skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the hell does this even mean? What's wrong with you? In what parallel universe is it civil for you to take a disagreement about the law with someone you don't know on a message board and parlay it into a claim that they don't care about "disabled mute's rights to participate in our society"?
Instagram's Terms essentially say you have to respect the copyright and license of the photos.

However, their API doesn't provide any mechanism to know what those licenses and copyrights are yet, which makes it pretty difficult to honor it. Still, you're bound by the terms, not their execution. If it's a business you plan to make money off of, you should probably consult legal advice and plan ahead to lose it.
What's the point? I don't mind downloading it right there again at all...
I think the safety concern is valid, but it's more a wakeup call for the government than for people getting rid of radios. The new text messaging alerts system needs to be built as robustly as our radio alerts. Given the low bandwidth needed for text messaging, it's likely that this goal is not only workable but will result in a more robust system as the end result.
In Opera it opens a new tab with: papercoin.org/undefined
>Who reads Joyce, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Faulkner? Your average reader will find them inscrutable.

He was talking about writers though -- not average readers. And your average writer has certainly read Joyce, Pound, Eliot and Faulkner.

The argument was writers vs developers (not average readers vs average users).
In a field of icons, icons representing more interesting states should draw the eye†. Traditionally you might do that with color, or mass, or value, but you have to balance the attraction with keeping a cohesive feel.

What the darksky icons do is keep the feel with line weight and mass, but let the motion do the attraction.

Pull up http://forecast.io to see them in action. If you live in a desert or England, search to 63131 to see what I mean. Monday and Saturday I have light rain. It leaps right out.

␄

† "Windy" is interesting. If I am near a sailboat, I absolutely want it the way it is. If I am 500 miles from a sailboat I don't care about windy until it gets to a level where I'll make sure the car isn't parked under trees.
Correlation is not causation. Again.
I assure you that previous privileged generations didn't refer to themselves as "rich and the right ethnicity".
I do not use I2P's domain name system at all. Everything is just fully-qualified base32 hostnames underneath.
So what? A radio is different from a cassette deck, and the discussions around them are different (for a pile of reasons).

Additionally if someone was concerned that this was a process that's currently underway, GM has indicated that it is not.

That makes this a rather different (and considerably more academic) discussion. I'm surprised that nobody seems to care about this fact.
If you like what you read, make sure to read "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," by the authors of this paper. You can even get video lectures online! [1]

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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No offense, but your comment is a symptom of the very problem the article is highlighting. You say:

"A rural kid who makes it to a university will almost certainly have to work an almost full-time job just to cover their living expenses, books, tuition, rent...etc."

The point of the article is that this is not true and almost no one knows it! If you go to Harvard/Stanford/MIT/etc -- basically any of the Ivy League, top LACs, or a few other elite schools -- and your family makes under, say, $60k/year, your tuition/room/board/books will be absolutely free. All covered by the school. No crippling student loans, no expectation of you working a job while in school (except maybe 10hrs/wk of cushy work-study for spending money). Even if your family is a bit wealthier, it's still the case that for most middle-class families the cost of an Ivy League education works out to less than the cost of the local state school. Very few families know this.

Is there culture shock? Sure, of course. That's part of the point -- for both the poor rural kids and the rich urban kids, and everyone in between. But at schools with the resources to do diversity right (which, sorry to hear, doesn't sound like it includes Virginia Tech), the shock is only cultural, not financial, so the full college experience really is accessible to students from any background.
I think there are some pretty unintuitive "features" it has. Example: reply to someone that has sent you an e-mail. Gmail sends you to a new section of the page below their e-mail, and allows you to start typing your response (just like it used to be!). Now, change the subject. How? Well...press the "back" button, of course. But then what happens? Apparently that compose view isn't right anymore, so it pops it out into a window. Why? I'm not sure.

But in general I also feel that things just seem really cluttered when you compose e-mails in a window alongside your chats. I usually have 4+ chats going, and it usually hides a couple when I compose the e-mail. It also just _appears_, as fast as a popup, over my field of view on the page --- I don't find that transition very pleasing, TBH. One might argue it's the same for gchat windows, but maybe I just got used to those. Or maybe it's time for a revamp for those, too. (Which might actually be coming soon, anyway)
This:

"Safety is a giant concern. AM and FM radio stays available when the power goes down. Cell towers and the Internet do not."

I own radio stations, and that's one of the dumbest things I've ever read about the business. Having suffered through countless extreme winter storms and electrical events, AM and FM radio DO NOT inherently stay available when the power goes down. We have generators at the tower sites and the office, but that can be done at cell towers and elsewhere, there's no magic to AM / FM. Generators do not run forever, and they don't always kick on perfectly. Completely bogus claim on the authors part.

