skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/31/vietnamese-blog...

"The mother of a prominent Vietnamese blogger has died after setting herself on fire as her daughter prepares to go on trial next week.

A police officer in the southern province of Bac Lieu said Dang Thi Kim Lieng, 64, died on Monday afternoon on the way to hospital in Ho Chi Minh City after setting herself alight that morning near her home.

Phil Robertson, Asia deputy director for Human Rights Watch, said Lieng's death 'points to some very, very serious concerns about the kind of harassment' that relatives of dissidents face in Vietnam. "

I'd rather live in Santiago, Chile or Medellin, Colombia.
Using const does not prevent data races.

We made Rust because you can't actually retrofit it's guarantees on C++ without breaking backwards compatibility. The CPP Core Guidelines are an example of this: Herb said that data race prevention is a non-goal, and in general, how it interacts with concurrency is not yet understood.
> I subscribe to the idea of buying bottled water

Quoting from http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/qbw.asp :

> 1. Isn't bottled water safer than tap water?

> No, not necessarily. NRDC conducted a four-year review of the bottled water industry and the safety standards that govern it, including a comparison of national bottled water rules with national tap water rules, and independent testing of over 1,000 bottles of water. Our conclusion is that there is no assurance that just because water comes out of a bottle it is any cleaner or safer than water from the tap. And in fact, an estimated 25 percent or more of bottled water is really just tap water in a bottle -- sometimes further treated, sometimes not.

> 2. Is bottled water actually unsafe?

> Most bottled water appears to be safe. Of the bottles we tested, the majority proved to be high quality and relatively free of contaminants. The quality of some brands was spotty, however, and such products may pose a health risk, primarily for people with weakened immune systems (such as the frail elderly, some infants, transplant and cancer patients, or people with HIV/AIDS). About 22 percent of the brands we tested contained, in at least one sample, chemical contaminants at levels above strict state health limits. If consumed over a long period of time, some of these contaminants could cause cancer or other health problems.

Don't forget also that there's a lot of plastic waste with bottled water, and the cost is enormous. The pure tap water I drink is cheap enough that I also use it to bathe in and water my plants. Even purified tap water isn't that cheap.

This price difference means there is a strong business interest to privatize water. (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization ). One of these companies is Nestlé Waters. Nestlé, like other private water companies, are bringing in loads of bottled water to Flint. This has the dual purpose of humanitarian support, and getting the idea across that bottled water is a solution over untrustworthy city water.

What an amazing coincidence that Deborah Muchmore, the wife of Gov. Rick Snyder’s ex-Chief of Staff Dennis Muchmore, was also spokesperson for Nestle Waters in Michigan. I think this alignment of interests is a natural consequence of believing that a (democratic) government should be run more like a(n autoritarian) business.
ah yea I meant without.

Godebug doesn't work with 1.5 vendor-ed deps, sigh !
But we're you also testing positive for lead exposure? While anecdotal, stories like this help people connect with the numbers. Also, not talking at two can mean lots of different things. Both of my kids started talking at around 13 months, but what they said was unintelligible to anyone other than their parents.

Speculating a bit here, he's probably behind the curve in starting to try and speak.
Hmm, interesting point.

I think that most companies that engage in lobbying try to keep such activity relatively quiet, and aren't interested in having it exposed or written about.

I'm not saying that lobbying is bad; I realize that it's part of the process. But I do think that many lobbyists prefer a lack of transparency and exposure.
There are a bunch of water quality testing kits you can get to test the quality of water at your tap. They range in price from DIY that you can get at Home Depot or Walmart for $20 to a kit you send away to a lab that can cost in the $50 to several hundred dollar range depending on the number of things you are testing for.
I should have been clearer, I was referring only to the last part of the last sentence

>Seems loke you'd be able to overcome the perf issues and finally make that 3D version.

Which I interpreted as "once GPU simulation makes things fast, why not make a 3d simulation"

Apart from that part I agree with the ancestor comment, the code seems to do CPU simulation and GPU simulation is likely to be faster. On the other hand GPU simulation would likely mean rewriting the entire simulation engine from scratch, so I'm not holding my breath.
Lobbying consists primarily speaking about what you think public policy should be. Doing this is explicitly protected as legal by first amendment to the US constitution.

Without the ability for individuals to speak about public policy, how can there be democracy?

There is a problem. Wealthier individuals have the ability to speak more persuasively. They can afford education in rhetoric. They can afford time to learn how laws are written. They can afford time to learn about the particular domain which those laws must govern. They can afford the time to spend honing their arguments. They can afford expensive pieces of equipment like printing presses, which have always been expensive, to spread those arguments. Does this mean that the rich have more ability to influence public policy than the poor? Yes. Yes it absolutely does.

