skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will admit that I have mixed feelings about the Second Amendment. As does the Supreme Court; Heller was a 5-4 decision, in which the minority disagreed with the interpretation of the text that you claim is plain and indisputable. Furthermore, "Four times between 1876 and 1939, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule that the Second Amendment protected individual gun ownership outside the context of a militia." [0] You could argue, I suppose, that the true meaning of the amendment was forgotten and has been recovered, but then I think you should attempt to explain why that happened.

> Now you may say that this right is trumped by others' right to live peaceably without fear of being shot. I won't disagree.

Okay -- we agree on something :-)

> But what you should be agitating for is repeal of the second amendment

This doesn't follow. We all know about restrictions on speech that are seen as legitimate -- yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater, etc.; the examples are familiar -- yet the arguments for these restrictions are not taken as arguments for repealing the First Amendment altogether.

I certainly think that my right to live peaceably, as you say, without fear of being shot, is worthy of some protection and needs to be balanced against gun ownership rights.

I also wonder how well even armed citizens can defend themselves against a tyrannical government in this era of militarized police, modern weapons, and SWAT teams. 240 years ago, the arms technology race had only barely started; now it is in full swing. We know how arms races end: the side with the most money wins. Even if the Second Amendment came to be read to permit citizens to own tanks, drones, etc., people can't afford them.

Personally I think the right to communicate with my fellow citizens unmonitored is more important, and in the end more likely to be decisive.

[0] https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/how-nra-rewrote-secon...
Codecademy and Gamified Education
FWIW, I have an old Macbook Pro of the 2009 era. I ripped the DVD drive out and replaced the hard disk with 2xRAID1 SSDs. It runs Gentoo. Fast.
Sounds good, I will definitely keep developing it when I have time. I'm hoping there's some NLP library out there that parses a story into an AST-like thing. Then all I'd need is to write an interpreter to convert the story AST into story-graph objects. Not a bad excuse to do some NLP research.
Anything in DMSO? You'd have a hard time avoiding it in a cell bio lab; we dissolve everything in DMSO.
Why Linux should thank Microsoft and why the future is dark
"Pundits have long puzzled over why Japan, embroiled in an unwinnable war in China, attacked a country that supplied most of its oil and had an economy 70 times its own."

That's off by like an order of magnitude. Numbers like this are never exact, but no way was the difference 70x. Wikipedia's numbers have it at ~5.5x: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_Wor...
"Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for their data on human experimentation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

A bit off topic but perhaps interesting to some.
Is lazy evaluation asynchronous enough for you? It's more predictable than random asynchronous I/O, though, so synchronization is easier.
Personally I love both: minimal, secure-oriented distros like Alpine Linux, and unikernels. They will both play an important in building robust, scalable distributed systems.
nobody expected them to surrender at the time, and they needed either to go trough a landings and ugly attrition war or display such force to let the parties surrender while saving face.

that's why the bombs and that's why the target were mid sized cities.

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

especially source http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/05/opinion/blood-on-our-hands...

''We of the peace party were assisted by the atomic bomb in our endeavor to end the war,'' Koichi Kido, one of Emperor Hirohito's closest aides, said later.''
Vladimir Kornyak touches on some of these ideas in these papers:

1. On Compatibility of Discrete Relations (2005) http://arxiv.org/pdf/math-ph/0504048.pdf

2. Structural and Symmetry Analysis of Discrete Dynamical Systems (2010) http://arxiv.org/pdf/1006.1754.pdf

3. Discrete Dynamical Models: Combinatorics,
Statistics and Continuum Approximations (2015) http://mmg.tversu.ru/images/publications/2015-vol3-n1/Kornya...

On a somewhat related note -- applying quantum principles to graph database processing -- see this new paper by Marko Rodriguez (the creator of the Gremlin graph programming language):

4. Quantum Walks with Gremlin (2015) http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06278v1.pdf
Save yourself the time and don't read this article. It goes round and round the same point.

Social media makes it easy to spoon feed pablum to the public and the incumbent intermediaries of pablum are threatened by this.
Thanks. I love git but can only be generously considered as a casual user. There are still many things that confuse me (e.g. Tags) and as such there is a ton of functionality I still don't understand. These types of posts help. It's appreciated.
How long have you known your second language?

I'm Swedish and mostly learned how to speak and understand English during approximately age 6-10, after which I'd say I had learned the basics of the language and then expanded my knowledge of the language like any native would do. As far as I can tell, my understanding of syntax, grammar and semantics in both languages is a bit above average compared to natives of both languages (including other bilingual swedes, so maybe I'm not very representative?). My speech is typically correct when I speak casually, in both languages. Mostly I just have a strong Swedish accent while speaking it for the simple reason that I very rarely talk English IRL. (native = speaking it as their mother tongue)

The main problem is the cultural associations in many English phrases which I don't have a deep understanding of, which means they can be misapplied or require asking for explanations, but that's really only a problem of lack of knowledge of the definitions, even within the same language every subculture has its own terminology (and I'd say while I know more English words than many Americans, I know fewer phrases than most of them). It is easier to realize you came across completely new words and figure out their meanings than to pick up on that a particular series of words is a phrase carrying a nuance you don't know when you aren't frequently exposed to them in varying contexts.

