skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even non-drunk driving is dangerous. Apart from the array of problems associated with obesity, you have specifically heart disease, lung cancer, stomach cancer, less specifically other types of cancer... Just considering disease (or simpler, anything that falls under "old age"), and it's easy to see humans aren't very effective killers of each other, compared to what else is out there. Among all causes, for the whole world, the estimated rate is 1.8 people who die per second. If ck2 is really concerned about the total number of deaths per month, I hope he donates to various transhumanist-influenced organizations whose goal (or side-effect of their main goal) is stopping death entirely.
Facebook Could Bury Video-Calling Partner Skype With a Tiny App Update
Does anyone know offhand what kind of minimum system requirements this thing has? Is it similar to Firefox OS?
This is gaslighting language: "This is how it's supposed to be" with no real facts and certainly no declaration of limits. It's okay to cross any boundary in the process of asserting yourself, the way you've put it.

In addition, it's quite an insincere sentiment to think of status items only in terms of status. Numerous things can motivate dressing up or getting exercise, and finding the appropriate motivation for them is part of getting a "whole life" instead of just status accumulation. If sincerity is abandoned from the start, the relationship is just business.
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Also, there is the whole "the entry/exit points are irrelevant given that the damn thing rolls over hundreds of miles of completely unsecured track outside often without so much as a fence around it.
Samsung tried that with Bada, too. It didn't work. I think people are really underestimating the power of an ecosystem. Look at WP8 how much it's struggling in low single digits even after billions invested in deals and promotions, and money paid to developers to make apps.

Samsung has nothing. It doesn't even have the content Amazon has, which only got popular with Kindle Fire because people were looking for a "hero" against the iPad, and their very affordable $200 "Android-based" tablet seemed to be that one.
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"about a year and a half ago ... a relative absence of development tools for building and debugging apps."

I looked at ClojureScript when it was first released, and came to the exact same conclusion. I'm very interested to know how debugging ClojureScript works out for you. From what I remember, the ClojureScript -> JavaScript step generated some code that could be fairly difficult to follow. Also, in your experience, how well does it integrate with other JavaScript libraries?
It doesn't look like my browser. There is a 60px high fixed header bar and there are ads in the interface. No thanks.
I've been more violated entering NFL games than going through airport security, on average.

The problem is that the American people want to do anything about terrorists, crime or "for the children" at the expense of our civil liberties. It's entirely irrational. TSA at NFL games will not even remotely begin to change that.

There was a bit of an uproar about the increased security measures at NFL stadiums some years ago but it died down and things went on as usual.
Reminds me of the well known "Tetris effect" where you see falling blocks long after you stop playing the game. I have experienced both sensations, but have neither shot nor dropped bricks on anyone.
It didn't originate in the Die Hard movie. There was a media fueled rumor about the Glock 17 containing so little metal that it wouldn't show up on metal detectors, and Die Hard 2 merely perpetuated that idea. However, none of it was ever true.

In the mid '80s there was a rumor about a Soviet all-plastic 3-shot gun, and there was a guy who patented the idea of an all-plastic gun, and then the media picked up on Glock making guns using plastic frames (but still more than 80% metal by weight). Then someone wrote a breathless story about how Libya was trying to buy Glocks, and this rapidly snowballed into a media fueled freakout about plastic guns and the Glock became a "terrorist special" and so forth.
Solar Energy Abundance Closer On The Horizon With Triple Junction Cell
Having recently started Django for a small gig, I have found searching for Django documentation, tips, and practices, to be extremely difficult and confusing, especially coming from the Rails world where blog posts seem a dime a dozen.

I spent a long time looking for good info only to find outdated or poorly maintained docs, and a very little sense of "community".

I'll probably grab this book to get me jumpstarted. I'm happy, yet sad that I have to find my information this way -- says something about the community IMO (not a bash on you, but just a nag on the Django community as a whole as I feel it doesn't really like helping beginners).
Where is the Sun?
I work in SV, and yeah, this is a good skewer.
Let's be honest, the biggest factor is organized crime, and the strongest correlates are with the drug trade.
Is this useful for Django 1.4.3 development? I know this is a 1.5 book so I'm not sure how much of the API/stack has changed and how relevant the book will be for me.
Same thing happens with falling arrows and DDR
As someone else pointed out, including suicides in gun death statistics is pointless: they would have found another method had guns not been available

That implies that suicide is a rational act committed by rational actors. The fact that suicide prevention fences on bridges absolutely have been proven to work refutes that.

