skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting! I agree but I guess I am getting to old. I keep hearing awesome new formats and than they just waste away. The few success stories are few and in between. FLAC and OGG are a good example. OGG is a decent format and I prefer it to MP3 but it really just withered. FLAC is awesome but it is far from main stream. Heck even SVG is far from where it SHOULD be.
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"A survey conducted in 2013 found that 64 percent of Chinese high-net-worth individuals had emigrated or wanted to emigrate overseas" that's a pretty impressive figure (even if an outdated one).
If directed acyclic is sufficient for your use case, you can use this approach, which has worked perfectly for me in the past: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22824/A-Model-to-Represe...
An example Pull Request looks like this: https://github.com/ruby-bench/ruby-bench-web/pull/122
Note that Adblock isn't Adblock Plus:

AdBlock is not to be confused with Adblock Plus. The creator of AdBlock claims to have been inspired by the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox, which is itself based on another extension called Adblock. But otherwise AdBlock is unrelated to the other efforts.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlock]

No alarm here for ABP users. (Like me).
I suppose (hope) that once they finalise the format, we'll have tools released with free, unencumbered licenses.
Why all the hate for GPLv3?
JAWS Serverless Framework (promo video)
I was pretty divided into publishing this, mostly because I know the people over at Patreon are really doing a great job around security in general and I didn't want to bring more gasoline to the fire. (Is that a working proverb?)

However, due to the fact that there has been posts around publicly available Werkzeug Debuggers before and also the fact that there are so many still out there, I still decided do to it.

Also worth noting that Shodan.io even crawled this host when the instance actually launched the Debugger directly upon visiting it. This made it extremely easy for an attacker to actually exploit this vulnerable endpoint only by visiting the domain.
Visit domain -> Werkzeug Debugger -> "[console ready]" -> RCE.
But thats not terrorism you might as well say that car drivers are terrorists.

And selectively ignoring a data point to make your figures look they way you want is not exactly ethical is it.
The most straightforward alternative is the original Adblock Plus.
Thanks, very interesting stats!

>> financial incentives to incarcerate...

> Do you have any sources for this?

For private prisons, the Corrections Corporation of America reportedly spends over $1 million each year on lobbying. [1][2]

Beyond private prisons, there's lobbying from prison guards' unions. For example, the California union appears to have substantial political influence, and in 2008 successfully spent $1.8 million to defeat a ballot initiative that would have reduced the prison population.[3]

Further, in some municipalities, cities use fines as revenue-raising tools, and arrest and jail people who fail to pay. See e.g. the Ferguson DOJ report.[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_Ame...

[2] http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-management/who-profits...

[3] http://criminology.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/volume-10-issu... p. 750 (PDF page 274)

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/0...
Elegant iOS form builder in Swift 2
Yes board games are local multi player games of our youth like Golden Eye and the other games you listed. Didn't think of that.
I don't agree with that statement, but I don't even understand how it would apply to Apple. Apple spent $6 billion on R&D in 2014 [1] and that number has been increasing almost exponentially for years [2].

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-spent-6-billion-rd-nearly-100-p...

[2] http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/12/a-look-at-apples-randd-ex...
You should have received an email with this information from Patreon. You can read the notice here as well https://www.patreon.com/posts/3457485
Actually, science does explain how the photon traverses the double slit in the double slit experiment. That's what quantum mechanics is all about. It was literally invented to explain exactly that.
Completely agree that this is total crap and is only going to hurt the population more. They lost in the first paragraph when they stated they're using BMI. BMI is total bs and I'm pretty sure we all know it. I'm male, 24, 6', 195 lbs. I work out 5 days a week, run, play sports and eat healthy, but according to BMI I'm overweight.
Hey man - creator here. Could you elaborate on "animation glitches"? ie what are you trying to animate, what kind of glitches? I'll try and get to the bottom of this.
1 line shell function that does the same thing:

https://github.com/caarlos0/dotfiles/blob/master/git/aliases...
Yes but for proprietary traders using their own capital, it doesn't make a lot of sense to force them to trade in a particular way since executing sub-optimally can only impact their own performance. There are legitimate reasons not to trade the lowest price market (maybe you believe the quote is slow, want to trade bigger size all at once, don't want to risk signaling to the market): http://www.hudson-trading.com/static/files/RegNMShudsonriver...