(SwiftKey's autocorrect is typically responsible for more errors than I am...)
I used to be good at maths. No, let me rephrase, I used to like maths (Yes, in french math is plural).

Then came my last high-school year, and I got the worst teachers ever. I started neglecting math in favor of more enjoyable subjects like Chemistry and Physics. And my grades started dropping.

After high school I got into software engineering, and I aced most courses, but math.

And until today, I say that those teachers may have cost me a lot. As I screwed-up many interviews when math questions came up. (I'm talking signal, and Fourier series, etc, ..)

I may be in a totally different career now if only I had teachers that cared a little more.
"During the final months of World War II, Japan planned to use plague as a biological weapon against San Diego, California. The plan was scheduled to launch on September 22, 1945, but Japan surrendered five weeks earlier."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Biological_warfare
In fact in the poorest countries this money is often used to buy the means to increase productivity; i.e. buy a sewing machine to make and sell clothes, buy a goat for milking for consumption as well as sale. It is quite often also used so that the family is able to support itself while also sending their children to school instead of sending them to the fields; again another form of increased productivity, albeit in the future.

Another point to raise is that in poorer parts of the world there is far less, proportionally, that is provided by corporations, large or small.
It's science(and I can say this knowing the researchers). The trials were done rigorously and according to regulatory requirements. The results may be negative, but they are valid results.

What it means for depression and DBS down the line remains to be seen. I agree w/ the poster below that a lot may depend on how you define depression; one critique may be that surgical candidates were not all suffering from the type of depression affecting the subcallosal cingulate area.

Of course the rationale for actually implanting the devices in the subcallosal cingulate were based on PET and fMRI results; and many in the imaging field regard those techniques as "junk science" but that is an argument with many barbs and perhaps better saved for another day...
Seems more like an idiot test to me. If someone legitimately finds something this basic confusing they are going to constantly be running into problems and aren't suited for a programming job.
> As long as you do not ...act on this presumed belief

And how exactly does that differ from what I said? What exactly is "a belief you don't act on"?
Some outlets tend to be disinterested in the games themselves, and instead write hitpieces that undermine companies for a couple million uniques. Where game interviews are more about how a game could be construed as sexist [1] rather than the game itself.

If you keep calling companies sexist, they're not going to talk to you. They're under no obligation to do so.

If you've given a game a fair shake and say it sucks, then I agree, they shouldn't take away your access. But if all you're going to do is try and poke holes in it, it's hard to believe a company would want to help you do that.

1: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/22/blizzard-on-heroe... (see the end)
Build Chromium from source.
Debug and trace whats "phones home" and yank it out.

I dont see why this needs to be a Ask HN.
How 'computers' are depicted in the media
See 'Fringe' Season 1 episode 12 from 7.18s The computer techie is having problems recovering data as 'the harddrive platters must be fused' besides, she says 'I know some pretty aggressive data retrieval techniques, I can give it a shot'. She then dismantles the drives exposing the platters to the air. Does anyone here know what she is on about.
One issue is that it can be difficult to be both lazy and a fully engaged welfare recipient. Given the complexity of eligibility proof and maintaining eligibility for various services (social security, medicaid/medicare, food stamp policies, child welfare services, child support...) participation in the Welfare World could come to occupy all of the time and working memory of its users apart from time spent avoiding the other perils of the lower class world (drugs, evictions, crime). In a science fictionesque version, a majority of people are caught slogging through socialist welfare calculus while a select few ayn randian figures rise above and create empires of capitalism to cushion themourselves from the black hole dystopian welfare system sucking down higher and higher socioeconomic ranks. Luckily, I don't think things are that bad.
Seriously ... I had to go all the way to "Further Examples" just to get any idea what it was talking about.
The Unbearable Accuracy of Stereotypes [pdf]
If we can find some common ground that we can measure I think that would help this discussion. In my previous post I proposed that we check my claims with whether gun works or not. These were my claims:

Claim 1. That gun is realtime.
Claim 2. That gun is offline-first.
Claim 3. That gun is a graph database.
Claim 4. That gun is decentralized.

I then linked to the follow 1min video ( https://youtu.be/-i-11T5ZI9o ) to back up my claims 1&2&3. Either I am cheating/lying in the video, or gun does as I claim. Which is true?

