skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're suggesting that England - one of the most powerful countries in the world - should throw away all ties with an entire continent of countries, just so they can arrest a man to be questioned about sexual assault allegations?

Yes, it's obvious the real reason they want to get to him, but come on.
And that's a bad thing? I don't think they're concerned about property damage. They're doing it to see what happens.
Is there a philosophical reason why Lisp is generally dynamically typed, or is it mostly an artifact of history?

Would anything of value of Lisp be lost beyond the typical trade-offs you see mentioned in every static vs dynamic debate, such as up-front ease of development?
Never read the Seattle Times comments. The angry lunatics outnumber everyone else by a wide margin.
Yes, I'm aware of this. I was simply clarifying the pricing is not $200, but $100 for a single-person license. There has been confusion in the past regarding this, people assuming that if you use one of their products for business, you must purchase a company license. Even if you only use AppCode for work stuff, you do not need to purchase a company license.
New big data firm to pioneer topological data analysis
Yeah maybe a bit, but to me full Stallmanesque would be avoiding proprietary software even when the free alternative is non-existent or significantly less functional. That is not the situation with text editors, unless I am missing something big that Sublime Text can uniquely do.
Capitalism embiggens itself via creative destruction. A concept that does not combine well with nuclear reactors.
Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend Is A Hoax
How Twitter made Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend look real
I'd expect more intelligent people, which this community claims to consist of, to not react the way it has to the events, with nothing but hyperbole and sensationalism.

So it turns out "intelligent" people are first and foremost just people like everyone else. We need to remember our humanity and allow ourselves to be humbled by our flaws.
Sheesh, kids these days. 'Responsible disclosure' used to be about not screwing over the numerous people running a piece of software. Then it became about helping websites implementing software to regress us back to centralized computing. And now it's apparently about helping preserve clunky business models by helpfully suggesting exploiting weaknesses in TLS. What's up next, volunteer implementations of using nmap for client OS fingerprinting so they're even better able to extra money from more-capable device owners? Or helping to conceal the latest government trojan? Sigh.
Exactly.

The highest order bit is cash flowing to developers, unfortunately. If Android matched iOS in credit card coverage and user's propensity to pay the platforms would be way more competitive than they are currently.
That's a problem if you move with the weapon to try to clear something. I don't think I'd feel comfortable even bringing that up (except to say it is a horribly bad idea, and demonstrate how hard it is)

Most CCW holders shouldn't even be moving around with a handgun (which is generally much easier for weapon retention) in a home defense environment. That's more like 3-4 days of range time and 2 days of classroom.
Pretty Awesome little technique. Any chance we could do this for presidents?
So...this is only for chrome then?
I can't find the stats to cite, but straw purchases are a major source of handguns for gangs. They're not the majority of weapons IIRC, but the majority of weapons-actually-used. (this was ~8 years ago that I heard it, and it was being used as an example about something else, so it may be correct, but it came from an LAPD guy)
Why are you such a believer in 9 mm? If that hollow point doesn't expand....

The nice thing about .45 ACP is that you aren't betting much on it expanding, and if it does, all things equal, if you follow Fackler, it'll be better than a similarly expanding 9 mm.

No argument with Gold Dot, that's what I use in .45 ACP. For me the question of "which gun" was settled by the ergonomics of the M1911 in my hand, obviously YMMV.
Machine Learning and AI via Brain simulations [video]
I've never heard anyone ever suggest gold was not a commodity. Indeed, many of the definitions of "commodity" use gold as an example.

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.
OK, but it hasn't specifically been tested with Canadian builds, for example, right? I get that in theory this should work but like I say, when I was using the PHP SDK there was definitely some interesting 'issues' (I believe tax rates for one). Was just curious if this was tested at all.

