skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the recurrence of torture. It's very clearly shown it isn't reliable. We train our military to resist coercive questioning, to plant misleading answers, and avoid use of yes or no answers to prevent video edited confessions later. Is it reasonable to suppose that none of our opponents will be aware of these techniques? An untrained person is just as likely to tell you anything that might make you stop as the crucial fact you need (presuming they even know it).

It might save lives. It might lead to mistreatment of many innocent people. How do you know which beforehand? If you can't know, are you happy with the abandonment of innocent until proven guilty?

Last, I've noticed an increasingly positive portrayal of torture in TV of late, say the last ten years. It's neater. The good guys seem to do it as a matter of course. It's more likely to be effective. Is this coincidental? Am I just watching the wrong shows?
I don't find it expensive at all. Couple things to point out:

1. You will eat less, snack less, and eat out less.

2. Vegetables are cheap.

3. Some meats are very cheap. Pork is super cheap right now.

4. Cheese/dairy is fairly cheap.

This all depends on where you live and what kind of foods you want to eat. Steak is going to be more expensive than pork. Maybe dairy is more expensive where you live? Just depends...

But the cost of fixing up your health later down the line will definitely be more expensive than just eating healthier early on.
This was featured on BBC R1 last week - the presenters calling random Swedes via the number looking for a 'Freida'.. it's as bizarre as it sounds.
Thoughts on Digital Rebar and RackN?
http://rebar.digital/ and rackn.com
It's opt in. In a radio segment the other day they said 6k people have volunteered. Which makes it very much non-random, but still, cute concept.
Article 1 of the German constitution is "Human dignity is inviolate". Ie, a human life has inherent value, and threats against it must not be used for any purpose, however "good" those purposes might be on the surface. I think there is a wealth of good that emerges from this one single principle.

IIRC, a German police chief tried to torture a kidnapper to reveal the whereabouts of a child whose life was under threat. The police chief was charged even though the child's life was saved (I may have got the details skewed but I believe the key points are true).
I couldn't really tell if that first kid liked cars or not. He certainly doesn't look that interested.

Here's how you get a kid to get interested in this kind of event. First, buy good earphones. Super important - it's incredibly loud. Next, go to a top fuel event.

If you are grown and haven't been to a top fuel drag race, I HIGHLY recommend you try it once. Once is enough to figure it out.
I moved to another country for ten years and my credit report is now _empty_. I'm not saying if it was previously good or bad, but I'm moving back now and either way starting from a clean slate is sort-of cool (even if I have to start off with a $200 wal-mart credit card...)
I would guess that a large proportion of people reading this comment have incomes in the top 1% globally.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615...

Interestingly, this is less likely to be the case in wealth terms; many people globally with a lot of wealth (e.g. in agricultural land) have relatively low incomes, and the opposite is also true.
What's your daily caloric total? No breakfast plus just veg for lunch sounds like you're on an extremely low calorie diet, which will work for just about anyone regardless of if it's keto or not.
Maybe do it at the state level?

If nothing else it would be good to hear the different accents :-)
spam posting same link...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11457859
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11462338
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11467370
Dialed 3 times, twice got an answer in - Arabic.
0.87$ in Skype fees well spent...
>How would this be more useful than a machine w/ 4gigs of ram and 4 cores? Most of the time the hungriest process on a personal machine is the browser, and most of the human time it uses is wire(less) bound, so even if one had the machine you describe, he'd hardly notice.

Speak for yourself. Anybody doing 3D, audio work (64 channels all loaded with 2-3 UAD plugins running native), and lots of other things will notice.

Even consumers. Advanced 3D gaming of 2030, virtual reality interactive porn, etc. Even something as humble as local speech recognition and AI processing for real time assistant.

The thing is whether we can make those cpus/tech -- not whether we can use their power when we make them.
What blows my mind is that someone like you can see a sample size of one (you), pull like 15 different levers, and then proceed to "know" which of the levers actually worked, and which levers would work for everyone else.

The sophilistic nature of your comment is astounding.
Ah, I see; all true Scotsmen know what a V8 is.

(I, for one, appreciated the extra clarification. If the article had just said, "14% of cars we service have a V8" it would have been accessible to a far narrower audience.)
Waiting for 9.6 – Bloom filters in Postgres
First, the term "common culture" is relative. In here they are talking about intellectual ideas. There always existed seductive ideas spreading among the (somewhat free) class of intellectuals but these shared flows of ideas were not necessarily representative for neither the (territorially divided) masses of people living somewhere on lower levels of the social ladder nor for the class of rulers above them (which were clearly territorially distinct before unification). The said scholars were in a privileged position of affording to maintain relations with outsiders without much hurdles. The underlings were too poor or too mediocre to want such things, the political lords above them were bound by loyalties and other obligations which made interacting with equals outside their political sphere difficult and suspicious. So this "common culture" may not be more common than say, revolutionary/socialist ideas shared between small groups of intellectuals across the Europe in the eighteen-nineteen centuries. Actually, "not necessarily representative" is too mildly put considering the heavy censoring that casted them into oblivion afterwards!

