skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it the case though that the population is pretty supportive of the government, including its religious policies? Iranian elections aren't exactly free but polls suggest that free elections would give basically the same results.

(See for instance http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brmiddleeast...)
Realtime is still a fairly new concept in the world of API tools. The realtime APIs most of us know about (e.g. Twitter, Dropbox, etc) were all built from custom infrastructure. We'll get there. :)
A different take on Milled, perhaps?

http://milled.com/
a bit ranty but well worth the read.
That's kinda what Deep Impact did. LRO & LCROSS did something similar, but the problem is that for a larger body, you need an impactor with a fair amount of energy before you'd be able to likely generate anything that is observable. Also, there's the planetary protection issue, which makes the design of impactors A LOT more expensive.
Using Azure Search with D3.js to Build Interactive Data Visualizations
I am not an engineer, but it might be easier to launch a spacecraft with an ion engine that over years manages to reduce the speed relative to Pluto to something human scale.
This is so poorly researched, and so opinionated and so ignorant of the chain of events, it's hilarious. Moreover, it has a blatant anti Hindu bias, that is characteristic of almost all western academic works pertaining to the politics of India and the region. There is something so alien about the Hindu religion that is frankly unpalatable to a certain type of westerner. Either that, or they just get bamboozled by the local boondogglery, and all critical reasoning just goes out the window. Thanks to the works of "scholars" such as these, it's really no wonder why western understanding of politics and political motivations in the independent south Asia (especially pre 90s) is basically BS. And no wonder why they feel, they get taken for a ride by the governments in the region.
>The US absolutely does censor group organization efforts in the US and political speech as well.

But this is precisely the claim for which you have provided no substantial support (though you have provided ample support for the uncontroversial assertion that the U.S. engages in strategic communications operations), other than 1) a single website that was temporarily blacklisted by private spam filtering organizations and ISPs, likely for some combination of factors including the absence of an SPF record, and which was promptly un-blacklisted upon request and 2) forums being used to support an enemy during wartime. What am I missing?

> China blocking Telegraph is like the US blocking . . .videos from warfighters in the Middle East.

No. It is not. It similar only in from a technical perspective. From the perspective of the government's motivations for blocking them, and the moral acceptability of those motivations, the two are entirely different. The U.S. blocked forums being used to publicize and support enemy activities in a war zone (by a terrorist group, by any definition, to boot), while China blocked communications tools being used by human rights lawyers to expose inequities in China's legal system. Whatever you may think about the legitimacy of the U.S.'s "war" against ISIS, it's not too hard to draw a line between these two situations.

The problem is not that, e.g., China censors communications. I think most would agree that this is sometimes necessary (though perhaps only very rarely). The issue, which you're glossing over, is when and why.
Who's hiring comp sci PhDs?
I'm a recently graduated computer science PhD student looking for a job. My focus is on security, but I like working on all kinds of stuff. Who is hiring PhDs? I'm open to both engineering and research positions.
sure. http://frustrometer.com
Speak for yourself. My day job involves taking apart and diagnosing small electronics, and repairing them if necessary. I find that fulfilling and nearly every day I come across something I haven't seen before, or I come up with a new fix for a new problem. If that was all I did at work all day, I'd be content to stay here indefinitely. The only reason I'm looking elsewhere is because I only get to spend about 15% of my work day doing that. The rest is sitting at a desk answering phone calls, which might be the best job in the world to someone out there but it isn't to me.

In other words, what's good for you isn't good for everyone. If you drop the selfish attitude you'll realize that your happiness matters to one person: You.
I'm no health expert, so take what I say with a pinch of (low-sodium) salt. However, it does seem to me that the amount of calories you burn standing up for a few hours is not going to make much difference to your health.
This is the beginning of the end if I ever saw it. If I could point to any particular point in time as when a company has the chance to break their stride it would be something like this, and it's on an article as opposed to being kept private. Something is amiss.
These need to be disabled by default, and the steps you list should be taken by people who want to enable them.

