skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like privilege is more transparent the more you have.
This prompts some interesting questions. Could you design a brainless chicken or one with just enough brains to eat, breathe and lay eggs? And would that be more or less horrible compared to the way chickens are currently being treated in factories? Where's the line between vat grown meat and brainless chickens?
If anything, you'd want a chicken with skin which excretes fat so you can avoid putting butter on it, although that would make it quite a bit more difficult to catch.
Agreed. Original comment edited.
It's not just constrained to Apple iPhone as title suggests,but any device with 3D accelerometer. It's just the software which is written for iOS.
The iPhone 5 has LTE and an aluminum back.

Edit: Not being snarky. Just a minor correction.
Yes but not all African American's are disadvantaged. But all disadvantaged people are disadvantaged.

Why not make laws to simply help the disadvantaged? Why does race have to be the indicator, even if its a pretty good one? Why cant income be the indicator? It seems like it would be at least as accurate, if not more so... and no need to bring race into it.
Quantum entanglement, perhaps? It's supposed to transfer information without any speed of light limitation.
It needs user interaction to start. Have you tried using a button?
If you disagree with any part of the proposition, or if you feel it is poorly constructed, then you should vote against it. It's easier, ultimately, to reject a poorly written law and try again with a new law than it is to accept a poorly written law and later try to repeal it.

Too many people fall into the trap of believing "we must do something; this is something; therefore we must do this."
http://html5please.com
You're right, if you're randomly and without bias including short selling then you'd expect to neither make nor lose money, aside from transaction fees.
> I might attempt a DIY groin charger.

? :)
HN felt kind of frozen last week, maybe due to many people being out of power on the east coast. I imagine the amount of traffic gotten was lower, making the easy front page perhaps less cost effective. It might have been better for authors to hold articles until more audience was back online...
I'm either horribly confused by what this app does, or I may have found a bug. I entered my blog URL (hluska.ca), which is on my Twitter profile and then submitted. All it returned was a link to my website.

I accessed your app using Safari on an iPhone. Possibly a mobile problem? Or, again, I might be horribly confused and you can chalk this whole comment up to pebcak...
Start with the egg
Since you can measure energy, it's pretty clear that it counts as information.

However, the theorem you mention only rules out instantaneous transfer of information.
Cool utility. Worked great for the URL I posted.

FYI, "work it's magic" should be "work its magic"
Could it be your .rc files?
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Stackable, of course: http://mydailycow.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/far_side_cows....
For some bizarre reason, this reminds me of the human centipede.
I tried this and it works 'sort of'. Better than I at first thought, it is not in any way tight, the latency keeps being irritating. I did have a good jam from Germany with a guy in the US, though.
Great article, however if you're going to use an acronym that has an already established meaning (MVP - Most Valuable Person) in an uncommon way, you really ought to explain it.

It's entirely possible that everyone in your target audience is familiar with and expects your alternate usage of the term, nonetheless it would be a huge help to anyone else who stumbles across it if you were to define it (or avoid TLA-startup-speak entirely).
It's not a bad thing that Gnome is trying to do new stuff, it's not a bad thing (in itself) that they're taking the direction they're taking.

The bad thing about it is the attitude, that users are being told they're wrong (constantly) and that the comparatively well-loved GNOME 2 was effectively declared dead and deprecated from day 1, instead of being respectfully handed off to the community or a maintenance team. Hell, G3 almost ought to have been called something else, and run separately. It's not the same thing.

And for the javascript customisation - some of the comments in the linked article seem to hint that the GNOME guys would like to ditch that too. It undermines the consistency of look and feel they're trying to achieve.
"There's not a lot of quality data on the health effects of regular pot use, but what I've read says it's something of a mix of the effects of alcoholism and cigarette addiction."

It helps to actually read the quality data you're supposedly referring to.
Harvard absolutely dominates MIT in finance, business, politics, law, medicine, and all the fields of the humanities. I wouldn't be surprised if a higher proportion of Harvard graduates started their own companies, considering Harvard's massive MBA program.

You're very confused. Related: MIT does not have a law school or medical school.
Thanks for the headsup - first I've heard about it. I'll have to look into getting it unblocked (I guess it's because of the domain name?)
Ray tracing demo based on Minecraft
I've wanted to write a ray tracer accelerated by the GPU for a while, but I wanted to make it a bit more interesting than procedurally generated meshes, so I thought about doing it with a uniform voxel grid to make a little tech demo inspired by Minecraft.

I'm still very new to this stuff, but I think it was interesting enough to share it with you. Perhaps someone interested in the same subject will find it interesting to look at :).

I decided to do it in a fragment shader instead of using OpenCL to have the graphics related functionality GLSL as a language offers and because I thought it would be generally easier to set up.