I'm glad to see some developments in this area, that's for sure.
Building a product in 4 weeks
Somehow I suspect you also dislike the SERPA style holsters.
Agitate HN: Samsung OLED Keynote Commercial
We are officially in the future, but we still have a long way to go as humans.

http://www.androidbricks.com/samsung-youm-oled-flexible-displays-ad-commercial-video/

Can we just pretend that we didn't see the male chauvinistic side of the commercial, because we'd love to have the technology that is showcased in the keynote?

It really irks me to the level that the annoyance overwhelms the amazement from the new technology that was demoed just a minute before. It could be just a technology demonstration, but this commercial is NOT OK.
The article talks about the student plan here: https://github.com/edu
Sorry, I meant US dollars (the default reserve currency of the world), not Argentinian pesos.

The occasional collapse of various small government currencies isn't really a statement on fiat currency, it's a statement on those particular small economies. For fiat currency to fail as a concept, the international reserve currency (USD for now) would have to fail.
Ayasdi launches with $10M Series A from Khosla for automated insight discovery
Overpaid Unions, Little work for a Union Member, Not Enough Quality Control and very bloated Management.
I love it! White burns my eyes out and black is too dark for me. Blue is for my eyes and I think it looks great.
Inter-thread communication through volatile fields is error-prone. For most multithreaded applications, a better way is to use Queue objects to communicate between threads. The typical pattern for multithreaded programming is: A worker thread receives work in an "inbox" queue, processes it, and puts results in an "outbox" queue. When the main program wants to shut down the thread, it sends a special object to the "inbox" queue.

Common variations on the theme include pipelined processing (where one worker thread's outbox is another worker thread's inbox) or result gathering (every worker thread writes to the same outbox queue, and another thread reads the outbox queue and writes the results sequentially to a file, database, or socket).
"when it comes to mass shootings Europe has been doing worse than the US as of late"

This is false.

"school shootings"

Europe: 65, US: 85

"Other spree shootings"

Europe: 93, US: 121

Europe has over twice the population of the US.
You can test it out yourself: http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/

Typed Racket lets you easily migrate portions (or the entirety) of a dynamically typed codebase into an equivalent statically-typed version. You get the best of both - easy prototyping with dynamic typing, robustness and scalability of static typing, and then the flexibility of applying those choices to parts of your codebase while keeping everything completely interoperable.
Windows malware is about to get a lot worse. Might want to save up for that Mac.
I'm wondering (honest question) why do you believe that Gogo business model is clunky?
CFAA, wire fraud. It fits any crime.
nothing personal, but please tax this idea.. burn it, and bury the ashes somewhere deep, never to be seen again
And my Axe! I mean...same error here as well:

https://gist.github.com/4553069
Yes, it's useful and nice (maybe except for keybindings):

SublimeREPL - run an interpreter inside ST2 (Clojure, CoffeeScript, F#, Groovy, Haskell, Lua, MozRepl, NodeJS, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, shell or configure one yourself)
https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL
I'm amazed by some of the comments like "Wow great article. I knew there must be a way to avoid paying." and by author's apparent believe that contacting the support several times via twitter and not getting a response morally justifies sharing his recipe with other people and wishing them "Happy “free” surfing, for now anyway".

Stealing is stealing, no matter what "justification" one may have about high prices.

edit: grammar
Awesome! Thank you very much. I'll definitely take a look at it...
Unless of course you're a powerful British business leader with business interests in South America, in which case the relationships would be pretty darn important and you'd be communicating that to your MP.

For example, British Petroleum has significant interests in South America.
You utterly fail when you get to the point of "at least as far as the campaign he ran on". I mean, even ignoring everything else, he's a politician.

And he had quite an anti-gun record before the campaign; e.g. being a Joyce Foundation board member is about as hard core as you can get. From what I learned, hard stuff vs. what is claimed he said while at the University of Chicago Law School, I believe he would actually like to confiscate all civilian firearms.

But he's not like Clinton, he's not a cultural Baby Boomer, he's actually from Generation Jones like myself. So the culture wars that have consumed the US since the '60s aren't, I believe, a big driver for him, just something he'll use.

