skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried this today for the first time. I think the list is who views my profile, in descending order. I have been on fb for 5 years, and I use chat approx one time/year. So this list is not related to "chat" interactions for me. I have 400+ friends.

My #1 & #2 are my daughters with whom interact often and both ways. Next #3 is a friend whom I rarely view, but she often comments and likes my stuff, so I know she views me. #4 is my brother whom I do view often. #5 is literally an old almost-married-him boyfriend with whom I have occassionally messaged in the past about reunion stuff, but nothing except messaging and I only view his wall 2ce/year. #6 & #7 are nice people who kinda bore me but for some reason I fascinate them, (sounds arrogant but that's the short explanation), so it totally makes sense they view me; I never view them. The next 10 or so include some people I view and interact with, but also an equal number of people I rarely eventhink about.
The "X" on the keyboard shortcut modal doesn't work. You have to press escape.
Events like this shooting always remind me of Goerge Carlin talking about entropy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egRgweL12Uc&feature=yout...

Watch it, it's really good.
Absolutely amazing.
A couple things that bother me, and they might just be from Ace.js:

When typing text into a <p> or an <h1> for example, if I type "I'm", I get the smart double quote feature, and end up typing:

I'm going to the zoo'

Likewise, if I go back into the stream of some text in a <p>, and want to wrap it in a span, if I click at the start of it and type <span id="foo">, I get another span on the other side of my cursor, pushing the existing text over.

Otherwise, utterly fantastic tool. Trying to use it for real work already :)
24 hour news cycle. Gotta fill the time, and any shred of anything information-like helps add to the discussion.

Every time something happens, the networks fall over themselves to get out the new thing first, and inevitably fuck it up. Recall the Obamacare ruling, and how several networks reported it'd been overturned because they couldn't take the ten minutes to read more carefully.
> My experience has been completely different, and I'm curious as to why that is.

The majority of people who request 'software' haven't a clue what they want, they can't possibly describe it, you can't possibly write a spec for it. See years of research regarding waterfall vs agile development as a reference.
I'm not sure they accomplished what they set out to do at all. The more opposition to gay rights can be associated with over-the-top hate groups like these, the more people will associate opposition to gay rights with foamy-mouth bigotry. Most people don't want to be like antisocial foamy-mouth bigots, and their desire to not be like them will have some influence on their opinions vis-a-vis the favorite issues of the group they don't want to be like.

Perhaps they really did have no goal beyond getting on TV. But assuming they actually do want to spread an anti-gay message, I suspect their being on TV is actually accomplishing the opposite.
Yeah, please. Is there a way to install onto the internal SSD? And if so, is there a noticeable speed difference?
This is still Euler integration, which has poor accuracy whenever the derivative varies with time. The standard numerical integration method is 4th order Runge Kutta. RK4 is also popular for solving many forms of differential equations.

A good summary is here: http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/integration-basics/
My reply, that might have been eaten by Wordpress:

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You make these too statements [in comments], seemingly unaware of the implications:

“I don’t think we can blame guns, or taking God out of schools, or poor mental health care” … “The best I can think is one of cultural difference and societal structure”.

You’ve highlighted the glaring societal differences between the United States and other western democracies that are high consumers of US media and culture, yet don’t suffer from the rate of gun crime: gun control, secular states, universal health care. And in the same breath you dismiss them?

It’s no wonder that many US citizens take the same view as yourself that: “We must take this same acceptance of reality with active shooter or mass murder situations”. Unable to challenge the underlying assumptions that guns, god and the private sector are what’s best, you’re left to defend the status quo as an inevitability.

Respectfully, I think that more can be done, than to ask kids to fend for themselves.
You know, I reread the comment you're responding to, and the wording does seem to support the reading you gave it. I'm sorry for jumping so readily.
It's not limited to techies. This is something each of us experience in ourselves, our own sacred journey.

I've talked with a lot of people -- many, non-techies -- that, with that first flowering, all tread through the same paths. They may express it differently. I did the same. It feels original because it is original, even though it has been said in other ways many times.

No book, no art, no music can take you on this journey. It's not code you copy and execute in some other person's brain. Yet once you see it, you start seeing it everywhere, as people imperfectly try to express the ineffable. It seems like reinventing, but eventually, it isn't. You cannot experience unconditional love without being in the present moment; when you start thinking in terms of reinventing things in the past or the future, you are no longer present. How can it possibly be anything other than original when it can only unfold in the here and now?