And retail brokers already do what you suggest. All their marketable flow gets sold to off-exchange market makers, while their limit order flow gets routed to exchanges that pay the highest liquidity rebates, Reg NMS just mandates what price it can trade at: http://news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2014/02/study-of-potenti...
How to Work 40 Hours in 16.7
Your own Travis CI to run tests locally
They also go on to say. That might be a clear indication that this is in fact GPL v3.

FLIF is Free Software. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or any later version. That means you get the “four freedoms”:

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.
The freedom to redistribute copies.
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Thanks for the feedback, any particular demos that are lagging for you? We'll look into it.
Scientists only figured out in the last decades what religions knew for millenia: people love to be told "the world is ending, give us money". Back when I was a teen, the coming ice age / famine of 2000 predicted by the Club of Rome was a serious problem for my educated (adult) friends. So was nuclear war.

Lists like [1] remind me of my extremely scary youth :)

[1] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/19/great-moments-in-faile...
It's a shame that philosophy has gained such a poor reputation in certain circles.

I mean, it's understandable: the extent of most people's interaction with philosophy is with cartesian-style "but can we even know we exist??" navel-gazing -- or worse, with the intentionally obscure bits of continental philosophy.

Because of this reputation, many (the majority of?) scientifically-minded people view it as a binary choice: you're either a good empiricist or you're one of those damn poststructuralist lit-crit people from the humanities department.

IMHO: people who hold this mindset risk missing out on a powerful tool for their mental toolbox.
You can't outrun your fork!

And exercise just makes you hungry.

Fat people should eat less until they're a healthy weight (BMI of < 24.9). Then think about exercise.
I hope the idea of progressive downloading partials can be applied to other files types as well.

For example, if commonly used libraries such as minified Javascript source files are encoded and distributed incrementally, we don't have to repetitively download various versions of the same library from different CDNs for different websites, which will save a huge amount of Web traffic.
Why won't they (adopt), then? Ireland is not some third-world country with no public services, their government is probably more efficient, creating competition for other governments.
> Although to be fair, I'm not sure "arguments are a very rare occurrence indeed at Miele" is a sign of a healthy company

Here, it's supposed to mean "the co-CEOs are in broad alignment regarding the direction of the company".

But the whole article is suspiciously fawning. And the timing is interesting.

Miele makes decent stuff. My dishwasher broke too soon, but I bought another.
While the author admits that the documentation advises to use the traversal API (which gives the best performance) he goes with cypher over the REST interface which would never match a direct db connection. It's a fundamental flaw in his comparison.
I've used this to plug into D3 setters before. It's more of an agnostic motion engine - primarily for DOM and SVG but you could use this easily with WebGL or Canvas using the custom `onUpdate` callbacks.
I am sure there is a 'normal' way to do it, but look into easy motion. I use space in normal mode as a shortcut to go to any word in the line and that includes camel case movement.
It also claims to beat the lossy version, which cannot even be encoded for the transparent fish image at the tested file sizes: http://flif.info/example.php

[ed. image size → file size to emphasize that they had a target byte count for the purpose of comparison]
Smart! Before I let them loose during the 3 hour lab, I spend about 15 minutes talking about the overall plan of a specific problem. For example, during looping, they had to flip a coin 1,000,000 times and record the results. I explained how Math.random() worked and how if they did "Math.random() > 0.5" they could determine whether the coin was heads or tails.

