skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leave it to a private institution like the NY times to have the gonads to do what Obama will not.

Should we start a countdown, or an over/under pool, on when Obama will actually do something about this "gun epidemic"? Obviously gun control is a matter for Congress, but there is plenty of precedent where a President has galvanized public opinion to drive political change. One instance (albeit trivial) is when Pres. Ford in the 70s asked the nation to cut down on energy use. By commanding the airwaves and print media (a unilateral option still available to any sitting president), the next week citizens across the nation wore these stupid buttons in response.

There are phenomenal tools available to the president to completely by-pass conventional political process. It is merely up to him to risk his own political capital and legacy to pull the trigger. Some may call it an abuse of power but if our society believes supremely in following one's conscience than surely history will vindicate him.

This could be one of Obama's biggest miscalculations. If Obama is not careful, his few paragraphs in high school textbooks will include a sentence that reads, "Obama's presidency is marked by his lack of response to the American Gun Epidemic of the early 21st century, which during his tenure saw [1,000] lives lost, including 22 schoolchildren in Sandy Hook, leaving it to his successor to enact substantive gun control policy..."
Ask HN: Anyone else applying to UK digital services
And having difficulty with some of the questions ?

https://digitalmarketplace.blog.gov.uk/2015/11/10/applying-to-digital-outcomes-and-specialists-on-the-digital-marketplace/
I think this is perfectly valid point.We can think of it like this, they are pretty competitive and have shitload of resource. but they are not innovative , the moment , they become leader they lose their interest toward growing and growing, although they have huge amount of resource which help them the moment they become underdog. I think this is cultural problem with Microsoft.
Wildcards allow me to serve all of my sub-domains over the same HTTP2 connection rather than causing the client to reconnect/renegotiate TLS/SSL.

This allows me to use domain sharding for those browsers still on HTTP 1.1, yet not have a performance penalty for doing so in the case of HTTP2.
the best comment I saw was when apple sued Samsung that they are "the same".

and suddenly an entire generation wondered why they were paying twice as much for half the service.
Beauty if a matter of opinion, and I was replying to an opinion: "Excellent engineering but not beautiful."
Riffle: An Efficient Communication System with Strong Anonymity
Don't confuse an integration API for an internal API
Feed your pets via IFTTT when you're not at home
Absolutely. I'm consistently surprised that things like [1] are not seen as absurd and even illegal. I found another article, "Gun homicides in Poland are about as common as deaths from
bicycle riders being hit by cars in the United States" (and many other variations) [2] very sad, too. How is it that a civilised nation allows such things to happen? The US seems like a very cool place, with so much potential, but increasingly, i'm considering putting it on my personal blacklist as far as destinations to look for work go. I just can't imagine living in fear of some concealed-carry-permit holding goon deciding to shoot the place up (and that's not even considering the violence perpetrated by legitimate LEOs...).

Why would you want to have a killing machine lying around at home? That sounds horrific.

1. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/02/gun-tv-home-s...

2. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/upshot/in-other-countries-... (was on HN recently)
Well, I was less worried about the lines and more worried about the described centralized clearinghouses.

That said, although obviously the government can show up with guns wherever they want and tap whatever they want, I suspect the legal situation would be much different if we're looking at government-owned infrastructure vs. privately owned infrastructure.
"without the motive power of capital, things move slowly"

slowly?! We've amassed huge collections of detailed knowledge in mere decades, and it's all searchable and discoverable.

"not one big pool of knowledge"

The real fantasy is centralization and taxonomies of everything. Distributed isn't a lazy thing we've settled on; it's the best approach. Each island grows about as far as it makes sense, and connects to other islands where it makes sense.

Sure, it may be imperfect and some datasets are hidden in corporations, but open data is certainly a healthy and growing ecosystem in no danger of extinction.
Chakra started from a clean slate so they could think about problems differently and not be bogged down by v8 architecture.
People who do these kind of things are like heroes to me. All of this trading is just legalized gambling for rich people. I admit I trade options myself because I like educated gambling. Still seeing some smart young guys out wit the lazy algorithms made my day.
There is some degree of golfing going on in the Day X threads.
Well, from what I've read on the internet, their culture is changing, at least at the grass roots level. A ton of people promoting Open Source & other similar stuff.

It's hard to say what this means for the higher levels, but many people think that Nadella's appointment says that Microsoft does want to change.

And luckily for US, Microsoft is and will be the underdog for a while at least, in most markets they are in: web search (after Google), browsers (after Chrome), mobile OSs (after Android and iOS), server-side OSs (after Linux), cloud stacks (after AWS).
They've already built it, I think before V8 existed or around the same timeframe.
Agreed. In super-liberal circles, i see people sounding alarms at the mere mention of race, even in a completely non-offensive way.

