skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excerpts:

"This doesn’t only take from your body, it takes from your mind, spirit, and soul," De La Cruz says.

And:

Perhaps the biggest moral conundrum, though, has nothing to do with living with a mechanical heart, but dying with one. Unlike biological hearts, artificial ones can pump blood throughout the body and oxygen to the brain when the rest of the body breaks down. Death is dragged out — and may require the machine be shut off. "I’ve had patients where the liver and kidney failed, the skin turned yellow and died, and the only thing working normally was the brain," Arabia says.

I find stuff like this incredibly disturbing. I always find myself wondering why doctors don't spend more time on helping people keep their own organs functioning instead of on this kind of stuff. I find this very scary. "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."...because we are only going to offer you something Frankensteinian like this and not offer better options for healing the tissues you were born with.

I have a condition that accounts for a high percentage of lung transplants. So this stuff hits rather close to home for me.
It is a Scheme implementation. At very least many universities do use Scheme.
really? How about working at a company that only sells products detrimental to your health? (read: McDonalds, Yum! Brands, Starbucks, Nestle, Kraft, etc... not to mention the entire tobacco industry, and plenty of other industries)
Angular services with RxJS; decrapify your services
Now I'm confused, because I didn't ever imply that it was.
There's a basic fork in logic. Blacks are observably, measurably treated worse than whites by police and courts. There can only be two causes for this:

1. The system is unjust due to institutional racism.
2. Blacks are inherently more violent and criminal than whites.

You seem to be arguing the latter.
Why didn't you remember in the first place? That's the root of the problem. Is it that hard to really make a list of things you need?
How on earth can that act be deemed as this government banning 'some forms of pornography'? Even R v Walker is 2009 - a year before even the last government. Although UK production and distribution of some acts were banned last year, the pre-Coalition governments were far more draconian with their criminalisation of certain material involving consenting adults.
I wonder if the author can prove that what he's writing is actually the case.

What we have here are statements. How much those statements are based on truth remains to be seen. Until then we should take them with a grain of salt, in the wake of recent developments.
Haven't tried their cables, but I switched to Aukey's chargers some time ago. In particular, the 4 port 9.6a/48W car charger is an engineering delight.
It's a storage api not a spreadsheet api. Dropbox itself can't do that, but it can get you the data and you can use an xls library or program to edit them.
Yes, white and black people will likely have different experiences growing up. Most white people that I know - including myself - were routinely attacked at school because of their race. Every white person that I know has had to look at a job interview and wonder if he didn't get called back because the job was only for certain people.

However, none of this would help the white person build a content moderation feature or prevent abuse or protect freedom of expression better than the black person.

May I ask specifically how a person's belief that their name was the cause of failing to get a job leads them to create a better content moderation feature?
Fortunately, the creators of Snappy thought of that and included an atomic/delta update system. So when you have 100 packages that need to be updated because of a common dependency you only need to download 100 binary diffs instead of 100 full-size snap packages.

That's not really a solution though, just a mitigation.

Updating a single package for security fixes or other changes instead of a 1,000 is still vastly more efficient and faster.

Unfortunately packaging appears to be a paradox of sorts: Either your app lives in an environment of shared libraries where you have no control or your app lives inside a container of some sort that bundles copies of all those libraries. You can't have both.

That's because the solution alone can't be through packaging; it requires changes at every level of the stack.

The system needs to provide robust backwards-compatibility and sane packaging.

Applications need to use interfaces responsibly, pick dependencies carefully, and use a sane build environment.

When developers attempt to solve everything with the blunt hammer of packaging, they end up with a lot of "bent nails".
This is the not-entirely-unique practice of using odd minor numbers for beta releases and even minor numbers for stable releases.

Gnome does this as well - 3.17.x was beta, 3.18.x stable.