Looking at my current scores: 9 have A's, 2 B's and sadly 1 F
In summary: The theory is that from the mid 70s to the early 90s the prison population increased due to a real increase in crime, but after that, it increased due to prosecutors doubling the percentage of arrestees that they charge with a felony.

I wonder if the simple explanation is that over decades the size of the prosecutorial bureaucracy increased to deal with an actual increased work load, but after that work load started to go down naturally, that bureaucracy had to find a way to keep itself in business, and that was by charging arrestees who would have been previously released.

A DA's office where people are sitting on their hands is an office that will see budget cuts and staff reductions. We know from both government and the private industry that almost no department will voluntarily take a budget or staff cut, even if it is warranted.

Maybe we should try reducing the DA's budgets in some states/counties and see what happens to crime and incarceration rates.
Thanks man :) Was hoping it wasn't too ambiguous, good to get some feedback.
A Tale of Many Cities: Spatio-temporal patterns of mobile phone activity
Specifically: http://popmotion.io/guides/feature-comparison

Generally: I made this primarily for interfaces. Greensock has way more powerful sequencers for longer animations ie banners, but it comes with a cost (multiple plugins, large filesize). I am looking into sequencing but there's bigger fish to fry first.
A sixth of the world's population lives in China. Not every one is hard working.
Lunches with Unicorns- Twilio Q and A
I believe Redis and Hyperdex have constructs such as bitarrays and sets that can be easily used for representing and querying graphs/hypergraphs. For Redis there are some success stories and even ready to use extensions.
I'm aware, I just can't be bothered. Every time I create an account I ask myself "do I care if this gets compromised?". If the answer is no, then it gets a standard password.
Review of Scala Static Analysis Tools
To be clear, I it's not trimming trailing whitespace I miss; it's fuzzy, graphical command search of human-readable phrases. I'll never remember a shortcut for shuffling selections, but I'm more than happy to type "shuffle" and use my eyes.
T-shirts only? You'd think Amazon would be able to offer more merch variety right off the bat. Mouse pads, coffee mugs, all the stuff, like Cafepress does. How many T-shirts does a person need anyway?
True, but the only complete documentation of the file format I found was the source code of the reference implementation. So the only way to write a new implementation is to study the reference implementation, which will make your new implementation "tainted".
FTFA:

>Well, the real growth in the prison population comes from county-level district attorneys sending violent people to prison.

If the article's conclusion was the title it would not even be on HN.
>> Legalizing drugs will not make them free, and they will still lead to addiction.

Indeed they will. But if addicts have easier access to medically supervised maintenance doses (for instance), without risking jail time, then there may be less crime committed to feed these habits. Stuff I've seen has suggested that (for instance) when heroin users know where their next hit is coming from (the clinic) they are better able to handle their addiction and able to make some progress in the rest of life (hold down a job, etc).

I'm not saying I definitely have all the answers, the picture is complex.
Passenger plane reported as missing in Indonesia
Yes. AlexTFish (HN name) / Hologram (elsewhere) is brilliant.
This Business Insider article seems to be a thin layer of blogspam around its more-informative source, http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/10/02/trust-us-we-block-ads/
No documented format (actually an explicit acknowledgement that the format will likely change). The implementation is the spec, the implementation is GPLv3, so many companies lawyers will prevent engineers even looking at it to write a clean-room implementation.
Slightly misinterpreted title at first glance. Was really hoping for testing via turtles and martial arts...
ABP also introduced an Acceptable Ads option a few years ago that triggered the creation of a fork called AdBlock Edge without that option. Adblock Edge was recently discontinued in favor of uBlock Origin [1], which has a much smaller memory footprint and is faster.

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
1) Transactional email is Mandrill, not MailChimp. Different brands from the same company.

2) The only way to spam with MailChimp is to lie to MailChimp as you have to use the bulk/direct import. [e.g. There is a checkbox saying it was an opt-in only list, or at least there used to be]
Most preserved buildings are "not economical". Preservation is about valuing a public aesthetic higher than immediate economic gratification.
Disappointed in the pricing tactics, and doubt the "50% off" is anything but typical sales bull.