In fact, frankly, more than a few times it was extremely difficult to keep our stations on the air during severe storms (hello physical, outdoors receivers - both at the towers and the office, hello ice and wind and snow), and meanwhile I was able to use my smart phone for Internet access.
Where the instructions say fold - you fold 180 degrees, not 90. So the wallet stays always flat. I added the 180 degrees note to the instructions.
I am not sure if I get your question.
I think this query should work

"select country, state, city, SUM(sales), SUM(profit) from foo group by country, state, city with rollup;"

for a table with country, state, city, sales, profit as columns
Remember the news that L4D2 on Linux outperformed the Windows version? As I understand it, the L4D2 code base uses Direct 3D, and on Linux it uses a D3D emulator with OpenGL as the backend, and yet after going through these user-space hoops it still gets a better framerate. The best theory I've heard is that context switching is cheaper on Linux.
HTTP 420 "Enhance your calm"
Needs more NancyFX + Mono! Nice post tho, very interesting.
And mine!http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=trz3t72fcwwqzdi4...
I don't know that they _had_ to release an update, but as a Mathematica user who was seeing WordPad (yes, WordPad) bluescreen my computer, I was really happy that Wolfram fixed it for me so I didn't have to wait for Windows to.
YouTube's ready to select a winner [video]
Your conception of the Constitution's place in moral arguments is unfounded. The Constitution largely avoids moral concerns --- or, more precisely, values and substantive rights.

What the Constitution cares about are the "constitutive" issues: the procedural rights that ensure that all citizens have access to the political process and to the same dispute resolution mechanisms, and that attempt to ensure (as best any constitution can) that the majority cannot impinge on the minority without sharing in the downside of those actions.

As you know, the ultimate arbiter of Constitutional rights is the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is 9 unelected humans with lifetime tenure. We are not a nation governed by philosopher kings.

The Constitution is not just not a source for our morality and values; it is deliberately designed to avoid those questions. The framers and every court since Marshall's recognized that the legislative branch was uniquely positioned to represent the largest number of people and equipped with the best fact-finding capabilities. So it falls to Congress to judge the morality and value of the country. SCOTUS is there as a "ref", to make sure the routinely terrible decisions of any collection of West African Plains Apes don't violate the integrity of the Constitution's process --- and that's (mostly) all they do.

Highly recommended: _Democracy and Distrust_, John Hart Ely.
SICP super-condensed -- this was my intro to Abelson & Sussman when it came out. So I ordered their book, which took a month to arrive, quite a valuable month, because I spent some of it trying to develop the ideas compressed into this article, for myself. You're better placed to absorb and appreciate an idea like lazy lists after an independent crack at the same problems.
I haven't read that book. I recommend:

Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
http://www.amazon.com/Limbo-Blue-Collar-Roots-White-Collar-D...

EDIT to add: $25.52 for a Kindle book (Ain't No Makin' It)?! So the people who would be interested in perhaps reading it are screened out from affording it. Insanity.
Maybe people just don't understand how radio and cell phones work?

Cell phones need scores of towers and fiber running to towers in order to connect to a telephone network. You have a network of them. Disrupting either the physical towers or the cabling that connects them incapacitates that part of the network. Worse yet, the more towers drop, the higher the network congestion gets (which can further jam whatever nodes are still up and available).

Radio has a gigantic broadcast tower (or maybe some repeaters too), that blasts electromagnetic waves across a large region, and, so long as you have power and your tower is intact, you can reach every radio in your listening area.
She also thinks that elite colleges undervalue the kind of extracirriculars common in rural areas: FFA, 4H, etc.

An excellent point. The kinds of extracurriculars I had available to me growing up rural and poor were either things like Boy Scouts, 4H, or things of my own interest: community chamber orchestra or rock bands, demoscene, semi-local computer user groups, etc. I lived far enough from school that my bus ride ran a bit over an hour, once I got a car I stayed for a few after school clubs (poetry, chess) etc. but I usually didn't get home till it was too late for homework so I simply had to drop those few school sponsored activities.

While the tech magnet school an hour from my area had their very own Cray Supercomputer and sponsored robotics competitions, and all sort of other high-interest to college activities.

I can't really recall anybody from my school trying to get into the Iveys. The "big time" schools were all state schools either in my state, or the next state over for those really ambitious.
I am not a Bitcoin user and I also don't get it. Could anyone else please explain what this hash on the piece of paper is? Is this an address used to send Bitcoins to?
What do you mean by base32 hostnames? ips? If you mean ips, then, especially on a phone, wont the ip change often. If you mean some actual hostname (presumably not the reverse lookup) then who translates that hostname? If it is provided by nightlyweb servers, then if that server gets taken down, you have no more network, right?
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Technically, at least for my university, they're all need-based aid packages.

