skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This already happens with homeless people: they become diseased, malnourished, get drunk and hurt themselves. Once the trauma has reached a certain degree that they require hospitalisation, they end up in hospital and released once they've recovered. Are you proposing we not help them at all and just let them fester and die on the streets?

Surely not. The "revolving door" concept, as you call it, is the middle-ground between not helping at all, thus letting a mentally ill person reach trauma more severe, and permanently confining those with incurable mental disorders (but those which can be controlled, and the patient able to live healthily outside the ward), which is both wildly expensive and harder to justify overruling the patient's will and freedom.
I just want an in-eye hud overlay with beyond human resolution, it's not a lot to ask ;)
It's up for me, just really slow.
The abuses of the late 19th century's Gilded Age were more directly experienced by the average first-world worker, and today's breads & circuses are more pervasive by orders of magnitude.

To really mobilize the general public, the distractions from the pain will have to subside or the pain itself must grow.
US laws about when someone can be detained in hospital against their will vary by state.

You're right that it tends to require immediate risk of harm to other people or to yourself. (And harm to yourself tends to mean risk of death. Self harm, even severe self harm, with no intent to die would usually not be something people are detained for. (Although I don't know much about the US systems.))
I could be wrong and haven't explored the idea myself, but couldn't you accomplish this with something like ceph or scaleio and tmpfs/ramdisk for your block devices?
Hypothetically, if there are sentient critters composed of dark matter, would black holes be a total mystery to them? Since we only really interact with dark matter gravitationally, would they just see inexplicable gravitational point-masses with absolutely nothing there to cause them?
This seems like a great application to use AWS Lambda. It would allow you to do things like charge PayPal for sub-minute results, or perhaps show multiple ads until you generate enough revenue to pay for the usage.
Nice! Could see myself using something like this for exactly one of the use cases you described: looking for houses.

Found a bug: URL custom field type wasn't saving.

Also, grabbing images from a URL rather than download/upload would be a nice feature. Perhaps even grabbing an image from the URL field like a facebook or twitter share does.
Again, IANAL, but this is especially a good instance where I would hire an attorney if you can afford to. You may be able to get the DUI and assault cases consolidated, even though they are separate incidents. You may be able to take a stiffer sentence on the DUI to avoid the penalty on the assault. Just as an example, I was able to get two completely unrelated charges almost a year apart consolidated. Took a stiffer sentence (longer, more prohibitive probation) to avoid certain jail time on the greater charge. My lawyer was able to get probation on the greater charge to run simultaneous with the other probation. So I served one year of hard probation (curfew, almost daily monitoring, and constant monitoring of my home and business), instead of two years in jail.

As for the girl turning herself in, if she is the one that actually committed the theft she may be worth more to the prosecutors in terms of conviction than your assault charge. Just like a getaway driver turning in the bank robber. The bank robber is who they really want, and in most cases they will let the getaway driver off with a slap on the wrist if they help get the bank robber convicted.

I can't reiterate enough though that I am not a lawyer, not familiar with your case, and this by no means legal advice by any stretch. The only honest, been there done that, advice I can give you at this point is that in situations like this you need to step back and assess the direction you are headed. If you are truly remorseful, this was a slip in judgment, and you are honestly wanting to get your life headed in the right direction, you need to remove yourself from your current circles. Snitches get stitches is all fine and great when all you aspire to is life on the streets or in jail, but if you want to change for the better you have to look out for yourself first. That means taking actions that can be difficult at times, like completely dropping the circle of people you hangout with (they aren't your friends if they are robbing stores when you are with them) or moving out of the area.
It's like peering. If you're that popular, Twitter is providing significant value to you, but you're also providing a lot of value to Twitter by being a reason for people to use the service (i.e. to read your tweets). Katy Perry needs Twitter a whole lot less than Twitter needs Katy Perry. Plus, not everyone popular on Twitter has a lot of money - a recent counterexample is Edward Snowden.
History has shown me that "write once, run everywhere" is a holy grail for internal developers and consultants.

But this web everywhere shit...

That might do it.
Those idle scions of wealth still exist. It's done neither them nor the rest of us any favors to pretend that a liberal education is the best thing for everyone. The liberal education has been eviscerated to make it approachable for the masses. Now we're failing both the rich kids whose moral growth it was supposed to encourage and everybody else --- it's far too easy to coast through university-level humanities classes without learning how to read, write, or think.
Indirect harm is no less harm than direct harm. If life expectancy plummets after capitalism takes effect then yeah, capitalism is probably to blame.