If a masochistic user wants to navigate the labyrinth of dark patterns meant to confuse them into not understanding that the "Additional tools and features" category is also the "completely disabled features that run nothing in the background" category (why would anyone think that, ever?), then they can go ahead and do it. If these things are so great, then I'm sure users would be happy to put that extra work into enabling them. After all, it's 3 simple intuitive steps!
What about the feet? You'll start having problems associated with long standing hours[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_complications_of_sta...
Darius Kazemi did a talk on a similar idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

Kazemi is more of an programmer-artist or -comedian, but he releases dozens of side projects a year, all relatively low effort. He uses himself as a test case and also examines KickStarters and how unpredictable their success is.
Does rpart have a GUI module?
IMF calls for total moratorium on Greek debt repayments
I think this comes closest of anything I've read to answering your question directly.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2704652/monad-in-plain-en...
What kind of things do you have in mind? I sent you an email.
I've only used TAOCP for reference. Working through it is on my to-do list, but I'm not sure when I'll get there.

The problems are ranked by difficulty, so you might be able to work your way up to the harder ones.
I know someone with a VariDesk which is similar and they like it very much. Thanks for sharing the info on the new Ergotron one!
Irrational means that the fear is not proportional to the risk, not that there is a fear of something that poses no risk.

It is irrational to possess a fear of radiation in lieu of other things that pose a far greater threat.
> Of the big emerging business lines at Google - Android/Play, GFiber/Loon, YouTube, self-driving cars, Nest & home automation, enterprise Google Docs, and AppEngine/Cloud - YouTube is the only one where the money comes from advertising.

GFiber/Loon is arguably about increasing connectivity and internet access to Google services, and thus increasing ad revenue. Android also increases exposure to Google services and ad revenue. Indeed, one of the main justifications of Android and Play Services has always been that if Google can control the platform they can control where eyeballs go for ads.
"Everything Beyond the Developer’s Over-Contemplated Navel"

I think the push to learn everyone to code might fix that. That is the open source way right? You have a problem, you can fork it, fix it, create it. It works great for determined people.

Otherwise my response is to learn how to fix it yourself. I learned to code, I taught myself, made the investment, and by gosh I am going to fix and contemplate my navel.

My paid jobs however have taken me all over the place, in all sorts of fields, but each shared the same thing, there was money to be made. Find a way to make money and serve the under-served and you will shortly have developers developing there of their own accord or as employees.
I wouldn't use the phrase "all chuldren" in that case, but something more like "chuldren in high radiation areas".
Product pages without the price makes me think I can't afford their prices.

Last time I encountered that was an Aeron chair. As much as I'd love one, I can't justify dropping £800 on a chair nor would I be able to persuade my boss.
Is ~$400 cheap? I agree it looks like a well-thought-out solution.
Really, I think they're our ally because we guarantee their security and they function as a counterbalance to other nations int he region which might more naturally align with Russia.

Israel is democratic but I feel only about 10% more than Iran. I'm really not sure how well they promulgate our basic values about democracy, or to the extent that they do, whether those basic values are good ones - one could view democracy in both countries as being a figleaf for militarist expansionism, for example. I feel it's more informative to look on our relationship with Israel from a pragmatic rather than an idealist perspective.

That said, both Israel and Iran have a great deal more in common with the US than a country like Saudi Arabia does. I continue to wonder how long we can thread that particular needle.
I listened to the space station in April – here's how
The parent comment is now significantly different from when I replied to it.

The articles were originally cited, but my response was in reference to their claim that their prior statement:

>its been proven that its cheaper to give the homeless housing than to pay for the resulting issues of not providing housing

...was neither sweeping nor overly-simplistic. The merits of the referenced case study--which may be an excellent case study--provide no grounds for refuting my claim that their prior statement was sweeping and overly-simplistic. Also, when making an argument based on extrapolated data, the burden for justifying extrapolation lies on the person making that argument.