Second, this is a batch of documents extracted from one place. It's safe to assume that all they reflect is the views of whoever gathered them. It's the confirmation bias, you know?
It really is about a lack of balance between our activity and our food intake and the types and quantity of food we consume.

As a society we have become too good at making cheap, easy to consume food that supplies far more energy than most of us need. Sugar is one of the worst culprits perhaps but it isn't the only one.

I have avoided most really sugary foods for years but with my age and activity levels eating a lot of grain based foods has pretty much the same result. Which isn't really surprising.

When I have the discipline to do it what really works for me is eating more veggies. I am sure you can get fat on a vegetable heavy diet but you probably have to work a lot harder at it.
> In Canada we used to have something called the "Per Vote Subsidy". Every political party got $2 of taxpayer money per-vote, per year.

We have that in the US as well. It has existed since Watergate (1976). In 2008, Obama became the first candidate to opt out of the system, despite an earlier pledge to use them (McCain, his opponent, did not - he used public funds).

Amusingly, Romney said that he'd prefer to use public funds, but the reason that he did not (in 2012) is that Obama did not, and he believed he couldn't be competitive against an incumbent president who would potentially be spending three times as much as he would be legally permitted to[0][1][2].

The system still exists, for any candidate willing to use it. Though I would not be surprised if McCain became the last candidate to take advantage of it. After 2008, no candidate who wants to be competitive will take public funds if their opponent isn't as well, and that's unlikely to be the case for both candidates in a race simultaneously.

[0] Accepting public funds comes with limits on total spending

[1] http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-now/2012/08/romney-ab...

[2] And frankly, he was right - ultimately, he spent about the same amount as Obama did. If he'd been limited to the amounts that public financing would have restricted him to, he'd have lost in a landslide.
‘Axact fraud empire bigger than initially imagined’
We (non 1 Percenters) can also buy political power. Imagine an institution/fond used only for financing ideas that are in the interest of general population. Financing here means buying political power that would make that happen. Institution would need to be fully democratic (maybe direct democracy) so that people that are involved (invested in fond) have a vote and chose in general how money should be spend. More people involved - higher the chance that bigger part of population would benefit.
Apply HN: Cubeit- Making Conversations More Contextual
Cubeit is a place to have conversation around content (like hackernews but in the mobile world). We are trying to solve the problem of context getting lost in current communication apps like WhatsApp.

How are we doing it ?

1. When links are shared in Cubeit, we convert it into a smart card which has only the useful information from that link along with actionable CTA’s. So if you put something from the Product Hunt app in a Cube shared with your friends, even if they don't have the Product Hunt client app installed on their phone, a Product Hunt smart card will give enough context about the shared content in Cubeit about it (photos and videos are automatically extracted for example)

2. Our chat bar is new the search bar. You can now search through multiple apps for for videos, gifs, restaurants and other sources that we support without going out of Cubeit or having any of these apps installed on your phone and share it with your friends directly from the chat bar.
checkout the demo here - https://youtu.be/lguTCE8YI-M

We are currently in public Beta on Android ,for those wanted to checkout the app you can get it from here http://qbt.io/G3T9

Here is the list of content types we support for displaying relevant information http://cubeit.io/list_of_supported_integrations
The other one I noticed is the closing paragraph:

"The car is at the very center of many Americans [sic] lives. It can be a necessity, passion and a way to establish identity. As the number of car choices has increased, the car makeup of American cities have [sic] become vastly different. People in the Midwest are more likely to choose powerful American cars, while people on the coast are more likely to go for foreign, energy efficiency [sic] ones. Increased choice has unveiled the distinct character of American automotive desires."

It reads like a by-the-numbers high school essay. Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them. Sprinkle in outright errors, failures of parallelism, passive voice, and wordiness (...are more likely to...are more likely to...).

The rote approach combined with the anodyne results put this reader to sleep.
Just wondering, have you ever attended a F1 race in person? I ask because after watching WTCC for a long time, when I attended my first live race I found it pretty boring as well. Watching on TV allows me to follow the race, and I missed that a lot when attending live.
Go-debug, a go debugger for atom using delve
I get why you didn't go over Scalaz or any other of the awesome libraries out there. Which is why I didn't mention \/ and friends except as part of a tangential sub-thread :-).

IMHO your scope is spot on for Vanilla Scala and will help many.

