skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have lived in Waco for 5+ years. Never experienced a 'biker gang' or heard of biker related violence here.

I had my run with the law that disenchanted me. I saw a city worker stealing mail. I was laughed at by the police officer and almost charged for wrongfully calling 911. City worker tried slamming their car door in my face while I was talking to the officer, and the officer laughed again. I just walked away at that point.

The head of the grand jury is obvious bias. The imprisonments for 'being present' are insane. A blanket bail that is an unreasonable amount is odd. The false propaganda that biker gangs from all over the USA were flooding towards Waco with terrorist weapons was just a blatant lie.

Tip or not, why was full swat basically waiting in the parking lot before the event? Any other day, they wouldn't care if a few <insert anything not living in Hewitt> picked each other off in the parking lot. If they had a feeling something was going down, why not be proactive instead of reactive?

House taxes rise, school budgets cut, service cuts, and dodgy press release guy gets a promotion. yay. At least Baylor made a new shiny stadium to distract the general population.

Edit: Oh yeah, the current 'Waco Warrant Roundup' posted names of everyone with known warrants in the county. They're pulling over everyone and running warrant searches. Seems unlawful. I got pulled over and warrant checked because of 'loose articles in truckbed'. It was a bloody tie down strap that was hooked to the truck.
Stretching the definition of "killer workout" but it's good advice. Better (much) than nothing, and once you get a taste for zero-equipment bodyweight exercises there's lot more you can add.
Don't think of ideas that might take off. Just build something that solves a problem for you. If it just so happens that your app solves the same problem for others, it will organically take off.

Sitting down and trying to brainstorm ideas will get you nowhere.
I've always felt it's tragic. I'm talking to some person in a call center, whose job/pay depends on me not cancelling to some extent on getting me to not cancel, and I'm absolutely going to cancel.

But if you enjoy it, by all means continue to use the phone calls. I don't think we'll ever be able to replace the satisfaction of that phone call for you :)
Is there anything that prevents me from just sending an e-mail/snail-mail to Comcast with the statement "Please terminate my contract effective MM/DD/YYYY. You do not need to respond to this message. Thank you for your compliance." and just stop payment at the appropriate date as defined by the contract (likely the end of month MM)?
Given that strong alcoholic drinks have been around for at most a few thousand years it seems silly to assume that any group has yet evolved any genetic adaptations.

Cultural adaptations are certainly a different question. I know of many native communities in my area (Canada) that have very specific substance abuse issues. They are tied to unique economic, sociological and even geographical* situations, but nobody takes genetic predisposition seriously.

*A typical geographic situation would be the prevalence of oxycodone over alcohol in northern communities. Pills are smaller/easier to transport by air than liquids.
Funny, I work at a desk job and I just got back from my lunch break... at the gym.
On a side note, I was one of the early recipients of Soylent 2.0, and I was incredibly impressed with the product. As many have noted, the taste is similar to milk left in a bowl of cereal. It errs on the enjoyable side of neutral, unlike powdered Soylent 1.5, which fell on the unenjoyable side of neutral. The texture is also completely smooth -- the powdered versions were always grainy to me no matter how much I tried shaking.

I have a personal rule of never drinking Soylent more than once in a day and never two days in a row. But I consider it a worthwhile, affordable, and extremely convenient addition to my diet.
I don't think anyone perceives New York as safe enough for sending children out alone.
>New York has a walking and transit culture similar to Tokyo.

That's more or less where the similarities end
"-exec ls -l {} \;"

""{} \;" ?? Whaaaa ?"

"Hush child; just type the incantation, and all will be well"
For sure. We've got a lot of feedback that we could be more clear on the mechanics of how it works. We're looking at adding something to the flow shortly.

Thanks for taking a look!
Irregularly jumping backwards 1 second is really helpful for that...
Comcast has an entire customer retention department, whose full-time job is to cajole and bribe you into staying. I think getting transferred to them when trying to cancel is pretty standard.
Of course it's not genetic, it's environmental.
Chinese visa was painless for me. I think it's gotten a lot easier maybe with the advent of the 10 year American, I don't know when you last tried.

How do you handle Comcast's security questions and all that? Why is there no https for a site with sensitive info? Have you guys actually done this for others, or is this a see what happens, figure it out along the way kind of side project?
- One day this summer, at the urging of a friend, Wang decided to call his father and tell him he loved him. Wang senior picked up the phone. “I love you, Dad,” Daqi said. There was a pause. “Are you drunk?” his father asked. -

I would have asked the same thing, with expletives. I hope that I will never end up with dumbass children like that.
It was extremely safe 20, 30 years ago too. I don't believe this is a factor.
My understanding is that with PICO-8 you can export to HTML5. If this is the case, (I haven't used this myself.. Yet.) why would you need direct support for mobile and Pi's? Couldn't you just change the dimensions of the app to fit mobile devices, and take advantage of the HTML5 support while on a Pi?
Error 522 Ray ID: 22f336647a6e1e65 • 2015-10-02 20:38:57 UTC
Connection timed out

Comcast is trying to DDoS? :P
Thanks for replying!

