot of my pet peeves have been fixed, even the age-old Command Prompt is fluidly resizable, supports easy copy & paste and just generally feels... better. Still far cry from OS X Terminal or numerous Linux terminals, but it's getting there. Oh, they put in multiple virtual desktops too.

Remote Desktop works very smoothly and nicely now remotely over 4G mobile phone, 30/60 fps scrolling with all the window drop shadows and Youtube videos running. It looks the same remotely as locally.

However, Windows 10 Pro is still only supporting one simultaneous desktop session for whatever reasons. Consumer versions of Windows should finally start to support multiple remote sessions.

All this from a guy who loves to hate Windows. Typing this on a Macbook running Linux in VMWare Fusion. :)
First off, I would love to hire you because of your strong self-initiative! And I love that you have experience with geocoding. I only wish that I have funding to hire you right this moment. Your technical skills are rock solid but it's the initiative that really draws my attention.

With regards to finding a new job, it sounds like you have no problem meeting the criteria. Your resume and Github profile seem to be fine since you've been landing interviews. The problem would then be at the interview process. Without having interviewed you, take my advice with a grain of salt. Many times, it comes down to communication - how you present yourself and whether or not the person likes you. Especially when it comes down to the final interview.

We all love to believe that hiring should be objective and made based on technical ability to do the job. But there's more to it as well. You might be the superstar but if you can convince the other person that you are, then you may not got hired. I was convinced myself that I had great technical ability but I was never able to land jobs. I just couldn't sell myself well when it came to talking. You can either find an organization who does like you and gets you OR you can improve your ability to sell better. Or you could do both. I took it upon myself to improve how I communicate my skills - it's a great learning experience especially when you're trying to sell ideas once you go further up the chain or if you start a company.
Yeah, I brew installed it on my mac and, despite the world seeming to prefer SBCL I've been rather happy with it.
> Although I am skeptical that we'd see independence before 2020

Wait, didn't we just have a democratic vote on that in 2014 and the result was no? Are we going to have another one because the yes people aren't happy about the result?
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Blacksmithing and woodworking, although I'm currently without a shop.

Blacksmithing is cool because with enough experience, materials, a hammer, and an anvil, they can make basically all the tools they need for a huge number of projects. I've made gardening tools, bird feeder hangers, fireplace pokers, and some other miscellaneous tools. Plus, it gives you an opportunity to learn about propane burner design. Fun stuff!

Woodworking is nice because it's incredibly practical. Being able to make your own furniture (that doesn't look/feel terrible) is a great feeling.

Both blacksmithing and woodworking have low cost and experience barriers to entry, although woodworking is the cheaper/easier of the two to start with. Additionally, they both are moderately physical activities.

I feel like the motivation for doing both of these is the same as why I took up programming.
FWIW, the article disagrees with this reading of the conspiracy.

> While it's true that National City continued ripping up lines and replacing them with buses — and that, long-term, GM benefited from the decline of mass transit — it's very hard to argue that National City killed the streetcar on its own. Streetcar systems went bankrupt and were dismantled in virtually every metro area in the United States, and National City was only involved in about 10 percent of cases.
Don't know about the OP, but I took an evening woodworking course at a local college. 24 weeks, 1 hour a week, £129.99. When I left, I felt like I could build anything (I was wrong - but that's a whole nother story).
Is stackexchange also violating the terms by inserting affiliate links to amazon for outbound links?

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26964/auto-insertin...
As WebDeveloper you start with the HTML and build your end product. As JsDeveloper you start with an JSApp and integrate the HTML Templates (or only the structure).

It's a complete different work model - try to start with a react or angular app based on commonJS.
> That should be how the political compass is drawn since it is based on human experience, no?

AFAIK, the political compass attempts to assess an absolute scale across world politics, not local choices.
This is a great article. I would add a couple of data points for context:

- Visa won't come after you. Your merchant account provider is on the hook. They let you process cards so they need to ensure you're PCI compliant. That's how the flow works.

- PCI 3.0 kicked in in January. People reassess annually. So if you reassessed last year under 2.0 standards you're still good until your renewal comes due. That's why this is slowly creeping across the payments space in terms of realization.

- The card networks saw longer, sustained ongoing fraud happening in online commerce from .js or transparent redirects than they did from hosted payment pages. So the big change in PCI 2.0 to 3.0 was this idea of wanting to make it harder to completely build your own custom payment pages vs using a hosted payment page. HPP's are SAQ-A and customized payments pages - A EP

- iFrame's and checkouts are really trying to be the best of both worlds. That's why they're currently treated as SAQ-A. There was definitely a lot of thrashing around how they would be treated when the 3.0 specs were being drafted and published.