Regardless, it is misleading to include suicides when talking about gun violence, just how it's misleading to only talk about rifles when talking about gun violence.
The power distribution on a board is essential to it running properly. The 5v needs to go into 3.3v and probably 1.2-1.8v as well. You need to make sure that any loads on the power net won't cause a momentary voltage drop below any component's tolerance. You also want to make sure that the components on the far end of the board will receive the same voltage that everything else is receiving. Next you want to make sure that any digital chips won't inject noise on the line and have their own power reserve via decoupling caps. These capacitors need to be speced out to block specific frequencies and placed accordingly. Also, grounding is super important to consider as you want to have a stable "0V" reference (for digital only designs this means having a dedicated ground plane, mixed analog and digital can have separate ground planes).

Now, for most hobbyist designs the rule of thumb is use a simple LDO and the recommended input/output caps (1-10uF) for it and use wide traces to route the power in a star like fashion. Also put a 100nF capacitor next to each power pin for noise and to serve as a power reserve.

More complicated circuits / circuits that will need to go through FCC will require more complicated power distributions. Most professional boards (with high frequency signals on it) that will meet FCC will be 4+ layers, with a dedicated ground and power planes. A PCB I just designed with an FPGA on it had something like 50 capacitors for just the 1 chip, with physical size requirements for each type (the smallest capacitors were 1mm x 0.5mm to block the highest frequency noise, anything bigger won't be as effective).

Don't let this deter you however, looking back on my first schematic/PCB designs I'm amazed at how much better I've gotten. Microcontroller designs with a few chips are very, very lenient. If you mess something up it will likely still work, but your performance won't be as good (i.e. if you use a built in ADC it may not be as accurate, or you might not be able to reliable run it at it's max clock speed)
What about wireframing in HTML itself. Like http://jetstrap.com lets you do with Bootstrap? Fluid, exportable and could probably be versioned pretty easily. Your post also reminds me of Jason Santa Maria's post about "actual web design tools." edited to add link to JSA's article: http://v4.jasonsantamaria.com/articles/a-real-web-design-app...
(especially since there is no particular advantage to writing compilers or interpreters in C).

Do you really believe there's no particular advantage to writing a compiler or an interpreter in C? Like, you could write it in Tcl or Perl or Ruby and it wouldn't matter?
I haven't used Go yet, but I think I would just stick a fmt.Print("") at the top of the function I'm debugging to make the compiler shut up.
In many cases, giving credit to the author is a necessary condition for copying without the author's permission.
I'm going to use OpenID for an application soon, but I don't know what I should read or where to start. Do you have any recommendations?
Thanks ;)
Why not just browse in incognito/private mode?
>ECMAScript is the name of the standard. Each browser implements a (different) subset of it

Supersets, not subsets. In terms of syntax, there is essentially no difference between ECMAScript, JavaScript, and JScript. They're just different implementations of the same thing. In fact, the only reason JScript has a different name is because Microsoft didn't want to license the Java trademark from Sun.

ActionScript is a different animal; it's a superset of ECMAScript and has a lot of additional syntax features, like data type support.

In any case, to work across different browsers, JS code is usually written in the intersection of the ECMAScript superset languages implemented by those browsers. That intersection is ECMAScript.
Javascript targets multiple domains, unlike other languages, so I understand the issue about consumer installers that build differently. But at least let's agree on a single json and on a single registry where everyone pulls from the same files so that we don't need to push our packages to 10 different registries and write 10 slightly different json descriptions for them.
Apparently the guy who it got traced backed to 1) wasn't actually a close friend, just an acquaintance the player met relatively recently (after being contacted by the "fake" woman), and 2) had pulled similar stunts on other people in the past.

So it definitely isn't cut and dry, and I'm leaning towards extreme naivety on Te'o's part at this point (and possibly some embellishment to cover up embarrassment), although it definitely is a bizarre story either way.
> Is Dropbox a toy too?

In this context, yes, for exactly the same reasons as GDrive. No one with any sense is going to be running a relational database or MapReduce out of either one.

Note that when I say "toy" in this context it's not really anything pejorative -- I use such "toy" filesystems all the time (sshfs most often, but also encfs and s3ql), and they're awesome and highly useful. But they're the kind of thing where, say, lock contention (or hell, even being single-threaded) isn't much of a big deal because they're not performance-critical.
THANK YOU - you can pick up your friend from the store with your car and it is legal, but if your friend is robbing the store and you are helping him escape, you are now an accessory.

You can carry a concealed handgun and shoot it at a shooting range, but if you murder someone with it - you will not only be charged with murder, but also with unlawful use of a handgun. There is no story here. Ugg...
> If you're playing the Nash strategy and everyone else isn't, you can still lose.

I'm not sure if we're talking in the same language here; you cannot lose (beyond your share of the rake) playing a GT strategy, regardless of what your opponent is doing. This is the basis of what GT is.

> But the main thrust of my post was that heads up (two players) is mostly solved and you don't seem to address that point. Is that not true?

No, it is not true. Even for FL hold'em, which has a significantly simpler game tree, the best attempts are still far from a complete solution. Large simplifications/assumptions to the game tree need to be made to make it a manageable size computationally. Much simpler representations for HUFLHE have been solved.