A different teacher, from a very different path (martial arts) said, "endless variations, never surprising."
I've never met her.
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You think very highly of the good will of criminals, and I would guess you're not a women.
Spark - a Sinatra inspired micro web framework in Java
Thank you for clarifying. When reading the description I actually thought location was in reference to shipping locations. You may want to further clarify that on your page.
I think it is a great essay with a misleading end.
What is the best way to get notified of Hacker News follow up comments?
I've tried looking online but there doesn't seem to be much discussion on this topic. How do most people keep up with responses to their comments? Do most people just scroll down the threads section or do they use an external application?
> "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."
Question - do you think NON-friends who view my wall etc could appear on this list, or is it just friends?
I find it interesting that I've gotten downvoted for this comment. Building an MVP and then iterating seems to be the modus operandi of the HN community. Building a detailed spec is the anti-thesis of this movement. How does this correlate?
Reminds me of when we would make collect calls from a payphone and our parents would get: "Will you accept a collect call from...MomPickUsUp"
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http://pastebin.com/YyjV3WA9

http://hack-db.com/team/AnonGhost/all.html
http://www.zone-h.org/archive/notifier=AnonGhost
There are multiple levels in which I agree with the above sentiment.
Some of my teachers had these quotations to encourage questions!

1) If you say you dont understand, you may appear to be a fool for a few minutes, if you pretend to understand (while you dont)... you are a fool for life.

2) To learn something knew, you have to set your ego(pretending to know lest you appear ignorant) aside and start humbly with basics.
Spirituality is in the here and now.

It goes way beyond your relationship with yourself, with others, your work, the food you eat, your religious practices, etc. It's being in the present moment and experiencing how all those other relationships fall out of it. None of those relationship matter if you chase after them, forgetting the present moment.

Academic training does not help you experience here-and-now.
Ask HN: what hackerly things can we do to reduce gun violence?
I just want to point this out because I feel like there's a good chance a lot of people won't have gotten this far:

Because our implementation does not explicitly depend on Python we are able to overcome many of the shortcomings of the Python runtime such as running without the GIL and utilising real threads to dispatch custom Numba kernels running at near C speed without the performance limitations of Python.
Before reading the God part, I wanted to forward the essay to family members who you might refer to as belonging to "most people." Because of the God part, I did not.
I'll refute it, Christmas gifts are also made of wood, our excessive consumption has lead to the complete halt of deforestation in Honduras, therefore if you'd like to prevent deforestation in Honduras you should keep consuming.

While the words of my point may be true, the overall meaning is bullshit because the deforestation stopped because there were no more trees left.

Also, I read his article on smartphone, if there were no content on the internet I would have no need for a smartphone, therefore reading mr. Monbiot's articles contribute to the massacre of the congo. He should probably stop writing lest he kill even more people.

He should probably also start talking about the wonders of North Korea where the people are so caring about the earth that they would rather starve than consume.
How to get rid of emails
Idea - "git for e-mail" with a few tweaks.

Problem with e-mail:
• It's static, boring, and incriminating.
• You cannot edit once you've sent, so you send another, thus clogging the inbox.
• It's a hassle to configure clients

Solution:

Create new protocol that supports the features below.

Versioning - allows you to make changes to a message once it has been sent, but keeps a copy of the history from the time the recipient first read the message. Changes to messages invoke an "unread" notification.

Unsend - like AOL did in the 90s. If someone hasn't read the message delete it, otherwise it's too late! If someone hasn't seen the change you made to a message, then that can be undone as well.

Messages - several different types: text, calendar events, interactive todo list, geolocation information, and files. More kinds may come out as the spec is updated.

Security - configure your server and client to send hash of message contents to third party server to make sure content is not harmful or spam. From this point anyone can have a trusted server as long as it passes a security check by a third party server — kind of like SSL.

Privacy - disable message cloning (forwarding). Password protection? Who knows...

Why different types of messages?
• To make parsing your inbox WAY faster
• …does there need to be anything else?

I suppose this could also be used to create spontaneous social networks, which would take off the pressure of following or friending someone.

Wanna collaborate? tweet to @sbussard
None of the points listed about flat design are specific to flat design, but are simply good design practices.
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Thanks for the advice, that's a really good start.
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Judging from the comments, yes, you are.
Not "butthurt". (People still use that phrase?) Not even in a startup, so out of contention anyway.

