skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look. It was four in the morning in California, so I posted a question here in essence to see if anyone else was also having problems. Doing so isn't against any rule, it's against a guideline. I assessed the situation, and decided that at the time a posting was more appropriate than an email.

Subsequently someone asked if there was a support line, and I answered the question. I don't see that as inconsistent, I think it was the most prudent thing to do.

Incidentally there is one place that did head off the usual
flood of posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650171
Are you complaining that it wasn't your post that was the one
place?

What? I posted three hours before that. No one noticed, probably because it was 4am in California. A later posting got the attention. So what? I have no idea how you can see that as me complaining - I even posted cross-links so people could go to the one that had got the attention!

This avails us of nothing. You seem to have issues with actions that I see as having been perfectly logical and reasonable. You don't accept my version of what happened, and genuinely can't see why you think they were inconsistent.

Screw it. It's the weekend, there's a holiday Monday, and I'm walking away.
So you are giving a DSM 4 diagnosis based on a self evaluation ?

I read the questions (Iphone vs Android? Is that a demographic question??? Really?) and I had a good laugh.

Regardless of the actual accuracy (which I doubt), what exactly is the interest of the result for a person with enough instropection (fancy word for self awareness) to care enough and take the test in the first place?
The Next Google?
This is the Geocities of vector art. I don't see this as a good thing, I see this as a poor compensation for bad interface design. If your icon needs animation for it to make sense to your visitor you're doing it wrong.
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The biggest disappointment was to kill drag and drop attachments. Now you have to click the paper clip and pick the picture (one by one!) form your PC.

In my opinion that's an indication that Google wants to discourage you from adding a lot of attachments to your mail because they don't make money off the bandwidth you are using. To me its another indication that Gmail at some point in near future may be doomed to sunset.
The gmail interface is so very far from clean in my experience. Apples offering stands in stark contrast, such that the irritations with it (I'm not blind, massive buttons, huge click areas, low information density, missing features) are bearable.
Looking at the maximum value normalizes for someone's risk profile and financial luck/common sense. I agree with you that for your personal finances all that matters is how much money you got or can get, but normalizing for these factors is useful in a poll.
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You know what's more awesome?

Baggie bombs. The Oxy-Acetylene mixture for cutting steel, fill a ziploc bag with it. Add a few inches of newspaper, light it, run.
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I've been mulling over these kind of animated icons after seeing the little weather icons on http://forcast.io.
Seems like it would be extra neat to make this a webfont somehow (swapping out 'frames' of font-data under the font name alias). However pretty unnecessary, considering the LiveIcon perks of using data attributes to specify loops, etc.
> I just wish we weren't in this insane system of zero tolerance where poor judgement by children in their teens--where ultimately nobody was hurt--can result in their lives being ruined forever.

And here you see the other problem with zero-tolerance policy. If someone does something dangerously stupid - like this here lady with her drano bomb in a crowded environment, you don't want Drano splash in your eye - you just cannot come down on the offender in an appropiate way. You can either drop the ten-ton weight of the zero-tolerance policy, now matter how inappropiate, or you hush the matter up. And that often isn't a good alternative.
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> I don't think companies should take a stance on political issues, which is what Google is doing here.

Every possible choice of wording for anything having to do with the area of land bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt involves taking a stance on a contentious political issue.

I don't think corporations (or anyone else) should avoid making such choices because they inherently require taking such a stance, nor do I think that they should avoid changing such choices because of that.
That's exactly what I have always done.
Socrates should have never even been at that trial; I've got to say that I have always found Socrates' response to Crito to be immensely dissatisfying.

It seems to me that it assumes the true nature of the law will never take take one by surprise, and (although it may have been practical at the time) I think it is a mistake to think that opting out of the law before being a victim of it is a practical thing to expect of people. His reasoning is basically just a more principled cry of "if you don't like it, leave it":

"we further proclaim to any Athenian by the liberty which we allow him, that if he does not like us when he has become of age and has seen the ways of the city, and made our acquaintance, he may go where he pleases and take his goods with him. None of us laws will forbid him or interfere with him. Any one who does not like us and the city, and who wants to emigrate to a colony or to any other city, may go where he likes, retaining his property."

Immensely dissatisfying. I cannot stand Plato's telling of that entire series of events.
This is a fantastic comment I hope stays at the top.

After reading it, I feel the reports I have read and watched are misrepresenting at least some of the circumstances of this case. Are there any sober run-downs with a full account of all the circumstances behind the expulsion and criminal charges worth reading?

I’m not saying that people are necessarily wrong to take issue with the actions taken against her, but there seems to be a sin of omission.
When the UN recognizes Palestine, it will be much more significant than Google's copy change.
That seems like a generalization. Surely there are instances where animation is appropriate for an interface. What's so wrong with another tool to achieve that goal with the added benefit of being entirely scaleable?
They would from me.
I guess I'm well on my way to being a cranky old man at the tender age of 34, but I find it extremely unlikely I'll ever use any device like glass on a regular basis. I love technology as much as the next geek, but I feel like I'm already a bit too much of a slave to my smart phone, and I don't think it's healthy to be plugged in 24/7. Having notifications popping up in my field of vision is just too high a price to pay for the convenience of not having to reach in my pocket.
Gmail is the application which has made me realize a big weakness of web applications. The web was supposed to make "application upgrades" painless and instant. After GMail's recent changes, I would really love to "download old version of Gmail"; however its web, I can't do that!
We don't have Hulu or Amazon Instant over here, so I'd be happy if they jacked up the prices, if that meant more updated content. It currently costs about the same as a small lunch (R$16,90), 3-4x less than a basic cable subscription.