Linux was one of the first projects to use this pattern, but hasn't since early 2.6.x.
Theresa May unveils UK surveillance measures in wake of Snowden claims
HomeAway Agrees to Acquisition by Expedia
If you take away the infrastructure from a railroad, there isn't much left...
Tell HN: I fucking hate you people
that is all
While there is no published sha1 collision as of now, we do have a freestart collision: https://sites.google.com/site/itstheshappening/ (Linked in the article as well).

The issue being that sha1 collisions are so close that they are in the price range of criminal syndicates and nation states. Its better to deprecate sha1 before that happens.
Why not look at the areas where people in engineering and product management came from? It takes very few steps before we start expecting all metrics to resemble global metrics.
Vape Regulation Is Coming, and It Just Might Kill the Industry
There's a toy made by Hasbro called the Easy-Bake Oven that's been in production since the early 1960s. It has a heating element (originally a 100 watt light bulb) that lets kids bake "cakes" using packets of mix. Despite it having a very good safety record (percentage-wise, given how many millions of them have been sold) the urban legend persists that it's dangerous.
Wow, scary picture, nice tweet to get their attention (love the coloring page in the background). After a tweet like that I would expect any company to quickly refund your money and send you four apple lightning cables along with two of their top of the line power ports. Just to make up for that issue and keep you a happy customer. And possibly get a positive tweet from you.
Your own statistics reference indicates that 36% of the Bay Area population is foreign born, and 16% do not have US citizenship, so you cannot assume that "foreigners are not statistically significant."
Benson is doing God's work. Because of him I was able to purchase a USB-C to USB-A cable (the iOrange cable he reviewed), and I learned that Google's own marketing materials were functionally incorrect, which led users to expect 3.0A charging out of the cable from Google (which is out of stock currently), when it technically only charges at 2.4A (if I understand things correctly). This in turn led people to (incorrectly) poorly review the non-Google cables.
any chance of an OS X build will be on your plate in the future?
This appears at first glance how people would use them, but, casually, you will start to see a pattern emerge that allows people to use the services more and more, and for more ad hoc uses, gradually divulging into "I need something right now" mentality, and complete and utter lack of any planning. That's what all my friends do who use these services.

I would argue that if you want fresh ingredients, such as herbs, you should adopt a simple herb garden in your home. If you can't be bothered to do that, then I suppose you could shell out $20 every time you need some fresh basil, but I think now I'm being pedantic.
> The device has intrigued many of your more curious colleagues.

It really hasn't. Every single time that I've seen a colleague (or a colleague of a colleague) comment on this research, they've been talking about either specific flaws in the experimental setup, specific flaws in its theoretical basis, or general concerns about unfounded ideas getting broad attention.

Spending dollars looking for life on Europa and spending dollars on preserving endangered life on Earth are both fantastic goals, with some reasonable hope of a positive impact on humanity in one way or another. I have not yet thought of a way in which spending dollars on this EM Drive idea has any upside like that. (Surely we can learn about science journalism and humans' psychological reactions to science news just as well by studying how people react to exciting stories about actual, mainstream science!)
Android now builds with Ninja instead of Make
Also, there's no off-the-shelf version you can buy (this is all new technology), and it has to integrate with other railroads. For example, in the NY Metro area alone, you'd have to integrate the Long Island Railroad, MetroNorth, Conrail, Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, and possibly other industrial rail lines I'm not aware of. That alone will take a while to get right.
There's a shitload of stuff to compete on when you don't own the railroads.

