skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, I would say that this is an issue with money/banking/credit cards and the various regulatory frameworks in this area.

It is remarkably difficult to just trade money in exchange for goods and services online. Between fraud, transaction costs, anti-"money laundering" requirements and general complexity the systems that actually exist are just not very good. If you fall outside the realm of a simple money-in-exchange-for-stuff paradigm, you are screwed.

Actual online retailers interfacing with customers need to make this mess as invisible as possible, but they are working with crappy inputs.

I increasingly suspect that the banking industry is the biggest economic bottleneck in advanced economies.
One guess I have about theranos , is that they are going to radically change healthcare in Africa. Why ?

Well let's start with the fact that the main thing preventing labs-on-chip devices transforming Africa today is business reasons - its just not seen as a good investment by western companies.

But what's unique about theranos is that it is owned by Holmes ,which seems very idealistic(as her main motivation here ) , and her father worked for years helping African healthcare .

So I think Holmes will use the strong business it will build in the west to create and extremely low cost African healthcare .That also explains why she has advisors like foreign state secretary and why bill gates is very impressed with her.
We're considering trying react for a new project, and just read about the adoption of Babel [1] instead of the internal transpiler previously used for JSX. One question: does this mean that JSX will be able to use ES6 syntax supported by Babel out of the box? If so, will this be the default for this new version of React?

I ask the questions also because we would really like to be able to use React with CoffeeScript, but, even if there are many solutions to do so, no one is supported by Facebook and we're worried about future compatibility. Is adopting Babel going to influence the ability to use React with CS?

[1] https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/06/12/deprecating...
They are gigantic, they necessarily tower over everything (otherwise they wouldn't work), but once you take your gaze off the gigantic gray rotating blades against the clouds, and direct your eyes further down, you see [1] or [2]. Then you gaze back up again and think the windmill looks grand and beautiful in comparison.

[1] https://stock-foto.nationalebeeldbank.nl/nationalebeeldbank_...

[2] https://stock-foto.nationalebeeldbank.nl/nationalebeeldbank_...
This is so true. I find it the same with BBC IPlayer - I live in the UK but travel home regularly, and have a 3 hour train journey. Despite having an active Sky subscription in the UK, and paying a TV licence in the UK, if I want to watch a show hosted on iPlayer there isn't any way to do it from Ireland. I normally end up having to download them before I go from other sources, which I hate doing..
thanks! fixed (;
> These music companies deserve to go extinct for wasting half an hour of a prospective customers time and putting up silly barriers.

Let's face it, they don't want your type. Ownership is dying. It is much more profitable to renegotiate with the consumers that fear losing "their" music collection the price of a subscription service every once in a while.
> As I understand it, it's March 4th in European usage

British usage. For Germans, 4/3 means 1.33333. April 3rd is 3.4. here. If you do i18n, do NOT assume there is one consistent European convention. Either use ISO 8601 or a library that understands country conventions.
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First - why not? Apply fantasy.

Second, that doesn't subtract from the advice being correct. Sometimes the thing you need to do is just "pretty hard". Or, put reversely, if you never do things just because they are hard, don't be surprised when you end up in a boring and uninspiring place.
Why does every advertisement of a web technology nowadays seem to involve coffee and bagels?
If it is true - it almost feels like a parody.

I'm not saying I don't believe it, just that I'm keeping my mind open.
> Banning cleavages again makes sense... Otherwise the site would turn into a softcore cam site with gamers.

Wait what? I've never seen or heard of anything remotely close to "softcore cam" on Twitch, I find it extremely stupid and rather discriminatory to ban cleavage for female gamers. It's a very bad omen for further possible restrictions imho.
I dont know where you went in Germany, but there are lots of areas where windmills actually cluster up the horizon.
I just rediscovered my overlay last week.
'const' is misleading, it doesn't set your variables as immutable.
Fine for expression, but not for actual practicality.
You forget that the "greater community" of scientists already curates these articles for free (the reviewers). It's not the curation that's wrong, it's the closed-access.
Hah, thanks for the bug report. Maybe skip the snark next time? :-P

My work-flow is to draft posts and other changes on my laptop and then use PageKite to show things to a friend or two to get feedback on spelling and content. In this case I mistakenly copy-pasted a link verbatim from the draft site into the post itself.

PageKite was working 100% as intended, this was just a typical copy-paste error. If I hadn't been using PageKite, you'd have seen a localhost link instead.
React's deprecation of JSTransform means that you will (whenever they completely remove it) need to actually use Babel to build your React JavaScript.
Do you want to learn all of those because you have a genuine interest in doing so, or do you want to learn all of those things because you feel you "should"?