(1) Would it be easy to extend to filter by polygon? We want focus + boundary. We never want results that aren't within the boundary, but this is impossible with other geocoders because they will sort arbitrarily even if you specify a focus. For example, if you only want Montana, typing "San Francisco" should not return the city of SF.

(2) Is there a possible workaround that's easier to implement? For example, if we can ignore routes (= long roads where no numbered addresses were matched) that's an acceptable compromise until you support returning bounds.

(3) OSM finds it. The map doesn't have a polygon for it, so it's likely captured through interpolation. It matches as "house". I can send you the address privately if you want. OpenAddresses doesn't have it.
Is there an animal that does not fear death? I mean, try to swat a fly. Bees will swarm and attack if one of their swarm is killed or injured--it releases a pheromone. Or look at how a dog or cat responds and develops under abuse. They know what a threat is, and avoid it, which implies an aversion to death.

I'm continuously surprised at what researchers are surprised by, when it comes to animal behavior. Once it became obvious that we are ourselves animals, the default hypothesis should be that everything we experience, other animals experience as well; that we are indicative examples of a consistent set. Then we could look for differences.

Instead, the presumption is that animals experience none of the inner life that we do. IMO this goes back to religious and cultural beliefs from Europe, not from any scientific basis. Other cultures don't think this way. If you told a Native American or Tibetan Buddhist that crows are aware of death and perceive their surroundings, they would probably say "yes, of course."
Nope you're right - triceps are "rear-chain" but it's not a back workout.

That said you are _unable_ to really stretch your lower back while in a seated position, and it's much easier to engage the core and lower back in push up position.

Done properly they are also a core strength workout though which is just as important.
The future of UI is text
Could use range requests (RFC 7233), albeit with some overhead.
I've been wondering if its a subtle viral promotion for a television show or movie.
"In November 2013, two Cossacks were stabbed in a roadhouse parking lot in Abilene;"

Roadhouse? As in Logan's Roadhouse? As in the Chili's of the great plains? That stabbing happened in a Logan's Roadhouse parking lot, not the Road House where James Dalton bounced. This is a fascinating story, but it loses some credibility (to me) with a purposeful omission like that.
Also a Montessori parent and I couldn't agree more.

Our kids were in a private Montessori school from Pre-K to 1st. Due to some issues with the owner (that unfortunately forced her to shut the school down) we had to put my daughter in public school for the remainder of 1st grade. She hated it. She kept asking us, "Why do I have to sit at that desk all day?"

Contrast that to their new school where on the first Back To School Night, one kid was literally jumping up and down excited to start school the next day.
See my other comment in this thread. There can definitely be a hassle when you take this approach!
Can I ask - Why do you have a personal rule of never drinking Soylent more than once in a day, and never two days in a row?
Slick! I will have to try imposing a profile on something like Uber to see what happens. :-)
It's not racism to not want your country flooded with people that don't share the same culture than you and care only of the potential benefits.

The problem is not about skin color, but about culture, religion and economics.

At one point if you put too much water in your wine, it's not wine any more it's water with a strange taste.
With the idea that different theories hold at different scales, I've always wondered what happens as you transition between the scales? Saying "Oh, this theory holds at macro scales, and that one at micro scales" doesn't explain what happens as you slowly build up the micro. At which point does it become macro? What happens on the boundary?
Study: 11% of Americans Think HTML Is an STD
Meh. Just because he is against capitalism this doesn't mean a thing.

If you're willing to see people suffer just because you want to see the fall of capitalism, you're not left-wing, you're an inhumane bastard.
For a brief moment there I thought this was going to say "make the poor walk. "
Fixed Data Tables for React
This would be awesome anywhere than the place I get paid to work. The abuse potential is way too hi.
The real question is: why are kids in the US lacking in independence? Most of what this article says about kids in Japan applies to a lot of countries in the EU as well. Why is the US somehow different?
TL;DR I started doing pushups occasionally while working and think I'm a genius that's in "amazing shape" because of it.

This isn't bad advice, but it's presented so poorly and with little forethought.
I am 50 years old. When I was a child in the U.S., I also went where I wanted without a parent and so did other kids.

The world was different 20-30 years ago. I don't know that how safe it was 20-30 years ago has any bearing on the current conditions in Japan as compared to the rest of the world currently.
I concur. As much as I dislike Apple it's good to see innovation beyond spec-pushing.
I cannot state often enough, that networking Linux containers on smartos seems so much more simple.
Oh - my - god! Reckless drivers! Won't someone please think of the children!!!!

