skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, all part of learning our way around a new community. Aiming to add relevent content (ie, not just submit every story to /r/travel), and learn from the karma feedback system when we're doing that and when we're not.
If you look at the big nuclear disasters, usually they are a combination of design flaws, human errors and general snafu. So in theory the new designs are safer than the old ones, but the old ones have the nice advantage that we already know that they do not blow up at first criticality.
This is an inherent flaw in the system though, right? Not anything new.
Please stop posting these inane "petitions" from whitehouse.gov or elsewhere. No one in the White House or the Capitol building cares. It might feel good, but it's a waste of your time.

I don't recall women, African Americans, or homosexuals getting their due civil rights recognized by signing petitions.

Maybe what we need is a million geek march on DC. Can you imagine!
For the record, propaganda is a morally neutral term. Gandhi and MLK Jr. were both brilliant propagandists.

I have a complex opinion on gun rights and I don't support all aspects of Obama's plan, but the fact that it is propaganda does not make it inherently wrong.
Maps were something in the original plan, and they're now back on the agenda! Thanks Rylan - I'll be checking emails shortly.
Android definitely has a lot of catching up to do there.

But it also seems to me that the entire app market is shifting more to apps that aren't revenue sources in themselves but free apps that are part of some larger business strategy and in that world overall user reach is what counts. And there Android has all the momentum.

I think we're going to hit an inflection point later this year when 4.x breaks 50% market share and more developers start feeling comfortable ignoring the 2.3 laggards.
In all practical terms, the Ecuadorian authorities expect their embassy to be inviolable. It is this expectation and their insistence on this expectation that complicates this matter to no end. It is simply not in British interests to be seen dismissing this expectation as unimportant. My personal view is that a deal should be possible that is acceptable to both Assange and Ecuador, to end this stalemate. Her Majesty's diplomatic representation in Ecuador should be able to make a compelling proposal that saves the day and the face of everyone involved.
I wouldn't trust the government to not intercept gun shipments from the warehouse with an NSA-style gag order & read in all the secrets ahead of time.

You'd have to be able to stamp the secret at purchase time in the presence of the buyer, which is both doable, and works retroactively on guns manufactured prior to the legislation.

> I don't think there's a problem with people knowing who owns a specific gun; the problem is knowing what guns a specific person owns.

Exactly. Well put.
"this is a horrible point "

I think his point was that they are all horrible points. He's using the ones for Jobs as a proof by absurdity that the ones for Cook should be ignored.
The British government has no authority to negotiate. It is not up to them to talk to Assange. The UK has legally binding treaty obligations to enforce the European Arrest Warrant that Sweden issued.

It is up to Sweden, not the UK, to decide whether it wants to negotiate or not.
It's a bunch of little niggling aspects that add up into just feeling the whole thing is yet another gimmicky disposable income scoop for out of touch spendthrifts.

1. Fifteen different prices depending on what alleged type of device you're using, and gasp whether you have more than one.

2. Internet access is only required for most tasks due to people's laziness of using webapps.

3. Alternatively, "yay, I can refresh reddit on a plane"

4. Partial Internet access given before payment, to make it as disruption-free as possible, even though it will necessarily end up admitting things like the original article.

5. These whole "enter your credit card" wifi networks in general. Network access is infrastructure. Yeah, it takes a bit of work to backhaul a plane. But it also took quite a bit of work to build the plane. Just make the infrastructure universal so we can rely on it instead of clouding the thing with massive transaction overhead.

6. Why give the spineless airlines any more money than you have to? This attitude is subject to change when they start sticking up for their customers by giving the TSA the boot.

But honestly I'm doubt I'm going to win any points for these views on HN. I should probably just turn my commenting threshold back down.
> Not to go all Stallmanesque here, but doesn't it bother you to use a proprietary text editor when there are so many excellent free/open-source ones around?

Use the best tool for the job. Screw extreme philosophies.
That there exists a legal structure for some group of people to avoid responsibility is quite baffling to me.

Things like Limited Liability means that someone could potentially do something harmful, and yet not be "personally" responsible for the consequence - and yet, reap the rewards should they succeed, means that the cost is externalized to society at large. This should be fixed (how, i have no idea tho...).
Ah yes, another person describing their Google interview experience. They do leave a lot of solid candidates out but in their defense, when I was there, being able to survive the non-intuitive interview process was a good indicator you could survive the non-intuitive business dynamics.

If didn't really crush people when they didn't get called back it would make it funny. Sort of like the Monty Python sketch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo
Everyone with a mind is long AAPL right now. It's been bid down 20% lately for no apparent reason, iPhone sales were great and that's not figured in yet, Mac sales are strong and about to get stronger and that's not fully figured in yet, there are a lot of money managers with big $ riding on AAPL staying low til its earnings report, and if the P/E gets any smaller it'll be countable on one hand.

