skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think dealing with trolls is easier when you have a community of expats and [something]-philes as your audience. They tend to be more tightly knit, smallish community with waves of users as people cycle in and out of the country. Because of that the somewhat heavy handed moderation at japantoday was okay. It was more a place for expats to have more or less agreeable opinions about things.

In those cases the volume was rather low and expats were just glad to have a forum so they were more forgiving. It wasn't as if they had an alternative source for copy-pasta news translated to English. So they were a more or less captive audience, regardless.

At a site like CNN, etc. The volume is too large and the kind of moderation people would put up with would be different. So their decision is different.

[edit] you'd need more than one person going thru the firehose at CNN and you'd have a backlash if the pruning displease any of the constituents.
Yes that is what I meant by there is a good case that life originated on Mars first.

This hypothesis also fits with the C12/C13 enrichment in ancient sedimentary rocks (enrichment in C12/C13 enrichment is a sign of living metabolic systems) almost as soon as water existed on the Earth’s surface - basically life appeared on Earth as soon as it was possible. It could also explain why the last common ancestor of all living cells was so complex - if life originated on Mars and came to Earth later then all the ancestral life would have been left on Mars.

Against the hypothesis that life originated on Mars is the fact that Mars is much smaller than the Earth (the surface area of Mars is about the same as Africa). All things being equal if the conditions for life originating were the same on both planets (at the same time) then we might expect life to be more likely to have originated on Earth.
Here's an amusing example: Mozilla's blog no longer allows comments.[1] But they're asking for comments. So they write: "Tell us what you think of these proposed principles on your social channels using #contentblocking and join us on Friday October 9 at 11am PT for our #BlockParty, a conversation around the problems and possible solutions to the content blocking question." So they're sending people to Twitter to comment?

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/07/proposed-principles...
Did your home inspector note the upfeed system in the pre-purchase report? Did you sign a waiver limiting the inspector's liability?
This needs to be a Federal law, but that can't possibly happen with our dysfunctional government. I'm glad to see the States at least taking action.
You're free to your pessimism :) I've got another 50 years of life to be hopeful.

Enough sunlight falls on the Earth in 5 minutes to power the world for a year. That's effectively limitless.
> The question I think you want to ask is "what gun controls do you want"? Not "what is gun control."

No, that IS the question I, in fact, asked. I did not ask "what is gun control?". Actually, what I asked is a bit more subtle than "what gun controls do you want?". This is what I asked, quoting:

"How, specifically, would you define "gun control"?"

Here, "would you define" is a very precise modifier. And the context, perhaps lost, was that the OP implied "gun control" was the "elephant in the room" when it came to police interacting with civilians.

That's a bit different from "what gun controls do you want?" but definitely NOT "what is gun control". If you think that's what I asked you misread my question.

Please don't try to push me into a corner with "if you had researched the topic". I actually know the topic very well. Here I am trying to understand what someone else thinks gun control has to be, their opinion or ideas, not the "book" definition. I know that latter very well, I care to learn the former.

Not sure how else to ask this. I thought I was clear. So, I'll try again, for the last time and then I'll unilaterally drop my attempt to understand.

What would you --not wikipedia, the dictionary or politicians-- you (or the person I originally asked) suggest would be the approach to gun control legislation that would allow police officers to not worry about whether or not civilians are armed when approaching them?

I will repeat, because this medium sucks at conveying emotion, I am not critical of anything you have said nor am I challenging anything anyone has said.

I am simply looking for someone to perhaps put up a five to ten bullet-point list delineating what form of "gun control" they think would provide a solution for the stated scenario, one where a cop is concerned about a citizen being armed when approaching them. What set of rules would constitute this version of "gun control" that would produce that reality?

BTW, I don't have an answer for that. Then again, I did not propose "gun control" was the elephant in that room.

To clarify further, I am not for or against guns. I am completely neutral about them. I am simply trying to learn because, frankly, I don't know what the solution might be or if we actually need one.
Developing in erlang/elixir gives you a varient of this, in that your code is broken up into many small "processes" which are messaging each other even when you're only deploying a single app to a single server. Then if you need to distribute and scale, introducing networks between the components is relatively small change (sun's fallacies of distributed computing meaning it's never a 0 cost change however)
It's already here. See http://www.predpol.com/
That is a funny piece of fiction to cite as why we should ignore these concerns, considering that a major source of conflict in the series are the "Reds" that oppose the terraformers, and kill many in their actions to preserve Mars as is.
I didn't mean to suggest Chinese people can't do engineering or research, and in fact 'the west' here is a shorthand for 'traditional IP ecosystem' that properly includes Taiwan/Korea/Japan.