However, bottom line, if he wants to ban commonly used guns, which "assault weapons" most certainly are, e.g. per Dianne Feinstein prevent transfer so they must be surrendered upon death (and she's quite clear about desiring total confiscations), I can't see how "gun grabber" is seriously incorrect.
That makes you solidly pro choice.
Back in the day, that's all we had. Microsoft editors were all white-on-blue and Borland editors were all yellow-on-blue. We didn't even have syntax highlighting. And some of us liked it that way. Get off my lawn!
> You certainly (AFAIK) have no legal leverage as a safe harbored service provider.

This discredits your entire premise. We are a registered safe harbor service provider.

I've been in video since 98, and we've been hosting customer video since 2001. We've been to court over this, on behalf of our customers, and won. We know what we have to do and what we don't have to do. There's a lot of leeway for the provider in the DMCA.

The big guys partly want to automate everything, and partly are simply acknowledging they have a pirated content problem since anyone can upload anonymously and free, so their practices are far more anti-fair-use than the DMCA requires.

As a final note: you don't have to take down a given piece of content. You only "have" to take it down if you're afraid you'll lose on fair use and want to cover your ass.
"If Voting Really Changed Anything, They'd Ban It"
All I know is.. if the Apple TV had an app store I'd have one connected to every TV in my house and my families houses (Plex!)
Seems awful trivial five years later. Givewell does excellent nonprofit analysis, and they don't seem malicious or unethical in any way that I've seen.
What age group? I specialize in generating app installs.
"Aaron's Law" Might Be Good
The PDF can be flattened by printing, then saving from the print dialog.
What an excessively bad idea as well as a diplomatic gaffe! I am pretty surprised that Her Majesty's government has not been able to negotiate a deal that is acceptable to both Assange and the Ecuador final authority on their involvement in this matter. Assange may want to close the case too. There are offers possible that he will accept.
"This bakery's bread is OKish, but $10 is too much to pay for a loaf. But I found a cool trick: when you're offered to take a free sampler, you can actually take the whole lot while the owner is not watching.

I sent him couple of postcards telling about this but he never responded, so enjoy this free bread while you can!"
I still have a habit, even in vim, of putting a newline at the end of the file (such that now I end up with two newlines). Old habits die hard, I guess.
I really don't care about Apple, Jobs or Cook, but this is a horrible point (regarding Jobs track as CEO): "Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%."

Uhh... I wonder if that had anything to do with the financial crisis....
OK, from the horse's mouth:

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId...

And here's a good document dealing with Lithium-Ion battery hazards:

http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/pdf/research/rflithiumionba...

I have a lot of experience with Lithium Polymer batteries as I fly eletric-powered radio-controlled helicopters and planes that use them. There are always reports of LiPo (as they are commonly known) packs puffing-up and sometimes catching on fire and even exploding (more like the popping of a pop-corn bag except that you have flames shooting out of it). I have personally exploded a small 3S (three cells in series) pack just to see the mechanism and the magnitude of the effect. I have to say that it took a LOT of work to explode the pack. I over-charged it to a ridiculous degree.

Now, of course, there are also reports of packs catching on fire for no apparent reason at all. There are many explanations out there. The best I came across was from a PhD Chemist who explained it something like this (paraphrasing, of course): When these batteries are assembled there's moisture in the surrounding environment. And, while moisture is kept in check, some of it stays in the pack. They can't run a super-dry environment because it could be very dangerous. One of the electrodes is lithium-oxide infused in carbon. Lithium reacts with water, which gives you hydrogen. Carbon reacts with hydrogen to give you methane. As methane is generated the cell puff-up. If thermal runaway is triggered through other mechanisms and the methane ignites: kaboom!