AAPL will close up at least 20% higher on March 15 than last night's close.
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They are shooting for a 330 minute ETOPS for the 787. That means a plane can be up to 6.5 hours from the closest airport on long haul flights. ETOPS has more to do with engine reliability than fire safety, but I can't help wonder if this will affect things.

Incidentally, I flew on two United 787s in December and I thought they were fantastic planes. The electrochromic windows were a real treat.
Some unix tools (I can only recall Vixie cron at the moment) won't read the last line in a file if it isn't terminated with a newline.
Author of that link here. Did you actually read it? I specifically state that it's not the "nightmare" the media's making it out to be.

Wikimedia is funded entirely by donations and the vast majority of them go to pay for Wikipedia. While adding eg. hotel bookings to Wikivoyage would be a near-guaranteed money spinner and, if done right, a genuine enhancement to the site, it would be an uphill battle to get the occasionally rabidly anti-capitalist wider Wikimedia community to accept this taint of Mammon. ...

This also explains why, as a travel industry insider myself, I don’t think Wikivoyage poses an existential threat to TripAdvisor, Google or, for that matter, Lonely Planet: it’s simply not playing the same game. Quite the contrary, it promises to be a great resource of information for everybody. In the same way that Google pulls in data for Wikipedia for its search results and Lonely Planet’s website uses images sourced from Wikimedia Commons, other travel guides will be able to complement their own content with additional data from Wikivoyage.

Disclaimer: I work for Lonely Planet, but these are my opinions, not the company's.
So what is a homeowner going to do when they hear a sound in the night? They're not sure enough that it's a intruder to call the police, but they'd like to get back to sleep, make sure the children aren't getting molested, etc.

And WRT to the latter, while of course no one is recommending they clear a building with any weapon, if they have to rescue a child, if there are multiple intruders, if they'd like to make a phone call (e.g. 911) while having the weapon fully ready, there are power/flash and sound issues, over/vs. under-penetration (OK, there are no great solutions there) ... I think shotguns are a terrible idea. Not my insight BTW, picked it up from Massad Ayoob in his The Truth About Self-Protection.
But doesn't the shell company have to OWN the IP/patent in order to sue? If they lose and can't pay, then transfer the patent to the defendant. Guess it still doesn't completely stop the trolls... Definitely need some bonding.
I want Assange to open the package while doing the gangnam style elevator guy dance and then closing the package and sending it off to its next adventure.
You didn't miss much :

> The critics that are screaming right now are intellectually lazy. They're throwing temper tantrums instead of looking at the big picture. Like two-year-olds, they don't really know what they want. And they're not happy when they get it, anyway.
Actually it looks like he's quoting the basic filing fee (provisionals are less), without including the search and exam fees. But yeah, it's a total straw man and just costs him credibility.
This is just poppycock, Obama may be playing into the hands of the NRA here. Why don't we study effects of religion. I suspect more minds have been influenced to kill because of religion than Call of Duty, thanks for playing though.

Honestly, these tragedies are no reason to overreact and reduce freedoms. I don't think there is much evidence that these rampage shootings have precursors in movies and video games. They seem to be related to delusions and mental illness. Look at Lanza, Gabbie Giffords shooter, Virginia Tech, and Holmes, all clearly mentally ill. There was a school shooter named Luke Woodham, very ill. Besides rampage shooters, gun violence occurs in concert with other crimes related to drugs, domestic altercations, etc.

I don't think we should take this film and game link seriously. Of all the gamers, there are so few rampage shooters and probably a small percentage of then are even "gamers." It's hard to take seriously.
The very important change in GW 2 game
> I've changed my MAC/moustache plenty of times to "deceive some guards". Actually I'm doing it right now, this Comcast modem is a utter pain in the ass...

Is this activity illegal? Like most questions in law, the answer is, "it depends".

Are you paying Comcast for internet? If so, its probably not illegal because they have authorized you to access the internet through their networks.

However, if Comcast's network authentication was based on MAC addresses and you spoofed yours to match a paying customer's, that would probably be wire fraud.

> Or, if it is the "something valuable" part, would gaining access to that "something valuable" have been an issue if there was no deceit?

