skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, you made the same mistake the successful deranged person would have fooled the police into making: You said the car would be part of the evidence. But go back and read what I wrote: the psycho puts the bomb into someone else's already open car. The car is a distraction.

> there would be quite an easier way to do so

First, psychos are not rational evaluators. Second, setting a bomb in a public place is a lot easier than sniping cops. There's no need to run, there's no head-to-head confrontation. The weapon can be untraceably manufactured in one's home - you can't just whip together a decent sniper rifle.

> Some one booby trapping electronics to blow up cops what is this a 90's action film?

That was a witty phrase in the Aughts to shut down outsiders in security circles, but since then, there have been growing cases of snipers attacking police. It's reality, unfortunately and this policy increases the attack surface of officer security. [ 1 2 3 4 ].

[ 1 ] http://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-pennsylvania-cop-shooting-s...

[ 2 ] http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/us/dallas-police-headquarters-...

[ 3 ] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sniper-kills-two-officers-later-...

[ 4 ] http://gothamist.com/2013/07/05/police_search_for_sniper_who...
Just like on the desktop, true native apps will always have their place on mobile. But for a very large majority of apps React Native will be more than good enough and much faster to work with.

Personally I've switched my focus from native iOS to React & React Native.
In the US they also have a fiduciary requirement to protect your money to the best of their ability. I appreciate that some of the larger banks might actually consider the impact of a data breach at an aggregator but reading this a couple of times it really sounds like a whine that they feel they have to provision more capacity for both their user base + the load put on by the aggregators their user base is using. They don't have a way to charge the aggregator for their use like they do the customer.

If the latter is the real reason they are whining then I expect they will push for a fee than can charge people who access their account through an aggregator much like they charge people who access their account through Quickbooks.
I follow ESR on G+, but a distressing number of his posts are of the paranoid conspiracy type. I loved the jargon file and his general championing of Open Source, but he seems to have gone off the deep end.
Let's talk about React
not sure that the 'vast confusion' is why people use it..

I think that this confusion is more the reason why adoption and retention are not that great. Besides this, I think Twitter is the most valuable social network to date, you just have to hack your way around it to make it useful.
And sanitation engineers.
The existing Android solution only works for Qualcomm chipsets [1], so it must require some radio-level access to verify the presence of an IMEI device. You won't be seeing it in the iOS App Store. Maybe someone can find the relevant private APIs to make it happen.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/12/31/snoopsnit...
Partly, but it is primarily to bring those living in rural areas into an urban context as a mechanism for modernizing the economy.

Right now, under the hukou system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system), you can't just move anywhere you want. What ends up happening is those living in rural areas illegally move to cities like Beijing/Shanghai/Shenzhen for work, but can't get their children educated or get healthcare. This is a way to prevent mass migration to the first-tier cities.
Switching banks isn't easy, unfortunately. Note how banks have very successfully managed to create systems that do not have bank account number portability built in, they even engineered them in such a way that any future desire to implement such portability will meet with very substantial technical roadblocks.
Actually, he was right with his first guess. This isn't about capturing film with a heightmap like RGBd cameras do, it's about capturing all light that goes through a volume of space from all angles. If you can fulyl capture all light that enters a volume of space, you can accurately recreate a view from any point in that space. So, in VR I can move my head around, both by turning my head around and moving forward, backward and side to side and accurately see any view.

This does also allow adding CG elements, but it's real strength is being able to capture enough of the light coming through so that you can almost 'teleport' to where the video was recorded.
Let's privatize the system of roads - but in such a way that trucking companies are encouraged to build their own road system, and access to infrastructure is largely given only in exchange for access to other infrastructure.
What on earth are "organ extracts"?
The mobile app uses native components.
Kinda like MySpace, yeah?
But we can divide 3000 / 8M and 20M / 120M to get ratios, no?
Because governments have national security interests and need to be realistic about allowing their citizens to keep sensitive information in the hands of potential adversaries. If the US or Russian government can blackmail a computer technician into "accidentally" leaving a back door open because the technician is secretly gay and they know this because of an analysis of his Facebook messages, then this is a threat that the state may want to minimize.
I'm intrigued, too, but I'm planning on drinking the Kool-Aid only after someone figures out how to sanely include support for late binding of dependencies. If that happens—allowing security updates without explicit action for every package—I think I'll be in.
Ledger sort of has that built in, actually, but it only works if you have a similar transaction in the past. For example, I can say this on the command line:

$ ledger xact 11/5 mcd dinner 10.55

and ledger spits out

2015/11/05 McDonald's
Expenses:Food:Dinner $10.55
Liabilities:Credit Card

This falls down when you're traveling to new places, because in the command `mcd` is just a regex that matches on the payee.
.puz file format for crossword puzzles
APIs: The Building Blocks of the App Economy
They're virtually all matured in bourbon or wine/sherry casks, and more in bourbon casks than any other kind of cask. If you ask at the distilleries, they'll tell you it's because the bourbon casks are simply cheaper.

