skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been reading while walking since I could first read. Lord of the Rings and Dune occupied lunch times, and I would often walk my bike home, bike in one hand, book in the other.

Reading while walking is no more or less dangerous than walking while daydreaming, thinking about a work project, being drunk, or otherwise cognitively impaired.

What this study is showing is that a great many people are not being told the basic rules of walking and chewing gum at the same time:

1. Pay attention to the world occasionally. At my reading pace, each fullstop was sufficient frequency to dodge running children, navigate dodderers who couldn't decide whether they wanted the left side or right side of the footpath, and even fast-moving bicycles.

2. Do not give the appearance of being distracted while crossing roads, otherwise car drivers will take it upon themselves to correct your behaviour by various means from honking horns, through yelling out their windows all the way to driving across the pedestrian crossing and expecting you to jump out of their way.

3. Look up. Look down. Simply glancing over the edge of your book is not enough, you may miss the low hanging branch that scones you, or the loose brick that stumbles you.

4. Feel your way with your feet. You can not maintain your normal gait. Do not transfer weight to your feet until you have firm purchase.

Out of all the hazards I have encountered in 30-something years of reading while walking, the ones that have come closest to causing me harm are low-hanging tree branches (the ones that are just above eye height but under scalp-height), and over-zealous car drivers.

I swear people's brains cease functioning properly when they get behind the wheel of a car.
I meant the part where they "lost the phone" only. Not the policemen - I fully agree about their direct actions.
> So if drug companies stopped marketing, they'd have less money than they do now.

Do you really need much marketing to sell a life saving drug? You'd think it'd kinda sell itself...?
Very few people who work for the spy agencies are "under cover." The ones who are under cover use fake names for their service.

Living in DC you'll run into lot of people who work as analysts for CIA/NSA/FBI/State etc. Some of them have business cards with CIA on it.

The CIA has a starbucks inside.
In Australia you get serviced apartments everywhere. They are basically apartments that get serviced (cleaned, new linen etc) regularly like hotel rooms. You get separate bedrooms, kitchen, etc. just like a normal residential apartment.

Example: http://www.questapartments.com.au/
He was a great person, a great developer and a great businessmen.

And fun piece of trivia, he invented the share icon http://alexking.org/project/share-icon
I highly recommend anyone interested in this to read the article Criminal Law 2.0 by Alex Kozinski (a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals). He presents twelve fundamental tenants of the criminal justice system that are flawed and suggests some ways to fix them. (E.g., "Eyewitnesses are highly reliable" and "Long sentences deter crime.") If you haven't read anything by Kozinski, you should. It's very readable. Especially the conclusion.

http://georgetownlawjournal.org/files/2015/06/Kozinski_Prefa...
In my experience Christian's seem very supportive of the death penalty.
I saw someone with a really neat camera. It was an Olympus lens + sensor in a package that was hardly bigger than a camera lens, which wirelessly talked to a smartphone for image display and controls. A much smaller add-on than an entire mirrorless camera, acknowledging that most people are already carrying an LCD screen and flash storage.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I was avoiding some work for the past week but that video really turned around my perspective and perhaps my future now.

Cheers
I also couldn't find any U.S. patents (or even just published applications) listing any of these people[1] as inventors. Nor any U.S. patent assignments to a company called "Secret Media."

Maybe they're referring to some other jurisdiction, or maybe the patent has some other inventor(s) and their entity name is something besides Secret Media. Or maybe they're full of shit.

[1] http://www.secretmedia.com/about.php
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> Counterintuitively, justice may be better served by abolishing life imprisonment and mandating the death penalty for cases where periods of imprisonment would exceed 20 years or so.

I've seen several people already share this sentiment and it really confuses me. Because

1) It's made by people who have never, and come from a background where they most likely never would, have to seriously make such a choice. (If I'm wrong let me know).

2) I would venture if you really were faced with such a choice it would not be the automatic "kill me if I get more then 20 years" one that you flippantly imply you would make. I have a feeling when faced with the actual prospects of death vs imprisonment of 20 years or more, rather then on some hypothetical situation in an internet forum, you might decide differently.

3) Even if it was the case you were to decide death over long term imprisonment, what would give you, or the justice system, the right to decide that for anyone else facing that situation? I have a feeling most people would still choose life, even if faced with perpetual imprisonment, over death.

And finally lets just assume Richard Glossip was unjustly found guilty of this crime, I know nothing about this case so lets just assume. The problem isn't specifically with the sentence but the fact that he is in fact not guilty, but was deemed guilty by his peers. By killing him you eliminate any possibility of recourse, he already paid the ultimate price. At least with life imprisonment there is still a chance for having some just conclusion, even if it's late and inadequate to the penalty he suffered.
> "Richard Glossip's only hope now is if the Supreme Court intervenes."

