skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What if" is a pretty silly game to play, as the possibilities are infinite. That being said, the punishment would be more severe. We even have a crime called "manslaughter" for accidental deaths.

But no one was hurt. And she's being treated like a potential terrorist.
This is said to be coming in "Babel."
Made an imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/8XUDP

First is with AdBlock on, the second is AdBlock off.

It's better once you've scrolled down, but everything is poorly mashed together at the top. Multiple words in the left column are badly wrapped.
A lot of people don't understand why people would want to be ready for situations without the rule of law, but we've seen that it can happen from a natural disaster just as easily as loss of utilities. In a free society, people should be able to choose to do so, and other's judgements and opinions shouldn't be a justification to stop them.
The future is written in javascript
Missing what? These arguments were all had on the internet at the time, there's nothing we can add. Suffice it to say that the idea that an "environment" can make up for a severe performance handicap is a uniquely modern one informed by the existence of dual core multi-GHz devices that fit in a pocket.

If you were doing CAD work in 1990, you might not be so forgiving of a device that cost almost as much as a years salary for its user. And the market wasn't.
This post says she'll be charged as an adult: http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/the-case-a...
Just checking: is it supposed to look like this? http://i.imgur.com/PWbZHW5.png

The color is totally fine, it's really just that sidebar that's odd.
It's great to see this laid out in a single place.

Couple of things that might be nice to see here:

* Pagination concerns

You call out "meta: meta-information about a resource, such as pagination", but that doesn't say whether things are 0/1 based, what the names of the values for per-page are, how to indicate length of the underlying collection, etc.

* Search concerns

I don't know whether this is an area that has best practices yet, but having it said and decided on something called "jsonapi.org" could save many people many hours of pain in the future.

* Elective compound documents

Bit more of a reach, but there have been a bunch of times I wanted to say "this resource, and these relations of it, and those relations of those". And in some cases partial documents (id and name alone) of those tertiary relations.
Ask HN: Do you meditate and why?
Meditation has several benefits including ability to focus, resist distractions, and manage stress. However, I don't see too many people talking about it in this community.
Lets see if I can do it in 5.

Horizontally launched rockets, such as Pegasus [1], are launched from a parent aircraft at 50,000' altitude. The mass fraction that you can get into orbit is limited by the weight of the oxidizer the rocket is required to carry. A scramjet on this rocket would allow the rocket to accelerate to Mach 15 or 20 while in the upper atmosphere, and then use an oxidized insertion motor to establish the desired orbit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(rocket)
@Domenic_S , This. Well said.
I think this actually fits with what I think about Google overall. Search is great, everything else is just a mediocre tie in to search dollars.

Google is attracting more "nesters" and less "innovators" from what I see as an outsider, which is likely good for long term products but bad for everything else.

Glass is already a bad word (RE: glassholes), Plus is a wasteland, Voice is only popular due to branding, as is Calendar and Docs.

I've seen announcements of products that appear to be more functional than Voice/Cal/Docs on HN with better security and performance, but I think the likelihood of those taking over is probably low until Google gets out of those markets. The products are better, but the mindshare isn't there yet.
Which is orthogonal.
The brutal, exaggerated death of the form factor phone
a configuration change was inadvertently released to our production environment without first being released to the testing enviroment.

Google - Just humans, too.
Maybe, I'll take it on some day
The State and the Innovation Economy -- An Interview with William Janeway
Probably not since I think Zuckerberg et al controls the board.
Its definately a bit hard to read as it is, its a bit more academic doc vs blog.

For lulz I fired it up in Lynx and wow does it look bad there too...
I've considered doing this manually, but when I ran the numbers, it barely saved anything, at least if your water heater is insulated to modern Energy Star standards. In the past decade or two, standby losses have been brought down so low that they're almost negligible compared to actual hot-water usage, e.g. one shower will take more energy than a whole month of standby heating.

When I looked into it in my own case, it worked out to slightly under 1 kWh/day in standby losses, or about $2/month. I turned off the water heater when I was gone for a month once, and the savings do seem to have been in the noise somewhere. Assuming a Nest-like device to do that for me would cost the same ~$250 that a Nest does, it would take 20 years to recoup the cost of the device, even assuming it was so perfect that it saved all standby losses.
This is a good idea, but are you by chance located outside the US? Every water heater I've personally encountered in North America has been powered by natural gas. Even so, it only takes an hour or so to fully replenish the hot water, so it still makes sense to allow the water to cool down between, say, midnight and 5am.
Personally, I don't want Nest; I'd prefer coherent locally accessible APIs for monitoring and control.
Check out sites like https://www.sparkfun.com/, http://www.newark.com/, or https://www.adafruit.com/ if you're looking to purchase modest amounts of sensors, displays, servos, etc. for hobby projects.
So I can spend $2800 on a water heater that has questionable reliability, requires a bigger gas line, and will save me 40% off my $18 a month water heating bill?