Pricing (hello Deutsche Bahn, 10x more expensive than buses LOL), service (thumbs up to Austria's Westbahn here), quality of the carriages (again, thumbs up to Westbahn, displacing even the DB ICE trains), WiFi...
It's a monopoly on transport via rail. The other alternative is via truck on those, you know, nationalized roadways.
Barry how are you checking the sequence of your synthetic DNA? Are you still using sanger sequencing or have you moved on to next gen?
They also make a ridiculously amazing Solar charger array, which when I took across a border to Israel, had the inspectors in serious awe and wishing they could get one as inexpensively as we can in the States.
The articles (and books/papers they reference) have copious examples. Here are just a few:

Search Engines
Top four market share: 98.5%
Major companies:
Google: 64.1%
Yahoo: 18.0%
Microsoft: 13.6%

Arcade, Food & Entertainment
Complexes
Top four market share: 96.2%
Major companies:
CEC: 52.2%
Dave & Buster’s: 35.0%

Soda Production
Top four market share: 93.7%
Major companies:
The Coca-Cola Company: 41.2%
PepsiCo: 33.6%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group: 15.4%

Lighting & Bulb Manufacturing
Top four market share: 91.9%
Major companies:
General Electric Company: 32.9%
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV: 31.7%
Siemens AG: 27.3%

Major Household Appliance
Manufacturing
Top four market share: 90.0%
Major companies:
Whirpool Corporation: 43.8%
AB Electrolux: 20.7%
General Electric Company: 17.1%
LG Electronics: 9.2%
Market concentration

Mobile OSes (iOS and Android) are another, even if no
one can make money on the software itself anymore.

Banking software (FIS, Fiserv, Jack Henry, and D+H): 96% total

Internet service providers (a few large players, with a smattering of regional ones. Some areas are served only by a single company.)

Wireless providers (AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile) have roughly 80% of the market.

Here's a nice infographic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/the-char...

This is not to say that this applies to every market. There are competitive markets without clear winners (in some of the above cases, the markets are competitive oligopolies - but that doesn't help the "I just want to make a nice living as a small player" idea - you still need to be huge in those cases.) However, with the increase in mass communication, economies of scale, picked low hanging fruit, clustering effects, and concentration of talent/capital/connections, the trend has been towards winner-take-all (either through pure domination, like search, or industry consolidation, like health insurance.) Eking out a living at the margins is possible, but as I stated in the other comment, has its own set of attendant risks.
Oracle just made its biggest Sparc announcement since buying Sun
Presumably you leave it connected for a while to charge the car battery, and then start.
And which tribunal struck it down?

Only several years late, of course. It's a bit weak to suggest that the EU is our saviour when it comes surveillance.

I'd rather place my faith in the ECtHR.
I feel they are just styled after iconic strips by the mentioned artist
It's pretty funny that it has three contributors listed.
This could come from the fact that the freight lines own much of the track that Amtrak runs on. If I owned and managed a rail line and had to chose which train got the priority: mine, or Amtrak...
A very, very good answer. However, in this case the diversity the man at twitter should be looking for has everything to do with a person by person case and nothing to do with race.
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I work for a password manager that has had teams for a while. We have an encryption key per record with fast search. An open source command line SDK and Java desktop client which is great for linux. A great Android app with autofill, material design UI (more to come), which has been in the Google Play store since day 1, etc.

I'm obviously biased especially about the Android client :) but IMHO great iOS (and SDK), Android, Web Vault, browser plugins, Windows Phone, Surface, etc.
Are customers pestered to leave reviews? For example, every time you open the app, it asks you for a rating, etc. That might cause worthless reviews.
Birth Order and Intelligence
The fact that the market is full of low-cost USB-C cables that aren't reliable may suggest that the cables cost $13 because it's actually a $13 problem to get it right. ;)
That's why we need drone delivery! /s
The government puts a specific dollar figure on human life all the time. It's not afraid to do that.

But positive train control isn't just about improving safety. It's part of a larger overhaul of the rail system that will allow increased efficiency. E.g. the Acela is much heavier than European passenger trains because of FRA crash standards. If PTC succeeds in reducing the likelihood of crashes and derailments, those regulations could be loosened, allowing lighter and faster trains.
When OS/2 was discontinued end 2006, I had the opportunity to migrate critical infrastructure in several financial institutions around the country to modern environments. I hope no-one hopes expanding the lifetime of non-migrated infrastructure with this.