Regarding the similar documents shout-out, here's one for Scalaz which I found very well written:

http://eed3si9n.com/learning-scalaz/index.html

Perhaps others know of write-ups similar to yours and this one for some of the others you mentioned. Could be interesting to compile them into a "see also" kind of thing.
And how is that relevant, given that less than 0.1% use it, or wish to use it?
Our AI has developed a propensity for exploring and documenting regions focused on cheese production.

We expect a report back in around 4000 years. Depending on results, we may reset you.
Show HN: A self-driving car in Unity
Very interesting. Might try feeding it some stuff off Smithsonian classic jazz
Why not get everyone on your block to pool their money and act like a single family? Probably because different people have vastly different ideas, goals, and sensibilities.
Maybe these robots will be smart enough to understand how great humanity was and teach us.
We'll send them out late afternoon or evening today, PDT.
I think that is awesome. I will start then. Our idea in a line would be "Codecademy meets Finance".

So we are trying to bring financial education to the masses in an interactive fun way. With hoards of apps available to invest and save now we think that financial education will go a long way in helping people out.

We made a quick ( and dirty, frankly a little embarrassing prototype) at : www.thefinac.tk . Do check it out :) We apologise for the bugs that you may encounter.

Also if you want to look at the standings of all the Apply HN startups you can do so at www.thefinac.tk/applyhn . Another quick hack we made.

Would love to give some feedback on other ideas as well so start posting :)
Webpack – The Confusing Parts
Without transparency and prosecutions, Brennan's words, and any other assurances, carry no weight. The leaders and the foot-soldiers who tortured people all walk free. They got to keep the money they made in torture, and some are able to conceal their identities. All these people would do it again, to you or me or members of your family, at the stroke of a pen changing a policy, or under greater secrecy. Any German would tell you the US will inevitably use torture again, and in our lifetimes, because we left the ability to do it readily at hand.
you use ConTeXt over the LuaTeX engine.

So it still requires Ruby and you can do Lua code.
Can't wait to see what /b/ will do with that.
Voting != Democracy;

Voters succumb to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_selling
Show HN: Create avatars (GTA, cubism, cartoon,...) from photo
Don't hold your breath. See the "flat lining" after 2010?
Anyone try this yet? I've always wondered what Swedes think about IKEA in America...
And Sun buying Cobalt?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube
Changelog available here: https://w3c.github.io/html/changes.html
Hmm. Carter may be telling the truth as he knows it - but Robert Caro's biographies of LBJ make it quite clear that there has been enormous monetary corruption in US politics - going back to well before LBJ. See especially how his first senate race was financed in "The Path to Power"
Poverty may always be a relative phenomenon (even in Cuba) but there has been no better system to lift people out of the life-threatening effects of abject poverty than capitalism. In fact, you cannot have a success with socialism without a large number of wealthy (or well-off) people to tax, and a society cannot tax itself to prosperity.

> I live in a smaller house and have no car. But I have no financial worries like them. I have long vacations, I am not constantly overworked. I don't worry about health care insurance, saving for college education to my kids, getting fired.

In America, we trade stability for social mobility (probably truer before the WWII), and our government promotes car and home ownership, but I doubt those were tradeoffs you made for longer vacations and "free" health care and education. We became more socialist and fascist after WWII and during the Cold War, but we've still managed to maintain steady income growth for average Americans, despite what the media would have you believe with "household income": http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-discov...

Poverty will always be with us, but there are plenty of things our bureaucrats can give up to fight it better. Our federal government has more or less the same number (very few added in the last 100 years) of representatives despite our population tripling. This system has become more susceptible and beholden to corporate interests, including media corporations that promote stories like this one and the problems and divisions in our society without any context of our achievements and commonality. This promotes bandaid and politically expedient half-measures that only make the problem worse in the long-run.
The iPhone Case: How Companies Deliver When They’re Not Certain of Specs
Why hasn't there been a class action suit against the credit agencies? Seems like you'd have a pretty good libel case.

I have no contract with any of these agencies, yet they say bad things about me to other people that are inaccurate.

In fact, I've been monetarily harmed. I tried to refinance my mortgage, which would have saved me over $1000 a month, but was denied due to bad credit. When I looked, it was all inaccuracies. That was two years ago, so I can say for a fact that they caused me $24,000 of direct harm so far. I finally just got all the inaccuracies cleared up.

I suspect that I've signed contracts with creditors that allow them to send info to these people, but I know that isn't necessary, because I can file a derogatory mark about anyone I want to as long as I have their SSN.