Back in Feb in an interview with Shapiro in the NYT it was stated "desktop laser cutter that it plans to sell for around $2,000". No mention of this being a special 50% off price.

And in May this year on geekdad.com, Shapiro "wants the price to be under $2,500".

Now it emerges that this is actually the "50% off" price for 23 days only, and the actual full price will be $4000 for the basic model?

It begs the question: what happened between May and now that the price of the basic unit has doubled? What happened to the planned "$2000 laser printer"???

Or is the "50% off" just a lie to generate more initial sales, and later we'll see "new fantastic discount slashed from $4000 down to an unbelievable $2000"?

I see a lot of this sales tactic in online tech products. Permanent discount prices, there's always a "deal" happening. The RRP is some mythical price that is never actually reached.
New Tesla car comes with a button for biological weapon attacks
I'm not sure why you'd be downvoted for saying that, it's not objectionable...

But it might miss the point. Someone convicted of burglary may have been burgling to get money for their addiction. That may or may not be recorded. Although you might be right, maybe that sort of stuff is routinely recorded. I have no idea!
I find it really ugly. It looks like a cheap and soulless copy of engraved cyclopean masonry buildings from antique south-east asia or precolumbian mesoamerica.
I redacted it because I realized it was bad math. Sorry for the indignance, it was misinformed on my own part.
Stereotypical brutalism and stereotypical suburbia have one thing in common: they both look "dead" to us because they separate housing from commerce. That idea has been tried in many forms throughout the 20th century, and it seems like it just doesn't work. Even in cyberpunk dystopias with all these horrible skyscrapers, the artist will always depict residential areas with tons of businesses and blinking storefronts to look more "vibrant".

I spent my childhood in the "sleeping districts" of Moscow, which are as brutalist as it gets. Not a store in sight, just high-rise apartment blocks, huge spaces between them, and howling wind. Never met a person who could honestly claim to love it. Now I live in a European city where housing and commerce are thoroughly mixed, and it's wonderful.
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PICO pal' que lee.
Some GamerGate supporters have made claims that video game reviewers have covered games and develelopers that they have backed financially through Patreon without disclosing this to their audience.

This disclosuee would allow those making that claim to demonstrate if their claims are accurate, and it allows those about whom the claim is made to demonstrate that the claim is inaccurate.
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5 Unpleasant Startup Surprises and How to Recover
This system is quite amazing. Peek and poke! Extremely limited pallet! An integrated development environment. The restrictions make for some very interesting design choices and force you to limit the scope of your designs -- super important if you ever actually want to finish a game.

I highly recommend this system to anyone. It's great and I've been having a tonne of fun with it. It's no Amiga 500, but boy it has that feel.
Let's all join the NSA
I heard it's really funny over there.
Sharing code is no longer cool if people have to share back. Or at least so it seems.

The GPL-hate in here really is quite immense, even though time and time again, RMS has been shown to be right about his stance on freedom.

Should we attribute it to people's desire for a quick ("free") fix over long term considerations?

It's hard to tell, but I suspect the silicon valley influence here doesn't help. There everyone wants to take everyone else's hard work and code, build a weekend SaaS and get rich. The GPL, while not preventing that, is clearly in opposition to that goal.
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Watermelons are out of season dude. They're only cheap in the summer. Its fall, so citrus (ie: oranges, tangerines) and apples are now cheap.

Carrots, Celery, Potatoes, Oats (Oatmeal), Breakfast Cereal, Cereal Cereal, Onions, Kidney Beans, Green Beans, Milk make a good baseline for a cheap and nutritious meals year round.

You grab Broccoli in the Winter, Pineapples and Lettuce in the Spring, Cherries and Watermelons in the Summer, and Apples in the fall. Farms literally can't make Watermelons in the fall or winter, so you're importing those Watermelons from the southern hemisphere. Of course it's expensive.

