skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does that have to do with HTML5 apps? In the browser, when HD-DPI support was added every page started using HD-DPI font rendering, HD-DPI CSS, HD-DPI SVG, only image were still lo-res

Conversely I still have native apps that are low-res only because updating them to HD-DPI meant shipping a new app.
The solution is dead simple. Put cameras and mics on every cop in the country. Release the recordings to the public after a certain amount of time (leave this up to the states and local govt). Put a cap on how long these recordings can be withheld from the public regardless of special circumstances (maybe 10 years?). Problem solved.
It exists in a meaningful way, just as an approximation. Like how the concept of "tree" is meaningful in spite of the fact that every single plant on this planet is unique.
Take your racism somewhere else, it doesn't belong here.
How history got the Rosa Parks story wrong
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How would that generate less sales? Isn't the whole point that since the recommendations are irrelevant they're getting less sales not more?
Did you read the articles? Police officers were the first ones to report on their fellow officers for their misconduct (i.e. planting evidence) triggering the investigations of Internal Affairs. I suppose the irony here is under your logic you would not believe the whistle blowing officers because they only had eyewitness accounts - and you don't believe a single damn word out of a police officer's mouth - rather you would have sided with the defending officers as you don't care who the defendant is.
We changed the title to be less misleading. Submitted title was "SEC charges Bitcoin companies GAW Miners, ZenMiner as a Ponzi scheme".
Have you considered Sweat Block? It's a wipe you apply to your underarms and it lasts for up to a week in blocking your sweat.
Even if they don't sanction it, can they actually stop you from doing as you please with an asteroid

Well they could fine you / put you in Jail here on earth. The state can't physically prevent you from murdering people in most cases, for example, but they can impose penalties when you do it. A commercial mining venture is unlikely to be successful if the government of its home country says what it is doing is illegal.
Somewhere around 5 years ago I was doing some maintenance on my site's database without really knowing what I was doing.

My wedding website was hosted on the same server, so I thought I might as well delete it since the wedding was months before. Dropped that database. Visited my business website a few minutes later and it wasn't working. Apparently both sites were in the same database...

Called MediaTemple support and asked if they had a backup. They did! Support guy asked if I wanted him to restore it. Of course I do. He goes on hold.

He comes back on and says, "Sir, I'm sorry to say that the last back up actually backed up the blank version of the site so we don't have anything to restore. Is there anything else I can help you with?"...

After hanging up, I explained the situation to my wife and she just says, call back and ask someone else. The next support guy tells me that there actually is a way to restore an old archived backup, but there will likely be a loss of data and there will be a fee. Turns out the fee was only $15 and the backup was from the previous day, so no loss of data.

I'm still running the same site and I might soon be able to hire my first employee :)

My takeaways were to create backups, not monkey around on the database, and to call support back and ask for someone else to verify what the other person told me.
Without providing a reference backing up your second sentence your claim is no more believable than the OP's.

The reason I mention it is that on average black people tend to be poorer and live in worse neighborhoods, and poor people in bad neighborhoods (of all races) tend to do more drugs. So my expectation would be black people tend to do more drugs than white people, but I still doubt it's enough of a difference to explain the difference in prison population.

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-median-income-in-the-us...

Edit: Just to be clear before I'm downvoted into oblivion, I agree that the police and justice system are heavily biased against black people, I'm just not sure that sentence is true.
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The Unix Time-Sharing System, unpublished draft (1971) [pdf]
Hah. Dude, this was an unbelievably labor intensive project. I have an editorial team to run, a 2-year-old, and another baby on the way. There is no fucking way I could have executed this thing, even if I wanted to.
A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (Pt.1)
Also to consider is the ridiculous police letter. Which is probably the second most farcical part of this article.

I do hope this story is true. It is going to drive the narrative of police corruption for a while, since it's big enough. I do have doubts about its authenticity however.
this melodramatic bs
Giant Buddha
Which religion? Which denomination of that religion? What if that religion has reprehensible beliefs?
Url changed from http://www.whatpixel.com/jsfiddle-redesign-2015/, which points to this.
...at root an issue of social class rather than race directly.

I agree with much of the rest of your comment, and in the past I would have agreed with this as well. However, police are not inherent to the human condition. (We haven't always had police, and with luck we'll be rid of them soonish.) When police were created, it was largely for basically racist purposes, even if the "races" under consideration in many locales were "Irish" and "Italian". (Further south, however...) People would have objected to a police force imposed on everyone, so the trick was to impose it mostly on those who didn't control the public purse or the courts.

A society that relies on relentless, capricious violence to compel large swathes of the population to accept their assigned roles is not pareto-optimal. We will improve when we change our laws with the goal of reducing the necessity of policing.
We've got cars where the doors go ~~like this~~!
America is a police state, ruled by a corrupt elite Willing to break laws, rewrite them if possible, create secret ones when needed, they will torture, murder, commit war crimes, this the country Americans reside in, only they do not want to except this increasingly glaring truth.