My point is that we should be excited about those impressive things, not some list that was compiled.
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Posted because this was shockingly relevant to writing software and bootstrapping:

>Nobody is going to steal your idea

>Most people think "If I could just get the right IDEA, then the writing would flow." That's like saying "If Nolan Ryan would just throw me the right pitch, then I could hit home runs for the Yankees." Before you get the chance to face the big pitch from Nolan Ryan, you have to hit 200,000 other pitches. Every day. No exceptions.
GrepCode.com [supports stack trace searching too]
Yes, using Numba we can just-in-time compile numeric Python logic straight down to machine code, so naturally we can achieve some pretty impressive numbers on kernel execution.

In case many people didn't reach the bottom here are the links to the repo and the docs. The project is still in early stages, but is public and released under a BSD license.

* http://blaze.pydata.org/docs/

* https://github.com/ContinuumIO/blaze
Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers
Liberal is defined as "open-minded". It's not just a political party affiliation.
Fascinating article. Goodness knows how you use the technique to spot and individual dodgy trade, as an unlikely price doesn't equal corruption.
Putting the information out there isn't the problem. It's reporting it as fact that causes problems. I was watching the BBC coverage of the shooting and pretty much everything new they reported was prefaced that it was speculation, picked up from a US network, or leaked to another network by an unknown source. They were able to fill without stating untruths as fact.
Best habit I've ever formed is to write ideas down as soon as you have them, from this Jack Dorsey talk: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2635
Knockout.js is great. It doesn't force a whole framework on you. It is straight forward to use. You can slide it in into an existing project easily. I use it from turning pages to be merely more interactive to full fledged single-page app.
He's not under arrest. Expect the situation to clear up. Think Richard Jewell; a lot of people surely wanted to do him harm too, for his initially suspected involvement in the Olympic Park bombing. But later he had no problems.
Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
If you feel the essay is deep and wise, then you got something out of it.

I suggest examining how the concept of God bothers you in the essay; I'm not saying this to say you don't get it or that you are wrong. That disturbing feeling is the Jungnian shadow speaking when one is trying to reject something. Unconditional love is unconditional: even the concepts and feelings that disturb you.

Though ... if it doesn't bother you, then there's nothing further to say, eh?

Anyways, good luck, man.
Teen arrested for threat to high school made over XBox Live
Heatlamp - trace and visualise Java executions
This article inspired me to create a twitter handle to highlight the best(?) examples of this: http://twitter.com/bullshitmetrics

Anything recent come to mind?
The point being that it doesn't matter if you believe people will not play the game because game performance; if they really like it the will ignore it. And if they paid for your game you should at least try to give them an experience as good as possible.
He'd likely be fine in Connecticut, when people have had some time to calm down.
I've tried to "grep" a physical book more than once.
good lord, they got:
http://www.studentsforlarry.org/
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I can't imagine anything worse than Apple buying Dropbox. Worst case scenario is within 3 months Linux and Android support would be dropped, and the whole app would be redesigned with faux leather and page turn animations. I think Apple would be incapable of allowing such an open user accessible system, it seems to go against their DNA. They just need to refine iCloud, make an app called 'iFiles' or some such so users can actually manage their files, and get some more servers and better sync tech.
I think it's a great little package; the perfect gift for an Indiana Jones buff. Unless that Indiana Jones buff is also a graphic designer:

"This is amazing! All of the little details like the illustrations and photos make it look really authentic, and the letterheads...OH MY GOD, IT'S PAPYRUS!!! GET IT AWAY FROM ME!!!!"
Using this http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/violent_cr... as my primary source, figures by specific instruments or methods (with about as many US murders unspecified as U.K. murders total, the unspecified not used), I get a 1.34 per 100,000 rate of non-firearms but otherwise specified murders in the US in 2004, compared to a 1.45 per 100,000 for all of the U.K.

For better or worse, we're a violent people.
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Actually, this has already happened a few times. There are a number of suicidal people that posted on various networks about their problems and people egged them on. I think I remember the most vivid one being on bodybuilding.com
Perhaps you have forgotten Willem Pinckaers, a reverse engineer for Matasano Security in California, and Vincenzo Iozzo breaking the blackberry at Pwn2Own?
Richard Jewell got large checks from many media orgs who didn't know the info they were publishing was false. A decent jury will recognize when the media jumped the gun. They should probably wait a few hours before they potentially ruin an innocent person's reputation.
It's obnoxious how they do these things, milking every last pageview they can possibly get. I can't make it through this and I'm extremely interested in the subject matter.