For all other heads up games, researchers are barely scratching the service; I don't even think there's a clear understanding of how to even go about simplifying the game tree to reduce it to a manageable size to even consider solving it.

[I put in the caveat that i (a) haven't read up on the latest in the last couple of years and (b) have not been involved directly with any research projects. I'd love to be corrected from someone who's involved in the latest research.]
Have you checked out [Pencil](http://pencil.evolus.vn/)?
Commenting out code is ugly anyway. I think you want

if 0 { fmt.Print(m) }
A few days ago someone linked to a test for media, where you had to see if two women have a conversation that isn't about men. I don't know why, but it really stuck with me, and then I was really disappointed when the two female characters in this script turned out to be gold diggers.

I'm not trying to argue there should be more women in this show. I'm mostly just complaining about whoever planted this idea in my head. It may be good, but it's kind of ruining my enjoyment of pop culture
Tons of blogs will review your music for free and give you exposure.

Charging for maybe access to an old boys network of major labels if some random person likes it, is really taking advantage of peoples hopes and dreams.

Please ditch this idea and start a label, zine or venue instead. Something that will actually benefit artists and the art world.
Balsamiq mockup a does this, I was just using it today. I can create a template object and have it in multiple pages. Then edit it and it updates for all uses of it.
>For less than ten grand you can buy a 3-axis CNC machine and mill yourself a heavy machine gun in your garage.

I think CNC machines probably fall into the same category as 3D printers when it comes to things like this.

The issue isn't that someone with a little money can manufacture a firearm. This has been the case since firearms were invented. The issue is that it's becoming easier and cheaper to do it, and as time passes it seems plausible that object fabrication equipment will become a staple home appliance. Which will make attempts to ban anything that such machines can produce about as effective as trying to stop people downloading pirated movies.

The funny thing is that they think passing a law against it is going to do anything. The whole issue is that the widespread availability of the devices would make such laws unenforceable in practice.
>Sometimes people need to rent a fake girlfriend to make jealous a jealous ex-girlfriend. In truth, we have a lot of clients for that reason,

Sometimes technology is depressing.
Hype Builds for Smartphone, but It Isn't an Apple Device
It might help things. If we threw in books for example suddenly the 1st Amendment implications would become very clear to everyone. Right now pretty much only video games are involved, and a very large portion of the population considers these to be alien, "not art" and frankly just a second class "speech medium".

Music (well, rap music) probably sits somewhere between the two.
Isnt also illegal to sell at a loss in The EU ?
If Apple sets its wholesale price high enough, price won't get too low.
> The fact that suicide prevention fences on bridges absolutely have been proven to work refutes that.

Have they been proven to prevent suicide, or to prevent suicide by jumping from a bridge?

I always thought those were to stop people from throwing crap at cars/trains anyway; I have never seen them on bridges that just go over water. I've also noticed that you can often judge the niceness of an area by what they put along the sides of bridges: if nothing then it is probably a nice area, if a fence then it is not notably nice but kind of average, if a corrugated steel then it is probably a fairly shitty area.
Can we export the trained model back out and use it, or only query it with the API?
I have had this problem as well and of course you can add some superfluous code that fulfills the usage for the import/variable but then you have to remember to clean up that code later (essentially discarding the very helpful checking built into the compiler).

I think they would be better off adding a compiler flag for less strict checking for development.
Great! Money well spent, then!
>The human brain is based on simple rules and you can't blame someone for capitalizing on that.

Yes I can. I don't really care about it in this particular case (although the whole concept just makes me sad), but I could give plenty of examples of exploiting human nature that are reprehensible and deserving of blame. That something is easy does not make it ethical.
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Awesome. I use Bill Murray for all my placeholders. Gonna start using this, but Place Bill would make my day.
What about violent books, conversations, thoughts, and lectures at school? (Have you ever read a history book? They're twice as violent as Grand Theft Auto.)
You're referring to the Bechdel Test.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
As somebody who played tons of these newfangled murder simulators for years, I can say with 100% confidence that the worst ideas I ever had as a kid came from cartoons, not video games. [0]

Games don't mess around with casuality very often. Usually when you do lethal things, they kill stuff. In cartoons, very dangerous things are portrayed as being something you can walk away from with only soot on your face or a lump on your head. To give you an idea of how bad we're talking here, there was a time very early on in my life when I didn't know that strangulation could kill people.

I'm not even joking. [1]

[0]: Keep in mind of course that one person is a single data point, not a set. (And not even a rigorous data point at that.)

[1]: Thankfully nobody died.
For me, balsamiq helps remind viewers that this is a mockup and is not real. It has the reusable template objects and assets folder.

I tend to ignore most coloring and shadows unless I need to make a clear distinction in a part of the UI. Sometimes without color variations your point is complete missed by the viewers.