I expected that the loops and branches would have a huge impact on the performance, but it turned out to be as horrible as I expected. Still, I think the performance could be greatly improved, perhaps with insight by people who are more experienced with this kind of thing.

Source: https://github.com/Overv/raycraft
Windows binary: http://filesmelt.com/dl/raycraft.zip (You may need the VS2012 runtime, even though I compiled it with VS2010 it did some weird stuff.)
If you're claiming charitable donations out of what they made means they should get leniency then trading profit for jail time is exactly what's happening.

Donations made from what they make = less profit directly to them. If that then leads to a shorter sentence (or as you're saying no sentence) then how is that not trading off jail time for profit?

The only thing you can say in their favour is that it seems unlikely that they were thinking that cynically when they did it, that the donations were probably genuine rather than an attempt to play the system, but it still sets a very dangerous precedent.

Besides, what about all the money they've already spent which can't be recovered? There really is no argument that they didn't profited from the crime.
That T-Mobile $30 plan is unlimited data, just throttled after 5GB
The app looks at the html source code of the URL you provide and extracts any Twitter handles in it.
Most of these non-profits either have or are hiring data scientists.
Actually, Google enforces HTTPS nowadays when possible. YouTube however is entirely different, YouTube consumes too much bandwidth as-is, they would not want to enforce HTTPS and increase their overall bandwidth consumption like that.

Additionally, on Google you could be searching for confidential things you do not want intercepted, YouTube is more social and public, therefore it is not as high priority.

If you want to enforce HTTPS on sites, use an HTTPS everywhere plugin,
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/g...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-finder/...
It sounds like you simply don't understand what affirmative action is. It's not welfare. You're seriously saying we should give out slots on boards of directors to people on food stamps?

AA doesn't correct for immediate need, it corrects for the fact that people growing up in unpriviledged environments lack advantages. So they have to work a job instead of going to a test prep class. They go to schools with high teacher turnover and poor class selection. They live in social environments with high crime. So they don't get into the "right" colleges, and they don't get the great jobs.

At what spot on that chain would your "make AA like food stamps" idea actually work? You're not even addressing the problem.
"no one is mentioning the fact that states can't truly decide whether to legalize marijuana because at the end of the day, the federal government has legislation that supersedes local/state regulations in this manner"

They aren't mentioning this because of the "fact" that the federal government will not change its stance until the states change their stance. It's not immutable.
You cannot create institutional and systemic racism against white people. White is the cultural norm in the US: everything is default to white perspective and whiteness is considered the most desireable state. Even if a minority treats an individual white person badly, that white person can typically walk away from that encounter without being affected, nor have that sentiment compounded by society at large every day of their life. Furthermore, policies like affirmative action recognize how badly minorities have been treated both historically and today, so the policy attempts to make a (small) correction for that imbalance.

> Isn't the idea equality? Having everyone playing by the same rules regardless of race?

Yes, but the rules are not evenly applied. People of color are disproportionately affected by the economic and political systems of the US. We live in a state of unfair treatment for people of color right now, eliminating things like affirmative action will not change that reality.

> Example (in my own home state, no less) For jobs offered on native lands, the advertisements are allowed to say "Indian preference applies" - which means exactly what it sounds like. Isn't this wrong on a number of levels?

The only thing wrong here is your sentiment. It is really clear you have no idea how badly native peoples in the US are treated. Native people are much more often victims of violent crime. Most native populations have been wiped out by colonial settlers, and those that survived have been forced from their homelands. Native territories are forbidden from prosecuting criminals under their own laws, leaving them unable to provide legal protection against violent crimes. Racist attitudes towards native peoples are extremely prevalent and popular culture constantly attempts to assimilate native culture as a perpetuation of the colonial settler genocide of native peoples. Giving a native person a job is the least US society could do, when it should be doing things like returning stolen lands and providing permanent economic support for those native nations that still exist.
It is too bad that you gave up on Linux and Enlightenment. e17 has been in Debian for a while now, you do not have to manually build it anymore. Why did the update take you 4 days? Are you bandwidth limited? Dialup?
I went from HSPA+ on a Galaxy Nexus (AT&T) to LTE on an iPhone 5 (Verizon), and the difference is very noticeable, at least in my area of the US. HSPA+ was alright but still felt like a cellular data connection. LTE feels just like I'm on a fast wifi connection. It's probably the lower latency that makes it seem like wifi, not just the faster data transfer speeds.
Hey guys - James the creator here. It's just a fun little tool I put together this morning so sorry for the lack of explanation.

It's aimed at anyone doing SEO or trying to reach out to a load of bloggers. It scrapes the pages you enter for common Twitter "follow me" type links and also matches up any Twitter accounts found with the domain name so it's a little more accurate than a thoughtless Twitter link scraper.