Regardless, my only real point here is that the original claim (that giving people housing is cheaper than other forms of welfare has been "proven") is simply too powerful of a claim. It might be a good policy and it may in fact be cheaper, but it's incorrect to say any position on this topic has been "proven".
Depends on definitions, but if you go with 10 as your base for "orders of magnitude" and 64-bit prefixes as "one IPv6 address" (which is the intended amount of address space for a single host), it's pretty close to precisely the same difference of scale. If you mean every possible 128-bit address of IPv6, then IPv6 wins by another 20 orders of magnitude.

EDIT: of course, space wins either way if you count volume rather than distance - the "orders of magnitude" compound additively. and I also doubt that "one scrollbar unit" corresponds exactly to a power of 10, so it's still a weird comparison.
For those of us non-yet enlightened, I keep reading these kind of comments and walk away more confused.

Sure, I get what it is but what I don't get is how I would use it in my world of mutating data and side-effects.
Personally I like when websites show a problem & solution clearly with an example instead of buzz words.. then a link to features when I click "learn more", then a link to documentation.. more helpful than a general FAQ overview.

My "2c".
This is a highly stupid article, written by... some dude(?) who then goes and berates the developers who he wants to fix these gripes of his for "navel gazing".

For what it's worth, I don't really see any of the points as blind spots. I think there have been many attempts to solve all of them.
In my view though, the gig economy is just not sustainable. Look at sites like 99 Designs... You have an incredibly large workforce with an incredibly large spread of skills doing a lot of work for marginal payout. As these populous-run services become more common, it will only dilute the value pool for those in it... If you have thousands of people saying they can do something for a fair or cheap price, it only reduces the ability of the next worker to charge more, despite the fact they might have better skills. Price wins over quality 99% of the time, in my experience.

It's crazy because the competition is pretty much 100% internal and at some point, internal competition of anything will lead to systemic destruction of something critical if there is no authority figure demanding internal combat needs to stop.

And let's face it, a company like Uber or Airbnb will never tell its participants that they can't drive more often or share more rooms because that will limit their product offering. Also, the government won't, can't, and shouldn't interfere either.

It will solely rely for the workers of these sites to form unions agreeing upon their own quality standards and reflective pricing and will act as a group against the interests of the corporation they are inherently the product for... But pardon me for my cynicism, we're not at the point yet were self-preservation supersedes the desire for just a fractionally larger income.
Google is already Microsoft; it was almost from the very beginning. Despite repeated and wide-ranging (especially in Google's case) efforts to build additional businesses, both companies are from a revenue perspective one-trick ponies. Google has search advertising and Microsoft has the Windows+Office franchise. From a shareholder's perspective, nothing else either company does offers any [positive] return.

My great hope is that the new funding rules will make startups accessible to the general investing population. That would, in principle, obviate the desire of existing companies with mature, successful businesses to go out and start unrelated new efforts. Conglomerates aren't very popular these days and haven't been for a long time; it would be nice to see these companies stick to what they're good at, pay their shareholders richly, and then let those shareholders decide whether they want to go invest that income in something else (and if so, in what).

Well, a man can dream, right?
I also have a monochrome laser printer at home. It replaced a monochrome laser printer that lasted about 10 years, including a jury-rig home repair of the solenoids.

I think that on some instinctual level, I have always known that the home consumer market for color inkjet printers is absolutely saturated with crap. It all just seemed like a massive conspiracy to sell ink at prices higher than an equivalent quantity of heroin. I know a photo-artist who uses a higher-end inkjet to make archival-quality prints, and he buys 6 colors of UV-stable pigment inks, by the bottle, for less than most people pay for one dinky, chipped, proprietary replacement cartridge for their printer. Those consumer-level printers are engineered to be the absolute minimum-cost solution to get people to empty their ink cartridges.