What happens instead is people who speak out are ignored, derided, and silenced.
Ah thanks for the catch. It should be fixed now :)
It's basically been in maintenance mode for years. All EOL would mean is no more security fixes - why would that be a good thing?
Really? I thought the leaked documents revealed:

>As early as 1998, other police officers lodged complaints regarding their beliefs that police officers were planting evidence.

In other words officers were policing themselves to the point of triggering Internal Investigations. Nevertheless, if the parents proposal has no point, and you have identified the problem, what is your proposed solution?
Automatic Generation of Release Notes (2014) [pdf]
Remote?
Bughouse (Chess Variant)
Those laws don't govern asteroids, they govern people. If you're not subject to US law, disregard it all you like.
Hindsight is 20/20.
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Hmm. I cannot reach the site.
FWIW I agree the solutions in that thread aren't good enough, especially since most of them are postgres specific. Now that migrations can be shipped with contrib.auth, a better solution might be possible.

I'd probably prefer a functional unique index since it would be easier to maintain (rather than duplicate fields). We just need to get expression support into indexes.
People in power are very safe, people in power torture and commit war crimes, how foolish to say otherwise.
If the wealth is held as stock then there is no "money" for the bankers to do anything with. At best he can borrow money with the stock as collateral and then allow bankers to invest that.
Suggestion: run the x86/ppc emulator in the browser to reduce server load.
I love Levine, but his commentary on the Barclays fine has been pretty weak. "What were they supposed to do, use some kind of super-Google?" And then a couple of lines later he acknowledges the regulators lay out exactly what they should have done, including using the many third-party due diligence tools that they already pay for but chose not to use.
Earlier post is currently #3 on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659979
I disagree, and think people should use lots and lots of temporary variables. variables like "retval", "data" or even "result", as quoted in GP.

I have zero qualms about writing two lines

bool passes = /*stuff goes here*/
if (passes) {

}

whereas it is trivial that you could fold this into one line. the ONLY thing you're adding is the term "passes". Which most certainly is meaningful to the human reading it.

Compare:

if (!(i%2))

with

bool isodd = i%2;
if (!isodd)

which test do you think you'll accidentally flip the parity of?

Likewise I find "retval", "data", etc, to be perfectly fine variable placeholders while you treat the thing for a few lines.
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Reading some of the comments make me sad. This has happened so often lately..
Unfortunately, Hacker News has decided, and considers the censorship of comments for any reason at all (including no particular reason) to be not only compatible with, but vital to, reasoned discussion.

If you prefer to make your own decisions about what comments are worth reading, and use Firefox, here[0] is a userscript that will unfade them.

[0]https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/5b5e413220afb93c9c93
No non-free upgrades. To release version 2 of your app with a fee you have to release a new app. There's no connection between the two and AFAIK no way to provide a discount for existing users.

As for the MAS harming devs it's the "official store of OSX" so users are arguably being trained to look there and only there for apps. So sure you can look elsewhere but Apple is fighting against you.

30% cut is very high as well. I think existing payment systems for shareware apps were 5% or less. What do you get for your 30%? Support? No. Discovery? Not really. File Hosting? Ok, maybe but is that worth 30%? Easy upgrade and install. That's about it but usually that would be mostly handled by a free library.
It causes latent anxiety issues which can cause drug use which can then then increase chance of mental and physical diseases.
If you want to read a faded comment more easily, simply click on its timestamp. Please don't vote for that reason.
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Exactly. Google has had similar offers...
The key to refraining from interfering with other's lives is to refrain from interfering with other's lives even that other is trying to interfere with us. Or we would end up just like them.

"The means is the end."
The US is only governing its own citizens and claiming the rule and responsibility to enforce its decisions over them. It's the same as if they were telling US citizens what they can own if they do activities in international waters. Your what-if answer depends on your country.
Nice to have a board that leaks like a sieve.
What are they without the "internet business"?
Google self driving car report [pdf]
Wow what an amazing art project that isn't viral marketing. And For Just $5 You Can Have Your Very Own Copy of This Fantastic Phenomenon. We are so lucky that Sarah, no doubt after a lot of effort, managed to convince these authors to publish it.

Keep the playful SF "not everything has to turn a profit" spirit alive, Buy Now!

EDIT: On second thought, it seems a little bit too transparent. If it is actually a reverse psychology ad for a certain animated TV series, then color me impressed.
Do you know about John Siracusa and toasters (...toaster ovens, actually)? He has literally spent hours talking about toaster (...ovens) on various podcasts. https://www.caseyliss.com/2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters.

Spoiler: there are problems with many toaster ovens.
OP could have mentioned visiting the grandparents without mentioning which state that was. Yes the South has a problem, but drawing lines like this is a way for the rest of us to pretend that we don't. I seem to recall that some issues have arisen in some Midwestern cities recently?
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>For a long time, black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved.

I can't understand this "surely this doesn't happen" mentality of a lot of Americans in general in such cases. I mean, I can understand wanting to see hard proof for a particular case (and to name names), but to think that these things do not happen or are not widespread seems delusional to me, like believing we live in Sesame Street kind of society.

Maybe because in other parts of the world the general culture doesn't include "trusting authority" as some default -- which used to be the case in the US too, for blacks, 60s students etc, but somehow got lost for the middle class. For a place with the biggest incarceration rate in the world, that seems bizarre.