What I meant is if you're going to compare IP ecosystems you need to be honest. The "Chinese network IP ecosystem" is not a closed loop as the diagram suggests but is heavily subsidized by innovations from outside of that system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

The State that launches the spacecraft/crew gets jurisdiction in cases of crime, but Earth governments can't claim celestial bodies (like a patch of Mars) as their sovereign land or setup military bases, etc.
I do not seem to understand, so forgive my ignorance if you will but; Why do we need a /Apps directory isn't that what /bin /sbin and /usr/bin are for? And as for /LocalApps is that not what /home/$user/bin is for? this seems fairly redundant, or needless wheel reinventing?
As a good old fashion user. I want to read reliable,solid and critical thinking news and able to read&write comments on a single page.

I am OK if they just handle over the IT cost to social media, and just simply swap their original comments section UNDER EACH news pieces to facebook/Twitter.

But if they give up the comments at all, then why not just shutdown the whole site and open a twitter account to post news.
Liquid water is densest at about 4C. Any colder than that and it starts expanding, even before freezing.
What kind of problems did you have with trying to make common binaries? The old wisdom is that you can make it work by building against an old enough glibc (and maybe other conservative deps like base X libs) and then ship other libraries along with your binary.
HN wants people to toe the pro-drug line pretty closely. Hence your down votes.

I've had lots of friends and family killed by drugs and alcohol - I've got stories! But if you never had a negative experience, cautionary tales won't resonate.

I suppose evolution will sort things out in the long run, one way or another.
The problem with CSP compared to PV is all the moving parts. You need something like molten salts, coupled with a conventional turbine and generator. PV can be purely solid state, a thing of beauty IMO compared to mechanical "contraptions".
There has been recent movement in multiprocessing - for example robust and errorchecking mutexes are now in the base spec.

In the case of processor affinity, it looks to me like no-one has ever suggested it. Participating in the Austin Group is pretty open - why don't you put a proposal forward? (Maybe affinity can be added to struct sched_param somehow?)
Benefit: any follower of that hashtag (including Mozilla) can block an offensive commenter (no need for universal moderation--you can choose whatever level of freedom/inanity/bile you wish.) Classic Clay Shirky "publish then filter" dynamics, with the crowd getting to tune their own personal filter.

That approach actually seems enlightened--commenters own their own comments, readers own their filters, and if Mozilla wishes, it can curate the best of the best and amplify (say, with retweets or something like Storify).
> But shame on you

Please don't post uncivil comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ha, nope. Good old-fashioned copper throughout. It's a boring SoCal house. Stucco on slab with tile roof. I'm invincible against any issues (crosses fingers).
I don't see what's new here. Cell phone service is already a competitive market in the USA, although slightly less so than in the UK.

- Companies that offer wireless service, even though they own no physical infrastructure? Yes, the US has >60 MVNOs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_v...

- The ability to roam onto a different network? Yes, T-mobile doesn't cover everywhere, but has roaming agreements to fill the gaps in coverage.

- Porting numbers between operators? Yes.

The issues aren't technical in nature. The issue is also not that the wholesale market is dysfunctional or nonexistent.

The issue is that an individual wants predictability in billing for usage, without negotiating prices each day. This objective is most easily achieved through serially monogamous relationships with operators or MVNOs.
Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (2006)
Or it suggests that the extra work needed to differentiate between the truly higher risks and those who are not is cost prohibitive. It may be more cost effective to just stick with the blanket policy.
This trend seems partly driven by an unwillingness to deal with the work of removing actual trolls

On a popular website that's a round-the-clock job. How much do you think a media organization should budget for this?
I wasn't criticising you for sharing that link - just that the content of the link itself was, really, not the best (no doubt written with good intentions, though, I'm sure). I also think snippets of code are somewhat worthless, unless perhaps they're clever solutions to specific problems that really can be expressed in a dozen LoC. My GitHub gists, for example, are for the most part useless to anyone other than myself, and I wouldn't ever really think to share them as any kind of insight into my work.
Analyzing Apple's Statement on TSMC and Samsung A9 SoCs
You get other pollutants other than CO2 when you burn fuel in an internal combustion engine - things like NO2, NO as well as carbon particle, etc.
"from Western labs"
Oxides of nitrogen, soot and various other pollutants come out of burning diesel, even if it's just carbon we pulled out of the air. It would be carbon neutral, but not pollution neutral.
I am surprised it even supports non-english songs! Though I wonder which languages are supported other than urdu/hindi
That's interesting. You are forced to mention any health insurance you might have?
If so presumably the cable companies also know the networks are scared of seeing how many people flip channels during commercials and so they would package the data into larger chunks to hide this.
We package our software for CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, and have occasionally supported a few others. We never even considered targeting the LSB. It is so much simpler to target the defaults on the system, build for the top three or four or five distros (which actually ends up working on several spin off systems, by virtue of similarity), and when problems arise we know we're not the only ones running into it because we are using the same libs as the rest of the system.