So I'm not entirely certain that the two breeds of printer are comparable. Mono lasers are almost certainly considered by the industry to be small-office/home-office (SOHO) goods, wherein a perceived deficiency in quality or operating costs might hurt future large-office purchases.
That's why I thought it was astute of Zarif to use the term in a way that would encourage western audiences to re-evaluate the concept outside of the terrorism frame that people try to erect around it. I get the sense that jihad has a great deal in common with Kantian notions of duty.
Chemical poisoning is a different issue from radiation poisoning.
All those businesses have well known models and physical assets that can act as collateral for a bank loan, possibly through the SBA.

> This is not about average

That is my entire point, that you are speaking from not from the perspective of a person whose connections are of average wealth. If you have a close enough relationship with that many people who have 10k (that is, 2 months pre-tax income for most people) they can just put into a highly risky venture, you are starting from a position of economic privilege: wealthy people trust you with their money.

Is it possible to build a consulting practice and thereby build relationships with people who will then be confident in your ability to execute? Sure. Is it possible to go to a college with wealthy professors and inordinately impress them? Sure. It is possible in the United States to work yourself into a higher class. All I'm saying is that being able to collect $150k from your connections certain things from your social position.
Scissor switches always bottom out, which is unhealthy:

"Key Travel Distance: Scissor-switch membrane keyswitches are not 'full-travel' and typically have a key travel distance of 1 - 2.5 mm as compared to 2.5 - 4 mm for memrance keyboards. As such, when typing on these keyboards it is almost impossible to prevent 'bottoming"

http://www.ergopedia.ca/ergonomic_concepts/Mechanical_Keyswi...

The ErgoDox seems good, but I don't want to build my own. Afraid I'll screw it up. :-(
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain and educate me. This is very informative and helpful.
I think of "fish don't know they live in water" problems... problems so deeply endemic to a specific field that the practitioners of that field don't realize it. It's as ordinary as breathing to them.

I'm devoted to solving one of those myself, in the configuration management space. When I get it off the ground, lots of happy fish (well, engineers) will know about the water.
I bought a Konica Minolta 1600W Color Laser Printer on Amazon a few years ago after being frustrated at the infrequently used ink-jet cartridges going bad yet again because I didn't print enough.

I think it was $120. Still on the original colors (replaced the black). Toner gives me a lot more prints, never goes bad because of disuse, and looks better. I love it.

Now I just wish I could find a no-drivers AirPrint compatible Color Laser with the same reliability and price point that was as small or smaller (so it still fit in my IKEA printer stand with rolling door). Haven't turned up such a device yet so I'll stick with this USB printer for awhile yet I guess.

It was discontinued years ago, but toner refills are still readily available, for about the same price as a new set of Inkjet cartridges (except again, more capacity, and if you only use it once every 6 months it won't complain and make you buy a new set).

Anyways, IMO Color Laser is definitely the way to go for the home user. The printers are pretty reasonably priced these days, and the TCO is drastically lower than any Inkjet printer I've ever owned.
The problem with this is: if you already cringe at the idea of the government regulating a market, then see how much you like a company regulating it.
Mozilla: All Versions of Adobe Flash Now Blocked from Firefox Browser by Default
I'd love to see this study but I'm not sure it's possible, especially because of the fact that most startup failures still lead to great success later in life because of, not in spite of, the work done building the startup (whether or not that's fair? well, that's a different question).
> Building or bundling it was the only way to achieve what exactly?

The ability to save a page to read it later similar to Safari's and Edge's Reading Lists?
In Berlin, speaking German is not at all a requirement. In Munich, you can get by but you ought to learn. In Stuttgart, better speak German.

You're best off researching companies on cruchbase and angel.co, though http://berlinstartupjobs.com/ sometimes lists good opportunities.
But then people complain that Samsung, HTC, etc changes Android so much that they clamor for Google to control the OS more.