There is also a question of whether people can pool their resources to create organizations that advocate for certain policies or candidates. The US Supreme Court was recently asked to examine this question and gave an opionion on it, which you can read here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
Note bene: Please don't downvote these kinds of comments. I have no ties to AndrewKemendo, his friend, or his friend's venture, but I greatly appreciate that HN is one of the few forums where users are generally encouraged to promote personal projects or projects of friends/acquaintances as long as they are 1) on topic, and 2) tastefully done (ie, don't spam a post with multiple promotional comments) and 3) any ties disclosed.

This post observed all 3 of these general guidelines, and as a result, I got to learn about a very interesting project.

So particularly if you're relatively new to HN, and just got the downvote button, please let these posts stand as is, and don't downvote. HN isn't like many online communities in that moderate amounts of self-promotion are OK here.
You can get lead testing kits on amazon. Same for chlorine, bacteria, etc. He basically said don't just follow the hive mind, test your water and get a baseline.
> if a company is willing to pay top dollar for a year to hire a candidate for a specific skill

No, the case was tcs hiring someone for top dollar only to get a h1b. You moved the goalpost, sigh!.
So personally involved people aren't allowed to voice displeasure at those who have taken positive steps to harm them?

Did you completely ignore the differentiation between thought and action that I just laid out?
It seems pretty unlikely that all the professional traders quit rather than taking advantage of any market disparities that arise.
No, although it required a little ingenuity. We would have considered using Shiny Server Pro for the auth and other features but we wanted to use our single sign on service. What we did was we put Nginx in front and had it call a tiny Rails app that handles authentication via the SSO. If Rails returns the correct status to Nginx, then the client is redirected to the Shiny page they requested.

Its a bit of a one-off but it does work well! One more step towards making R fit for production :)
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Snowden exposed a vast amount of criminal activity within our government, and the governments response is "lets prosecute snowden!" ... no reforms, no groundswell for reform.

The spying isn't even a topic in the upcoming election.

Since 2001, we have only seen the government go the opposite way- gathering more power, from the creation of the TSA to NDAA they are clearly not beholden to the people. (I don't believe most people support this, if accurately educated about the scientific and legal basis of these- thousands of TSA agents have been arrested for crimes that victimize travelers, they fail tests to see if they will catch bombs, and no terrorists have been found...and this isn't just Bush's doing - NDAA and the porno scanners happened under Obama, and during the whole period we haven't been seeing congressmen of either party attempt to stop it (though Rand Paul did a filibuster at one point.))

The fundamental problem is that the US government- at all levels, and across parties- is not answerable to the people or for their crimes.

This is why I'm an anarchist- I believe no government can be kept accountable.
I don't know if things were different in the 80s when I was a kid, or the 50s when my parents were, but it feels very much like 2008 set the standard for "the bigger the crime, the less accountable you will be held." From fixing LIBOR rates to HSBC laundering money for multinational crime organizations, to lying to Congress's face, to lead poisoning thousands of people - the bigger the crime, the less accountability.

GM knew the Flint river water was toxic, so it got to hook back up to the clean water supply. Poor kids did not.

I'm so very unsurprised and so very jaded.
Currently a black family making $100k will live in roughly
the same area as a white family making $30k.

I've heard this figure several times and no one using it has yet cited a source for this. Could you please provide a citation for this figure and any secondary sources that study primary sources attempting to explain this disparity.

I don't doubt this figure could exist at some time pre-1990, but I don't understand how this could possibly be the case since the start of the housing bubble that burst in 2008 in which many many firms pretty much threw out all prejudices in the pursuit of money as people tried to source any and all loans to sell Wall Street. They not only threw out prejudices, they actively overlooked issues that might correlate with and work against some identity groups like credit rating and earning power.
Also, lobbying helps address issues where laws haven't kept up with technology.

A friend of mine is a lobbyist for an energy company. During a power outage, they will do robo-calling to customers to survey whether power is out in a given area. Those robo-calls were (or still are?) illegal, because they violated telemarketing laws. They lobbied to update the legislation for the "do you have power?" robo-calls.
Personally, I think if every manager, marketing person, art designer, UI designer, web designer etc. spent just a day or two learning to program, it would give them an order of magnitude improved understanding of what happens on the coding side and would help them make better decisions. Likewise, programmers should try to learn a little about the domains of other teammates to understand each other better.
I get what you're saying, but this is exactly the sort of stuff that makes me think "wow, this is never going to happen". You're talking about in a very small span of time dismantling entire industries and a huge portion of both federal and state governments (shattering the value of billion-dollar companies, and temporarily putting millions of people out of their jobs) in order to implement an economic policy that has never been tested on a large scale in one of the world's most complicated economies.