The idea of one package for all distros is cute but not at all realistic. And it isn't pleasant for the end user, who wants everything in their native package manager and things to be configured in the same ways as everything else.

LSB was a well-meaning idea, but it doesn't actually do anything to improve openness or interoperability.
That's fantastic, but are there security concerns?

I was thinking about setting up a similar IPython-as-a-service thing, but 5 minutes on Google suggested that it would be difficult to do it securely.

This isn't just limited to data security, but also DDoS concerns. I.e. making sure that each user doesn't take up too much CPU/RAM/HDD.

On second though, I'm sure its possible, but it certainly wasn't trivial.
That's less of a problem, and more of a feature, because those molten salts enable CSP to provide more power for up to 16 hours[0] sans sunlight which is important if you need dispatchability, which is not really comparable to PV's which cannot offer the same now, hence why CSP is not killed off by PV's and has continued to grow along with PV's.

You also have to consider that people who live in apartments or rent a house in developed markets are pretty much either locked out of the market for PV's or not incentivized to pay out of pocket (even considering the subsidies/financing that exist [looking at you Solar City]) for such systems. I'd say that share of the population is far larger than people with a mortgage/own a home and are interested in such systems.

This embodies the situation: "Does this mean CSP will eventually disappear, trampled by PV? Not necessarily. CSP has one major advantage over PV: dispatchability. Current CSP plants can store thermal energy for up to 16 hours, which means that their production profile can match the demand profile (just like a conventional power plant). PV is not dispatchable, as a feasible commercial energy storage system does not yet exist. Dispatchability will be increasingly important when and where renewable energies achieve high penetration rates, so two things can happen: CSP becomes a commercially viable solution before a commercial PV storage system is developed, carving its own market segment; or the PV industry quickly solves the storage issue and becomes the solar technology of choice."[0]

[0]: http://thisisxy.com/blog/cannibalization-in-renewable-energi...
First thing that came to my mind. Does Jared have Aides?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Has_Aides
Nah. The only topic I would be worried about is cryptography, when used in a non-learning context. That has a high potential to cause harm. Otherwise with machine learning, I don't see how it is necessarily more dangerous than any other software -- databases, network protocols and so on...
He is probably referring to other pollutants such as NOx. It is unavoidable to produce some amount of these pollutants in an oil combustion process. But California has shown that it's possible to get this down to a low level. Smog used to be really bad in LA. But a combination of catalytic converters, strict emissions testing, and oil refinery requirements to make cleaner burning gas has dramatically reduced smog. The oil refinery requirements make CA gas very expensive compared to the rest of the nation. But I think it's worth it for the air pollution improvements.
Google buys abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com domain name
Totally offbeat angle, nothing to do with energy markets at large, but:

My whole country is situated north of the 60th parallel north. Winters are friggin cold and I would be very concerned if there were no sources of energy not dependent on sunlight or wind.

Also, I'm a neurotic so in case of a nuclear winter type of effect I would love to have some nuclear reactor technology going.

For deep space exploration solar panels don't work. It would be nice if we maintained active interest in power generation systems not dependent on sun or atmospheric movements.
North America had considerable natural resources which allowed the colonies to be self-sufficient in short order. An equivalent transition to sovereignty could still happen on Mars but it would probably look much different and last much longer.
Fossil fuel corporations will fight for their existence and profits from energy scarcity until their last gasp of tainted air. It won't affect their behavior at all.

It does apply to policymakers, however, who are very much human, and who place altogether too much faith in the idiotic models created by economists as it is.
Given how easy it would be to data mine this out of the claim history I find this explanation hard to buy. There must be a whole set of specific claim types that show no correlation with future claims. If you can’t find these in your data you are not looking very hard.

Of course if no one else is looking why give up the easy money - after all it is not like the customer can buy a new policy without the massive markup. Collusion does not need to be explicit, it can be accomplished just through everyone using the same systems and rules.
Because that is what I've been told by all my friends trying to get VC or bank loans for their companies.

VC is always based on guanxi, sure, but banks will only lend to SOEs or big private companies, there isn't much credit for small private companies.
When Baby Sleeps Near Mom, Guess Who Doesn't Sleep Well?
Sometimes I think we should just let the Russians or Chinese take over planetary exploration.

I'm not sure what it is about Europeans and Americans where we want to preserve things. If we're going to colonize Mars, contamination will happen, no question. Maybe we'll eradicate everything unique to the planet, but it's inevitable.

If we are going to survive as a species, we'll need peoples who are willing to push forth without pussyfooting.