Damn if you do, damn if you don't.
There are a lot of people outside of the US, and most of them aren't using either Bing nor Yahoo. Over here in europe, google is still king and I think that in Asia it's Baidu. I don't want to downplay the successes of Bing, Yahoo or Baidu, but looking globally Google is still pretty much uncontested.
Unfortunately gone are the days when you could slap some ads on a blog and make a couple hundred bucks. I recall Stackoverflow mentioning they dropped Adsense because the revenues are small, lot of online magazine type of websites are going out of business because ad revenue has shrunk. By large, a big market correction in this landscape.
I think string theories are wrong
Facebook was super cool as a service for a couple brief years when they were serving only college students. But yeah, I don't think they've ever been well liked as a company. In many ways they're the modern AOL.
Background on Airing, LLC, located in Burlington, MA.

I looked up Stephen A. Marsh (see http://www.fundairing.com/ under 'inventor').

Interesting guy - a strange history. He also is CEO of Encite LLC (also located in Burlington, MA). He does have many patents in fuel cells, etc.

Previous to Encite LLC he was CEO of a now-defunct technology startup Integrated Fuel Cell Technologies, Inc. (IFCTI)

Encite LLC was formed from IFCTI, through some obtuse legal machinations.

http://www.potteranderson.com/delawarecase-185.html

I am no expert in law, but it sounds like he basically ran IFCTI into the ground as CEO, then bought it and its resources back at a large discount via Encite LLC. The previous board members tried to sue him but lost due to some ambiguities in the laws.

Maybe someone else has more?

BTW having used a CPAP I know it is not possible to generate the volume and pressure (particularly the pressure) needed by something this size without a quantum leap in current technology.

I can't devise a method to prove and explain my conclusion. Perhaps someone more versed in the area can.
JavaScript's functional hype was initiated by Douglas Crockford.
Ahhh! I too have a Brother HL-2270DW sitting at my feet currently! Its probably the best $100 I've ever spent on tech gear. Miser on the toner, and a solid piece of hardware even after thousands of pages have been run through it.
~$400 is cheaper than a real standing desk but not that much.
There are a few (albeit limited) places to get into watchmaking as a career.

One of the more interesting is The Lititz Watch Technicum (http://lititzwatchtechnicum.org/) which is a 2 year certification program funded by Rolex.
My boss co-authored that paper [1] :) Ballistic capture is interesting: makes use of fuzzy/chaotic dynamics in the 3-Body Problem. I worked on analysis of the Weak Stability Boundary, which is the mathematical set of all points in phase-space that lie at this fuzzy boundary, for my Masters thesis [2]. It has been used in a few missions, including SMART-1, Stardust, and Hiten. ESA's Bepi-Colombo mission will also be using it to ensure that there isn't a single point-of-failure to enter orbit around Mercury.

The big problem with ballistic capture is that it doesn't guarantee a more optimal solution. Transfers can take a lot longer, and in theory even require more fuel. So it's very much a case of having to perform mission analysis on a case-by-case basis.

Nevertheless, it's an interesting prospect to send unmanned missions to Mars carrying habitat elements, before a manned mission, since they can be sent well in advance. I analyzed the prospect of potentially using a cycler [3] for this in my thesis.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8856

[2] http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3Ae8c99c80-a25d-4c...

[3] http://courses.ae.utexas.edu/ase333t/past_projects/04spring/...
thanks for sharing!
I was there some twelve years ago and it seems a lot of changes happened.
It is marvelous to see this work actually evolve in my lifetime, and I have, since I was a kid, hoped to get to see the finished work...
>Your product is superfluous and unnecessary; we already have alternatives like Chrome, Safari, and IE

...What does this mean? Why don't you consider Chrome, Safari, or IE superfluous and unnecessary instead?
This is precisely the process I followed (down to being Australian), except I made friends quickly and came to the Ausländerbehörde with a native speaker (and also client) backing me up.