You can't tackle a problem you aren't even willing to talk straight about. The current system is something like attempting to make an ostrich walk while its head is forced in the sand.
I thought one of the big intended advantages of letsencrypt was the apache and nginx integrations.
There's another variable that the headline doesn't capture: the legal system. The fear that you might infringe and be be taken to court is often enough to deter people from innovating. The legal fees and lost revenue can be enough to ruin a business.
If you skim the original essay, there are plenty of links (highlighted blue, they're quite easy to find) to articles that argue exactly #1 (pretty obvious by their titles).

Also, my (admittedly anecdotal) evidence of being bullied in school confirms this as well (and is echoed by many other geeks).
I personally like Google's latest iteration on the ITA software: https://www.google.com/flights/
World Leaders Met to Save Planet and Only Full Public Record Is This Google Doc
The biggest and oldest ones I've ever seen first hand were the "Document Disintegration Systems" shredders at Teufelsberg!

http://dasalte.ccc.de/teufelsberg/teufelsberg.html

http://dasalte.ccc.de/teufelsberg/teufelsberg-Pages/Image25....
unless you need letsencrypt in, for example, in puppet.
The vast majority of cops are honest and do the right thing. Cops are human, it's unrealistic to think that Federal cops or State cops can be better than local by virtue of regulation. You cannot regulate away the flaws in human nature. The best you can do is detect them and deal with them when they cause problems. I've seen no evidence that the Feds or State police agencies are any better at this than city or county organizations are.

The one advantage they might have is different command structures. The state police are ultimately reporting to the governor, not a mayor so there might be fewer ways for a local political structure to use its police force improperly. But not sure that would really work in practice; it would likely just move the problem elsewhere.
As others noticed, the connections usually suck and are not guaranteed (looked up a european flight, found a 3h30m layover in London between Heathrow and Stansted - well good luck making that!). That is something I could accepted if I was still a student, but no more (since I did not make a connection one day due to bad weather :)

Personal anecdote: several years ago when Ryanair used to offer ultra cheap flights within Europe (as long as you paid with appropriate credit card type and accepted weird dates and times of the flights) I wrote a Ryanair-only poor man's version of this tool, looking for connections through two particular hubs of interest. The code sucked incredibly, but managed to get me two very cheap bookings (well, had to spend some nights in the airports, but it's nothing when you're young and short on money). Then Ryanair did some changes (and also raised the prices) which made the project obsolete. Old good times :)

Regarding the code, I had to do some reverse engineering to parse the responses from the airline's site. Funny part was that the responses were non-deterministic for a given request, seemed like they used some kind of dictionary of possible transformations of output values of price to prevent easy scraping. The other thing that made me scratch my head for a while was that the response had some weird unicode whitespace in one place instead of "traditional" space and I couldn't figure why the parsing didn't work until I downloaded a response manually and opened it in a hex viewer (when I was dumping the response to console in the script, this unicode space was not there).
This is an excellent attitude.
I am a big fan of Maker Faire. I am glad to see that you have done a good job securing the a nice spot in Kunming and converting it to maker space. I bet you probaly have no competitors over there!
Ask HN: What are you using for both offline and online backups?
It's been a while since this has been asked. Last thread I found was from 2011. It would be great to get everyone's views as I'm in the market for a full drive back up solution. For photos/video I use SmugMug, Google Photos and Amazon Prime's offering. Thanks!
I suspect that the idea that stereotypes are inaccurate might be a noble lie to counteract how bad we are at statistics.

Let's say we have a stereotype "blue people are quick to anger." Even if there is truth in it, what it really says is that the median for the phenotypic trait "quick to anger" is somewhat higher for blue people.

That does not mean that a given blue person is quick to anger since the whole population is not the median. It also doesn't mean that white or black or red people are not quick to anger, etc.

People tend to take statistical generalizations about wholes and apply them like facts to the parts. In the case of people it results in great injustice. Given the above imaginary stereotype, does it follow that blue people should be barred from becoming police or caring for children?

So I wonder if we haven't made the whole thing taboo and constructed a kind of elaborate ruse to pretend group differences don't exist to correct for this.

We have lots of hacks to correct for irrationality. Inflationary currency for instance is a hack to correct for our psychological association of bigger nominal prices with actual progress. Religion is full of hacks to short circuit undesirable social behaviors too. I have also suspected for years that God might be a hack to create a "virtual alpha" to placate our need for an alpha male and allow the emergence of the rule of law.
Btw, in areas where it's OK to apply math (like medicine or spam filtering) we have a science which tells us how to determine posterior probability given prior and new information.