Sure, it's nice of you want to study pristine environments but I don't think you can maintain the environment pristine once you have humans there in any way.
All of these isolated occurrences do not seem to add up to any kind of single trend. Upvoted for instance funnels into reddit, which is a commenting board par excellence. It wouldn't make sense to have comments on any kind of "reddit Digest". There is a slightly disturbing trend involving sites which try to push an agenda banning comments, but the choice of examples in this article obscures that particular issue.
When Amazon Dies- What happens to digital collections when the tech giants fall?
I had a similar but less-awful experience (fortunately as a renter rather than owner). Living in a similar slab house, I was surprised when my shower became slow to drain and draino had no effect. I called the plumber, he came by, and eventually told me he'd fixed the problems. Two days later, the drain backs up again.

Second plumber comes and is somewhat perplexed - he pulls up roots and suspects they've grown into the line. But it's drilled out and should work now. Two days later, the drain backs up again.

Third plumber comes out and goes in from the roof vent. After about an hour of rooting around, his snake pops up through the drain and starts whackkity-whacking around the shower. He's very surprised and a bit sheepish, and suggests there's a bigger problem and we should rip out the shower to have a look at what's under it. Doesn't pretend that he's fixed it. I'm using a different shower at this point.

Fourth plumber arrives to give a second (err, fourth) opinion and is similarly perplexed, saying we likely need to rip the shower up to fix things.

Fifth plumber agrees, and says he knows a guy who can do it.

Sixth plumber is actually not just a plumber, and arrives with a jackhammer, two buddies and a fancy proble that lets him follow where all the pipes go under the house (both with a camera in the pipe and a machine that follows where it goes physically). Scopes things out for a bit, and then goes to town on the other bathroom, eventually jackahammering and digging a roughly 5 foot cube out from under the bathroom.

It turns out when they redid things in the house 15 years ago, someone failed to actually connect the drain from the shower to the sewer, so it had just been draining into the ground. Whoops!

While they were down there, they ran a new sewer pipe out to the municipal line as well. This part was pretty cool. Rather than digging up the whole yard, they just ran a 1/2" steel cable through the old masonry pipe, hooked it to a solid steel cone, and pulled the cone through with a hydraulic winch, trailing some pvc behind it. As it went, it busted apart the old pipe and put a new one its place. All in all a pain in the ass, but neat to see how they approached things.

Aside: I also have and love Amica. They've covered a couple claims for me and have been very easy to work with.
Buy a meter designed to detect any mercury vapor. I'm sure it's pricy, but it's less than $50K.
Slightly simplified & loops through all the links on the first page :

import re, youtube_dl
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib2 import urlopen
from urllib import quote_plus

ydl_opts = {}

soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen('https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=' + quote_plus('linkin')).read())
links = soup.find_all('a', href=re.compile(r'watch\?v='), class_='yt-uix-tile-link')

for i, link in enumerate(links):
print i+1, '-', link.text

choice = int(raw_input("Select song index : "))

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/' + links[choice-1].get('href')])
"Diverse Device Hands" looks... handy. (Sorry, I'll get my coat.)
I avoid sites that do not allow comments.
It would be nice if there were some more (any) technical details on the bike. However, I can't see someone generating more than a couple hundred watts on something like that. Even in India, the average household power usage is apparently about 3kWh/day (less than 1/10 of the average in the US and Canada). Even if we say a very optimistic 300W generated, that's 10 hours of pedaling.

It could keep a few LEDs on with an hour of pedaling, but I have trouble seeing, "...can power a home's lights and basic appliances for an entire day."
This is perfect! Thank you for taking the time to make this. It gave me a much better understanding of what sempl is, how to use it, and what it can be used for.
I'll agree that that's certainly uncharitable; I could have phrased it better but I don't regret that I didn't. I don't think the tech community, or the people who would attempt to elide the vast power differential between it and the people they displace, deserves charity.

If the marginalized had other tools to fight for themselves, I might very well agree with you that it's unfair. As-is, I'm pretty okay with the notion that the rules of the road change when you have all of the money and all of the power and saying not-nice things about you because you are economically destroying them is simply one's tragic burden to bear.
Singapore will eventually use drone as the main purpose of mail delivery because in the high-tech era, using drone is becoming more popular. However, there are many factors that they should take into consideration. First, how can they ensure that the drone will deliver the mail/package to final destination without getting stolen from people. Second, how using drones can affect the unemployment rates in Singapore. The government also have to come up with law regarding controlling the drone delivery. There are many more problems needed to be addressed and fixed before Singapore can put drone into widely used.
The simple statistic that perfectly captures what climate change means
If a song is on youtube (or any other website that youtube-dl searches in), this will download it. Language is not a constraint here.