Anecdotally, I'm from the latter type of family. Despite my mother's efforts, we still couldn't relocate to a really good area in time for me to go to high school, but we eventually got my brother into a much better public school than I went to.
Drive atop Google's Streetview car in your browser
Good advice - might be worth just trying a micro EC2 instance from Amazon, which is part of their free tier.

http://aws.amazon.com/free/
This is win32 and does not represent the NT kernel in any way. There is a load of stuff they had to port from win16 which was shit and have been stuck with it ever since that effectively compromises NT's architecture. GDI in kernel space was a pragmatic choice considering the other competitors on the workstation market were basically HP, Sun and SGI and they all had nearly graphics acceleration.

NT itself is flipping marvellous :)
Refer to my last post on the same project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5454981
Ha -- I still remember getting so confused as to how I go to my contacts when they changed gmail's look a year or so ago. I was actually starting to think the only way was going to "www.google.com/contacts", but eventually I got curious as to what the drop down arrow with the completely uninformative current choice of "gmail" was gonna give me.
I'd have thought that assuming you've got any kind of sound system in a car, tacking on an fm receiver is trivial/extremely inexpensive. With that in mind it doesn't seem like there would be much benefit in actually removing it. It'll probably live on the same chip as your internet comms stack a bit like mobile phones.
Can't wait to try this out. Some of the course files on my university's website are in .docx format instead of .pdf and I always forget I've downloaded them before, so by the end of the semester I end up with 7 copies of the same file.

As an aside, one of the problems I've had with certain Chrome Extensions is that the Chrome Webstore is telling me that "This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled." I started noticing this when I upgraded to Win 8 from my Win 7, and when I looked it up it was something about NPAPI plugins being disabled for Chrome on Windows 8. However this [1] and [2] make it seem that this is only for Chrome in metro mode, but I've been getting this message in Desktop mode as well. Now I don't know anything about Chrome extensions and file system access, but it would be great if it can be coded using some other kind of plugin. There is a workaround for Chrome/Win8 [3] but it does require a bit of work and it will put people off from installing it if they have to jump through those hoops.

[1] (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tincr-for-chrome-dev...)

[2] (http://blog.chromium.org/2012/07/npapi-plug-ins-in-windows-8...)

[3] ()http://blog.chromium.org/2012/07/npapi-plug-ins-in-windows-8...
My credit union enforces similar limits (and only 0-9 are valid characters), but I realized the validation was only enforced in Javascript. I disabled the validation and I was able to use any password I wanted.
dynamic loading, arbitrary casts (it is what I tell you it is) etc etc.
Right, but radio is considerably more scalable than cell phone towers. Cell phone networks congest in a manner which radio cannot. And when natural disasters occur, you end up with two things compound to incapacitate cell networks. First damaging physical infrastructure, and second a spike in demand. With cell phone towers out of the network, the increased load is left to whatever remaining towers are available to carry the increase.

A crowd can accidentally DDoS a cell phone network. They can't DDoS a radio station.
You can find the list of changes here: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/incoming/RELEASES.txt
After my freshman year at my state university, I transferred to an Ivy League school.

My financial aid now covers more than tuition (housing/dining plan/etc). I owe more money for my freshman year at a state university than my 3 remaining years combined at an Ivy League school.
The AP English exam (if I remember correctly) has a really clear-cut rubric: part of that rubric, to get above a 4, is that you must cite at least two of the primary sources provided (again, I may be misremembering, it's been four years, and this may actually be the case for AP US History, instead). Which would mean, unless they also cite a different, third source, citing the same source twice cannot earn above a 4. Even if the rest of the paper is excellent.
I know anecdotes != data, but I and a bunch of my friends at our Ivy League university applied through the QuestBridge program[0] and for the most part, davmre's comment is completely on point.

I work more because I want to have more web dev on my resume before hitting the real world and also because I like being able to pay for some niceties that my mother wouldn't otherwise be able to afford, not because I need to to stay in school.

[0] http://questbridge.org/
There are IETF standardized NAT traversal mechanisms, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN#NAT_traversal_solutions

I don't know how widespread NAT is on mobile networks, my
operator just started using it and I've been meaning to switch.. not a real internet connection anymore IMO. And lots of people are doing self-inflicted NAT on their home wifi. So it might actually be that mobile connections are less likely to be NATted.
It's not constantly recording, it's recording when you decide to start recording. In the same way that anybody sitting down holding their phone could actually be recording you.

I swear, Glass gets more FUD on this site than any other product.
This frustrates me. Three hours of time to watch a video, if you charge $50/hr means you spend $150 opportunity cost of time on the free version. Assuming the time to consume both is equal, it gives an equivalent cost of $150 vs $164, or put another way, the difference in cost is a rounding error.

It seems to me the only durable advantage to the free version is that if it isn't working out you can abandon it after 15 minutes at a fraction of the cost. If there were a credible way to sell knowledge products "satisfaction guaranteed" I'd think that people would be a lot less sensitive to the difference between free and $14.
> Chance doesn't explain it.