I keep about thirty LiPo packs in strong locked and vented steel container (heavy toolbox) in the garage away from flammable materials and flame sources. When we go to the flying field the same container is used to transport to the field. While at the field the container is always locked and, if possible, removed from the car. I have never had an incident I did not cause.

As far as the Boeing issues. Hard to say from the outside. It could boil down to quality issues at their battery supplier. It is probably impossible to perform a full inspection on these kinds of batteries on delivery. How do you determine if there's too much moisture inside a sealed package?
...because when you have Argentina grandstanding over the Falkland Islands the best thing to do is piss off everyone else in South America. The UK needs all the goodwill it can get in the region.
Flu outbreaks and healthcare investments
Somebody needs to create a petition to reduce the signature threshold back to 25k.

Better yet, a petition to actually act on petitions, would be nice.
And when you're done sampling, the whole bread is gone, just like in the case of internet access, right?
If you attack someone's embassy, suddenly all of your own embassies are vulnerable to people who want to attack you. MAD.
Facebook goes ARM with Calxeda
Yup. It's unfortunate that this still dogs them in internet forums, but it's really only on internet forums where someone always insists on bringing it up.
A few random site comments:

- Posting a picture is a legal minefield for US employers. Companies literally don't want to know anything about your age/race/sex at the screening stage for fear of a discrimination lawsuit. The only safe policy is to ignore/reject all candidate applications with a picture. (It's not illegal for the employer to know or even ask, but it's illegal to make decisions based on such information, and the best way to convince a belligerent labor attorney that a decision wasn't discriminatory is to never possess the information in the first place.)

- The salary box has a hilarious pair of up/down arrows for increments of 1. Yeah I'm going to click 110,000 times to enter my desired salary. :)

- Am I blind or is there nowhere to list skills/responsibilities/experience under the work experience section? Or is that the point, to avoid that stale format?
Yes, he did. Without solid research, it's far too easy for movies/TV/video games to get blamed for gun violence. It's a brilliant move as he's not saying if the NRA's claims that video games are to blame is true or not. He's just saying let's figure it out and go from there.

For the purposes of moving forward with the debate on gun safety, I think it's great to apply the scientific process and see what it says. Based on the results it may open up a rabbit hole around censorship, but at least we'll have some solid research to read on it. I suspect the initial research could point to follow up studies that would pinpoint specific factors that we as a society should be concerned about, rather than just "violence in video games".

I honestly have no idea what they'll find, but I'd wager that if there is a link that there are specific triggers or contextual combinations that make them a concern. The good news if that happens is that as an industry we can address those specific things rather than doing all out bans.
I used SublimeCodeIntel some time ago and while it worked as advertised, I ended up having to remove it since it was causing ST2 to hang especially on large codebases.
TCP Over DNS
Lisp both predates static type systems, and has a philosophical bent towards "late binding" to the maximum extent possible.

In terms of what you'd lose--eval() for one. It's only been relatively recently that decent type inference has been integrated with interactive execution (GHCi), but I think it's possible (though GHCi is still more limited and cumbersome than full batch GHC).
If we are going to ban violent games (and movies?), then I suggest we go ahead and ban refined sugar. And HFCS. ...oh..And cars.
LiveReload is one of my favorites
https://github.com/dz0ny/LiveReload-sublimetext2
Common Lisp's optional type annotations aren't complete. That is to say there is no level of annotation you can provide that guarantees you won't get type errors at runtime.
I can no longer edit the post, but if a mod wants to switch it to a Twitter link I agree that would be a good idea. I didn't expect this to be so popular.
Given that GoGo is like 3.1 megabits shared between dozens of people on a plane, yeah.

Also, the "marginal cost of information/bandwidth/etc is zero" is specious. You are not entitled to get things for their marginal cost. I can't take a Prada handbag out of store and leave the $50 marginal cost of the bag + $10 for restocking.
Internet access on board of a flying plane is non trivial and certainly doesn't come free: you need to install and maintain equipment on board, maintain a network of ground stations, write and debug some software, pay money to other internet providers etc.