Scotch generally doesn't age in new oak. But all bourbon does, by law. So there's a pipeline of used barrels for Scottish distilleries to use.

If you get a chance to try to Woodford Reserve new/old wood rye sample, you'll see why Scots use our barrels: the first aging in whiskey in a new barrel extracts huge phenolic flavors. Those woody flavors would compete with Scotch, especially since Scotch generally ages much longer than bourbon. Meanwhile, sherry barrels are much more expensive and contribute their own distinctive flavors. So bourbon casks are they way you go when you want a neutral aging environment.

I was moved to nerd out about this because you suggested Scotch is aged in ex-bourbon casks because of the sweet notes they impart. I don't think this is true. I am a fiend for ex-sherry Scotch, and the sweetness generated by an ex-sherry casks is usually unmistakable, club-you-over-the-head powerful.

You'll notice that lots of Scotch releases make a big deal out of the wine casks they age in --- what kind of sherry, what age the barrel --- but few ex-bourbon Scotches will say anything but "aged in bourbon casks".

That's because bourbon casks are boring. :)
This mostly sounds like a sales pitch for the book to me as it does not disclose any of the methods to get from active to passive income.

The key to getting out of the active income trap is to do
the following:

1. Persue education to get a high paying day job.
2. Live below your means, and save and invest the difference. Don't buy new cars. Try and fix as many things
as you can yourself. Cut back on the Starbucks visits. Go to the library.
3. Stay out of non first mortgage debt.
4. Turn off as many advertising sources as possible. Get rid of cable TV, seek out free sources of entertainment instead. Get on the do not call list, contact the Direct Marketing Association and tell them not to mail you promotional materials, Tell businesses you patronize not to send you promotional materials.
5. After you purchase your first home and the first mortgage payments become easy to pay, start looking into investing in rental property.
6. Build a large F.U. money reserve so that you can tell exploitative employers to "take a hike" if need be. Read up on American employment law. Most of you will be shocked on how biased it is towards employers.
7. Read up on how to start your own business. Fictitious names, incorporation, small business loans.
>I don't care about my data being stored in the US

Because uninformed consent is not consent and most people do not give informed consent to their data being stored overseas as they are not aware of all the laws and regulations that apply to it.

Unless we do want to say that uninformed consent is still consent, but what kind of problems does that create?
> I have not heard back from any other companies...

Focus your efforts on individuals you can help, not generic companies.

Jump on Linkedin's advanced search feature. Sort for CTO's, VP's of Engineering, who are alumni from your school. Reach out to those people 1:1. Talk to them live, reach out seeking their advice. You'll be surprised how receptive they will be to your call. And that's how you'll uncover hidden summer jobs.
But.....why? Purely on the basis that she has a lot of money? You go to work to exchange some of your time for money - government takes certain % of your money as taxes. Then you go and spend that money in exchange for a good Rowling produces, because, well - you both want that. You want to have that physical product and certain mental pleasures that come with it, she wants to get money for it. So the question is - why should she pay higher % in taxes than you or me on that money she makes?
I'd just change banks though. Its trivial when you only have a few bills that need ACH/EDI, and the rest of your payments are on auto-pay on a credit card (which you pay from your checking account). BankSimple (now Simple) let me down so many times during their tech upgrade, I simply moved over to Fidelity for my checking account needs. It took ~15 minutes to change my direct deposit online with my employer, and re-create my bill pay setup.

As a bank, you are a commodity. You simply store the bits that say how many resources I can consume over a moving window of time.
Monoprice also has volume pricing and it's also $10/ea even when you're buying 50+. The simple fact is nobody that makes cables is selling them for cheap currently. The volume isn't there yet, and they still need to recoup costs from spinning up a new production line and a new SKU and all that.

And LOL @ the idea that Google sells millions of phones.
ooohhh this one actually does bother me sometimes. Probably not for the same reason though. We've had a few guys proclaim themselves as "Software Architects" after just a few years of bug fixing. They seem to do it to distinguish themselves from the rest of the less gifted masses. One of our guys with the same level of experience as everyone else couldn't be bothered with scripting all of his database schema changes (which was a boring and tedious task because of how we managed changes at the time, and he didn't bother to keep track of them as he made them) because he was an "Architecture guy". A title that he gave himself and was in no way reflected on his resume.

If there are Software Architects they are very senior and experienced and hired into a position that asked for a Software Architect. They design entire systems not just a page here or there.
I love workflowy: https://workflowy.com/

I Use it as to-do list, organizer, idea jotting, project manager.