I'm not sure what other laws would be relevant if there was no deception, but it certainly wouldn't be wire fraud. Deception is a pretty integral component to fraud.
When someone opens up a file created with Sublime Text 2 with vim or emacs and saves it, it clutters the commit messages. It's clutter whether the file contains other changes or not. It still shows up in diffs unless you suppress whitespace.
In fact, a story about MAC spoofing for privacy is on front page of HN today: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2013/01/i-conceal-my-identity-...
I propose that obviousness should be tested with an expert in the field. If that expert could explain how the invention worked by only looking at the result, but not at the patent itself, then the patent is considered obvious!
If this were an obvious fact, wouldn't the market reflect that?
About your first point, this depends on the scale of the reactor, since the capacity of passive cooling scales with the surface area and the energy generation scales with the volume of the reactor. AFAIK submarine reactors can utilize passive cooling, since they are only about 100 MW.
The central premise of opposition to abortion is whether the baby gets a choice. It's not "anti-choice", it's insisting that everyone involved have a fair say in the matter.
The 2004 date only makes me realize I've dealt with this madness for too long.
Maybe you don't necessarily need hackers. In that case there are many internet communities for writers. AbsoluteWrite is one.

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/index.php
Make bash terminal cursor flash to the beat of Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger"
How many politicians want to outlaw all abortions unilaterally, whether openly or secretly? A plan to round up all the guns is even less likely. Intents do matter, but let's keep some perspective.

Also, I've been hearing about Obama's secret desire to confiscate guns for years. Do you have anything stronger than third-hand hearsay to back this up? (Honest question, no snark intended.)
Multiple cursors sound cool! In vim, you can do something more limited by using visual block mode (C-v) to insert on multiple lines, but you're restricted to insertion on the same column.

The perhaps the closest thing I can think of for your example would be this (starting in normal mode with the cursor at the beginning of your list):

f_i_Class<Esc>+;.+;.

("Move forward to the next '_', enter insert mode, insert '_Class', leave insert mode, move down one line to the first non-blank character, repeat the forward motion, repeat the insertion, repeat forward motion, repeat insertion." Vim does have word motions, but it includes underscores as parts of words.)

Edit - formatting and a clarification that it's the closest I can think of (I'm doubtful it's the closest you can get).
The responsible party is fully liable, if you can prove they are using the entity as a sham you can pierce the veil.
Funny, I feel the opposite. The cow is voluntarily auctioning itself and directly receives the proceeds.

If you're lucky enough to arrange all your offers to fall within the same time frame maybe you can play a couple against each other and even then you can only go back and forth a few times.

Here, you automatically get a group of companies simultaneously competing for you. Is that not desirable?
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#timemachinebasics
While TVs are not interactive, when you watch TV your mind goes into passive mode and absorbs what it sees. I agree, studies (careful studies) are needed.
This. It's still not great advice for hiring for startups, for reasons I've explained previously.
Carmen Ortiz should be disbarred.
Our recent difficulties in the Middle East would seem to argue against your assertions.

One other point you're ignoring is wealth and the development of guns that don't take a great deal of maintenance to keep working (e.g. non-corrosive primers). However liberal Polish policies were, and I can't possibly believe they were for Polish Jews, many fewer people could afford to keep a functioning gun of military utility. Things are very much different today, with cheap reliable designs like the AK family and non-corrosive primers.

The other problem is that we're addressing different scenarios. Guns vs. a mechanized invasion: yep, that's bad. But I'm talking about governments killing what were nominally their own people. Armenians in Turkey. Jews in greater Germany, which points out the problem of numbers on each side. Lenin and Stalin killing more than both combined, in once case the latter arresting 1/3 of the residents of Leningrad in one night (!).

Guns are really useless against the agents of the state, no matter how expensive they make genocide or mass deportations or executions? I mean, does any state have an infinite supply of thugs?
Although it's not correctly pronounced as earl. (You sound each letter separately.)

So using "an" would be yet another mistake.
Andreas Raab passed away
Alternatively, it is a bomb, and one cleverly prepared to maximize the likelihood that it is opened by its intended target. (Somehow I imagine Mr Assange is careful about opening unsolicited packages these days -- but if he becomes aware of this one, he might relax that standard).

Perhaps my tinfoil hat needs adjusting.
Eval is well understood in the context of static typing, since the early 90s with Nilsson and Pfenning. So about 20 years now...

GHCi is a bytecode interpreter for Haskell, it supports the full Haskell+GHC type system -- and has very little to do with eval() or your comment.
It is a URL, the host component is simply provided as an IP address instead of a Domain, so that the domain cannot be stricken from DNS records in order to take the site down.
I'm getting sick of the white house petitions.

You know what works? Getting people together to call congress. Or lets collectively digging into patent trolls and outing them. These petitions don't change anyone opinions on the matter.
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If they wanted an App Store it would already have one. They don't want iTunes competitors on the Apple TV.
I agree that gold should be a commodity. We should stop hiding it away in vaults to never be used. And I know that gold is often grouped with other commodities like oil and other metals. I'm just saying that unlike those, gold's value is determined more by the fact that historically we've perceived it as currency and stored it, than by the fact that it is something that "satisfies a want or need", which is how wikipedia defines a commodity.

>You are in a pretty tiny minority, btw, if you don't believe that using gold as a hedge against currency inflation isn't a useful technique in managing your portfolio.

