skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I did a `bind(this)` in a jQuery event handler, I could never access the item that was being iterated, or the event was raised for... My problem with `this` in jQuery is that it's context that isn't passed.

$('#foo').click(function(foo,event){ ... });
$('#foo .item').each(function(item,index){...});

Is more sensical than...

$('#foo').click(function(event){ var foo = $(this); ...})
$('#foo .item').each(function(index){ var item = $(this); }

With jQuery, I couldn't use a function that was bound to an object.

$('#foo').bind('foo',myContextObject.handleFoo.bind(myContextObject));

The binding/pattern just blows up, and handleFoo can't get to the foo instance... It's just really sloppy in my mind to change the context of functional expressions that way. Don't get me wrong, I really like a lot of what jQuery has done, and it's better than what came before it, I just find that using the this context removes a lot of options.
Ah the old days when Sourceforge and Freshmeat were some of the go to places for OSS when I was learning Linux in the 90s. Occasionally I'll end up back at SF somehow and man how terrible it has become. Makes you really appreciate places like Github now a days.
It's a shame that their cheapest pair of jeans is over $100. While I'm definitely a fan of getting something quality that lasts a while (rather than just buying new pairs of shitty $20 jeans every year) it would be great if there was something in the $50-80 range. Doesn't have to be the fanciest raw selvedge denim or whatever but just some solid, well constructed jeans made from good fabric would be my ideal.
What about mailing lists?
There are paid licenses for the standalone chrome app (not the extension) that let you do extra things like pre/post JS processing on requests. I think the licenses are also tied to their new sync feature which would let you sync a collection of requests (say all your API requests) across your team.
This is such an annoying and useless comment. This same comment is parroted EVERY time there's an article about robots anywhere on the Internet. How are you adding anything to the discussion at all?
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Wasn't this the plot of the matrix or something?
The reminds me of the dryly satiric, darkly comic Magnus Mills novel "The Scheme for Full Employment"[1]. It concerns "UniVan" drivers delivering loads to different UniVan depots around the country. It eventually becomes apparent that the only thing they are delivering are UniVan parts and the only work being done at the depots is maintenance and repair of the UniVans themselves. The entire enterprise had been established to provide busy work.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scheme_for_Full_Employment
> An example of that I've observed are construction workers maintaining railway infrastructure. There are probably a few times as many people working there as needed. When walking by you'll see them standing around talking, or maybe one of them is sitting in an excavator and four are staring at him. Meanwhile people have to take the replacement buses for two months. Most of the work only gets done in the first and last week, largely using machines, while everyone relying on the train connection is at risk of delays or has to spend extra time on the journey.

An example of that I've observed programmer maintaining enterprise software. There are probably a few times as many people working there as needed. When walking by you'll see them standing around talking, or maybe one of them is sitting in front of the computer and four are staring at him. Meanwhile people have to do the "some important work" manually for two months. Most of the work only gets done in the first and last week, largely using third-party tools and libraries, while everyone relying on the "some important work" is at risk of delays or has to spend extra time on the job.

Ok, I fixed this paragraph for you. The way you see construction workers and their work is the way business people see IT workers and their work. Come, we are just staring in the monitor without actually doing anything.

Quote from child comment that TLDR it:

> To an outsider, a lot of work looks like non-work.
Ask HN: Does there exist any open online calibration outside of software?
I find it hard to think of any open calibration online that creates things other than software.

I only give Wikipedia 95% since I think it’s collating not creating, but welcome similar answers.

I think most exchange.com’s outside of the realm of software are just not working.

I think community’s like Reddit and HN are fluid, You just can't go to a group and find an answer, it's not a grabable object of value. Their existence however has great value but was done by a small closed team.

Thoughts?
You wrote what I was going to say, but better. If there is a good thing about all this, it's that the nakedness of the emperor is fully exposed here.
Clearly this is a mobile only library currently. It looks really nice and there's nothing wrong with having a mobile only site/js library/tool. However I'm currently consuming morning news and media at my PC and don't want to get out a tablet to check this out so I will never really know how good it might have been on mobile.

Desktop-only interactions on mobile just makes a site seem simple. Touch=click, swipe=scroll. As long as buttons are big enough and have enough padding no one complains and they use it fine.

Mobile-only interactions on desktop though are generally horrible.
In the late 1990's, I briefly worked with one of the founders of Galactic Software, the firm that created LDOS. I commented to him that after nearly 20 years LDOS still felt more powerful than MS-DOS.

He agreed with me, and explained how many Unix type features such as pipes and a real shell they had implemented.
"Everyone uses the same software, so fixing us means fixing them, and leaving them vulnerable means leaving us vulnerable."