I browse HN and read comments and articles I do not even begin to understand, and it's hard not to feel rapidly inferior. But you don't have to be a genius to make a difference, and you don't have to be a genius to be happy.

I make my living off the back of PHP. Sure it's got a bad rep, but it's hard to knock something that keeps a roof over my kid's heads and their bellies full.

If you want to learn because of genuine interest - do one thing at a time. Let your curiosity guide you. And good luck!
I wouldn't assume anything if I saw 4/3.

4/3/yyyy would be day month year.

People probably say "Tuesday the 3rd of April, 2015" instead of "Tuesday April the Third, 2015".

(Brit here.)
Quoting a recent article in The Economist (Edited by me)
"
The Swiss will soon vote on a proposal for a basic income of 2,500 francs ($2,700) per month, following the success of a national petition....

Turning it into a substitute for all welfare payments would be prohibitively expensive. But it might work as one element of the safety net....

Although the basic income has so far failed to take off, it does have a commonplace cousin: the tax-free allowance....

It is feasible only if it is small, and complemented by more targeted anti-poverty measures.

Basic income: the clue is in the name. "

Full Link: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21651897...

Also of interest (US trying basic income): http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/11/go...
Definitely a good sign. It even extends to other areas besides programming; as a non-native English speaker, at some point I was happy that I didn't really need to use the dictionary anymore. Then I realized that it actually meant that I wasn't pushing my boundaries enough and I started picking up more difficult books and learning Japanese (:
This is why they should have kept the lisp codebase
I wish you the best of luck with your fork! :-)
I've been using babel instead of the internal transpiler and yes you can use all the ES6 syntax out of the box.

I think the JSX transpiler was deprecated some time ago and pretty much all the react starter templates and examples have been using Babel.

I don't think adopting babel is going to compromise your use of coffeescript, in then babel is just transpiling down to old style javascript.
You don't need to use Babel, though we do recommend it. We're just no longer going to maintain our own JSX transformer since there's no point. (If you want just Babel's JSX transformation without any other features, that's possible too.)

There's a CoffeeScript JSX transformer here if you're interested:

https://github.com/jsdf/coffee-react

and we'll continue to support using React without JSX, and though we use Babel now internally, we compile React itself to ES5 before putting it on npm so you don't need to use Babel if you don't want to.
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There was a sorting algorithm that randomly selected a sort function from Stackoverflow posts until one of them was able to sort data
Calling anyone choosing MIT or BSD over AGPLv3 "freedom-hating" does not sound right.
Or to put it another way: they want to turn normal web pages into Flash sites.
that was just a tinny, weenie, little bit racist.
Because java and javascript won.
a 1.0 release that we can assume stable for a few months

Am i the only one getting a bit cynical that we're now hoping that a 1.0 is stable enough 'for a few months'?
Have HN admins addressed comments regarding weighting concerns in the past?
Reddit revolts:mods shut down subreddits in protest over AMA coordinator sacking
Email is Brokent, it needs to die, you'll be sorry when it's gone
I'm german, but the layout is used in other countries as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ
Even in countries where an employer has to give advance notice that just means they have to continue to pay the fired employee. That person can still be sent home if the employer prefers that over the employer continuing their job or training their replacements.
Later on he says it was dumb of him, then goes on to plead:

"At this point, however, the blackout has served its purpose, and now it’s time to get Reddit functioning again"

And downplays it as just a moderator-reddit communication issue. Right.
They're large, of course.

It's simply a matter of visual expectations: There's this flat land, with tiny houses, some forests surround it. Everything is laid out horizontally more than vertically.
Then these vertical spikes appear.

In such an environment windmills can seem frightening at first and feel like they're at least(!) 500 meters high since there's no frame of reference to them in the vertical.

At some point they're simply large (still larger than everything else, but church towers, the former larger-than-everything structures, aren't frightening either - because people are used to them).
The laser gyroscopes do exist. They use lasers, plus the Sagnac effect, to measure rotations around on axis by interferometry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac_effect
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Yeah, I suppose commodisation of services has the advantage that the benefits tricle down easier to developing economies as boxed solutions require less infrastructure and human capital. Everybody wins.
> i wonder if non-reddit-users think of the entire reddit community as hateful...