I really don't see how a plan like that could ever work in a democracy. You'd make too many people mad. Even if it were to everybody's long-term benefit the moment the layoffs started people would petition their state governments, who would drop out or refuse to comply with the plan, grinding the whole thing to a halt. The political will to do such a thing just isn't possible IMHO.
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I don't understand the problem. Why doesn't the author just upgrade his browser? He doesn't explain why that's not an option.
What would you propose we do - jail people who call for boycotts? Jail people who criticise corporations?

I'll spell this out very simply: the same laws and social standards that make it OK for you to criticise them, make it OK for them to criticise Mozilla.
I agree. Especially for OSS developers. Maybe some integrations are missing with tools to monitor repositories, or automatically download dependencies.

I would actually be quite happy to see GH's monopoly fade a little. I personally don't like this company, but mostly I don't like the idea of one repo manager to rule them all.
What about tactics that are antagonistic and counter-productive? Isn't it about time someone asked "What could possibly go wrong?" when discussing each tactic?
A lot of these cases seem to be borderline, and many times the maladies are only loosely ascribed to lead poisoning. Reading the articles, you see things like "16ppb, 1ppb above the level that the CDC requires you to take action"

And, in the linked article, the line that sz4kerto quoted "In Baltimore, a two-year-old boy...can’t speak, apparently because of lead poisoning."

Hardly a smoking gun.

Many of the outrage-inducing headlines, when you read further, aren't nearly as bad as what they seem. If 15ppb requires no action, why is 16ppb an outrage? Or even 30ppb. Usually 'safe' levels of a substance are set at least an order of magnitude below the point they become a problem in most circumstances.

Obviously lead poisoning is a real thing, and the government cover-ups and selective testing are a problem, but I foresee an entire generation of Flint descendants that will start blaming any and all of their problems on this Flint issue, of course, looking for a $$ handout as well. It would be nice for the media(and the general public) to apply even the lowest evidence bar "greater weight of the evidence" -- meaning at least a 50% probability -- to the situation. It seems the current bar is "a slight chance in hell."

A two year old, exposed to an unknown amount of lead, who can't talk, does not seem to be a definitive victim of lead poisoning. He is, however, a great tool for the media to use to invoke the "won't you think of the children" hysteria, which will surely prompt a knee-jerk reaction that will waste millions of dollars.
What more explanation are you wanting? Thanks to that post, I found a few different heavy metal tests on Amazon [0] for a general indication of quality. It also looks like I could also ask one of quite a few local labs if I trusted them and wanted a more in depth set of results [1].

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Sensafe-480309-SenSafe-Heavy-Metals/dp...

[1] https://www.calwater.com/waterquality/water-quality-testing-...
> Rick Snyder’s ex-Chief of Staff Dennis Muchmore, was also spokesperson for Nestle Waters in Michigan

While this sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, I honestly can't think of any other reason why a politician would almost certainly destroy their career over something like this.
“The employee produced no evidence to back up her claims.”

This logic is infuriating.

This is a Patriarchy.

Claims of sexual abuse and / or coercion should not, at first trigger, be subject to this sexist rubbish.

Edit: Downvotes. I would encourage the downvoters to take a serious look at the article and explain the rather glaring side step into irrelevant sexist rubbish, and how it adds or detracts from the ideology of the whole piece. Reframing, it is the sign of a company that takes sexual related concerns seriously? More importantly, why exactly does the author choose this particular series of details?

Still shocked and saddened that some people around HN have this attitude. If a woman close to you were to suggest she were raped or coerced into sex, would your first response be "Show me the proof!"?

Public statements such as this reveal the downward cultural pressures on women. This is a real thing.
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At the very least, I would want to know if my house has a lead service pipe. Several years ago in my locale, the city identified every house with a lead pipe, and replaced all of them. This doesn't eliminate lead solder used on copper pipes within the house. I suppose one could strategically identify the portion of the plumbing used for drinking water, and replace it with lead free.

I think Flint may have been an accident waiting to happen -- hoping that nothing would ever disrupt the passivation built up inside the pipes. I think that replacing lead service pipes nationwide sounds like a public works project. Putting the people of Flint to work replacing their own pipes would bring more than just clean water to the city.
It's an abstraction layer on top of SQLAlchemy. There might be some performance hits, but none that have made me question whether I should be using it. The convenience of having a more pythonic way to work with data for ETL scripts is worth it, to me.
Currently using flyway on an enterprise Java project. Brilliant library. Excellent documentation, developers sing its praises all day everyday.
I think the new management at Github is going to eventually alienate all of the users which have free open source accounts by introducing a monthly fee. They'll do this for 2 reasons. 1: To drive away the open source users so that the paying enterprise customers will feel better about using Github, and 2: to extract a revenue stream from the open source users which remain to cover the expenses of providing a repository.