It's called statistics and Bayes rule.
I switched to Google Flights as my primary flight search tool. The features and speed they offer are best in class.
From Atoms to People to Economies
Give the JavaScript Browser a go; is Edge render + Chakra, but has a faster starup - Also OSS by MS O_o https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/apps/javascript-browse...
The next Firefox Nightly build should get 84% on that page, much closer to Edge than Firefox 44 (74%).

I work on SpiderMonkey and I'm super excited about this news. All JS engines have added more-or-less similar performance optimizations but often implemented differently and I'm really interested to see what the Chakra team did. I'd be happy to write a blog post on it next month, if people are interested.
The Grand Unified Theory of Apple Products
OS X. I don't use it but I think it'd have great value. I often hear engineers talk about how they don't want to work with IE because they have to boot up a VM to use it. So...they don't even test it, they know nothing about it except for how IE used to be 10 years ago when they still used Windows machines.

That'd be the coolest thing since it'd encourage developers that shy away from MS technology to dive into it.
>The grief and antagonism that erupt after every school shooting focus on either a prevailing gun culture or mental health problems, but masculinity is surely an indispensable component.

You say you do school shooting and 4chan will tell you "Do it faggot". If you actually do it 4chan will scream "ABSOLUTE MADMAN!".

Male violence happens probably partially because of testosterone. But cultural factors is significant too. Nobody questions your masculinity after such horrid act, probably out of respect to the victims. It seems somehow disgraceful to be killed by a boy. But that denial probably perpetuates the problem.

You can often hear from women something like "You can't have your manhood enforced by violence or job. Be better human instead." But that's not how identities work. Either you find a way to be a man or accept not being a man. The latter is whole new can of worms.

Transgender people suffer from whopping rates of suicide, depression, loneliness and generally feeling insecure. It's unfair comparison. But it's not really surprising, that men with less of same identity problems are showing similar symptoms to lesser extent.

>some scholars think that, just like the black church seems to do for black men, unions could remind more white working-class men to prize not just ‘hard work’ but also solidarity and other values.

Here in Nordic countries unions have lately turned into relatively feminine thing. So this is kind of reformulating the idea "be more feminine". Which is exactly what most men are trying to avoid in the first place.

Theoretically some kind of men-only workers union might be cool. But such "patriarchal" constructs are quite demonized these days.
Very useful idea. One thing I want to add is docker daemon and client communicate over tcp.
So in any computer, you can just export DOCKER_HOST and use it to manage containers and get a more native feel.
The Scenic Route to Infinity
Gmail Ending? Google Starts Migrating Users
Digital Life: a modicum of privacy
Why the revenge porn king got away with a wrist slap
Hahaha yes, absolutely :)

This is another thing that makes stereotypes tricky - it takes a little bit of statistical insight to see how they can be both right in some sense but completely wrong in the other, but statistics is very unintuitive, and math doesn't grab headlines. So that kind of argument is difficult to use with non-nerds, but ultimately i think its the only accurate one.

That brings up another good point in that its really a perfect opportunity for media outlets that like to turn controversy into clicks. Its very controversial and very broadly applicable.
Sure if you want to be pedantic about it...

In reality though there's a reason there are many different OSS licenses - many devs want options around attribution and yes, around use in limited ways. A please don't use this for abject evil clause may not meet the no true open source dictionary definition, but pragmatically speaking it's not necessarily a terrible idea.
This is the best analogy we've ever read about the future of virtual reality
All companies take more risk when losing.
Why on earth is there no slow motion render of this video following the initial flash?

EDIT

I tried to slow it down myself, but there are simply not enough frames in the postprocessed video posted by Ars. There are one, maybe two, frames only in between, and none that show the flash traversing the void:

Slow-mo: https://youtu.be/pVDz1pAtQbI

Also note that the date on the video in the frame is 9/13/14, more than a year ago.
The path is always easier when there's someone there to show you the way, and a clear example of where not to go. Mozilla had a clear path forward with Firefox against IE, and had Navigator as an example of what not to do. Microsoft is now in that position with Edge.
I've always wanted to put my finger on how futurism evolved. This summarizes it pretty well.

I wonder what the next shift will be?
Improving user support requests using GitHub's API
>And luckily for US

I am having hard time understanding why luckily for US ?

Disclaimer : I am not US citizen nor inside us.
Thoughtful piece by Allison J Pugh. I think it's important to work to understand all genders, and I feel that if we continue to focus on only certain genders as we attempt to reform our society we will only reproduce the same historical imbalance just with different winners and losers.

Also the web developer in me has to point out that was a very clean and usable site (at least with my ad blocker and ghostery).
People are definitely interested. Posts about engine architecture are rare and interesting.
> Samsung has already changed their design to avoid any more of Apple's patents, making any future litigation impossible.