Yes. I've thought of it, but no, it is not a good idea.
I wouldn't have deleted my comment if I'd seen your reply. But this is clearly the wrong kind of conversation to be having, so it's probably best that I did.
If I wanted to learn a new topic, such as Python, in general what series are considered better? ie Head First, Missing Manual, Novice to Ninja...

Any opinions ?
The issue is not black text on white background, but the layout choices.

This is what it looks like when I load the page: http://i.imgur.com/kmMsyEg.png

And here's how it looks after some fiddlin': http://i.imgur.com/JhwwjfY.png
Injectable Oxygen Particle Allows You To Live Without Breathing
This is what I see after attaching a file. What do you see?
> America should make it as easy as possible for highly
> motivated and talented individuals to come here. Jobs,
> heck, entire new industries will be created.

America also needs to remember that the high quality engineer they sent home has the world at his feet - if he has migrated out of his home country, the world is his oyster. He can migrate to any other country offering him a job and will not have to limit himself to the H1B.
This is pretty relevant to me because I am one of the few who loves phones with physical keyboards. Why? Because I really wanted a small computer that I could work from if I had to vs a phone. If I have to type in complex commands or do anything remotely non-textmessagey it takes forever and is riddled with errors on a non-kbd phone. If they stop making hot kbd phones with Android, I guess I'm going to the BBerry...
Workaround for lack of "tail call optimization" in JS
....of the boar... +spi and +sta not a single class wanted those greens but they disenchant to the same as the others... loved those ugly greens :)
Even a day would be an absolute travesty of justice for this. She's getting the book thrown at her, not for reasons of safety, or education, but simply because the book exists to be thrown.

Yes, she did something stupid. But if stupidity were a crime, we'd all be doing time. I can't see how society would be safer... Or better off, by destroying this woman's future.
Here you go:

http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?...
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Because it's easier to log in via a web browser than it is to install and configure outlook.
Interesting, on Chrome 26 for OS X 10.8, it looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/OnRL0h1.png

I agree, the colors are alright, but the layout could use some TLC. The sidebars could be wider and need some padding, the line height should be increased and uniform for all the different styles so that the blocks line up, headlines shouldn’t to be uppercase as that decreases readability, and the indents for quotes and unordered lists could be smaller.
The definitive version of that which printed vast bucketloads of internet money was the JC Shuffle.

buy ore (direct from farmers aka botters) -> prospect ore -> craft green rings (I think? been a while) -> disenchant -> sell enchanting scrolls and cut rare gems left over from prospecting

In Guild Wars 2 I found some other interesting arbitrage opportunities - for example, Mystic Coins (available from monthly and daily tasks) had very predictable price cycles due to supply spikes on the first few days when it became possible to complete the monthly task.
Drag and drop still works for me.
I started playing Poker and made $10,000K online playing 10 tables of Sit n Go Tournaments. Parlayed that into 50K by age 20! Fast forward to today and I'm all in on my new project!
Not to be needlessly pedantic, but MazeWars was originally on Macs circa ...1985? I know we played it in the dorms at Virginia Tech over phone-net (some homemade!) connectors in 1986-7. Pretty sure I had seen it long before then.
I am literally sitting on a plane right now, but as soon as I get off, will be registering this type with IANA. So that helps #2.

#3 will be do-able I think. I'm interested in this too.

#1 is something that needs a good answer, yes. I THINK it's out of the scope of this, as there are already registered REL values that handle this, but we should clarify.

I will be happy to answer anyone else's questions after I land, it's time to turn off electronic devices.
There's nothing in the incident report that says this was due to human action. An automated process could just have easily pushed configs to the wrong environment (either through a bug or a mis-configuration of the process itself). Not saying that's what happened, but the IR doesn't say.

In my experience (having personally been the trigger for a widespread outage that got us in the news), Google takes a fairly sophisticated view of outages: SREs as a rule care less about crucifying the engineer who did it, and much more about questions like:

what was the REAL root cause that caused this to happen?
why didn't our processes/tools STOP it from happening?
did our monitoring detect it?
could we have detected it faster?
did we fix it or mitigate it fast enough?
did things like communication, escalations, handoffs between teams, etc. work effectively?
what can we do better next time?