Couldn't the President of the United States, Governor of Oklahoma, or other federal judges below the level of the Supreme Court intervene, at least temporarily?
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I'm not huge in the computer business but there are strong takeaways in this first video as far as a C-Level perspectives. Hopefully the future classes will be as helpful.
Yeah, the xeon D chips are the only 13nm xeons out. Funny that. At least they didn't gimp it as hard as they gimped the E3 xeons. Sure, only four ram slots is the same... but on the e3 it maxes out with 8gb dimms. here, at least I can use 32gb dimms, which are coming down in price, and get a semi-reasonable 128g
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Minor correction: The A-level at the University of Chicago is already a floor where students are allowed to speak freely.
So, if we accidentally terraform a planet with only microbial life, what's the downside?

The only loss I can see is the lost opportunity to study a truly alien ecosystem in detail, but if we can't study it without fatally contaminating it, that was never really a benefit we could enjoy anyway.
> Resources are a matter of budgetary concerns, mostly.

After making my own logging system, which was expensive in dev time + maintenance, I switched our company over to papertrail ( https://papertrailapp.com ) they handle quite large volumes of logs for less than $100 a month.

They provide an interface to search the logs with low latency.

I'm not sure what type of organisation can't afford it.... (cost scales with usage)
> Mrs Clinton's tweet revealed that political risks were still substantial

I love that major policy signaling is accomplished via tweets nowadays.

Also interesting how several Republican candidates responded directly to the tweet,

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/633629814713397249

Though Twitter's reply threading is the worst implementation I've ever seen it does do a good job surfacing Jeb and Christie's responses.
Cute, but never going to happen. Partly due to politics, but also, don't Firefox get revenue for their search bar referrals? I imagine their partners (Google, Amazon) would get stroppy if Mozilla accept the referral money, then actively work to prevent those partners from earning money (via ads).
The title on HN is very editorialized and I can't overemphasize how preliminary and experimental this work is. Take all numbers with a huge grain of salt.

That said, I'm obviously really excited about this project. :) I feel strongly that it's the right from-scratch, modern approach for painting Web content. Happy to answer any questions.
"I'm visiting Chicago this weekend; should I bring my big camera or can I save space by taking just my phone?" is not an academic theoretical question for some people.
Yes but the point is - it's a given that people want better cameras in their iPhones. They want to see DSLR images to see what they are missing out on and what they aspire to. The DSLR is just a sensor benchmark.
Forget about the 4% innocent. Forget about racial bias and unreliable eyewitnesses. How about we stop executing everyone including the guilty ones.

But please, enough with the rest of the world is enlightened and America is basically gun-loving racist troglodytes. It's not true and it's not an argument which will change anyone's mind.
San Francisco is much better for running text than Helvetica. Lucida Grande is much better for running text than Helvetica. Verdana is much better for running text than Helvetica. Pretty much anything is better for running text than Helvetica.

Helvetica is a typeface designed for signage, headings, posters, corporate logos, and the like. For body copy, it’s terrible, because it has a strong boxy/griddy quality to it, many similar looking letters, and proportions which make letter shapes hard to see at small sizes.
"The amount of armchair condescension on HN is appalling."

So true. It's surprising that some commenters, above and nearby, don't stop to think that a decades-long, multibillion-dollar exploration program, with dedicated conferences (e.g., http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/), journals (e.g., http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/agu/jgr/journal/10.10... or http://www.journals.elsevier.com/icarus/) and scientific communities in the many hundreds of scientists, professors, postdocs, and PhD's, has not gone deeper than sophomoric gotchas like in the comment above.

I admit, there is a question here about exploration strategy. The question is how to approach it -- and a little humility and willingness to poke around for information would be in order.

Edited to add: The root for documents pertaining to Mars exploration strategy is here (http://mepag.nasa.gov/reports.cfm) and an excellent reference for contamination control for the upcoming Mars-2020 rover is here (http://mepag.nasa.gov/reports/OCP_2014_final_report_docx.pdf).

Finally, don't miss this deep analysis of the "Special Regions" on Mars (http://mepag.nasa.gov/reports/Rummel_et_al_Astrobiology_14-S...). From the abstract:

"Significant changes in our knowledge of the capabilities of terrestrial organisms and the existence of possibly habitable martian environments have led to a new appreciation of where Mars Special Regions may be identified and protected. The SR-SAG also considered the impact of Special Regions on potential future human missions to Mars, both as locations of potential resources and as places that should not be inadvertently contaminated by human activity."
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Yeah, I can't say that. I'm not sure Schöffe is a silver bullet solution but that a jury is "the best we've got" is unlikely. Valid point.
You should add a GUI builder to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872020
I wrote a critique of group work based on my own experiences with it in school and in university, echoing many of the same grievances against voiced in this discussion:

http://likewise.am/2015/07/01/on-communication-skills-and-pe...