Anyway, I don't think anyone excuses dictatorships in this thread.
>That's a lot better than the complete clusterfuck that is working on most mechanical equipment //

Wouldn't that largely be fixed by the USA moving to metric.
Craigslist does this, to an extent.
Not to contradict your conclusion, but I believe "folks" in general have it easier now. But the "folks that went to university" 200 years ago had it easier than "folks that go to university" now.

200 years ago the privileges of the elite were much more permanent and resilient than they are now. And even if this is false, the university was much more exclusive back then. Meaning it was a much more elite elite.
I am both. Actually, MIT trained me for both. Everyone ought to be both, a little bit.
You know what would make this whole thing more productive for better or for worse? Data.

How hard would it be to calculate risk of harassment lawsuit by industry/position? We could even compensate for different proportions of gender in those positions and find the ones where people are more likely to file against a coworker.
I think the point OP is making is that the people who went to University 100-200 years ago didn't have to worry about employability because they were usually from wealthy families. What has happened in the intervening time is that higher education has extended down the income scale and as such more students need jobs at the end of their degrees.
Sounds tautological. Universe without humans is meaningless (in human terms) because we define what meaning is (in human terms).
Ask HN: International software distributors
We've been contacted by several people asking to be international distributors of our software and I wanted to know if anyone has ever done this? Any advice or things to watch out for? Why do you even need a separate distributor if you sell software?
Twitter has certainly carved out a nice niche--I love real-time information from important people, news sources, etc. They will be around for a long time.

Even so, I can't imagine them becoming more profitable any time soon. Still a short if I had to guess (which I typically try to avoid).
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I have maintained for a long time that our society should focus on apprenticeships - not education - as the primary means to gain job skills. There is a place for k-12 and higher ed, but with a BS being the modern entry ticket to the middle class, it will only continue to raise costs for everyone. Subsidizing apprenticeships instead gives people meaningful skills and a decent income, and they don't spend 2-4 years of their working life either not working and sitting in class, or working out of necessity to make ends meet, which is a detriment to their education.
> (Sorry for the enormous URL.)

Totally off-topic, but you can shorten an Amazon product URL like so:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684800012
Too many dependencies to fit into Lambda.
Real cooks would never use table salt. Its almost always sea salt or kosher salt. Would you rather have something nature made or something made by a chemical process in a plant?

I own a lot of Grilling/BBQ books and normal recipe books, almost everyone says to never use table salt somewhere in the book.

My Himalayan salt is quite good for seasoning and was deposited millions of years ago. Compare that to Morton's table salt with iodine my grandmother used to use.
Bias is always an important consideration. Yes IMHO we should discount (not ignore) opinions from those heavily entrenched on either side of this argument (which is why I mentioned hackers).

There's no one solution that applies to everyone. Some need "self discovery" but can't afford it, some need job training but are pressured to obtain a degree solely for the prestige.

I'd like to hear from voices without extensive skin in the game. This includes the other extreme, such as successful business people who advocate against higher education simply because that's the route they chose.
I can agree in principle. But 'Software Engineer' means what it means - someone who can not only code, but manage, design and perhaps architect. Someone with facility in tools of the craft. They have existed for decades under that name.

I'm not at all sure the existence of engineering societies and licensing is the litmus test. That they exist is undeniable. But that also varies state by state. And not all fields have anything like uniform standards.

Software Engineer fits very nicely into this ecosystem.
I dont want heroin to kill my son so I taught my 8-year-old to give the antidote
> Just from personal experience, playing video games in VR is cool and all but when people can watch a movie from the perspective of someone inside the scene or meet up with people in a live-scanned remote environment, I think they'll be hooked.

Exactly, I definitely want to feel this in the first fps movie.

Hot pursuit, Steven Seagal's fights, gunfights... It should be freaking immersive.
The whole thing is whimsy. You'd never want to use this approach at all in a production system. Using decimal constants instead of hex is the least of the sins here.

There should be room in programming for whimsy. This stuff is fun, and play is healthy. If somebody takes this thing seriously and copies the code into a production system, that's their own fault, not the author's.
Scotch's complexity all comes from the peat, it's all show

This isn't even close to true; the entire Speyside region (which produces more Scotch, and more popular Scotch, than any other region) refutes it --- most Speysides have little if any peat.
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>IIRC the Christian bible doesn't bat an eye at slavery either or voice any dissent, rather upholding it as a moral virtue.

The Christian Bible is not that much christian -- it's basically the old jewish religious texts repackaged. As such it existed for centuries without any external adoption outside Israel (not that it's practitioners meant it for other peoples anyway).

What caught on in Roman times, and was revolutionary, was the New Testament. That was the "good (new) message" (the Gospel) that caught on, and that's where the fundamental change in mores is contained in.