Reddit is pretty much a byword for "steaming mound of vileness" around various chunks of the 'net. A couple of years ago I would have said it was no worse than old-school Usenet, but it seems to be increasingly suffering from the same problem Digg did before it died, of brigading, upvoting cartels, and so on. FPH is a high profile example, but there's a constant wash of racist brigading many of the defaults, even sweeping into dataisbeautiful after the Charleston church massacre.
If the photo's "of" an artist's work then you probably do owe the artist. If you're photographing something that happens to have an artist's work in the background, that's going to be fair use, like the "dancing baby" video that has a bit of a Prince song in the background.
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"behind the scenes" also includes users who flag. There's a small karma threshold for flagging, so many people are able to do it.
because that is what engineers use as fuel :)
I wish that alternative was confined to a plugin running in a rectangle on the page. Otherwise game theory incentives make every site add a megabyte of JavaScript to every article, and stop you from reading unless you load the whole megabyte.
Google, stop playing with my pictures
It's an old story, it was a hard decision for me to move all pictures, they're under folders with naming like 2011_09_newyork. So it was easy to find, sort etc.
And I moved everything to picasa, it was also very easy to uploap; create album and upload, that's it. And It was also very easy to upload from android, ios, etc. (I was using mypics).
And suddenly last weeks, they decided to change everything, without asking or announcing. I'm a customer, not a user, I do pay for extra disk space.
Now it's impossible;
- to upload pictures from IOS without synching everything (why do I have to upload everything?)
- to sort collections by naming (so if you upload a picture to an old album, it's on the top)
- cannot see with whom did you share album before.
- upload pictures from third party apps.(security cam doesn't work anymore, just because of you google)

Most probably I'll move everything to dropbox soon.

I started to hate you google!
It's not "global warming". It's "global climate change", in response to increased greenhouse forcing. The "amplification of the upper level wave pattern" (kinked jet stream) is arguably one aspect of global climate change.[0]

[0] http://phys.org/news/2015-02-evidence-link-wavy-jet-stream.h...
Bitesize Modern C++: nullptr
> Well, sometimes it can be wonderful to be in a place without any sign of civilization, except perhaps the road you're walking on.

Agree, but in Holland, that ship has sailed.
The problem with renewable energy like wind is that it's not nearly as cheap or efficient as, say, coal power plants. That's the trade-off, really.
1/10 of OpenSSL lines of code “it should be easier to spot bugs”
I really like the "should":)
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Your c99 alias is unneeded:

$ which c99
/usr/bin/c99
$ c99 --version
gcc (Gentoo Hardened 4.9.2 p1.5, pie-0.6.2) 4.9.2
[snip]
Since I didn't raise any doubts about factual correctness of this comment, only about it's style, I don't see how your comment is relevant.
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Why did they build them so close to houses? That's nuts.
I think in the future, there will be programs to write 50% of the code for you in some way and (if DARPA get this right) you may have code that lasts a lot longer and does not need to be rewritten.
So like programmers are making jobs in other professions irrelevant now, they will likely make jobs of other programmers irrelevant in the future.
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Why was Victoria (former Reddit AMA coordinator) fired?
Sure it is densely populated, but doesn't the major part of that density reside in cities and villages, while once you get outside of those there are vast amounts of land with only some farms?? As such, are they really always in one's backyard (if you don't consider a farmer's land far far away from the actual farm as a backyard)?

Actually I think wobbleblob's reason (because they scare birds and pollute the horizon) is a more prominent reason, I find the Netherlands always quite pretty in comparision with surrounding countries so I'd understand people are reluctant to change that much. Nicer, more colourful buildings, nicer gardens, ... then again it's also a bit boring to me due to being quite flat.
I did not read them, no. Just went back and did, nothing special. Same like every website (this is not criticism, although I don't like clickbaity titles in general, like "Xi Jinping has run into the one thing in China he can't control".

Grid layout is still shit, It makes it harder to skim and keep track of where you were.
If you haven't already, you should be betting on React. It's the future:

> More importantly, this paves the way to writing components that can be shared between the web version of React and React Native. This isn't yet easily possible, but we intend to make this easy in a future version so you can share React code between your website and native apps.

Isn't this what we have all been waiting for? Writing components that are composable, that are "isomorphic or universal", that can run on Native or DOM without any downsides of it's predecessors.

Aside, the article also mentions a migration tool [1] to help you port your code from 0.13 to 0.14. While others may have done so before, it's pretty cool that this is streamlined as part of the beta release.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-codemod
You could set up your own instance on a free heroku dyno, assuming it doesn't do anything that requires it to run 24/7.
>Reddit does have a consistant position

Even if the "position" in statements by the administrators were "consistent" (doubtful, but that's besides the point), the application of these rules is manifestly not.
Yes, dang sometimes comments about whether posts were demoted by them or by user-flags.

I think they prefer people to email these questions?
I think it's more than commodification. My guess is that price in the west would be much higher than in africa(where products will be sold at cost) - but still relatively low, mainly because investors want profits. And whole in whole it's the moral thing to do, especially with the fact the healthcare quality in the west will increase.