Again, I really enjoyed the article and appreciated Spreedly being included as a reference. I would agree with the major premise that in general merchants are unaware that the way they implemented their payments pages now mean they're in greater scope and that the providers aren't doing a good job educating them. It's an open secret in the industry that many payment gateways add a (pure margin) fine for $20 to $50 per month onto your account if you don't have valid certification. In a low margin business that reduces motivation to push small and medium merchants to ensure they're PCI compliant.
Small correction, fact 0 = 1
tl;dr Python doesn't magically make a bad programmer better.

Many of the author's complaints have little or nothing to do with Python. Instead they're about packaging, HTML protocol, bad documentation, frameworks, and so on. Most of those problems would still exist in any other language. If the OP had been a comment here, it would have (rightly!) been voted into the grey for gratuitous negativity.
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I know it well. I know it's gotchas. I know it's weaknesses. I'm comfortable with it.

Also, most of what I write is CRUD, and I'm more interested in frontend innovations than backend.
Practice. Practice Practice. Also workshops, find a small wood shop in your area. We have woodcraft here, which offers various classes on the weekends. Most small colleges also still have some wood working courses.

My dov tails still suck though so I may be off.
It is insane in an eager-evaluated calling context. You're not wrong. But in Lisp it's not insane at all to let a macro consume a parameter and yield a no-op. Think of how this plays with a JIT and having code that can dynamically switch between dev/QA/production behavior and performance profiles, just for one example.
Redhat is all I new since the late 90's. I'd played around with Debian and Slack a little, but I was die-hard Redhat. Bought the packaged versions, ran it at work and home, servers and workstations

When Fedora came out, I stuck with it. But it didn't feel right. Somewhere around FC 5 or 6 I tried to find a new distro, and didn't like Ubuntu for whatever reason. Too easy. Too mainstream. Too 'brown'. But I ended up using it, and still do to this day.

Back to Fedora:

There's no LTS. I like using the same install for 2-3 years.

There aren't many other users. Chicken and the egg. The support forums, IRC channels, etc aren't as active as Ubuntu. Ubuntu has it's own (very active) StackExchange site!

Let's say I want to use some library and don't want to build it by hand. Chances are someone else using Ubuntu already has it figured out and there's a script I can copy/paste, or a package I can install. Often times that doesn't exist on Fedora and I could make it work but it's just so much easier with so many other people using it and sharing.
Personally I consider Fedora to be a testbed for Redhat's RHEL, but honestly I don't know if this is true. A bit like Ubuntu's non-LTS releases are a testbed for their LTSes.

With Ubuntu I have pretty much the same system on my servers and on my desktop (I currently use Netrunner[1] because I want a system similar to Ubuntu on our servers -- otherwise I'd be running Arch[2] or NixOS[3]).

If I'd have chosen RHEL/CentOS for on the servers I _might_ use Fedora on my desktop. But in the absence of a huge desktop-oriented community like Ubuntu-and-derivatives have, I would probably feel a little lonely.

Maybe others are also afraid for this loneliness.

1: Netrunner Ubuntu (or Arch) with KDE and sane defaults (like Adblockers) -- http://www.netrunner-os.com/

2: Arch Linux, a rolling-release distro -- https://www.archlinux.org

3: NixOS is to other distros, what Haskell is to other programming languages -- http://nixos.org
Robotics for RoboCup@Home, and being successful at it! This year we may become world champions in the RoboCup@Home league.

Cub scout leader for boys aged 7-11.
Harsh words but solid advice. OP, don't take it personally but definitely pay attention to these 3 steps.

It's not about who you are and what skills you have but more about what you can do for the company.
So you are completely comfortable defending the Abelson report, and find it completely honest. That's dandy.

Are you still comfortable with your comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484
Visa's list is what Google's problem is.
I am using Focus@Will a lot.

Works for me.
Cross-country Paragliding. It's cool because you suddenly grok everything that happens in that blue space above your head, and are able to dive right through it. And the perspective shift from hanging 3000m above the mountain tops to skimming a snow-capped peak 20 minutes later is mind-boggling.
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Can you please add skin "pikabu"? Your game is very popular among it's users. It should be a cake - like this one http://www.ipoding.ru/wp-content/gallery/reviews/pikabu-5.jp...
Thanks in advance :)
A little bit of intuition, a little bit just being too busy to get wrapped up into trends just because.
Programming. Love writing software that people use!
Same way you do with programming, pick a tool (language) and start making something! You won't get better at something being intimidated and never trying :)

I grew up watching Norm Abram as a kid. Watching something come to life is so rewarding. Failing however is very painful (possibly expensive) as you can't take back cuts!

I'd suggest watching some Paul Sellers videos, hand tool oriented: https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulSellersWoodwork

Power tools are nice, and I have acquired plenty over the years, but if you aren't in some kinda shop just cranking out pieces for customers the hand tool way is very rewarding (and challenging)

Also like programming, you can always improve and learn more
Exactly. Where's CL's Rails, or Eclipse, or Postgres?