I didn't really expect this to make front page! I built it to help promote my startup; JetRank.com, which is a new SEO platform for online marketers, check it out! Feedback however honest is welcomed :)
Not meaning to open a "classic flamewar topic", but when you say,

scientifically untenable positions about evolution, global warming, vaccinations/autism, abortion

What is the scientifically untenable position about abortion? As far as I know there is no scientific controversy concerning abortion in general, but rather it is wholly a moral question.
You really need to explain (a) what to do (b) what is does. It's not clear now.
According to emails I still get for my (yet-to-be revised) Bastards Book of Ruby, this statement rings particularly true:

> Since we finished our final tutoring session in March 2012, I didn't hear from Brian for six months. He recently sent me an email mentioning that he just wrote a Python script to help him model personal stock investments: "I'm very proud of this script because it was the first thing I've done that was both practical and purely for personal use. I was evaluating a stock investment and wanted to simulate a bunch of scenarios. I started to model the scenarios in a spreadsheet before I realized that a spreadsheet wouldn't work, but python was perfect."

Showing how programming is useful for "both practical and purely for personal use" seems to be the surest path for enticing non-professionals...with everything that we have to keep track of in our lives, purely academic pursuits can be tough to stick to.
Cute, novel, technically impressive from a web design perspective.

But does it have AISO low latency audio driver support? Lets not even get into the latencies websockets are going to create. Even if you set something like this up on a LAN, the latencies would still be too high for any truly professional musician.

Dont expect anything like this being used by any real musicians anytime soon, even minus the websockets collaborative part.

Still very cool though. But I still wait for a day when something like Rock Band or Guitar Hero actually has professional low latency audio that could seriously be used live on stage by a band with sub 10ms audio latencies.

If rockband and guitar hero cant even do that, I'm not holding my breath for chrome anytime soon, especially in a networked situation.
At least the meat problem is already solved: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/07/...
In your tax example, that reasoning would make sense, since the legislature would be unlikely to pass those on its own. My point was that, even if "prop 35 gets enacted" is better than "nothing like prop 35 gets enacted", that doesn't necessarily mean you should vote for prop 35, since if it failed, its backers would be likely to take it to the legislature, which would be likely to pass it with amendments that may address your concerns.

In retrospect, though, the chances of all that happening conditional on prop 35 failing might not be enough to justify my original comment, even though each step is individually likely, since it requires 3 things to go right (and people often overestimate the probabilities of highly conjunctive events).
Affirmative action is about dealing with the discrimination in education that often leads to unequal opportunity. How do you deal with the opportunity gap without acknowledging the impacted groups?
Is the exclamation mark because it's a lot, or because it's not much?
The justification and rationale for race-based affirmative action is somewhat different from anything favoring people of low socioeconomic class generally. It has to do with correcting specific and massive historical wrongs in which our government was complicit, not lifting up disadvantaged people generally. Conflating the two is a little silly. If I destroy your house, you're not going to be happy if I make amends through a general program of urban renewal in your neighborhood.

A lot of people don't believe that Americans of today should be liable for the actions of Americans then. But none of us today were alive at the time America consented to the Constitution, just as none of us today were alive at the time America imported millions of blacks into slavery. Yet we are nonetheless bound by the agreement our forefathers made in 1789! The document attesting to that agreement is also the document that protected and enshrined slavery in America for several more generations. I believe we are bound by that too. I believe the government created in that document, which still exists today, is bound by the obligation created by its sanctioning of slavery just as it is bound by treaties entered into at the time or treasury bonds issued at the time.

It is of course impossible to try to remedy all the mistakes of the past. But that doesn't mean it is pointless to try and remedy any mistakes of the past. And this is a big one that still has lasting and major effects today.
You are not helping people because of their race, so why use that to select who gets help? There are rich black people as well as there are poor white people.
From an advertiser'a point of view, the visibility API is a boon. For users not so much.

I've recently noticed several sites that pause their video ads when the tab is hidden.

I don't look at adds. I have several ad jingles/slogans from my youth wired in my brain. They popon cue, and since I don't want to add new ones to my collection, I now actively avoid ads.

This means that I now have to look elsewhere while the video is playing, or hide the screen, and it annoys me to no end.

/rant.

To browser authors:

This feature has some use, but a huge potential for user abuse. It would be most helpful if it were possible disable the API, or to enable it selectively on a site by site basis.
You read it as more than a storey. Ok.

What's mysterious about people staying in the same place for generations? My people have been in Iowa since the Civil War too.
Here's a link that doesn't crash my iPad: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507176/entanglement-mak...
Police, Burglary Victim Track Stolen iPad, Uncover Major Trafficking Operation
Even if everything you say is true (that some races are poorer than other races) how does that counter what I said?