As a general note, i've seen research talking about prices of 0.01 CENTS PER TEST for some lab-ob-a-chip methods.
These changes require a little work on your part with each release, but we think they make React better overall – the alternative would be to stop improving React, which I think is worse. We're already trying to get to a long-lived release as fast as we can, especially given our commitment to support each change with a warning for an entire release to give people a chance to update their code.

One of our goals with this release is actually to help with the problem you mention of interdependencies and component versioning: we expect most components to only depend on the "react" package, which will be more stable and updated less frequently.

Thankfully the React community moves fast and package authors are usually quick to update to new React versions.

P.S. We've been making releases every 6 months or so, so we're already at "stable for a few months". We might speed this up a little but we never want the pace to be unmanageable. (The four of us on the core team need to make sure the 10,000 components in the Facebook codebase continue to work, so I assure you we don't take breaking changes lightly.)
The Netherlands is mostly artificial anyway, the very land you walk on is sign of civilization. A very large portion of the country is below sea level and technically borrowed land.
No - based on the information on the website, and some of their "common support questions", the plug works over Bluetooth Smart. According to one of their support docs, "Zuli Presence will not work if you don’t have your phone with you." - so instead of motion detection, it looks like it detects you based on the range of your paired phone, and their "Zuli Presence" feature requires "a minimum of three Zuli smartplugs"

http://support.zuli.io/hc/en-us/articles/204311329-Technical...
You could use ` backticks instead and use both " and ' in strings without worry
It's like Game of bloody Thrones (I'm in Ireland too). I don't have a TV, so there is no way for me to pay to watch an episode
Speak for yourself. I found the GCSE IT syllabus absolutely atrocious (this was 10ish years ago). I do remember this though, so that's something, but broadly speaking it was awful. And I mean truly, truly awful. I find it difficult to put into words. I'm so glad they're actually starting to teach programming now.
I think you've got it all wrong.

If they can't keep up with the Microsoft treadmill, they couldn't afford Microsoft software in the first place - and yet they did it, and it's biting them now.

Working in the Microsoft or Apple ecosystems mean that you are committing to keep spending money in their direction for as long as you are in that ecosystem. It might be worth your while, or it might not - as these business you talk about are finding out.

And if you say "oh, but these businesses must run Office because of their customers/providers/governments/contracts" - well then, those businesses are not making enough money, and are thus unsustainable -- not any different that doing anything else at loss.
Are you referring to Northern Germany? It has been a long time since the Netherlands looked like that. It's flat, but the endless "vinex wijken" of identical tiny "rijtjeshuizen" are everywhere. Instead of forests, there are geometric rows of identical Populus × canadensis clones. At the very least I think the windmills fit right in, in many cases I find it makes the landscape look nicer, with an added vertical element and some movement. Vastly nicer looking than a coal plant.
I remember reading that Dutch windmills kill 30K birds per year. Dutch cats kill 30 million birds.
Sure, it's the future but currently it's still quite far away, React Native is available only for iOS (and in a quite beta state) and the components are not fully sharable between both of them yet. But yes, I agree, I can't wait for this !
TypeCase is a simple Mac utility for previewing and comparing your fonts
The third part of the parent's conditional: experience with running or dealing with online communities (from building and operating sites that have them, since the 1990s).
I believe the BBC should hand out a username/password with the license fee for access to their online services. Maybe this would require a change to their charter.
Yes, it's part of the OpenWebApps[1] initative. As far as I know, however, there's no standard way to package them up with the runtime for shipping[2], except for XUL Runner (which does not target OpenWebApps). For Android, there's an APK packager[3][4].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Quickstart/Build/In...
[2] There's none for Webkit/Chromium either, as nwjs/atom-shell are third-party projects.
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/de/Marketplace/Options/Open_we...
[4] https://github.com/mozilla/apk-factory-service
What's really funny though, is that this was prompted by someone who seems to have been excellent at marketing, given her stellar reputation among the reddit userbase and universal praise from all of her AMA collaborators. I can't help but think all this will end up in her netting some really swank job. I've seen some post that claimed insider knowledge that Taylor was fired because she resisted further monetization of the AMA series. Given some of the decisions over there I don't find that implausible in the least.

Best wishes to Taylor in all she does. She seemed like a very competent gal.
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Whatever you do, don't get on a Routemaster bus in London today
That's happening today (just check the "big" news sites) just as it happened before with Flash-based sites.

But that is just bad habit of programmers, not the issue with the technology per se.
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How accurate is the horse analogy? The music industry is still the one producing the product, it's just very easy to get it for free nowadays.
Yet, you only need 1 (one).
The only problem is that sometimes it leads to bugs when people mix different delimiters - like in your third example :)
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Also what is great for your password security? Not discussing publicly how you store your passwords.