> some studies indicate that making a todo list of manageable action items for each day results in modest productivity gains.

Don't sweat too much on this. As log as you actually get the work done, even pen and paper can be fine.
"Designer"

Architecht is crossbreed between civil engineer and an artist. "Software architecht" should logically be front end designer/manager.
MySpace did at one point, and it was indeed a walking dead.
Maybe I'm just a person with a very pessimistic outlook on the future of the US and our economy, but I think articles like this are going to be laughed about in 20 years.

Oh no! An faltering economy is emphasizing specialization! The horror! The kids won't discover themselves!
Robinson's point about the shift towards vocational education (and student debt) inadequately preparing students for participation in democratic society deserves emphasis: this is what the parties responsible want to see happen. (Who, in an entrenched position of power, wants to see a strong middle class take an active interest in politics?)
Why Facebook wants its devs using Android
Sure, but at least where I come from you have 0 debt if you spend 4 years studying philosophy or classical art(you also have 0 debt if you study Medicine for 10 years - it's all 100% free for students). There are people in US who are left in debt for decades after doing that.
This I believe is where a lot of the problem is. It's hard to make money on free or .99 cents. Consumers are now used to free and cheap so I think it's going to be pretty hard to turn this trend around. App devs kind of brought this onto themselves by racing to the bottom.
As much as they are for us. Dark matter is matter that only reacts to us via gravity, so the effect of a black hole which also only acts via gravity^1 is the same for them as for us.

^1 I am ignoring charged black holes here, because astronomical black holes should be basically uncharged and my intuition is, that if there is some kind of dark charge, then the black hole could also be charged under that force.
ASTs are DAGs indeed, but as soon as you add semantic information to the mix the graph usually becomes cyclic.
The guidelines don't prohibit that horrible pun, but I'm going to lobby to see that they do in the future, so none of us will have to suffer like this again.
As long as they aren't prevented from saying that they are distilling a Tennessee style whiskey, someone making such an amazing product shouldn't have any trouble.

Nods to tradition can certainly go too far, but I like allowing the regional names to be a little exclusive.
Yea I realized that when I was thinking about it. Which is a financial smart reason, but in the end it limits them.

If I only have my phone which I have android pay on and I need to get something from a drug store, I would go to CVS but they don't accept NFC. So I will have to go to Walgreen's instead which is usually near a CVS. So I don't get why they don't offer NFC, because keeping 98% of the transaction amount is better than 0.
Here is the USG version including the US letter exchanges: https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/tran...
> People sometimes forget that laws are pointless if they are not enforceable.

Or worse than pointless; actively harmful.
Why not? I've ditched banks a few times. Checking is a commodity product these days... it's not like a banking relationship matters anymore.

In olden times, it might have been a pain. Now most automatic payments hit a credit card, so you aggregate the account changes at that level.

Last time I flipped to get a 1/4 point off my mortgage. I think I had to redirect my utility account and change a few online payment portals for AMEX, etc. Took about 30 minutes, and saved me about $20k over the life of the mortgage.
People forget that Facebook was 8 figures into the black before they even took a Series A.

The problem with Twitter isn't that they're a social network on par with Facebook, it's that they're not on par as a business, and never will be.
I have a very hard time conceiving an at-least-legally-legitimate business as evil as telcos.

Banks, insurance, finance, those generally are perceived as devil spawn, but I really can't imagine another business with such mediocrity, such an ingrained disregard for the customer.
Also, the drug market and ISP market in the US are explicitly exempt from the free market and ISDS policy – meaning, in the US, you can still have monopolies, but in the rest of the world, protectionism becomes impossible.

Very dangerous, and sounds more like "Empire – Colonies" than "Equal partners in trade"
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"Moorhead to Brainerd" - I hire a truck (for that short of distance no one on this planet would use a railroad) or my cars go from railroad to railroad. Yes, for little stretches monopolies exist but no railroad company is an island they do route stuff across rail. Saying BNSF is a monopoly because of small patches like that is saying you have a monopoly on parking in your driveway. Heck, many non-rail companies own a lot of rail cars.

Rail competes and works with truck, barge, and air. The US is blessed with a lot of competitive options for transporting goods.