I'm not arguing about the practical applications of gold in a portfolio. It may very well be a practical way to get an inflation hedge. I just don't think under something like CAPM gold can add diversification when it's value doesn't come from something intrinsic to it like it does with other commodities.

Basically my intuition is that if you buy a perfectly diversified portfolio of assets that adequately represents the whole world economy, then you don't care about the nominal value of the economy, and inflation is not a problem. In that scenario you'd want to have some gold in the portfolio in case someone finds a fantastic new way to turn gold into free energy and it's price sky-rockets on its own merits. But if you're only buying it as an inflation hedge it doesn't really add any value as any inflation would just push the nominal values of all your investments up and leave you owning the same share of the total world economy.

It may very well be that buying a "perfectly diversified portfolio of assets that adequately represents the whole world economy" is not really feasible and gold is a decent approximation. Either way, buying something that by design will be stored in a vault never to be used seems like a random implementation quirk of our economical system that we'll eventually get around to fixing. So in the long run I'd rather be short gold.
Time Machine, Time Capsule... Same thing http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/
Neat! Is anyone aware of any accessible introductions to the concept of row polymorphism?
> It is simply not in British interests to be seen dismissing this expectation as unimportant.

Maybe that's understating it a bit.

The United Kingdom itself has embassies all over the world, filled with important British people and often in places where they might not be uniformly liked. The British have far more to lose by a breakdown of diplomatic protections than the Ecuadorians do.

http://www.google.com/search?q=british+embassy+attack
Anecdotally, there has been an increase in people taking up archery. I know several friends who have gotten into it primarily because of The Hunger Games' glorification of it.

Google seems to suggest an increase in interest, as well: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=archery
I think the musings of Philip Greenspun at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/01/16/aaron-swartz-f... that we need to make copyright violation a purely civil matter would be a proper step.
And these gangs, would they by any chance be involved in drug distribution? Drugs which are imported by the ton?

I.e. I think its a mistake to say "if we can stop this source we'll stop them from getting them altogether". Great Britain, which has the great advantage of being an island, doesn't provide a encouraging example after their total bans.
Looks like the USD is on its second iteration. Originally there were the United States Notes (aka Greenback) which were replaced with Federal Reserve Notes. (The Birth of U.S. Fiat Currency - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-02/the-birth-of-u-s-fi...)
Good TV, Terrible Advice - The Biggest Loser
That's hard to do after the fact. It may be that it is now obvious to everybody because of the patented technology. Something needs to be done, but there are no easy answers.
Show HN: A php app that displays info from a github wiki
Your story developing an MVP could be interesting. A book which pretends that a non-project is an MVP probably won't be.

The passion of execution is what makes Getting Real interesting. http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php
I didn't get this part ...

> There are over 9000 identical parcels! So, if the first parcel fails to reach you, we will undertake a second and third attempt.

Surely they haven't made 9000 camera parcels?
The future is also the heat-death of the universe. Lucky for us, how far off in the future things are happens to be relevant. ;)
Spoilers: factually I agree with much of what he says and you say. But there are always going to be naysayers.

I expect Tim Cook to do well. He may do better than Jobs. He may also get hit by a bus tomorrow. He may do a competent job but ultimately be judged not the visionary jobs is as most expect. And he may be just plain bad. In that last case the naysayers will say they told us so.

So I'm making my way through his article wondering what the point is... is it "Tim Cook is teh REAL DEALZ" or "give Tim Cook more time" or, wait here it is: "stop tanking my portfolio fuckers"
The right group of distributed teammates on the right product and project is fucking amazing. Its all about recruiting and constant communication with video. Seeings someone's face makes all the difference.
We already have such a system. The reality is that these people are not going on rampage shootings, which is what is at issue, because they played Max Payne.
I would argue that the person with their vim set up to create that clutter is to blame here. If there's no objective reason to fix it other then "well, this is what vim does", then fix vim.
Visualization of global contraceptive usage
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732423510457824...
The killer features in sublime for me are:

+ Multiple cursors
+ Column edit
+ JSON configuration files
+ Plugin support
+ Textmate themes
+ Python code base (easy to create plugins)
Nice little graphic!
Yeah, I'd record that as a macro and replay it line by line I think.
I sort of agree. Isn't it obvious? It doesn't seem too difficult to deduce the definition through the definitions of the two smaller words that make up "timeboxing."
"Over 9000" is a meme, so don't take it literally.
Jquery Plugins Registry is up again
The world where loser pays is not so perfect. If I as an independent inventor sue apple for infringing on my patent and they win simply because they have unlimited legal war chest, then I would get stuck with millions of dollars worth of legal fees. That threat alone is enough to stop smaller patent owners from rightfully defending their intellectual property.
Tabulus might be an option.

http://www.tabulus.com/Home.aspx