When I first started, my director took a bunch of us out to a Noogler lunch. We sat down with our plates, and he said "Ok, let's talk about how to get fired." Basically, mistakes happen. Bugs happen. If you cause a huge outage, that isn't necessarily a negative reflection on you, and shouldn't hurt your perf. If you cause a huge outage because you willfully ignored procedure, went around established safety controls, didn't monitor to make sure your changes didn't turn all the pretty dashboards red, THEN you're going to have a problem.
Well done Google. Palestine is and always has been a country, occupation or not. To call it by any other name is simply ignorant and uneducated.
Glass is piquing more interest than any consumer electronics device since the iPhone, Plus is thriving, and Docs is by far the best cloud office suite I've seen. I am by no means saying that Google is the best in every market they enter--some of their offerings are pathetic compared to the competition-- but your claims of across the board mediocrity in their non-search products is severely overblown.
Their demo (http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/trunk-config/) is down, but screenshots are available at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/try.php.

If there's one thing I've learned about PMA, it is wait for the next big point release before relying on this against your production database. And based on the number of PRs in the last day (https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pulls), I suspect 4.0.1 is a week away.
The problem is that poking around under the hood shouldn't be necessary. If the sprinkler system worked well enough without ever needing to open the hood, then everything's fine. But it looks like that's not the case.
My point was to not make statements about gun laws unless you in fact know the law, and to demonstrate how common wisdom can be very legally wrong.

Wanna make it a serious matter? A "sawed off shotgun" is legal if made one way, and 10 years prison time if made another - identical parts used either way.
Oh come on, you can slight Kurzweil for his whacky futurist theories, but allowing him to work with Knowledge graph seems like a tremendous use of his talents. His insights (and accomplishments) in machine learning aren't to be taken lightly.
Congratulations to whoever messed with the title; I clicked this at work.
Wow. Mr. Pinkus (it is alleged) took advantage of his own uncle's death by stealing the rights of an elderly woman to her award-winning, classic American novel. Then he tried to avoid paying his dead uncle's company or estate its due. Mr. Pinkus is a wonderful human being.

I'm no fan of copyright and this is why. The very fact that it can be transferred like property, even "accidentally," means it is essentially meaningless. It is not actually tied to the concept of an author's right to his or her own work, and if it is trying to protect that right, it is failing.
Google Buys Stake in LendingClub Valuing P2P Lender at $1.6 Billion
I think that when an editor changes a post's title, there should be visibility (e.g. who made the change, why the change, if enough karma what original title way.)

This title completely spikes the entire story that's actually happening. Cutts certainly didn't have to go to the depth he did in responding to a conspiracy theory thrown his way - but he did, and he did it with style. There's a lot more lesson here than "Malware warning is correct", but now most HNers won't know that.
Whaa?
Introduction to NoSQL by Martin Fowler
I skipped ahead to the "10 most risky and likely to be shutdown products", read it, then did a double take "wasn't I supposed to be reading about Google?" Never heard of any of those.

Interesting poems. I was certain Ozymandias would show up though.
Well, it's an interesting question. Is there a market for a $300 sprinkler controller? Rain Bird doesn't think so. I paid about $50 for my controller, and it's relatively easy to use, certainly better than the OPs: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003LY4I14/ref=wms_ohs_prod...

Also, the OP is eliding over the fact that that controller is probably 10 years old.
This is fantastic, looking forward to promoting it for widespread adoption once it's stable.
We're working on it.

https://github.com/makilian/Mist
Your voice is professional and reasonable, but your skill with words cannot conceal the fact that what you are wishing for in this thread is bad for the world because it would tend to make it less secure, less reliable, less predictable and more tedious for people to continue to use email to exchange plain text and simple attachments like images with their friends, employers, customers and suppliers. Things that are easy now (at least for those like myself who send and receive mostly plain text messages) like selecting an extent of text in an email with a pointing device (e.g., to copy it), searching for a string in an email ("find in page") or saving a message to a file or a note-taking application like Evernote will become more difficult and less reliable just like happened on the web over the last 15 years.
Lots of people here in seattle will take a bus to the store and a taxi home.
Things are looking up for Google Glass
Great article and analysis.

One answer to your question, "what's wrong with black text on white background?":

http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/
Black powder cartridges were common stay until ~1890s and some (e.g., .45-70) were very powerful. You also technically don't even need brass: shotgun shells use plastics and (prior to that) used to use cardboard. Shot/slugs/bullets... are all easy to manufacture as well (you just need a mold and lead).

The difficult parts are:

1) Getting the mercury fulminate percussion cap. I doubt this is something that can be easily manufactured. Even if you use a readily bought one (which, I'd imagine, could easily be tracked and/or prohibited by government), it would be quite dangerous to monkey-patch it onto self-manufactured brass.

2) Non-standard brass will not feed reliably from a magazine, even if it will chamber: so any such firearm will be limited to single shot.

3) You'll still be limited to low pressure rounds: I highly doubt a home made action would withstand even a strong black-powder round like a .45-70. I don't imagine this handling anything more powerful than an old .32 S&W or a .410 shot shell. Still dangerous, but not exactly a major caliber.
Monitors are not paper. They're much brighter.
Myself and a friend looked in to doing this for sprinkler timers. The aim was to simplify the interface to a large degree and allow for configuration via a browser or mobile device.