Unfortunately there are a lot of "Christians" these days that are more for Old Testament than the New Testament part of the bible (as did the most conservative people in previous centuries too).

Consider Jesus treatment of outsiders, thieves, low-ranking people, beggars, prostitutes, criminals etc. (as portrayed in the gospels, I'm not saying it happened as such in real life), and how e.g. church-going "christians" think of and treat such people.

[Add.] Now, as to what you said about "batting an eye", actually there were several advocates for the abolition of slavery in christianity, and a long-going internal discussion about the issue. At worst, christian thinkers were for the humane and brotherly treatment of slaves (as opposed to downright abolition of slavery), which is still improved than the older views on the rights of masters. They also accepted slaves as saints (something that would sound preposterous to Romans before).

In fact a lot if not most of the early adopters, so to speak, of the new religion in Rome were slaves themselves -- not talking openly about abolition was to protect themselves and because it was an ancient and accepted institution that took ages to erode, one which not everybody (slaves included) thought unnatural at the time. Not unlike sweatshop labor today (which you see well educated libertarians and the like accepting still, as better than poverty).

Heck, slavery was still practiced by open minded, modern, post-industrial revolution and enlightenment countries, not just in the US until the Civil War, but in most of European countries that had colonies until the '50s (and even in the US, the same tradition carried on in the form of officially sanctioned Jim Crow and segregation laws).
Another slack alternative... but, it is trying something different.

I can't tell you how many times I've sent a file securely over some channel, only to have the client turn around and send me an email detailing the contents of the file.

https://blog.okturtles.com/2015/11/five-open-source-slack-al...

All the "cons" for all 5 alternatives were missing end-to-end direct messaging, so good on these guys.
Audio engineers should too? The author of the article seems to be willfully ignorant of the fact that some words have more than one meaning.
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> Different stoves

How different does the temperature of boiling water get from 100? If your little eggs are lowering the temperature of your water at a simmer by that much, you should try bigger pots.
A clue to what the companies are thinking from the article:

"Its payments are also routed from the retailer to the ACH system instead of the credit card system, which saves retailers from having to pay interchange fees (typically around 2% of the transaction amount)"
“42% of Node.js users use Windows as their desktop env.”
Haha nope, I was half expecting this to be the full text log from Twitch Plays Pokemon, and was like "Man, that's about to be one big ass text file..."
Besides the "Twitter as a business" discussion..

You guys here on Hacker News don't seem to fancy Twitter so much and I wonder why..
I've heard many folks complain about TPP on the premise that it will destroy and/or degrade American jobs. I believe there is lots of truth to that--people in other countries are usually willing to work for less than Americans.

Even so, TPP will help job-hungry people in other countries (at least slightly) by dumping more jobs into their job markets. So, if we're going to help Americans by ditching TPP, we're going to do so at the expense of people in other countries.

Is that the right trade? Helping Americans by hurting others? Maybe it is.

Or maybe I'm missing something... Thanks for your thoughts!
Are there no dark matter black holes?
How a Folding Electric Vehicle Went from Car of the Future to 'Obsolete'
TinyOwl’s hostage crisis (Part II)
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Quite inline with my experience.

I wrote a mail server in Haskell that, because of a bug was leaking connections. Didn't use nix, so I had the external forkIO explicit, and used a custom sockets interface, that creates a buffer for every connection. I optimized almost nothing, this was an earlier version of it.

Anyway, every time the server would reliably get to about 700k open connections before getting killed at my linode machine.
It is. It has made my app easier to work. Adding scopes onto view-backed models has been painless.
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For at least as long as we keep bundling diplomas with large amounts of debt, this trend will continue.
This seems like it would backfire. I suspect many people are more loyal to mint.com than to their banks.
Well... isn't that what black holes look like to us, too? We don't "see" anything there to cause them either.
its less of an issue than a webcam to me.
At the risk of sounding all LMGTFY, the process by which Ada was defined/selected/iterated into it's current form is exhaustively documented. The proceedings of the DoD High Order Language Working Group is the comprehensive history, but you can find a lot of the key summary documents at http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/. The Chair of the committee Col. Wm. Whitaker wrote a pretty interesting personal history of the process at http://archive.adaic.com/pol-hist/history/holwg-93/holwg-93.....
> If there were material racism, then you wouldn't see this.

This shows a very poor understanding of both the history of racism and modern-day racism.

> Nowhere did I discourage people from trying other solutions.

When you say "X is not the right way to solve the problem" and "The real way to solve the problem is Y" you are definitely saying other solutions are less legitimate than yours.

Given that this is a topic where you know little and admittedly aren't doing anything yet, maybe you could try listening to the people who have spent their lives studying and working on the problem?