This is the problem right there.
Signs You're Arguing with a Psychopath
$5 seems worth it considering the amount of time it takes to find the address and then go to post office to get a certified letter.
Exactly. Google does not remove amazon search results and Apple does not remove Amazon apps from its devices. I never understood Amazon's over the top self-serving mentality when it came to stuff like this.

Competing tech companies do better when they team up and compliment each other on specific fronts. This seems to be lost to Amazon's executives.

It happened with fire phone when it side stepped Google Play and it seems like it will continue to happen.
You described the definition of racism and fascism and yet you say it's not that.

>> At one point if you put too much water in your wine, it's not wine any more it's water with a strange taste.

Ughhh... ok master aryan race. Do you even read what you write?
Yep. I periodically go in to the local office and say I'm looking to cut my costs and I'd hate to cancel but can they put me on one of their promo plans (which they say are only for new customers). They will normally do this with no fuss. The people who work there are local community citizens and it's just a job for them. They don't really care.
Why All Developer Conferences Should Be Held in a Cinema
Yes.

The comment I replied to said that "culture of walking and transit use" is key. And I'm arguing that it's not, using New York as an example.
But this kind of e-mail irony is equally true for any cold-calling sales guy, right?

I think the whole industry on the topic of "let's spam everyone and see who will get our bite" seems absurd.
A few reasons:

(1) I figure that at best Soylent has the nutrients that we know we need, but not the ones that we don't know we need. Over-reliance on Soylent might mean missing out on these nutrients, even if the health effects of doing so are very delayed.

(2) I've read reports on how the simple act of chewing food has an effect on digestion and other processes.

(3) Pure Soylent may not cultivate gut flora in the same way as normal solid diets do.

(4) I enjoy cooking and don't want those skills to atrophy because it's so much easier to just grab a bottle of Soylent.

(5) The rule also encourages me to go out with friends or invite people over more.

It's not a hard and fast rule -- it's just something I generally try to abide by, both as a risk-minimizing mechanism and as a general effort to force me to enrich my life more.
CS is Common Sense
Well statistics AND studies show that immigration in germany WILL benefit everyone in the country. Long term resulting in more money in the country, and higher wages for everyone.

Not everyone of the people that flee from bombings and death to have a better life, do it because they only care for personal benefit. They want to have a happy and free life. And they shall have it here with us in germany. And yes, I am living in germany.
I have a phone with a clear 5.0 ROM, beyond a couple of Vodafone-branded shortcuts on the homescreen. Apparently this feature isn't present in Nexus ROMs, which is strange. Good on Vodafone for including this feature though.

PS: This is the device http://www.gsmarena.com/vodafone_smart_ultra_6-7313.php
That was my first reaction too, but I've come around since reading the article. What you're talking about is self-preservation, and of course animals display that all the time.

This study shows that crows behaved differently when seeing an already dead crow, and they feared whatever person/animal was near the dead crow.
OP here - just my own thoughts:

I've lived here 13 years & am raising 2 girls who both have been able to live in the manner described in the article.

1) The number one reason why we feel comfortable is the number of "safe" people constantly around. In Japan, every apartment building of size has maintenance people who stay several years and know all the children in the neighborhood, and recognize strangers. Every supermarket has parking attendants. Every construction site has "guards" to make sure people cross the area safely. Every train station has staff around. Many grade schools have patrols of parents who literally "sweep" the neighborhood right before school lets out, just checking that no "out of place" people are hanging around in the parks and neighborhoods.

What this REALLY adds up to is like the article said - there are always people out there keeping an eye on things.

2) "Japan is safe" - yes, but assaults on children/young people are a problem, and parents worry. My first point prolly rules, but we are still selective in when & where they can do that. We make sure someone is meeting them on the other end. It IS safe, but not all "roses".

Just my thoughts
Obamacare is not a social safety-net, it was a minor healthcare reform.
I used a different O'R book, Essential System Administration or something like that. It had a chapter on the shell and some useful commands to use in shell scripts. Also the SysV printed documentation had a very nice book about the other commands that you miht use like roff as a word processor.
In PowerShell:

ls /dir -re | ? LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) | del

i.e.

1: enumerate the files recursively (ls is alias for Get-ChildItem)

2: pipe through a filter (? is alias for Where-Object) that selects only files written to more than 7 days ago

3: pipe those files to the Remove-Item command (del is alias for Remove-Item)
wow. this is amazing!
The Surprising Challenge of Tracking Pediatric Blood Pressure
If you're a paying (every month, no soliciting, ahead-of-time) tenant and a landlord is raising rent at all: they run the risk of losing a known quantity for a piece of shit tenant.

Unless you're in a usurious, fucked up market (San Francisco), rental owners need to put a dollar amount on losing your tenancy.