My only beef with BNSF is their continuing attempts to lobby for no more pipelines because of all the money they are making from oil in ND. BNSF needs to review its safety policies but the two ND Senators (one from each party) are keeping up the pressure on that front.
esr has been knocking at the door of the laughing academy for nearly twenty years now. He's always been firmly in the "use his code, do not read his blog" camp.
This is cool, but someone needs to get it off Google Code before Google Code disappears.
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Actually, the easiest way to peel eggs is with a spoon. I use this method on new eggs, old eggs, cold eggs, hot eggs, soft-boiled, medium-boiled and hard-boiled. As long as you push the spoon against the inside of the shell only and move slowly, you can get the whole thing in about 30-60 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV9ytMg_fi4
In a country that looks down upon unions and guild-like structures meant to protect their workers, you'll never have enough people who trust apprenticeships. Dedicating yourself to one specific task within the private market is too foolish of a thing to do for any smart person in America.
Clearly a chatroom with half a million individuals is unusable from pretty much every perspective. That said, a chat server with N chatrooms and a total population of 500k users sounds like a good day on IRC and well within the realm of what something like this could potentially handle.
He has a reputation on Open Source, but this is hardly his first paranoid conspiracy theory.
I think the real cut is not responsibility per se. The problem is that the work "Engineer" means both a degree and profession at the same time. Witch was fine when there was lots of overlap.

But degrees and responsibilities are often closely related.
Skein -- interesting choice. I always liked the ARX construction in skein, and it's cool to see it in Javascript through emscripten.
Unfortunately that's not a very good argument on its own. Wifi exists in the unlicensed bands in the US and is thus subject to FCC title 47, part 15 rules. This includes the provision that the onus is on the unlicensed transmitter (in this case your wifi device) to gracefully deal with any interference it might encounter.
> The only problem with that is that there might be producers outside these regions who produce better quality products, these producers will be penalized for not being able to use the actual product name and may give up on it

Not being allowed to lie isn't a penalty. E.g. if you are raising pigs in Texas you shouldn't be allowed to label your product as being "Ham from Italy." Whether or not it tastes better is completely irrelevant.
Xubuntu has been exceptionally stable for me, my mum is on 14.04 (which was the last LTS) since she doesn't do anything exotic, I'm on 15.04 and will likely move to 16.04, I tend to avoid the x.10 before a LTS as they shove lots of stuff in to make the LTS release so I'd suggest 14.04 or 15.04 with a view to upgrading to 16.04 at some point early next year.
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Show HN: A pure-JavaScript port of the oniguruma regex engine
> The web itself is hardly REST.

HTTP/1.0 provided the inspiration for REST, which was defined by Fielding in parallel with work on HTTP/1.1 which it informed. The web itself is very much REST, essentially being the defining instance of the architectural style.

> Plus it's not really an API as in easily consumed by a machine.

Yes, it actually is a REST API that is actually made to be, and regularly used as, an interface consumed as hypertext by machines who access requested content by locator, choose how to handle it by identified media type, identify and either directly act on or present user options to act on related content by hypermedia links, etc. Whether this is end-user software (browsers) or unattended software (Googlebot and other spiders), etc.
Being a polite host is part of convincing people to feel good about you and what you're saying. That's why there is so much entertaining (dinner, drinks, parties, etc.) in politics, sales, and international relations.

There is also at least one study[1] showing that people who have recently eaten have a more positive impression of others.

[1] Mentioned last night on the show "The Brain" on PBS, which I highly recommend.

http://www.pbs.org/the-brain-with-david-eagleman/home/
I don't think she's saying that humanities should replace the ability to live off a skill, she's saying that the two can live together
I had a similar project in progress, but paper author's university declined to licence technology. Did you somehow managed to convince them, or did you register as non-profit?
It doesn't have to be 'either or'. Go to a liberal arts school and get a major in CS or some other 'utilitarian' degree.
"Pretty right wing"? Weren't they enthusiastically embracing the GamerGate crazy too?
I think the biggest issue with switching banks is that that lowers the average age of your accounts, which affects your credit score.
Not concerned about whether "nature" made it so much as I am about grain size. The bigger crystals in kosher/sea salt are better for a lot of uses.

At the same time, if you're just gonna boil water and dissolve some salt in it, it doesn't really matter so much as the actual amount of salt.
You're doubling down on the "remarkably facile" thing. It's not a good look.
MySpace wasn't a zombie while it was at the height of it's popularity. All zombies were once alive. I'm not arguing that it won't be a zombie, but that it currently isn't.
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I don't think this is true of Scotch either. Go there sometime (it's an amazingly beautiful place for a road trip) and bounce from distillery to distillery. Some things you'll notice:

* Go to where the locals shop and they're selling the same brands the whiskey specialty stores sell.

* The gas stations have better Scotch selections than most US liquor stores.

* The expensive distillery-only products are generally the most interesting whiskies, and they're the stuff least likely to sell to the locals.

* Virtually all of the distilleries, and most of the best distilleries, are owned by gigantic corporations that own portfolios of distilleries.

The entire Scotch industry is an export industry. No doubt there's quite a lot of bad Scotch exported, but it seems to me like more or less all the good Scotch is exported too.