This goes beyond police abuse too. While they would still condemn it, nobody would bat an eye in disbelief for something like "watergate" for example in other parts of the world. Of course those things happen -- in a place like Italy or France for example, they've seen the same things going on tons of times. But even when remember people like Hoover, they tend to think it was some isolated incident, due to a bad person, etc (the "few bad apples" theory as opposed to systemic issues).
Sounds like it's time to log things.
Radar is bullshit. Apple should make it easy to file bugs and get information about them but they've been using this piece of jank since forever. If I file a dupe I have to inquire about it every now and again because you can't just add me to the original? Yeah, I don't think so.
Does anybody know if they would have to get the DTC/NSCC on board with this (or if that would even be difficult), as they are the actual custodians for most of these securities and presumably would have to approve any new accepted forms of clearing/settlement? Took this from elsewhere:

"The DTC holds trillions of dollars’ worth of securities in custody, including corporate stocks and bonds, municipal bonds and money market instruments. It settles funds at the end of each trading day using the Fedwire Funds Service. The DTC is registered with the SEC, is a member of the Federal Reserve System, and is owned by many companies in the financial industry, with the NYSE being one of its largest shareholders. Securities brokers, dealers, institutional investors, depository institutions, issuing and paying agents and settling banks use the DTC, but individual investors do not interact with it.

In addition to safekeeping, recordkeeping and clearing services, the DTC provides direct registration, underwriting, reorganization, and proxy and dividend services. For example, under its dividend services, it announces when a company declares a dividend, then collects the dividend payment from the issuing company, allocates dividend payments to shareholders and reports those payments."
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They don't, really. This is basically saying they won't take legal action against their citizen for owning or trying to obtain said materials.
I'm just pointing out what the solution is for end to end encrypted messaging when users have multiple devices. No need to be hostile.
>Did you read the articles? Police officers were the first ones to report on their fellow officers for their misconduct

In those cases. Not in tons of others, where it took a lawsuit or some investigation started from an independent organization (NGO etc), or even pure chance, to bring misconducts to light. "Internal Affairs" people are notoriously not popular with regular police.
> It asks for my password literally every 15-20 seconds.

That's really odd. It's a bad app but I've never seen that (in fact I've almost never need to enter my credentials). Are you sure it's your iTunes password? Maybe it's your keychain password and you have your keychain locked (which therefore you're going to be prompted for its password every time a service needs to grab the credentials stored within).
Parroting the FAQ shows bad conscience. Obviously it is not a complete account.

I am absolutely right about stuff that was inside the non-disclosure firewall and none of your business -- good to read you acknowledge that (finally!).

If we don't agree on rights, duties, definitions or reasons for long-standing laws, there is no point in arguing. Socrates said something like that. But for the record you are woefully ignorant of California law and its recent history, in particular D.P. law and why it was passed and amended. Anyway, no marriage was in limbo, as then-AG Brown stated in mid-2008 what every first-year law student knows: ex-post facto laws are unconstitutional.

If it's all about feelings, there's no point in arguing. My stance, along with that of ~7M others, hurt your feelings, and I'm the proxy for all those voters (many of whom have not changed their views). So be it.

Finally, I never wrote anything about "intolerant of intolerance", of course. But I am enjoying your whinging about JavaScript. Ta!
Neither, I would choose Elixir with Phoenix Framework
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10652933
It's possible -- and I know this is a stretch -- but it's possible that good people can occasionally do something good for all of us, something that's good for society and feeds back, at best, only indirectly to the self. Maybe if it's just a statement, like this one, that forces some iota of reflection, that will be enough for the author.
I've been using only email-based auto for years with Django. It's fully supported and very easy to use[1].

1. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/auth/customizin...
Fair. Has it been made explicitly illegal anywhere, or just not explicitly legal? Sorry for being difficult.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660295 and marked it off-topic.

You reveal your lack of good faith with the slur, "the criminality of the black community". If you were genuinely interested in factual exploration, that's where you'd be least likely to go.
I'm sorry, I forgot the most important part, which is why I don't believe a word... it's because it's self-serving. Any time a witness is testifying, the job on cross-examination is to expose the bias or self-serving interest that the witness may have in offering their testimony. When arresting officers testify against a defendant, they are of course just backing up their prior actions. Pretty damn rare is the officer who will admit on the stand that they bungled XYZ component of the arrest, or that they didn't actually have probable cause, etc. Because it's their arrest, it's their own record on the line, they have too great a self-interest in supporting their own arrest, and therefore their testimony should be discounted.

When an IA officer testifies against one of their own fabricating evidence, I can be sure it is testimony that they are thoroughly unhappy about giving and not particularly self-serving. Therefore, more trustworthy. Somehow I doubt, for example, that the IA department operates under quotas and driven by officer-arrest stats.
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I'm gonna go with "what is a white South African?" for $200 on this one, Alex.
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>I can't understand this "surely this doesn't happen" mentality of a lot of Americans in general in such cases.

"It can't happen here." It's very disruptive to some people's worldview to suggest that there's still any sort of racial inequality problem.