With relatively small number of paying customers (yet), you have to keep prices high to maintain the profitability of your business.

Think about this: if nobody pays, they will close this service. Just like the bakery will close if nobody pays for the bread.
Along the same line, "If a pig had wings, it'd be a pigeon." I want to say that's from Heinlein, but I'm not positive.
For the US Embassy yes, but there can't be more than a dozen people working at the Ecuadorian embassy (I believe it's physically located inside a block of flats). Diplomatic missions for poorer, or smaller, countries tend to be relatively mundane affairs.
Is anyone else annoyed at the mix of parameter naming conventions, or is it just me? (e.g. client_id, emailAddress, client_secret, firstName).
> I think it's more a case of their being dissatisfied with their own lives and expecting that Apple's next product will fix everything.

I stopped reading at this point. Does the author even realize how immature that sounds?
That building had been completely taken over by non-Iranians. Even still, the British didn't enter it until the hostage-takers began executing the Iranians.

"Three further shots were fired during the course of the imam's conversation with Oan. Oan announced that a hostage had been killed, and the rest would die in 30 minutes unless his demands were met. A few minutes later, Lavasani's body was dumped out of the front door."

Considering they were at the time holding 52 American hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, the Iranians couldn't credibly complain about the British rescue operation representing a violation of their rights under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

I guess I don't think that precedent is going to generalize to many other situations.
I would guess that everyone on this website is privileged as well.

My definition is based on fact, I realise those facts are confronting, but not invalid.

Privileged people who think they aren't just have blinders on.
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The two people who were penalized in the Metafilter affair are now Co-Executive Directors, i.e. they have worked their ways back to the top.
As opposed to regular docs, where I can photograph/scan/screenshot your signature and paste it in?
I am sure that can be arranged in the future, if one doesn't exist already.
There's already at least one: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/lower-petition-cou...
tldr: "Disclosure: I am long AAPL."
> What, then, was the underlying crime,

are you actually asking? read section II of this article: http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

the charges were wire fraud, computer fraud, unauthorized access, and computer damage.

> because it wasn't JSTOR pressing charges, it was MIT

when the charges are federal crimes, prosecutors decide whether or not to press charges. not wanting to press charges does not magically make criminal acts not criminal. if a guy beats the crap out of his girlfriend, and his girlfriend does not want to press charges, the prosecutor can still press charges.
Great observation! Women are often offended by accurate characterizations of their behavior.
Errr ... you haven't heard about how California said the SKS was OK, then the AG changed his mind and banned them all? Several hundred thousand of them? (Cheap (a very simple old design, except for power akin to the Garand, perhaps) and, well, they did escape the California AW ban. Initially.)

What do you think happened when Tammany Hall gangster (in this case I'm not repeating myself) Timothy Sullivan got New York's first gun control law passed in 1911, requiring a permit to even own a handgun? What do you think happened to the newer immigrants against who this was enforced?

I mean, it takes some serious effort to, per Gawker's list of from a couple of years ago, issue only 21,100 handgun possession permits for 8 million people. And what about Heller and MacDonald? Both D.C. and Chicago froze handgun possession after registering them, and the latter also required periodic re-registration (well, expect for that one time an Alderman forgot to do it).

Complete or nearly so bans on possession may not fit the precise meaning of "grabbing", but I think they're close enough.
Because he wants free shit dammit.
On the contrary, condescension immediately ups my prior on developer's skill level.
It is an offense for a party to DMCA takedown content they do not own the rights to. This is assuming it was a DMCA takedown and not YouTube's internal system which doesn't have the same protections the DMCA provides.

Not that it makes it necessarily feasible, but at least there is an option.
... Yes it is. If I think these charges probably aren't going to do anything good, and they could kill someone, I might consider not pursuing them (being reasonable)... Easy to say this in hindsight, but it is not unrelated.