The strategy I'm talking about gives to poor and disadvantaged people regardless of their race, so if a ton of blacks are poor then they will receive the majority of the benefits.

But as an additional benefit middle and upper class minorities won't get advantages they don't need. You also won't require people to "prove" their ethnicity to be granted these benefits (or discriminated against because they aren't for example "black enough").

Here is a fun question: Exactly how black do you have to be to get affirmative action right now? Do they have like a colour wheel? How does that even work?
Okay, thanks for the explanation! I'm not sure what utility that provides though?
It is racist by the fact that it is based on race. Worse, it continues to reinforce thinking along racial lines rather than circumstancial ones thus perpetuating the idea that we should classify based on race. It would be much better to stop saying "you get this because you are this colour" and start saying "you get this because it looks like you could use a hand."

Racism exists, but trying to fight it with more racism is not going to help reduce the focus on race, and until people stop identifying race as a good way to classify a human, racism won't go away.
Do you know who FAKEGRIMLOCK is?
Thanks! Quick grammar patch released :)
It really doesn't take that long. I flashed a stable 4.1 build onto nmy S3 from a new computer in about 10 minutes, starting from scratch, following step by step instructions. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33460541&...
Punching the Hawk: Karateka 2.0
I set up Graphite+StatsD for a project back in the spring of 2011, it was a ton of trouble. StatsD was easy, but Graphite was really hard. It was a challenge to find up-to-date documentation where big sections weren't marked simply "TODO". I also never solved a bug where my counters were getting graphed as tiny numbers like 0.02 rather than 1, despite repeatedly wiping the box and experimenting with different config settings. Things seemed to be a little better about 6 months later, but I still couldn't solve the 0.02 problem. I love the simplicity of StatsD, and I liked how Graphite let me use the URL API to build very useful dashboards for both technical and business metrics, but the setup was a big hassle. I spent days fighting with it, a big cost for a startup. I'd use StatsD again, but with a different database/frontend, probably something hosted.
I'm glad you've found it useful. We're planning on improving the color selection but until then you can actually just paste in the exact hex code if you highlight the current hex code in the color picker. Hope that helps.
Or if you're a REAL expert, "Is NYC playing second fiddle to silicon valley?"
What relevance does that have?

Would you consider a university the greatest in the world if it didn't have any engineering or science programs?
2011 called, it wants its 4S back.
Putting the Fun into Games
This is basically true of all US oriented news sites. Also, generally monday and tuesday morning are ahead of the rest of the week. The best time to try to get something to 'go viral' is about 10 - 11am EST tuesday morning.
Summary: a lot of black people voted for Obama, giving him the edge in certain states.
I am a snob about several things and not ashamed of it. When I say I'm a snob about e.g. coffee, I just mean I'm picky about what I choose for myself and have high standards, NOT that I'm rude- if I'm at your house and you serve Nescafe I'll accept or decline it with a "thank you" of course, and no commentary or opinions. I believe this sort of snobbery improves one's life. I used to accept things I didn't really want out of politeness etc. or feel obligated to go to an event I'd rather avoid; being comfortable saying "no thank you" is quite liberating.

THAT SAID, it amazes and disgusts me when people treat being a snob as some sort of accomplishment. "Oh I'm really picky about coffee... I just know a lot about it and blah blah blah \smirk\." This is no accomplishment and not something to be proud of.
Thanks, that must be it.
>..that white person can typically walk away from that encounter without being affected

Meaning, what? I'm not "affected" because I have to deal with someone who, say, hates white people?

>Yes, but the rules are not evenly applied.

Aha. Sounds like the problem is here. The laws we have need to be applied correctly, instead of inventing new and questionable ones.

>The only thing wrong here is your sentiment.

Any "sentiment" you see is purely of your own invention. I mentioned a fact (namely an ad in a newspaper), and asked how that is not wrong. Discrimination is wrong, regardless of the race of the person doing it.

Put another way, the cure to discrimination is not more discrimination, and it's frankly idiotic to assume that it is.

I'm beginning to think race discussions are becoming the new religious discussions. People are incapable of discussing it without moralizing, preaching, or talking down.
Sorry, missed that bit yeah :)
The gorilla is Red Hat, not Canonical- they do far, far more development work, all up and down the stack. Canonical doesn't even make money yet...
You mentioned that it finds any twitter accounts that match the domain name. If that's true, it didn't find me - my twitter handle is @hluska...
Heck from what I remember, half of the compsiting stuff that's done now with compiz/kwin in modern desktops was pioneered with E17 development, they used Xgl before the accelerated compositing was possible with GLX_texture_from_pixmap and the like.
If you're looking to use Graphite but don't want to manage it yourself then I highly recommend hostedgraphite.com. I and many friends at other companies use them and are very happy with the service. They're smart guys.