Then, after whether the above has been verified we can move onto the next issues (which you addressed, but ignored the earlier). Next up, I would agree that GUN is not production ready and therefore wouldn't be appropriate to stack up against Riak, Cassandra, and CouchDB. I will agree with you there. But this is merely a matter of time (we're already working on a battle suite test, hopefully getting Jepsen set up, etc.) and unfortunately it is important to do evangelism while you are developing a system so you can have beta testers. We need that. So please help out! Find bugs and problems, report them. :)

Third, regarding code I don't think we'll be able to find common ground (other than the fact that we are already doing a rewrite, which suggests we agree to some degree). Why? Because I'm not one of those ES6 fan-loving Promise-everything boys. I'm not sure if you are or not, but your comment seemed suggestive of that direction. This won't lead to a fruitful discussion, because it is again a subjective view of the aesthetics of code (I find single character variables as easier to logically understand and maintain, for instance. This makes most people balk, but why? Because I am not an app developer I do not know what people are going to use the data for. I'm a tool developer, which follows more the work and lines of mathematics... `x` is a variable! It could be an integer, a float, or whatever else. This again is a personal preference so please don't downvote me for my personal coding style.)

If you choose not to use GUN because you disagree with my coding style, that is your choice and saddens me. But I will be very strong: please do not use that as an excuse to dismiss my claims. My claims can be checked and verified and I have backed them up.
> It was one a wave of new JS engines developed in response to the release of Chrome/V8 which destroyed the previous generation of JS engines in terms of performance (I'm sure the various browser vendors would say they always planned to create faster JS engines, but there's no doubt that the release of Chrome/V8 in 2008 accelerated their efforts).

Well, TraceMonkey can at least legitimately argue to not be inspired by it: it was publicly announced prior to Chrome, and work obviously started on it before that.
For folks who are interested, some other examples are the Kafka/Samza ecosystem and blockchains like Ethereum.
Welfare is really an economic stabilizer, in the same vein as "printing money," lowering interest rates, and raising taxes.

It's a macroeconomic tool government uses to keep the economy stable. It has nothing to do with laziness.
I know very little about the topic, but is that a thing? Surely just publishing (without asserting ownership) could establish prior art?
We heard you the first time.
Mandatory types is obvious—it needs to be compatible with existing JS code. Gradual typing is entirely plausible (and I think highly likely), and from there it's easy to add some static lint that ensures a codebase is statically typed.
If you want a current SBCL but want to avoid Sourceforge, use your distro's SBCL binary (which is probably ancient) to recompile the source code taken from GitHub.
Another one: git pull --rebase. If you've made a commit or two but others have pushed before you've had a change to pull, you can do a rebase to avoid the separate branch and merge that a regular git pull will attempt to do. I don't know if I'd trust it on very out of date branches though.
DBS for Parkinson's (and dystonia and essential tremor) work reliably well, and the complication rates are considered acceptable. However, in terms of understanding the mechanisms of how they work on the brain, I would very much characterize it as a black box. So much so that if you look at the different ways different medical centers and practitioners program the devices, it's clear we don't know how it works; just that it does (and extremely effectively) once you fiddle around with the settings long enough.
>The US was a minor political and economic power

I agree with you that the US was under-powered militarily at the time, but by the 40s the US had been the world's largest economy and industrial power for decades.
I stopped drinking over 4 years ago after a few years of drinking less and less. I've been on and off of coffee for months at a time (I still get back to it when I need to power through work until the next break).

The most surprising thing was how uncomfortable it made others who drink when you go out with them.
Useful Extensions for Front-End Developers and Designers
Azure is the second biggest cloud provider in the world (after amazon) - and we (TipRanks) deploy VMs to Azure.

It's a lot less common but I wouldn't call it `very rare`
Are they really looking for heroic masculinity, alternative or not?
$10 for a cocktail? Screw Australia and our $18 cocktails, I'm heading to NY for the cheap drinks
None of: celebrity mags, campaign horse race coverage, games reporting, or Gawker Media have anything to do with journalism.

They're glorified content farms fighting to show their ads next to things people want to be made public anyway. Their net contribution to humanity is probably negative. Fuck it, let them burn.
I'm pretty sure it's a troll.
Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2015 (WordPress)
Mozilla proposes splitting off Thunderbird email client
Honestly, I've never looked. Although it seems some terminals can change the cursor shape, it looks like even Vim doesn't bother to try, so I'd be surprised if readline could.

The general solution is to just tap Esc a couple of times to ensure you're in Normal mode and continue from there.
Well, by popular media I think you mean one specific subculture which calls itself pop-culture media. It's not literally popular, but for some reason they think they are.

DC and Marvel in particular seem stuck to their existing aging fan market and universes, but independent graphic novels and Japanese comics with no shared universes outsell them constantly. Their reaction was to get themselves a separate category in the bestseller lists so they could go back to just ignoring them.

ref. http://otakuusamagazine.com/Anime/News1/As-Geek-Culture-Assi...
Amazon's buy box for Ignition! right now is a used copy for just over $14K.