Is there a text list of all of the people and what company they are with somewhere? Preferably visible on one page?
Obama was using this phrase before last week.
Ha! That too, hadn't seen that yet. Yeah, this guy isn't rushing to conclusions.
all about the ad impressions, at the end of the day. mighty mighty CPM dollars ya'll
I read about continuum after the fellow who developed numpy left a few days ago to work on continuum. I am curious to see actual projects using continuum. So some sort of writeups.
Indeed, it feels a lot less "boxed in" than tools like Asana.
Profit opportunity if women earn less than men?
"I Am Adam Lanza's Psychiatrist": A Response from the Mental Health Trenches
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Since you've worked in journalism, I had a question for you that I've been wondering about for a while.

Do you believe that journalistic standards have fallen over time in general, or is the latest rash of horrifically irresponsible reporting the actions of a few bad players, or has journalism always been this bad, and I'm just seeing the past through rose-tinted glasses?

I seem to remember a time when journalism was treated as a serious craft with serious responsibilities and obligations. Now every asshole with a Twitter account and a blog purports to "report" without assuming any of the responsibilities that come with journalism, including fact checking.
When a polemicist references another polemicist does that count as facts? I watched the "Story of Stuff" referenced in his article in a class this semester. At one point the claim was made that Chinese peasants are being “forced” into cities and leaving a lifestyle “that has sustained them for generations”. That’s not even a remotely balanced take on the situation. Urbanization in China has lifted millions of people out of grinding poverty.
Dev is hard.
Good analysis. I think what maybe bothered me is that Paul mentions mindfulness, being present in the moment, and so on. I personally struggle to explain these concepts to an atheist friend of mine who mixes up these important aspects of everyday being with religious world views. They are separate, and I love to see such elegant essays that do not blend the two dimensions, mindfulness and faith (of any specific or abstract sort).
We don't typically find gold in 1kg lumps. IIUC it is quite sparse even in the ore processed in gold mining. Surely running a bunch of connectors through an appropriate purification process would be cheaper than processing a similar volume of ore? If it's not, that tells us something too.

I predict this will be the real killer app of self-assembling and -maintaining nanomachines: processing landfills into ingots of useful material. That's a pretty long range prediction however.
> gun ownership is a Constitutional right for Americans

To turn this round, this constitutional right is the reason that Americans are allowed to own weapons that are normally used in warzones at the age of 18 and without any safety measures. The world has changed since the constitution was written. If you were writing it today, would you still include the right to bear arms?
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I did this small exercise with a group of friends not too long ago: "What would you do if you had no fear?" A couple of people took that to heart and made some interesting, useful, decisions.

I think that is a good start to an answer to your question.

The other thing (which more often than not gets me into trouble) is "It is a moral imperative to do what you love." Do that, and the question kind of answers itself.
I would say that I was/am sympathetic, not empathetic. I recognize that it's a tragedy for them, but I don't feel similar emotions.

I'm curious if the reason behind such vocalization is because very few people actually feel empathy. A facade for their feelings of joy/relief that such things didn't occur to someone they know.

I, as you probably guessed, don't have any children. I presume my feelings on the subject would be different if that weren't the case.
Verlet Integration is another way to solve this kind of DE (i.e. DEs related to kinetics) quickly and time-reversibly...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration
Not to mention Tom, Ilan, and Mahbod! http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeel45ldjm/mahbod-moghadam-il...
There was a time in my life where I distrusted anything that smacked of spirituality. Everything had to be logical. I realized later that I was performing a hysterectomy on my soul. Without confronting, examining and reflecting on these experiences, you may as well be an automata. Thanks, Paul.
I also like the URL feature, but unlike the other person I did not intuitively expect to type in a a random url and have that work. Its not something people typically do. That said, its pretty cool. You should edit your how to use to include that.
Yes. Rushing to judgment about Ryan Lanza affects one person. Rushing to toss away gun rights affects tens (hundreds?) of millions of people.
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JS is intrinsically tied to the DOM, HTML and Web technologies

Not really. That just happens to be the most common use of it.
It may still be wrong, but the point is that it's less wrong and it's not much extra effort.
I love flat design!
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Funny, I recently read Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, and came across his class at BYU on creative writing [1]. I was shocked how applicable his lessons were to software development / startups (ideas are cheap was one of his main points in his first lecture). I think its a good idea to occasionally take a look at other seemingly unrelated professions and see what you can learn.

[1] http://www.writeaboutdragons.com/
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