The 'best' client called christmas eve announcing that end of the year their datacenter UPS will be replaced and last time the power went out their $(very important piece of banking infrastructure) wouldn't even boot. Well, at least jobs like that paid good money.

But for fun and entertainment I think it's a great idea.
In the last year have you really never forgotten something when shopping, when making this list, or in the shaving example run out in the middle of the week?

Granted, I don't use this type of home delivery. But, I often pay a crazy markup to use the tiny convenience store in my apartment building.
Who would do the testing?
For reference, you may want to check this out (2 to the right)
http://californiawaterfoundation.org/
> Does the government currently subsidize railroad maintenance and/or construction?

Not in the US, except to the degree that government transportation agencies use the tracks of private railroads (not the norm, but it happens) or own them (Amtrak owns the Northeast Corridor, very little anywhere else.
Actually the justification for incorporating the bill of rights (well some of it) comes from the 14th amendment, not the supremacy clause.
These guys knows their job. Indeed the best link shortener for making money.
Facebook: Now Serving One Billion People Daily
Wait, you can charge/power a laptop over USB?
For background on the semantics of statecharts and a bit of computer science history, see the following papers and book by Prof. David Harel (the inventor of statecharts) and his collaborators:

The STATEMATE Semantics of Statecharts, 1996

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/SCANNED.PAPERS/Seman...

Modeling Reactive Systems with Statecharts: The STATEMATE Approach, 1998

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/reactive_systems.htm...

The Rhapsody Semantics of Statecharts (or, On the Executable Core of the UML), 2004

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/RhapsodySeman...

Statecharts in the Making: A Personal Account, 2007

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/Statecharts.H...
Benson obviously adds value to the content so I feel bad about whining, but this looks like a severe case of "how can you tell if someone works for google? -Don't worry, they'll let you know".
Hah! I definitely do this. And I do it on the other end too, as is documented in the XKCD about 1-10 pain scales: https://xkcd.com/883/
I don't disagree, but it seems to be something Cameron is rather keen to hang on to.
So yeah, Guile-powered Emacs exists! http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

It's still in an early stage, but it works. That emacswiki post points you in the right direction, but if you use the Guix package manager, you can give it a try: "guix package -i guile-emacs"

Mostly at this point it needs people working on it and playing around with it. Considering you're fairly excited about it, maybe you should give it a spin? :)
Hey if anyone from Dropbox is monitoring these comments: nice work, but there's something missing that I've been waiting for: API access to comments.

I'd love to recommend using the new Dropbox comments feature but I can't until I know there is a way of getting that data out after putting it in. I'm not entering metadata into a system that doesn't have fully programmable export. Been burned too many times.

Pretty please?
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Buffett is also the reason Obama won't let the Keystone pipeline happen. The crude is shipped by rail.
Thank you for answering. How did you find the first two clients?
Unemployment is going to go through the roof once they get self-driving trucks going next decade.
I recently got a Nexus 5X and it only came with a usb-c to usb-c cable and I wasn't able to connect it to my computer. I searched specifically for anker, usb-c to usb-a and couldn't find anything. Can anyone confirm that this is a product somewhere?

This is what I went with, but it didn't seem to support data transfer.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011N7ME48?psc=1&redirect=t...
The New Face of Star Wars
Nice article and interview.

Terrible layout and font-choices, however!
Pentagon suspends troubled missile defense system at center of 'runaway blimp'
Really should lead with an end example then deconstruct how it works. But I get the feeling they are trying to be intentionally obtuse, either to show off cleverness or as performance art. Perhaps that's a bit cynical.
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I wonder how many slo-mo rain-on-glass videos you guys watched while making this.. Looks very impressive!

Something about the large droplets' trails is a bit uncanny valley-ish, I think it's the regularity of distances between the trail spots?
As others have said, this has to do with the numbering system for Scheme Requests For Implementation at <http://srfi.schemers.org/>, but I agree that more memorable module names like (date) would be useful for commonly used SRFIs.