I took particular issue with the alleged wisdom of putting students of very heterogenous levels together so that the better ones can serve as a "role model".

However, my conclusion was that the best medicine is a return to more structured and - in some respects - authoritarian teaching methods centred around the lecture, not a different kind of diffuse self-motivated learning model.
I totally understand and even I wont support such things but just because you mentioned it on twitter doesnt breaks any rule first of all and at the same time you do want to tell you audience that you have something interesting going on HN. specially the rate HN post are getting posted whats else choice you have. Most of the people hardly visit 2nd page atleast the people i met.

But with due respect isnt HN's model is already broken? just because people aren't openly accepting it doesnt mean their friends and in most cases their employee didnt upvoted/commented for the sake of the company.

Note: My intention behind the last para is not to promote such things.
OP is not interested in preservation for preservation's sake.

It's not like we should care about the consciousness of microbes. What he meant, as I read it, is that if there are microbes we'll want to sample them and study them BEFORE we change the landscape and possible kill them.
True in general but I disagree on specifics and magnitude. While those -- and other factors, such as exposure -- are limiting factors, and very important, THE primary limiting factor, for me -- who has used multiple dSLRs, POSes, and Androids- and iPhones-as-cameras -- and I suspect many others, has been one thing: time-to-capture.

The time it takes between me pressing the shutter button until the camera records the shot as usable data -- this is the important factor. This is what is holding phones back. On phones, I have to wait sometimes up to 0.25-0.5 seconds or even infuriatingly more between the time when I tap the software "capture" reticle and it records the image. This is what is unacceptable in modern phone cameras. By that time the cat has moved, the play is over, my hand has shaken.

On dSLRs this is refreshingly fast. I half-press to focus, complete-press and now I have the image, nearly instantly from a human perception of time, even given the mechanical slowness of the mirror movement. I know the limiting factor is for all practical purposes my own reflexes. For the phone, I know it's crap hardware/software.
I assumed The Institute is a nod to MIT. Can't let The Phage and the Hive take all the MIT folk ;)
That makes me really happy, thanks! Please let me know how it goes!
Reminds me of the old joke where a CEO says: "I know I'm wasting half of the money I spend on marketing. The trouble is, I don't know which half."
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If you're curious, Forest Service signs are specified by Sign and Poster Guidelines Engineering Manual EM7100-15 [1].

[1] http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3810021...
Given how different Otto and Vagrant are, and that Vagrant development will continue independently of Otto, I think it would be very confusing to name them the same thing.
Yeah, it's like they are doing ...science.
Wow this looks very cool. Kudos!
You're assuming everyone lives in a relatively old big city. The town I grew up in couldn't support multiple schools, and the money was pretty tightly controlled by the elected school board.

You're also not thinking of things like ELL and other services that public schools have to offer that charters often shirk.
I wonder whether they have someone looking at these manually?
This is a huge loss. He was a great person and developer and it was so clear how much he loved his family. My thoughts are with the Kinf family and his friends.
Except I didn't say any of the versions of what you paraphrased. I didn't say anyone was dumb. I didn't say "Hah". None of it.

Why are people so heavily invested in maintaining their own ignorance?

More attacks. Why? Look, I took a 10 minute break to read some HN this morning and read the article. I didn't know all the details and I had to get back to work, so just threw out a speculation. Judging from the 35+ upvotes I received, it was something many others reading the article were curious about.

Why do people insist on jumping to the conclusion that thousands of top tier scientists couldn't POSSIBLY have thought of the same things that occurred to them in the few moments spent thinking about it before deciding to make a post?

I guess you could wonder why you jumped to the conclusion of my thought process because you were wrong. NASA isn't just scientists. Often decisions are made for political, bureaucratic, and budgetary reasons that have nothing to do with the science. Sometimes, smart people do lame bone-headed things.
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We can make plastics from just about any carbon source.

But you are right, oil is good for other things besides energy. Uranium and Thorium ain't really.
Glenn Watson deserves nearly all the credit here. My role has been limited to a little bit of high-level design input and messing around with signed distance fields and goofy stencil buffer tricks. :)
Rocket science really doesn't have a lot of room for primadonnas. It's all process and accountability.
Well if all gov't websites transition to this - at least they'll all look outdated but still in sync with each other. Not to mention responsive, and still good looking.
> This old trope about "no new drugs" is silly.

Sam Peltzman in the book "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" shows with statistics how the rate of new drug development dropped massively alongside the increase in costs of such development.
What does the GPU accelerate? I actually pretty surprised that there is anything that can be parallelized to that level.