I like balsamiq for the friendly keybindings and just easy manipulation of the widgets. It's been fairly bug free for me for the last two years that I've used it.
you are correct. I also have mentally struck applets from memory, and so to me they no longer exist ;)

...except that there are stock trading software that is written as java applets...sigh...
> The tools get in my way

How on earth are you going to tell the app what you want to draw, if you can't stand even a basic tool palette?

> Too much control: Playing with drop shadows, gradients...

Umm... these are actual very useful features for wireframing, because when you have a lot of black outlines, they help distinguish between elements. How on earth are you complaining about having too many options?!

> Responsive Responsive Responsive

You do realize that it's a helluva lot of work to design responsive layouts, because they can be responsive along any number of dimensions, in different ways? A "simple" wireframing app is going to get it wrong. That's not wireframing. That's mocking your stuff up in HTML in the first place.

Etc, etc...
Currently I do a decent amount of wireframing in the browser. I find this too slow though, especially when dealing with complex interfaces that must work on multiple devices. Trying out a simple idea can mean writing a decent amount of CSS.

It would be quicker if I could just draw a fluid box on a page somewhere.
I was eager to try Balsamiq having been a fan of Peldi when he was Adobe. But I tried it when it came out and didn't like it at all. Tried a few other products and they were all worse.

A few weeks ago I gave it another try and it just clicked. What I have found is that the product has matured and the community is strong and provides the missing pieces. It's become a regular part of my toolkit.

For me a wireframe tool is useful for building a minimum viable product. If you're looking for something that is pixel perfect you will continually be disappointed with what is out there.
Aside from the var _ = fmt.Println trick to avoid having to comment out the module import, maybe part of the problem is that Go is aimed a little further think-ahead-ward and a little less hack-until-it-works-ward than they're used to? Because that might be on purpose.
Fortunately, I have touched the early version of Tizen and the prototype base on Tizen. On the prototype machine I saw real "multi-tasks" like we have on laptop, and terminal application ran sweetly.

I asked one of their consultant a question:"Meego replaces Symbian, then Tizen replaced Meego, then who will be the next to replace Tizen?" At that time, Tizen had Cooperation with Samsung. Then, Windows replaced Tizen, to Nokia, big thanks, Elop!

Now we have Jolla, Ubuntu, Firefox, and so on. Along with iOS and Android, make me think of PC desktop, there we have Windows, Mac OS, huge amount of Linux Distros. Could the circumstances on mobile os platform as well as desktop os platform?

Again. Why Apple showing off their amount of apps? Apps is the key. Apps bring possibility to achieve any tasks, not the OS, especially for a mobile os who has not prepared for its UI guideline. I imagine that some apps have back buttons, some don't; some back buttons on the left-top and others on the bottom. When you want to do some operation you have to locate first where the right button was placed.

All it did is just provide a opportunity, that out of control of Android and iOS, the region there people hate close and love openness. I really hope Tizen will be successful, that's also means Linux's success, the openness's success.
After midnight on weekends? When people like to go out?

Or on a week day, when the parking lots are beyond full?
Ask HN: Can you guys tell me your initial impressions?
Posted this here before. Made some changes to our site,looking for more first impressions.

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I think it's simply social expectations. Single guy is expected to make the first 'move'. Married guy is expected to not make any moves at all. Therefore it's on the woman to begin flirtations with guys who appear to be taken. Married guy concludes he's must be more desirable because women are suddenly flirting with him.
So what are the weak points of android that this things removes?

Also why no executive ever took Disrupting 102 - make cost of switching zero.
All The Time In The World
As a place to live, in my opinion the biggest thing that Chicago has over other cities I've spent significant time in is green space. The city's motto is Urbs in Horto, and it shows. Virtually the entire lake shore is one big park, outside of downtown most the area along the river is also park land, there are forest preserves within city limits, and other significantly-sized parks and playgrounds are scattered all across the city. I suspect that it be quite hard to find a spot in the city that isn't within walking distance of at least one public baseball diamond or soccer field. Even non-park areas are greener, on account of more (and bigger) trees lining the residential streets.

Architecture would be another nice feature; the city has definitely benefited from being the home of many of the USA's most influential architects.

In summer the city's absolutely rotten with street festivals, which is also pretty fantastic.

So no, nothing that would be particularly notable to a non-resident. But you can't spend an afternoon outside reading a book under a social media startup or an up-and-coming fashion designer.
What features are needed to finish?
Saying that the poster has a serious personality disorder is just over the top.

Give it a rest, "game" just means having an interpersonal dynamic that makes conversations and relationships more fun and engaging. It doesn't mean changing who you are, and it doesn't mean that everything you do is for women.

If a guy gets in shape and makes himself more fun and interesting to save his marriage, that's a bad thing?