They don't even throw in free shipping either...

http://amzn.to/1TsIA9c
In theory, yes. In practice, patent examiners mostly only look at patents when checking for prior art. Once someone else gets a patent for your invention you'll face a costly legal process to invalidate the bogus patent.
They did try invading Soviet territory, but got slapped so badly by Zhukov that they gave up. Permenantly; the Soviets were able to send all of their military forces west when their spy in Japan confirmed that the latter had no plans to attack them.

Some important Japanese politicians did anything they could to stop war with the USA (Mamoru Shigemitsu, a pacifist, and Fumimaro Konoye, who considered an attack on the USA to be a very bad idea) but the militarists had the ear of the emperor, and kool aid was drunk.
I think the antitrust suit also scared Microsoft off from including antivirus software with Windows, which has protected the incumbents in the antivirus industry, but the monetization model of Norton and MacAfee makes them little better than the malware they combat.
Microsoft is slowly but surely winning me as a fan. Keep doing things that matter, show that you're committed to the open source community, and continue to help push the web forward and I think nothing but good things will come from this.
IMHO probably yes. But other benefits out weights this. I speak or understand some 7-8 languages. Being able to enjoy movies and music from a wide variety pool makes it awesome!
> which is now the recommended way to build native modules, offers a way out

On paper. In reality, HELL NO. I maintain node native addons, and the thing is, NAN is great, but they simply cannot foresee what will break next in v8.

Once something breaks, they provide a node-version-independent feature-shim, but every time there's a new version of Node, I DREAD the work I'm going to have to do to maintain my add ons.

It's simply less work to cross compile C++ to JS w/ Emscripten or write it in JS (or higher level language and compile to JS) in the first place.
Linux, because of servers.
The article appears to be of the belief that no one in the Japanese government wanted war but they were all bumbling fools who couldn't say they didn't want war.
Why Linux should thank Digital Research, Seattle Computer Products and DR-DOS, would make a more accurate title ..
While I don't really believe in the "Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient" (they exist, in tiny numbers, and are likely irrelevant to economic outcomes due to being rare), I don't think this paper has proved what its title claimed. It's a great piece of research, but it is fundamentally about the situation in developing nations, which are capital-poor and, precisely as we would anticipate, infusions of capital into a capital-poor economy have a strongly positive impact.

To draw any conclusions about "welfare recipients", we would need similar data and research to be done in the wealthy nations. To the best of my knowledge, the reason why this hasn't happened is because nobody's run these experiments at sufficient scale in those nations (a few uncontrolled trials have been run, but on the scale of 10-20 people, and we need thousands). We should run that experiment and find out for sure.
My son has some of the Lego ones framed on his wall.
I've heard the point of view expressed before that the number of patents filed per research dollar expended is a measure some large organizations like to use to judge the effectiveness of their research departments. Because the government doesn't have a profit/loss things like patents filed can be a way for them to compare their effectiveness to private industry.
To be honest although I like the raspberry pi hardware (and would recommend it in comparison with some of the other boards) I'm not particularly a fan of the foundation also.

The reason being that they can't handle any form of constructive criticism very well. I dare you to make a comment about the USB design, open hardware vs blob thing, I will bring the popcorn. They have an extremely negative stance against competitors products which I don't understand. If it is real about the children and education I don't see how "competing" products that drives the prices down, are something bad in that regards. For me it is a healthy thing.

Personally since the beginning I've had a very negative vibe due to how to they communicate on their blogs, in comments, deal with people who have different opinions,... . I'm not one bit surprised that in the communications with the lakka dev(s) they made the impression of being unfriendly. You really don't have to be in direct communications with them to get that impression.

But they have the advantage of having a good product which in the end is maybe the most important thing. They make darn good inexpensive hardware.
> * The first Americans kick out the British.

That really doesn't capture the flavor of it. In a very real sense, the first Americans were British -- they just refused to pay taxes to a government thousand of miles away.
I don't drink coffee. I'm usually more alert and awake every single morning than most of my coffee drinking friends after they've gotten their morning fix.

For those of you that aren't lazy, the best way to feel alert and awake in the morning is to exercise in the morning. Get that blood flowing everywhere!
If you can spend 40 years in a lab breathing mercury fumes, maybe it isn't as dangerous as the public perceives it to be? I mean sure, let's stop sealing gas valves with it, a space should be built to be safe to work in for 40 years. But let's not freak out about perorming a couple experiments with it, using a mercury-bulb switch in a thermostat, or the few milliliters released by a broken CFL bulb.
Interesting thread on Reddit along these lines, as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/3vfam4/upd...
Linux Kernel Development, 1991-2015 [video]