Edit: signed distance field font rendering? Nice
Do you have any good comparison numbers from Firefox or Chrome? The numbers sure seem impressive when compared to Servo but I know that Chrome has some pretty awesome rendering infrastructure and I'm wondering how this compares.

There was one screenshot of Firefox included but it seemed to cherry pick the longest paint and didn't offer any explanation of how to compare it or which Servo+Webrender numbers to compare it to.
Why? Even with a price on carbon, you'd still want to burn the cheapest oil.
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Because, if properly used, they are useful.

> If you YouTube the animal farming, you'll see heavily overcrowded environments with animals not able to adequately move.

And also wide meadows with three cows. Nobody (in TV, press or internet) is interested in the normal, but the freak are guaranteed to receive big exposure. To make conclusions about a population just seeing its outliers is normally unwise.
You'd be right in noting how government distorts the market by covering one thing and not another equivalent.
Thanks for checking us out. We'd like to augment or enhance existing stock photography or photo shoots. Being able to rotate directly within Photoshop hopefully makes that workflow easier!
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> smooth animations too

Thanks, this was my first crack at doing something with Canvas! For last year's we did it in CSS animations but with it never had great performance.
You haven't been following these news very closely, do you?

2008: NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08_195_Phoenix_w...

2009: Meteorite Impacts Expose Ice on Mars
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/24...

2010: NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2010-355

2011: Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/04...

2013: Curiosity's SAM Instrument Finds Water and More in Surface Sample
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/curiositys-sam-instrumen...

2014: New Evidence for a Mars Water Reservoir
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/19...
Agreed. Though the harm to rich society does not have to be that big: taxes already make energy rather expensive in some rich countries and people cope. The consumer doesn't really care whether energy is expensive because of taxes or because of scarcity.
Ooooh signed distance fields, if you ever get a good Rust implementation going make sure to publish it and add a readme that at least says what the code is so that it can be found.

It could be great for other rust libraries, apps and games. None of them have subpixel rendering at the moment AFAIK and that's super easy with distance fields and real important for appearance.
Thank you for the reminder, I'd looked at that, and forgot while figuring out why the "android sdk" skeleton didn't work (see note above about manually patching the build-file).

At least now I should be able to get a proper java skeleton, fix the build, add support for kotlin. Only missing piece would be a supported "pure" kotlin Android project/skeleton generator.

At some point I also looked at the Android example at the bottom of that page: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-examples/tree/master/gra... -- that is also IDE centric, and hasn't been touched in a while. Which doesn't leave me very confident that it's been tested with Android 5.1 and/or 6 alpha.

I suppose I'll just have to push out a "howistart"-article if/when I figure out a process that is both easy and repeatable, and hope someone will help with filing bugs as it inevitably drifts towards being outdated as the android landscape changes :-)
You hit the nail on the head; these early marks are meaningless. These are barely mentally formed children. We do everything we can to avoid having them be responsible for their choices because honestly they aren't ready to make serious decisions. Except we begin the gauntlet of constant rating and judgement in school with aftereffects that carry over throughout their academic lives no matter their circumstances. Their success or failure is essentially a proxy for their parents success or failure, or a accident of circumstance more often than it's any genuine ability.

If any marking is to count or mean anything it needs to begin when they are adults capable of making real choices.
> But we don't know if the student actually understands the concepts, or if the student is using their wrong understanding and an algorithm that coincidentally gives the right answer.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
This could be the best thing ever.

I'm a guy who types in SVG diagrams manually. They're normally simple enough and it's easier to get the alignments when you type in the coordinates. But tools like this could change it. I'll keep eyes on this. Thanks for sharing.
A colleague of mine described a method for assigning groups that I'd never considered, but that she says worked surprisingly well.

On the first day of class, she gave out a survey, and one question was "How many hours do you expect to spend working on this class each week?" She assigned students to groups who gave similar answers. The self-described hard workers were delighted to be together, and the folks who were hoping to coast pretty quickly realized that nobody else in their group was going to just take over and do it all, so they reluctantly buckled down, too.
This idea of data-oriented design has been influencing much of how I write code and approach problems these days. In dynamic GC'd languages it's all too easy to trick yourself into believing that all problems are unbounded. However most problems are not. And doing the math ahead of time allows you to write the minimal amount of code to do the transformation required.

It's really cool.
Government is too incompetent to have the power to take your life.
8-bit TIFF or 16-bit TIFF? If it's 8-bit, then the only benefit you get from TIFF is lack of JPEG artifacts and is identical to JPEG from a JPEG vs. Raw standpoint.
Oh, I recognize it as a reference to English. But I don't think Latin can work the same way.