So, what stops a class action suit against these guys?
The no true Scotsman fallacy doesn't mean that words don't have meanings or that it's impossible to reason about things. "This person writes like a novice and therefore probably doesn't know much about cars" doesn't invoke the fallacy at all, regardless of whether it happens to be true.
Ask HN: Why do you people make open-source projects?
I was just wondering: why ? You're not getting paid, you're giving your own time, (sometimes) you're giving up sleep.. Don't get me wrong though I'm not complaining, I'm really grateful (so a MILLION thank you). I just want to know what drives you to do so.
Not sure about the Fed, but plenty of UK politicians own buy to let property, so hardly a free market when they have such vested interests in keeping prices high.
Imgur is blocked at the office but I'd like to add there must be a very strong effect of the personal allowance (you don't pay any tax up to 11k) increase when comparing changes over the last decade.

There are exception if your income is in the top bracket.
Did you adjust for inflation and (very tricky if not in the source data) benefits?
Lean Startup Books Graph
There's a lot of interesting research at the moment on gut bacteria eg. the fat mice, thin mice thing

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-h...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-t...

Surprising how complicated the whole weight loss thing can be
I work for Deliveroo, so answering your question is literally my job.

I never made pizza myself, but my girlfriend makes an amazing one. Other information, _The Fold_ is awesome.
The two information are unrelated. There is no way I’m getting out of any attempt at conciliating those two facts where I win.
Regarding "real fruit", how much sweeter is a tomato, an orange, or an apple today compared to past centuries?

Haven't most if not all of the commonly available (popular) fruits today been refined through selective breeding to be more appealing to us? What was lost vs. gained in this process?

(I have no idea, I'm not trying to be rhetorical. My guess is lots of more sweetness and perhaps less fiber, in a much larger fruit.)
It's simply lazy writing. "Capture" is an easy way to show progress over a season. The public now knows torture happens, so not showing it seems less realistic. And TV shows are under 40 minutes per hour show. So, it's hard to show things that dead end.

IMO, I think we are going to start seeing more plot lines where torture results in bad Intel for dramatic tension.
I wasn't really implying that everyone should start a ketogenic diet. Just stating the success that I've had with it, and also noting several common misconceptions that are still largely heard today.
posting the links again

for demo - https://youtu.be/lguTCE8YI-M

App link - http://qbt.io/G3T9

Supported apps -http://cubeit.io/list_of_supported_integrations
>In other words, I think there are actually humans who are usefully described as "alpha", but they are rare enough that most people will never actually meet one in their lifetimes.

Maybe not a full blown "alpha" (that would e.g. be their political leaders, CEOs, etc, so they will affect their lives, even if they don't get to meet one as a colleague/friend), but in most group scenarios there would be some people exerting much more influence than the others, even without a higher rank.
Have you used google spreadsheets on mobile?
(1) Not really. The liver does a good job of handling small amounts of fructose, as present in many sweet fruits and such. But in high quantities, as in HFCS soda, it's unable to cope and you will end up with waaaaay too much triglycerides. Which, unlike glucose, cannot be regulated by insulin.
I'm saying that people get a lot more sensitive about "talking politics" when the positions of the two major parties are in pretty stark contrast and it's blindingly obvious they can't pull the usual "both sides are the same / equally bad / etc". At least, you can't really claim to support the GOP because you want to do something about climate change, only that you don't think it's important or don't think it's happening.

Contrast this with a lot of tech issues, where you can throw up your hands and claim the whole system is fucked, and that both sides have their faults in roughly equal proportion. You're not forced to think about the consequences of supporting one party or the other as much.
I will note that the Grinder and Duotrope are writer-contributed anyways so someone will eventually list your magazine there. I only suggest this because both those sites cater to writers looking for markets to submit work. The more writers contribute the stronger your magazine looks in terms of writer's perspective.

Good luck and I hope to look forward to many future releases to come!
What about something like Diat Coke? Could I still drink it, even when avoid other sugar? Because thats my coffee.
Nothing compared to the reputation damage and fallout when something happens and the client is incredulous. "You hired a felon?"
Possibly.
I want easy access though, through some nice C/C++ API. Maybe intrinsics exposed by the compiler.
One of the lessons that history in the XIX and XX century taught us is that economic competition between states is essential for determining how to best organize societies. A single worldwide ruling hierarchy negates this competition and may hold humanity in a local maximum.

Even today, there are major choices that are different between successful societies, and the definition of what is best is yet to be found. Is it better to have state paid medical care, like in Europe, or private medical care, like in the US? Is it better to have strong unemployment benefits (Sweden, Denmark) or strong worker protection laws (France)? Is pure capitalism (US) better than Social Democracy (EU), or is the better choice Capital Oriented Communism (China)?

The freedom for states to compete fiscally has produced an aberration, though, in the form of offshores. We should work towards severely limiting capital flux between our societies an unregulated tax havens. Without hurting the basic competition principle, though.

Throw the bath water out, keep the baby.