> This is what a discussion consists of.

Not really. You making a series of bold, uninformed assertions doesn't make for much of a discussion. Indeed, your assumed mantle of superior insight harms the discussion.
I thought I knew what it meant to be a man then I transitioned into one
And don't forget train engineers.
Folks definitely have it much easier today than folks 100 to 200 years ago, especially when it comes to health and luxury, in the developed world at least.

Finance has something of a stranglehold on society, that is why there isn't more arts and civics. House prices, cost of living these all translate into either work really hard to support yourself and your family (this goes for both males and females, it's rare to see a family have kids where only one parent goes out on a daily basis for a paycheck) or end up on the fringes of society (either living on hand-outs or some way of living hand-to-mouth for as long as you're not generating income).

Now personally I don't mind the hard work, but with all the productivity gains and the number of people that are simply rich you'd expect that the spoils would be more evenly distributed but that very much depends on which part of the planet you are looking at and which demographic for a specific location.

Arts and civics are to some extent a huge luxury, in times long gone by the artists would have patrons, wealthy people directly supporting one or more of their favorite artists by commissioning works. Today such artists still exist but the 'big money' in the arts is in the media (and it has a much shorter shelf life than say a work by Michelangelo, otoh we all agree on that because his works made it to our time and are considered masterpieces, chances are there was plenty of mediocre work done in his time too).

I highly doubt the majority of the population is interested in answering questions such as 'what makes us human', and I think that one of the bigger problems with blue collar jobs disappearing (and possibly being replaced by basic income or other forms of hand-outs) is that there is satisfaction in work, the knowledge that you don't depend on others for your bread and butter and the idea that you're a productive member of society. For me at least there is great value in that and I feel better because of it, much better than if I would receive some kind of stipend just because I exist. Probably that's because of how I was raised and maybe a generation that was not raised with that particular work ethic would have a smaller problem (or none at all) with receiving funds even though nothing of value was produced.

Workhouses and prisons are now country wide, we call them 'the third world', and if and when we reach income parity I suspect production will shift back to 'local' because of reduced shipping costs.
They are very different - table salt conforms to a quality standard while the others have varying trace contaminants. They may add to flavor, but not in any reliable predictable way. And the major active ingredient of both is sodium.

Its fun to play with cool, colorful salts. By the time the cooking is done, I'd bet cash money no one can tell the difference.
Sounds bad, but I would like to know if there is a technical benefit excluding Listen Before Talk in some countries. Why would an engineer possibly want to turn it off, given that the support has to be developed for those countries that require Listen Before Talk anyway? (The evil megacorp financial reasons are obvious, but let's pretend for the sake of discussion that they are not stupid enough to think that breaking Wi-Fi networks across the country/world will have no PR repercussions -- it will cause massive hassle for everyone.)
Current wait time: "more than 263 hours"
RailsAdmin's "automatic" nature is a big win for us, whereas with ActiveAdmin we would have to write some code (even if it is easy code) to get us to the same point. For some of our projects RailsAdmin in its default state does the job excellently, without any fiddling; for other projects it starts out well and then goes downhill from there...
Part I submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512417
> You'd never want to use this approach at all in a production system

Actually it's not less useful than the code the compilers you depend on use all the time. They really depend on such "bit twiddles." Guy Steele agrees too, read his foreword to the "Hacker's Delight," a whole book about such functions:

http://www.hackersdelight.org/foreword.pdf
Feature request: add a parameter that specifies the base into which the function rewrites the number.
sick. i'm going to start using this now for my team. we are spread out over 3 countries (including occasional trips to China...). we just need file sharing, chat and the basics for now. looking forward to the roll out in search function and others.
Product page:
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The concept you are referring to is called "nationalism". Jury is still out on whether it is a good thing or not. Ultimately every human should be equal but at the same time we don't want to feel the pain equality will bring.
Theoretically, any sufficient concentration of mass-energy creates a black hole. Theoretically, even light alone can create a black hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_%28astrophysics%29

Realistically, without the interaction of electromagnetism to create enough drag for gravity to be able to cause large clumps, it seems as unlikely that dark matter formed a black hole as light did.
I highly recommend sousvide (or rather, a temperature controlled water bath) for eggs. For whole eggs, you can get fine-grained control over the texture of both white and yolk (see https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/the-egg-calculator), and for scrambled eggs you can control the tenderness very well.

Mostly, I just skip the calculator and do in-shell eggs for 40 minutes at 62.5C or 63C. They are soft, have no salmonella concerns, and delicious served on toast or on veggies.

The water bath is also a very convenient way to make pasteurized "raw" eggs at home, so you can make raw-egg recipes with very low risk.