As it turns out there is a patent on sprinkler timers with embedded web servers. The owner of the patent has posted hostile messages threatening legal action on any public facing website that posts about the handful of consumer products that might infringe on their patent.

Here is a link to the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US7010396
As a social mechanism, I think this is a great idea. This is vetted members of the scientific community (as well as just about anyone) speaking their support and hopefully lending to the thought that punishing this girl is unfair.

This is a pretty awesome use of twitter. Hashtags allow a common chain of discussion, and the low-barrier-to-contribution encourages anyone and everyone to weigh in their support.

A lot of the comments here are "I did this similar thing when I was in school too". If you want to contribute, tweet as well with the hashtag.
Sorry, I meant legal.
>That's why I can't tolerate executives.

*many executives.
She's being charged with essentially the same crime as entering a school with a loaded gun and shooting inside the school. The fact that jail time is even on the table is a problem, even if she is likely to receive less jail time than convicted rapists (isn't that comforting?)
The spacing (or lack thereof) on the site is very distracting. The left menu has zero pixel spacing from the content, and so the side menu basically runs right into the content. The table of contents on the right isn't obvious that it's a table of contents for the article, it just looks like another menu of some sort on the right.

I did some quick restyling just to satisfy my curiosity with some notes. I know it kind of makes it looks like wikipedia, but wikipedia is easy to read.

http://imgur.com/G5QfOua
While this helps showcase the problem in nomenclatures and how people relate to them, I personally don't feel there was that much to this specific claim/complaint.

The population at the 'British Mandate of Palestine' (which resulted in the name of the unit in the British army at the time) was mostly of Arabs. Especially if you also count parts of Transjordan that some claim where also "Palestinian".

Agreeing to definitions is usually hard, and especially so in that region.
Ask gwern: Who are you?
We know so much about you, and yet, so little. What's your day job? Where do you find the time to do all this writing? Does your site make a significant amount of money? Why do you choose relative anonymity?
It's easy to understand why you have that reaction when you realize that Lee is Boo Radley.
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Ask HN: Any interest in an API for original HN submission titles?
More and more I'm believing that editor adjustments of titles are dissuading conversation and interest. I'm considering throwing together a simple system that scans new submissions, retrieves/retains their titles and their destinations' titles. I'd offer this up in a REST API so anyone wanting to integrate a GreaseMonkey script or do their own study would be able to do so.

My question: If I built it, would anyone else use it? Or am I just whining in my own echo chamber?
Elon Musk admits Tesla's math was wrong
A counterpoint: I write algorithms. I don't have customers that come to me saying, "I want an external sorting algorithm that is tuned to SSDs and APU's;" rather, I take an existing question or open problem, mull it over, arrive at another question, find a few answers along the way, and eventually I find a way to map the math to the metal. It's bottom up, usually, and generally, rather than composing something deeply personal, I eliminate touches I identify as personal until there's nothing of me left in the algorithm. So what I find illuminating about this post is not that most software is unlike building bridges, but that what I do is like building bridges. See also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575449
Huge swaths of the U.S. simply don't have natural gas. The township that I used to live in explicitly stated in their planning that they did not intend to run gas lines.

My current place doesn't have gas either...
Eh, sometimes you don't want things to look natural for the sake of looking natural. Plus, given that there's basically just black and white on Gwern's site, a dark blue would have the same 'overpowering' effect as a black, since there is nothing else that is similar in color to it.
You're being ridiculous. What if she brought a nuclear bomb to school? What then?

As far as this specific case. Even if she had held the "bomb" next to another student's face the likelihood of any significant injury would be low. People have held dry ice bombs and draino bombs in their hands as they have gone off with the only consequence being momentary pain and perhaps some bruising. People get hurt worse playing school sports.

And in this case nobody was hurt, not even a little.
Ray Kurzweil On The Computers That Will Live In Our Brains
You could always just do a read=any on a cassandra cluster.
It does have tomato...
Problem solved. Ember Data is now awesome.
Are you a work potato?
This is a great way to put it.
I agree, this is only happening because administrators see a way to use their "book."

Disclaimer: the same thing happened to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637272
This can't be all that far away. At the size of a baseball field, I'm told it's a no-brainer to go turf at this point.

I don't actually know the prices, I'm trusting the college coaches who have mentioned this to me over the last several years (I umpire on the side). One has been on artificial turf for three years, another put turf in this year, and the rest want them.
Swinging Blind Juggler robot by  ETH Zurich
This actually started as turning a bug into a feature.
The gmail servers delayed sending the email for about 5 seconds normally, all they did was add a cancel button.

Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/gmail-labs-rolls-out-undo...