As a third option, a country may decide to just patch their devices, but not disclose the vulnerability. Protect themselves while leaving others vulnerable.

When other parties find and exploit the vulnerability (and they will), the best case scenario is, "Darn, we can't exploit that anymore". The worst case scenario is that exploitation causes some major disaster (widespread power outage, loss of SCADA control, etc.) that impacts us all somehow and that could have been avoided.

Broad, public disclosure and patching seems the best choice for everyone.
That's also my perspective. I grew up in Mexico, a very Catholic country and I went to a private Catholic school and we had religious classes and science classes. The content of both wasn't mixed, we had "brothers" giving the religious ones, and real scientists (Chemists, Biologists) giving the science ones. Even priests conceded that the Genesis story was a metaphor.
And who puts up with it in the "free" end of the market?
Pretty graphics are fine, but for me video games are mostly fun because of nostalgia.
Having been allowed to wander around the campus, the sights and sounds are phenomenal. There's entire buildings humming and pulsating steadily, free cooling water towers, land features that are clearly built over the technology underneath. There was one circular feature that we walked over, and when in the middle of it you could hear the cyclic humming of energy being manipulated. Every couple of seconds, buzzzzzz, silence, buzzzzzz coming from all around.

It's well worth a visit!
Latex – Long Equation in a 2 column environment
How Math's Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke
Why is the electro-coagulator under 'quackery'? It was undoubtedly dramatically effective for its day.
> True, but the validity check for the constant-width case can be done in constant time.

The same is true of UTF-8 because it is self-synchronizing. You only have to check that the byte at the given offset is either 0xxxxxxx or 11xxxxxx.
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Cool project Kyle! this is a brilliant idea simple and effective :D
Crate.io on ContainerShip
If life were only so simple, now it seems VCs are pushing founders to make the following bet: .1% chance of $5B+ and 99.9% chance of failure.

In short, lots of potential $100MM companies are being done in by VC greed.

This is only one data point, but I know an entrepreneur who was turned down by a blue chip VC because the VC said he saw a clear path for the biz to $100MM, but the path above that level was much murkier.
The hell with the world, I can make my own people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbOplZHFfg
Oh, nice. I couldn't make heads or tails of their website. Seems like a lot of potential there, tho, for sure.
No salaries listed = useless
Neat site! Usability note, I would add something to catch all key strokes. When using the search bar(which is pretty cool looking) I started typing, searched, then I hit delete to clear the prompt and was sent back. Granted this is normal behaviour of any website, but given it's a command prompt, I'm used to it being always ready for my typing.
The standards people very often are the same people, or represent the same organizations, that implemented the features in other places ahead of it being standardized as part of ES.
What’s new in Play 2.4
I've honestly never trusted these guys who claim to speak 30 distinct languages. Can it all be tested at once?
To be clear, despite the current story, it's not really a thing in Scotland or the UK either. I think this was prompted by some American faith groups getting involved in some schools in Scotland. The reason they weren't previously banned is because no-one thought it would come up.
My email is not secure, for a number of reasons. Here are a couple.

1) I have yet to find anyone willing to accept email from me that has been encrypted before I send it and must be decrypted by them (GPG for example).

2) It is stored in plaintext on a server I do not control (I send it to someone who uses one of those big hosts like Google, Yahoo, etc).

Sending it over the wire in plaintext is probably being less of an issue now (as it seems the most used hosts are doing TLS), but that doesn't really help with bullet #2.

I think the best bet is attempting to communicate with others using some other application that is not email based (like textsecure for example). Not sure how to get regular email from corporations via another means though (monthly bills for example).
Lol at the close button on the annoying promo overlay.
"× Closing this window will expire your one-time offer"
I'm surprised - is this a real problem? I thought 99% of all blue jeans in the world are made at the same Korean factory. Maybe they construct them to different standards? That makes sense I guess.
The History of LOL and Other Forms of E-Laughter
> It does not allow commercial use, which is forbidden by default.

what are you claiming here?
There might be a solution to do real work and not disrupt other people jobs (or lower the salaries) and this might be to do Volunteering.
I'm thinking everybody wins in this case: the worker who is actually doing work and contributing to something, the NGO/non-profit who always needs more labor and (maybe) the society in general.
> I could imagine it would be possible to establish such a business without telling the people that it's fake...