I have several open source projects on Github, but if they try to extract a recurring revenue stream from me, I'll move the projects to another platform.
Worrying and potentially libelous. Some countries (e.g. UK) have strict libel law, and by using this you could get Github in trouble for publishing libelous material.

Of course, this has always been possible with git.
My thought on reading this was "how does he afford this?"
IIRC, importing an entire namespace into scope is a feature that was added exclusively for backwards compatibility and is not idiomatic modern C++.

What is idiomatic is explicitly importing individual symbols into a name peace.

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

using std::cout;
using std::vector;
using std::string;

int main() {

vector<string> v {"explicit ", "is better ", "than implicit\n" };

for (auto p: v) cout << p;

return 0;

}

I'm on mobile so please forgive errors.
Money money money money money.

Everything is about turning 1 cent into 20 cents, these days. Gone are the days where a game was fun first and foremost. Now it's about who can squeeze the most money out of their playerbase.

One game I've been playing that did rekindle that feeling of good ol MMO fun is http://projectgorgon.com/.

Fully skill based, exploration focused and -zero- hand holding.
I thought Rust left the optimization to LLVM. Is that not the case?
It's off topic since it isn't about investment advisers. Seems worth submitting as a top-level story though.
The knowledge you are referring to was never there in the first place. Large chains have largely centralized inventory management and the actual stores are little more than distribution centers and cash tills. And, even was that knowledge and capability there, the bigger problem remains that the invisible hand doesn't make the necessary capital to open a grocery store (and both its inventory and its plant assets) appear from nowhere. This is one of the trap corners that the unfettered free marketeers of the world would pretend don't exist, but they do and they're ugly.
There's probably a lot of truth in what you say. But, the economy abhors a vacuum, and there will either be "something" that starts up, or in some cases not and those towns may die. The dead towns will have a complicated story that in many cases will probably include the death of local businesses by Walmart.

If I ran 7/11 or Shell, I might be thinking about how to put in gas 'n goes with a somewhat larger retail footprint, a larger percentage of life groceries than potato chips. That would have the backing of a large corp, so the first yearly lack of profit wouldn't kill mom and pop's retirement, and comes with knowledge of running the outlet and managing supply lines.

Bonus, you're gonna gas up before you make that three hour grocery run, maybe what they have at the gas station is good enough, or reduces the number of trips you need to make.
You want a lawyer and an accountant (both with fiduciary duties) not a salesman.
Sorry to give out the wrong impression. I was talking about refillable bottle water (Fillit yourself kinds) which I see all around me, something like this http://www.primowater.com/Great-Value-FILL-IT-YOURSELF.aspx

Totally agree with your comment. I can not imagine using so much plastic just for drinking water sake.
GM switched because the water was corrosive, not because it was toxic.

It's a little pedantic, because the corrosiveness is why the water coming out of household taps has the high levels of lead, but GM switched because the water wasn't suitable for their process, not because of toxicity.
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Hmmm. The performance of Nina Simone is outstanding: http://montreuxjazz.com/ladies-jazz

But I totally do not understand how the website is structured. Is there a full performance of that gig? If yes, where? I find a lot of meta sites evolving around how great the archiving is. But I can't find a good way to search the now publicized concerts and find background info for the video playing.

Maybe site is just overload? http://imgur.com/fciOOpQ
There are so many things that GitHub could easily do, but don't... Makes me wonder what they actually do.
I would have to disagree with the premise of "computer-code-based culture" being a thing. It's not a computer-code based culture we're heading towards (or are in) so much as an extension of writing-based culture no longer based on printed media. Knowledge of code is no more necessary a skill to interact with computers than knowledge of leading, kerning and CMYK is for people reading a newspaper. Most people basically use computers for reading, writing, math and media.
Yes, the waiving of medical fees sometimes happens, but "financial need" is a pretty high bar to meet. I was saddled with around $10K of medical debt after a bike accident a few years back when I was unemployed because a) I had made $70K the previous year and b) they don't consider student loan payments when calculating income. And that was with insurance (a high deductible combined with some things not being covered because they were out-of-network; the accident occurred on a different coast from any in-network-provider).
This is what they added in the release after the one he's using. http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1100/

Not only is he choosing a less stable browser, he's also choosing a non-HTML5 compliant one.

Reminds me of this Swift on Security tweet: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/69547522814777753...
>I know, Opera 10.63 is really old, but it's the last desirable browser in the world…

Personal preference I guess.
The parent's point was that not all places are racist in the same way and when you see the diversity in how racism plays out across countries and cultures, you realize that is exists because people believes it exists.

Racism is not reality.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick

from "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978) http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm
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Looks like we got a fanboy.