But in the summer, Watermelons are made locally and are probably $2 or $3 a pop.

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If you don't know what's in season, here's a little trick. Look at the coupons at your local grocery store. Everything that is on sale is what is in-season.

A sampling of my store is $5 for 5lbs of tangerines and $0.88/lb for Gala Apples. Clearly, these are the fruits in season and what I'll be eating.

Eventually, as winter sets in... the prices of oranges and apples will increase while Broccoli and Winter Squash will become cheap.
Having been using Adblock for Safari for some time now, I'm a little apprehensive about this development. Thankfully, Adblock Plus (see above - distinct from Adblock) exists for Safari:

https://adblockplus.org/en/safari

Duly switched over.
They are looking for Rails apps to run TTNT tests on to see if your tests pass the test... ;)
https://github.com/Genki-S/ttnt/issues/38
find was actually introduced several years before the bourne shell, so that's a bit unfair. I assume that the syntax was less awkward when it was first released.

Not that I don't agree that it's a pain to use nowadays.
From your source: Almost 16% of state prisoners were convicted drug offenders (208,000 inmates), including 24% of all females in state prison (22,000 inmates) and 15% of all males in state prison (186,000 inmates).
At a company like Tower, technology is their edge and definitely a competitive advantage. Having a system that is fast, reliable and scales is key to running a profitable automated trading operation. I worked for a similar trading company and technology was definitely not a cost center.

If enforcement actions are rare, it's probably because these firms are playing clean for the most part, contrary to popular belief. If you trade 5-10% of the market, regulators are going to audit you every year. They are looking for even the smallest issues to give a fine, even minor things like not having the right Head Trader's name on your supervisory forms after someone quits.
The only disadvantage, if one could call it that, is that uBlock Origin does not have a version for Safari, which uBlock has. I have read a bit about the controversies between uBlock Origin vs. uBlock. I prefer uBlock Origin wherever available.
When drugs are legalized, addicts have better access to treatments and counseling and the stigma is lowered so they can be more open about their addiction.
The argument is the same as some religious use: science can't explain everything, therefore we need religion. The counterargument is the same too: while science can't explain everything, religion and metaphysics explain nothing. The other inconvenient fact is that lots of things that were previously thought to be not explainable by science have since been explained by science. Science will continue to nibble at religion and metaphysics and the religious and meta-physicists will continue to move the goalposts.
What a lovely post! Still true.

Another great post that he links to is Persistence of Memory (https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/persistence...) where he talks about persistent and ephemeral data structures, and gives a convincing argument for the former.
Most of them, yes. Or they tried and failed.
Reminds me of Logstalgia, which was a cool log visualization tool for its time - http://logstalgia.io/
> It doesn't seem to me that customers would see full value of their "purchase" if they have never had a claim.

If you think about Guevara's insurance as capital expenditure (by describing it as a purchase) then, sure, you're right, losing some of it because of someone else's accident triggers our human aversion to loss.

But, the trick there is that while Guevara's insurance can be described as capital expenditure, conventional insurance is always operational expenditure. With conventional insurance you're not buying your insurance, you're only renting it. At the end of the year you have nothing.

> Why not build a model that assumes people are bad drivers by default and optimize from there?

I think Guevara's model is as close to that as it's possible to go. By moving an acceptable degree of the financial repurcussions for accidents onto you and your social group, Guevara is stepping back from needing to care directly about who is and who isn't a good driver.

For example, if there were a way let a group choose their own prices, or pay flat prices, then (in theory at least) Guevara would be able to entertain that idea. Pricing matters for Guevara in terms of customer acquisition, and in terms of making things feel fair for your group-mates, but other than that it's not a big issue.

Insurers care about pricing so much they're putting tracking devices in peoples cars to understand their driving patterns. They need to get more and more and more data because they're ultimately trying to predict the future. Guevara doesn't need to do that.