About a program I wrote, that generates random numbers, and that therefore can only model chance? Yes, chance does explain it -- it is the only possible explanation for a spectacular performance in a program that simply rolls random dice.

> Firstly, in the 90s I doubt there were 65,536 hedge funds around ...

I'm waiting to hear your argument. The number of funds doesn't change the outcome, and the number you chose has no bearing on the problem.

> so simple chance would not dictate one to return above average every year.

Are you aware that we're discussing a computer program that proves that spectacular returns can be gotten using random numbers? Which part of this aren't you understanding?

> the Medallion Fund spectacularly outperformed the market in many of those years and never reported losses.

False. http://www.hedgefundletters.com/category/renaissance-technol...

Quote: "Between January 1993 and April 2005, RenTech’s flagship Medallion fund had only 17 losses out of 148 months."

Check your facts, Mr. Scientist.

Also irrelevant. If your position had merit, science would be a matter of choosing the most extreme, unrepresentative outlier and calling that the average. But that's not science, that's superstition.

Guess how many funds are above average on a given day? 10%? 20%? Would you believe 50%? The third answer is the right one -- as you would know if you understood statistics.

In science, Occam's razor prefers the simple explanation. The simple explanation is chance. The same chance outcome that means ... wait for it ... fully 50% of funds are above average.
Kerbal Space Program - space flight simulator game
The moons and the leaf have some crazy node flickering in Opera.
Sequence starting with "1" together with the QR code are the Bitcoin address where you can send Bitcoins to.
Sequence starting with "5" inside of the wallet is the private key, which you use to redeem the funds sent to the address in the first step.
Well yes, but not as the only security mechanism, as far as I'm aware.

Barclays for example allows you to log in with this plus a separate pass code, but you can't do much damage without using a chip and pin reader that will give you an 8 digit one time pad too (alternatively they now let you use a mobile app to generate the one time pads)

E.g. you can't do transfers to recipients you haven't specifically saved for future payments, for example, without entering your pin, the account number and amount into your key generator and entering the resulting code into online banking.
I think the best parts of the article don't deal with gender or with Donglegate at all.

""When considering the dismal numbers of women (as well as African-American and Latino men) in tech, the meritocratic presumption is that these minorities aren’t good at or interested in technology; otherwise, there would be more of them.""

She has a point in that minorities are also heavily under-represented in tech. I want to put aside the gender politics for now because that's not where I feel the author is strongest. I feel that she's making a good point by pointing out essentially: okay, you guys claim you aren't sexist. That you treated Adria poorly because she was an attention whore and not just a woman.

But what explains the under-representation of other minorities in tech? Why aren't there as many African America n or Latino American programmers?

I feel like she's right in saying the tech world isn't truly meritocratic.
28,000 rivers wiped off the map of China
It's easy, build more schools or recognize already great ones, and start to educate people that most lists of school rankings (USNews in particular) are mostly gamed anyway and are more or less meaningless...(or actually start to rank schools correctly) and then stop discriminating hiring practices.
Those are good reasons to think about general emergency communication, but bad reasons to keep building antiquated AM/FM radio tuners into every single new car. There have to be better ways.
I can't help noting the irony in reverting to to paper cash; I figure it can only be a matter of time before I see a case titled 'United States vs. 2633.5 Bitcoins.'
I mean the hostnames used by I2P itself. They behave like normal hostnames, but they don't require any DNS-style resolution because they contain your public keys inside the hostname itself. They are equivalent to .onion addresses in Tor, except a lot longer.
4H and ROTC are many things, but they are not "generic leadership clubs without a specific purpose". Both groups are much more akin to something like the Boy Scouts, as they demand substantial amounts of time and effort, and give achievements for the mastery of specific skills.
Sure, and maniacs can cut the guy-wires on radio towers, I've seen it happen on more than one occasion over the last 20 years.

With radio - regarding natural disasters - you typically have at most one tower per frequency. Often networks will combine their broadcasts onto one tower, aka one point of failure. There's nothing special that keeps a natural disaster from taking that tower out, versus a cell tower.

The counter argument is that cell towers tend to be highly distributed and numerous - even in a bad scenario, drive 5 minutes and you'll probably get another cell tower, and then another, and then another (partially true for radio, but you're going to jump stations doing that, and the Internet will remain up even if you can't access it at one specific tower, ie cnn.com remains up in an earthquake or blizzard).

Most radio stations are small to medium operations, even those owned by Clear Channel (they operate locally, mostly on their own budget, and have local equipment). So regardless of if eg Clear Channel owns the station in question, if you pack enough ice onto its tower, the hardware on it is going to be damaged, ditto for wind. For mom & pop stations, of which there are a huge number, the cost and infrastructure difficulties under that scenario are terrible.