I think they might notice that they weren't being paid... Bear in mind, this is not actually a fake job, despite the title; it's a rather contrived training scheme (and a reasonably successful one; as noted in the article most people who do this do get a proper job after).
Yes and no. While there is legitimate "standing around" as your link makes clear, and safety should be paramount, most building projects from where I am - Philadelphia - take twice as long as the Empire State Building at 1/4 the size. We have labor unions that contribute to the problem, but you can't imagine how slowly work goes around here.

I'm aware that OSHA rules are different, and we have a higher standard of safety now than we did, but so too have materials and tools and building methods improved.
I hope not. Unless they release a mandatory controller. Nintendo shouldn't accept vastly inferior (touch) controls.
yet again: not agree = downvote.
The left and right front/hind legs moving in sync looks unnatural. I wonder if this is ultimately the best way to distribute weight and balance of a four-legged object, and why living four-legged creatures do not run like this?

Alternatively, would it be better if the robots also ran more life-like, or is there a benefit (besides the ease and simplicity of engineering the physics) to the robots running like this? I.e. will they ultimately have the robots running more life-like?
Wealthy entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial/investor families (think family offices) can be good, if you want to raise third party capital. They usually take a longer term vision than a VC would, since they're basically one of the groups of people VCs raise from.

I'd prefer working with those over a VC any day of the week if possible. They're usually bring a lot more value to the table.
Of course, now that there is EFI, the "BIOS" contains its own rather fully-featured FAT filesystem driver, so it could theoretically boot and resume from hibernate without requiring the files be in the root.

I don't think that's a better way of doing it. The "dumb and simple" BIOS way, where all it did was load the first sector of the boot device into memory and jump to it, was far easier to understand and debug.
GIFs are finally working on Facebook
Show HN: Libllist – Generic Linked List Management Library in C
Canada leading in wearable tech
MIT is probably developing advanced algorithms for the Boston Dynamics platform.
I like the layout. There are many sites like this, but this one is easy to use and gave me the results I wanted fairly quickly.
I think that this may be more that you don't understand what the railway maintenance workers are doing than anything else. I'll take a bit of cost over collapsing bridges and derailments, if it's all the same with you. When railways go wrong, they can go wrong _very_ badly.
New conference for technical leads and lead developers
I just signed up for the $39/mo plan for Streak CRM (www.streak.com) -- the product rocks and the support has been phenomenal (thanks, Andrew!).

You have to install the Streak Chrome extension to get the CRM inside your Gmail.
Not so much homeschooling specifically as Christian, mostly Protestant, political conservatives (often theologically fundamentalist, but not exclusively). Sometimes they also homesick as a reaction to content in public schools, but in many places in the US they've been fairly successful in dominating school authorities at the local and even state level and directing the curriculum.

But American religious/political activist groups often work to expiry their views overseas as well and implement similar policies -- there's been some attention to that on anti-gay policies, but pro-creationism features some of the same tactics.
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Then it vibrates you to death.
Planning should be done before important infrastructure is made unavailable. If there is no progress being made for a long time, then there is something wrong.

Please also realize that my example does not apply to every country. It was meant to point out a danger of a form of fake jobs that seems to exist from my observation, not criticize all construction workers for being lazy or ineffiecient.
Not sure if I agree with that 100%. Not every job listing you find online is going to have salaries posted.
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edit: Spoiler Alert!

I just watched Ex-Machina and for some reason, I just pictured the robot running out of the building after its last test without the safety harness and setting itself free.
Stegosploit hides malicious code in images, this is the future of online attacks
Money is exactly the measure of "value to society". If nobody pays these people to do this, then it literally means that it's not worth a living wage to do it. You may like municipal gardens, but how many dollars per month do you like them? Run a Kickstarter or Patreon to start a charity, go out and advertise that garden project, or contact your elected representatives to pay for that garden in exchange for a modest tax increase.

The capitalist system is set up to measure value in a common unit called "money". If you value something, paying for it is exactly how you express this. So put your money where your mouth is. Cash is the unit of caring.
awesome, i subscribed to several search options. if there is a way to subscribe to several at once rather than each individually (with activation) perhaps it would be nicer. You seem like someone who can easily put that in. Great work. Also i think "remote" should be a search option up there, it has many results. Cheers.