If you're paying $2000 a month, raising the rent 5% means that, for an extra $1000 (potentially), you'll spend your time and money showing, placing ads, screening prospective tenants. Time is money. Either you're doing this yourself, as an owner, or paying someone to do it.

The other cost factor at work applies to the tenant: the "cost to move." It's hard to move in-town for less than $500, so this must be weighed.
Justice of the peace, not judge. The person who set the initial bond apparently had no sanctioned education in the law. I have trouble believing that even the most devious and corrupt J.D. in existence could possibly create a legal theory that would even begin to square what that magistrate did with the laws of Waco, Texas, and the U.S.

The guy probably did it as a pseudo-legal way of punishing folks for being in a MC, without going through the hassle of due process. As they say, you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride. In his mind, the bikers were all guilty of "contempt of Waco".

A Texas JP is allowed to institute penalties for contempt of a maximum of $100 and 3 days in jail. They can set bail, but their authority to try cases is limited to misdemeanor offenses punishable only by fines, and civil disputes less than $10k. Given the situation, the JP should have called upon a real judge--or actually several real judges--to process the 177 in custody.
Lactose tolerance is believed to have developed in the last 5,000 - 10,000 years. There was recently a news story about the Inuit having an adaptation that is at most 20,000 years old [1], and probably unique to them. The deeper we dig into genes the more stuff like this we'll find.

It wasn't a silly theory. It may be wrong, but it wasn't silly.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/inuit-study-adds-t...
My worst was with Megapath (i.e. Speakeasy after it was bought up and they destroyed all that was ever good with it).

I filled out their web form to cancel and... nothing happened. Someone apparently called me at an odd hour without warning, but there was no message and no callback number so I couldn't figure out why.

They just kept billing me. Then I called up and asked to cancel on the phone and they told me you can only use the website. I told them I had done so already and that wasn't working--no feedback at all, just a form submitted into the ether.

After much arguing (including the point that my CC had expired and they were NOT getting any more money out of me, no matter what), I finally submitted that form while on the line with them. Lo and behold, it magically gives an email confirmation this time. I asked about the two months the service had been completely unplugged and unused, at which point they demanded proof that I'd submitted info to their broken webform.

At that point, I realized it was a scam from the very start where they set you up to fail to get away from their service and decided never to do business with them again.
You absolutely can send a letter, that's actually what we're doing behind the scenes for you! We're hoping to eventually integrate things like having a task rabbit pick up your equipment and drop it off at the local Comcast to make the experience even more seamless.

Cheers!
1.) Filtering by polygon would be difficult at the moment, although we are actually talking about creating a separate point-in-polygon service (no promises as to when yet :P), since we use it during the process of importing all our data, but the code isn't really generalized (it's at https://github.com/pelias/admin-lookup/ if you did want to take a look). However, adding filtering by state is pretty easy. It works the same way as our country lookup: at import time we do point-in-polygon lookup for countries, states, neighborhoods, etc for everything, and then record that as text fields with a consistent name in the actual documents we put in Elasticsearch. Then you can just query the text field and since the names of countries (we use ISO-3166-1 alpha2/3 codes) and states are pretty well defined, it works quite well.

2.) Not likely for full polygon data, although we are thinking about doing something with TIGER data which has street address ranges for the US. I'm not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish but you're welcome to drop by our gitter room (https://gitter.im/pelias/api) and perhaps we can figure something out.

3.) It's probably poorly tagged data in OSM then, but again, we can chat about it on gitter more if you'd like. We re-import data once a week, so if you wanted to make changes to OSM, they should start showing up by Monday.
kinda ad-hominem. I disagree with the approach that somehow advancing the discussion a half-step by calling attention to an important piece of the article (rather than taking the full step of going on to research it) is unproductive or should be called out.
SublimeText plugin for BDD that retrieves a Story from Pivotaltracker
Org mode[1] has some spreadsheet functionality which works fine as long as you don't use very large tables. Otherwise it gets a bit too slow.

You can also use those spreadsheets as input for pieces of code so you perform some analysis on their data.

--

[1] - http://orgmode.org/
Slight irony?

> My platform is simple: end the corrupting influence of money in Washington ... not formally welcomed me into the race—despite my raising money at a faster pace than more than half the pack

:)
I had XM radio pretty early on... at one point I had three radios on the account (briefly), when I had called to cancel the third (as I no longer had that vehicle), I was then placed in a special queue for a different "cancellation department", not once but twice (after a 45 minute wait), the call was mysteriously (yeah right) dropped when they couldn't talk me out of it. After the third call and hold time, I cancelled the service outright...

That is the most horrible cancellation experience I've ever had... I imagine people have seen equally bad from Comcast, and back in the day, AOL.
Just say you're moving to an apartment where cable and internet is provided.
Just say you are leaving the country - no more rententions.
"Sligthly smaller"? The article mention Tokyo, that has more than twice the population of the whole Norway :-)
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