All the comments about the dollar value of this suit are missing this point. I would assume Apple cares much more about sending a message to Samsung and others that they feel are simply copying their innovations. And if it gets their competitors to change their behavior and differentiate themselves, then the lawsuits are probably worth Apple's investment.
Statistical Abracadabra: Making Sex Differences Disappear
Hopefully I'll be able to use Reagent with Reagent.
I see how that was critical to the nation at the time, but then how is that amendment relevant in the modern world? Standing armed forces protect our national integrity, and state/county/municipal agencies maintain local order. Aren't local militias effectively obsolete?
Microsoft is already working on Node, and it's actually already possible to run Node on Chakra. See https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/05/12/bringing-n... and https://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/samples/Nodejs....
If I understand correctly, MS was found guilty of abusing its monopoly by bundling IE with OS, which has put other browsers to disadvantage.

The way I see it, the only trouble with the case was that it was too late. By that time IE has already won.

Are you suggesting some other consequence of this case, leading to stagnation of IE development? I can't see any...
So many submissions, so little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10679237

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675744

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10673173

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10669091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663671

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10661578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10661567 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10650061

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10649784 (2 comments)
LOCAL NICHE AUTHORITY LEAD AND CALLING MACHINE SOFTWARE
On your last point, you can actually tell the months when I didn't collect a prescription.
I've heard a suspiciously large number of explanations for HF's toxicity.

1. It eats your bones (BS meter at 99.9% due to stoichiometry)

2. It poisons enzymes (as seen in TFA, passes the BS detector, but begs the question: which ones?). EDIT: "which ones?" answered by [2], but it's focus is on cell biology not toxicology, so it's possibly answering the question "what causes the local burns?" rather than "what kills you dead?".

3. It binds Ca++ in your blood, stopping the power stroke of your heart [1] (my own suspicion, although it's obvious enough that there is a 0% chance of it being "original"). EDIT: [3] pretty much confirms this.

I've lost convenient access to the academic literature, so if there's anyone on here who would be willing to do a quick (ha) dive on my behalf, I'd be much obliged. EDIT: I think I found the answers I wanted, but most of the top results were paywalled, so I'd still appreciate a second look by someone with access to institutional subscriptions.

[1] https://cnx.org/resources/cee66a1bf085ebac300c9c15805098f254...

[2] http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luz_Maria_Del_Razo/publi...

[3] http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/mhmi/mmg11.pdf
Related: "Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride"

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
because its so capital intensive, I don't think there is anything you can do to make the rate of return better either. That's the trouble, its a good stable business, but no longer in vogue.
but they are not innovative

They've had a seperate research department for over 20 years or so, and if memory serves me well quite some innovative things came (and still come) out of there. So I think they is too general in your phrase - there is innovation (also look at recent Surface line etc) but you're right in saying that it doesn't always come out and doesn't make it to the market, probably because the they you mean is some parts of management which sees money flowing in and is like 'hey, cashcows enough, no need to think about the future'. Or something like that. And lately this turned around again.
if you like that article you'll love this video "5 of Worlds most dangerous Chemicals" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSoDW2-wrc
Not just that - there are performance implications as well due to browsers being able to use a fixed allocation of memory with classes' properties instead of a dynamically resized amount for objects, which results in less efficient algorithms able to be applied internally for the browser for doing similar operations.
Contrast with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_root

which presents much of the same material and is a decent fully-wikified article using math notation.

I think the casting out nines article could be improved a lot, maybe with more of a focus on the history of the concept.
The Violent Afterlife of a Recycled Plastic Bottle
How is there significantly less particulate matter and therefore less are quality in Cologne and Dortmund, which are located in a very densely populated area with a lot of traffic, than in Vienna?

http://aqicn.org/map/europe/ tends to only shows areas where PM2.5 is even measured as polluted, so I guess this might be inaccurate due to a lack of sensors in some areas, falsely believing they are less polluted.

You can easily see this by just looking at the air quality reports in Vienna: http://aqicn.org/map/europe/#@g/48.183/16.4118/12z
You think people get bullied because others think they are disgusting monsters? People get bullied because bullies are insecure too (which is not an apology for bullies, but they are acting out insecurity more than they are worried about how disgusting their targets are).

I too fit the socially awkward bullied nerd stereotype...
What a mid-life crisis looks like when you’re a 32y old entrepreneur
"Moving data around is a different thing that actually providing the data. If would be like the airlines actually owning the airspace. Or Ford Motor Company owning the roads and restricting Chevy's access to the roads."

Almost ... it's as if the airlines built the airspace and then owned it. It's as if Ford built the roads and then owned them.
MSDN does support friendly names: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/system.string (works for any .net class)

I think the person who wrote this particular page simply didn't specify a friendly name, which is why it's falling back to the canonical name.