Edit: The suggestions at the bottom of the detail page is perfect. it's what kept me on board.
Introducing the Zero Labor Factory (90% Free Actually)
That's what I'm trying to figure out too. For that matter, why couldn't I just take the messenger.com site and wrap it in a Chrome app myself (which is what this looks like anyway)? That way at least, I can be reasonably sure I'm not leaking my FB credentials to a third party. I know the average user won't know how to do that, but then the average user would just launch messenger.com in their browser anyway.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, who is this for?
I am quite worried about this development as someone who has to deal with DDoS traffic on a regular basis.
I am starting to feel like UDP and UDP-like protocols should be abolished outright.
Invisible hand:
http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/invisiblehand/lghj...
Chip Economics
They have a shop:
http://www.cafepress.com/chocolatey

and a donate button at the bottom of the front page. I wonder how much money that can generate though.
Openjscad (openjscad.org) is quite nice. I doubt it would be suitable for anything big, but it works well enough for small models.
That sounds oddly familiar, but i was just a kid when this thing was decommissioned.
Yep, Workfare is definitely far worse than Jobbridge (the Irish scheme); in particular Jobbridge is not mandatory (or even particularly common) and the internship has to provide useful experience and training (though there has been abuse of this; a major supermarket chain was advertising shelf-stacking jobs as Jobbridge internships for a while before getting caught).
Indian society has traditionally enforced collectivistic values.

From a young age, be they a male or female, one is conditioned to unwittingly absorb the various rules and responsibilities of a narrow lifestyle (get married at ~25; have babies; earn a living; stay married till death; have grandbabies) that there is little space and time for creative pursuits.

It is all thankfully changing now of course.
While it's not uncommon to mix in chicken, fish etc, virtually all ramen stock is pork based though. There are porkless variants, but you'd have to look pretty hard to find them.
You call your own creation 'beautiful'?
Isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder?
Someone drinks your lemonade and has a heartattack. The family sues the corporation and wins millions. However your corporation is a limited-liability entity and so files for bankruptcy.

Your personal income and savings, paid as wages, are immune to bankruptcy proceedings. The corporation loses its cash and holdings, but you don't lose your house.

This is a staggering fiscal and economic advantage. You absolutely should be paying a lot for it given the net effect on everyone else.
> It is even worse when you see, as it happened in Brazil, people with good education going to the streets asking for a military coup... that is crazy

That's such a silly thing to point out. In every single anti-government protest that happened so far, pro-military groups were the tiniest minority. Look up Datafolha's research about the Paulista protests - even though that research has several problems, it makes it pretty clear that almost everybody there opposed a coup (or "intervention").
So i changed the service list into a simple table. Also, Gitlab providers are listed separately.
Any ideas for a domain name? :)
this is how cheetahs run http://giphy.com/gifs/animal-running-7lz6nPd56aHh6
Co-Founder here. I'm happy to answer any questions!
I'd say that even if there was, that message wouldn't get through. There are many reasons that people vote for one party over another, there's nowhere on a ballot paper to indicate why the vote is being cast.

If you were running a political party, the most logical assumption to make (in the absence of richer feedback) was that the people that voted for you did so because they liked your manifesto and/or believed you'd be more competent than your competition.

With that in mind, an election doesn't really allow any meaningful influence on policy, it has to come in a different form (direct democracy, for example).

I'm not a US citizen, but from what I've read the laws on direct democracy are set at the state level, is that correct? Are there any mechanisms in place to propose policy changes at the federal level (aside from lobby groups in Washington)?
Not necessary for this sort of ads.
This project is pretty awesome... though I'm not clear on what happens after you are setup.

Does mail-in-a-box then provide the scripts to perform regular software updates and any configuration migrations between versions? There's more to running software than the initial setup... A complete Mail solution in a Unix-like environment consists of a lot of disconnected programs with their own configurations that are difficult to get running, and even more difficult to maintain without a full time systems administrator in place.

I mentioned in another discussion recently how much I would love to see something akin to SmarterMail available as a simple package install Cross-Platform (one of the best mail server softwares out there imho, from a setup/upgrade POV) but commercial and tied to Windows for deployments... If I didn't have to work for a living, I'd probably start something like this. Mail services are usually made far more complicated than they should be, and I understand there are a lot of desired features... but I do feel that having a good module/plugin system that one could be developed that isn't the pain that current solutions are.

To me a current mail solution should provide, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, WebMail, and WebAdmin at a minimum... Value adds would be easy multi-domain support, easy to configure AV/Spam plugins, Calendars + Sharing and Group Contact Sharing. Honestly, the only solutions with a relatively easy setup for this are for Windows... All the nix solutions are cobbled together bits that are very hard to upgrade and maintain versions and require a lot more breadth of knowledge than a single product. I've tried many of the systems for nix and they mostly suck in practice.. some more than others.
I didn't see it mentioned, but if you're not subscribed to the Lucky Peach, it's a really great publication. I happened upon Issue 1 (the Ramen issue) in a grocery store a few years ago and I've subscribed ever since.
Essentially many islamic countries that apply Sharia teaches creationism.