On the subject of SRFIs, which ones do you fellow Schemers use? I think the ones I use most often are SRFI-1, SRFI-9, SRFI-11, SRFI-26, SRFI-37, and SRFI-41.
The new website looks much better than before, great job. I am planning to build something using Guile, but sadly my time is limited.
Their presence seems to work quite well for many projects. More importantly, it sends a public signal that the project leadership will not stand for certain kinds of behavior.

(It requires people with the admin bit actually stepping in of course. Just posting a CoC will certainly change nothing, if it's not backed.)

For the "I hate no" people - there's a reason that CoC's call out what exactly offensive/harassing behavior is.

Rules like "Don't be an asshole" work somewhat OK for small, informal groups. As project size increases, you need to get a bit more formal. As evidenced by e.g. LKML, it seems there's wide disagreement what is OK, and what constitutes abuse.

A CoC clearly spells out where that line is. It allows people to know what is acceptable, and avoid the community if that is not how they like things.

It's a common feature of large groups - the bigger you get, the more you need to spell out explicit rules. As size grows, the number of implicitly understood and agreed upon things diminishes.

E.g. you don't really need a penal code when dealing with your immediate family, but it's necessary for society as a whole to function.

As a side bar, I honestly believe that a lot of objections to CoCs stem from the fact that people are either not aware of the group size growth, or are actively grieving for the time when their group was small enough they didn't need one.
Yeah, it's not the same dynamic. If you pay me to wear a suit, I'll wear a suit. If you pay me to wear tattered and stained tshirts, I wear that. When I'm on my own time, then it's different.

I mean, if someone would pay 200k to serve coffee at the company canteen, I'll do that. It does not matter. But I know some people will feel that serving the coffee is not "prestigious" as being an eng, or whatever, so would rather not. To me it's all silly.

Uniforms, resistance or adherence is a form of identity politics, if you choose to make it so, but it could as easily be pragmatic, I you choose as well.
There are also gdb and make, which are probably a bit more prominent examples of guile-integration. Perhaps one day, emacs will do so as well.

I've embedded Guile into some of my own projects, and it's a great and fun way to bring a bit of life in "dead" compiled code. Many more projects would benefit from this.
> I always find myself wondering why doctors don't spend more time on helping people keep their own organs functioning instead of on this kind of stuff

They almost certainly do. It's a pure anecdote, of course, but I've had doctors in many states throughout the US and to a one, they communicate information intended to help me maintain better health as a preventative measure.

If you mean that doctors should spend effort on better treatments for failing organs, there are a number of projects working in those directions right now.

Basically, I'm not sure what is disturbing you.
Edgar Allan Poe had a time machine and I can prove it
I'm in agreement with mpdehaan2 here.

By sticking with a single cloud provider you get a lot of benefits. One of the more major benefits is cost, as you can do things like reserved instance in EC2. Another major benefit of sticking with a single provider is that you get to use solutions that only that provider has, which in this case is KMS, DynamoDB and IAM.

The biggest downside of being cloud agnostic is that you're stuck with the smallest combination of features that all of the clouds provide.
An attack and a new protocol are the same thing.

If a single miner includes the transaction, a majority can just bypass that sole miner.

You do need 100% of something, but that something is just >50% of the miners.
I supply our software to one company that I know is synthesising on the order of 100Mbp per year that is all internally so I know there is a fair bit of unaccounted gene synthesis going on.
Hey, that's me! And I do hate a lot of things... including Haskell and OS X sometimes :)
Since this is about an amount of $100m, I'd say the above suggestion (theoretically) offers much more protection than FDIC, which only covers losses up to $250k iirc...

I suspect that at the moment it may be more difficult to find an insurer for a vault with that piece of paper, compared to a vault with $100m cash though :) but perhaps that'll change.
Great job! I'm wondering if you'll post the source before it was transformed with browserify?
Sweden wants EU help to relocate refugees