Bill me R$29,99 and give me the latest season of HIMYM and Mad Men, please!
Well, I know that's how _lots_ of people did it in 2003/2004. The guys I hang out with (ahem...) were some of them. In the more shady parts of the internet it's actually still quite common today. Nobody notices anything.
Said Mr. Hard Dick.
> Aside from the false dichotomies, surely any psychopath with even a shred of intelligence could answer strategically and defeat the test's intended purpose. And they use this in prison hearings?

Psychology is a science, just like pizza is a vegetable.
It was a typo before, used to say "use" instead of "using".
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Author of the original post here.

>It's not clear what the article means by "repackaging" a
stream or "pointers" to tags (especially in the diagram
that shows tag pointers being transported between users).

By repackaging I meant extracting the FLV tags which pretty much travel in the same format as in an FLV stream (.flv file) if memory serves well. Pointers to tags refer to the internal implementation. I took the FLV tags out of the RTMP stream, which resulted in an almost complete FLV stream. With the proper header prepended to it you could save it as a file and play it or stream it and play it. That's just what I did, created a header for every new user, and after that was sent I could just stream the FLV tags from a common buffer. The users had pointers that pointed in this buffer so after the header is sent it was true multicasting.

> So I'm not really following this. Is this cutting out the
RTMP entirely for receiving clients, and instead sending
the FLV down via another transport, like HTTP or whatever?
Or is it more of, "I wrote my own RTMP streaming server in
C and Python", along with some implementation details
which I'm not understanding? (Not that there's anything
wrong with doing so. Options are limited in the streaming-
server space.)

Yes. From the source RTMP stream I extract the FLV tags, which I could use to multicast. Sending the same RTMP stuff to every user would not work, but I can easily send the FLV tag stream over HTTP if I send the crafted header first.

I hope that helped
I use to do this when I was a kid but with pool HCl instead of drano. I even did it once at school (very far away from anyone or anything) and I consider myself lucky to not get caught or punished. There was a teacher that knew it was probably me when it went off, but they just looked at me and rolled their eyes. I knew immediately I had shown some pretty damn poor judgement.

While I don't think she deserves felony charges or even expulsion, this isn't a praise-worthy "scientific mistake".
Under International Law it is the Montevideo Convention, under which the four criteria for statehood are defined:

The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo_Convention)

However, I like your phrase "facts on the ground" and think that is more on the practical side of what I might label "standing in the International Community" which is the most realistic aspect of designation of statehood.
I've never seen a dime from equity from a non-publicly traded company.
Job posting for Amazon by Jeff Bezos from 1994
To me this feels like a return to classic geocities design.

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/
http://www.bellsnwhistles.com/page29.html
http://www.11points.com/Web-Tech/11_Best_Old_School_Animated...
I don't understand why 15-second "undo send" isn't default behavior.
There is an option for you. $0. You haven't made any money yet from options.
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I've heard quite the contrary from initial feedback (Scoble, Verge reporters, etc.) based on the concept. The thing is, the currently released Explorer Edition is a prototype to see use cases. It's hard for there to be a "verdict" when the "to-market" product isn't even close to being ready.

Glass doesn't even have notifications right now, that's coming "soon."
The Google Glass devices serve both as a specific prototype consumer electronics device and a test-bed for a general user interaction concept, and I wish people writing reviews, or meta-reviews like this one, would pay more attention to the distinction. Many of these complaints could be fixed either with a software update (if, for example, the apps aren't sufficiently configurable), or with improved hardware in an actual production release (battery life, for example) without compromising the potential of the idea of Glass. These seem not to be such a big deal, since this initial iteration is just a prototype.

Some of these, though, are criticisms of the concept: if, for example, it really does cause lots of people disorientation or headaches to look at displays close to their faces, that seems to be an irreparable flaw in Glass-like devices as a product class, and is much more damning.
He'd setup some blow-up stuff (likely fireworks/rockets of some sort) with a friend on high-school roof in preparation of graduation, an other student crawled on the roof, found it, snitched to the principal who called LAPD Bomb Squad and moved said stuff from the roof to his office.

He worded it as if his "experiment" had been an invitation to the LAPD.
>the most important reason for the program’s success was that it dispensed with a reliance on causation in favor of correlation

Is this necessarily so? I see a lot of good old-fashioned factors mentioned in the article: converting data to a common format (locations as Cartesian coordinates), transforming expert knowledge into computer code (the inspector's insight about the brickwork), and even pure and simple political clout (obtaining several institutions' complete data dumps). It's not like all these mountains of data and expert knowledge were open-sourced and both "causationalists" and "correlationalists" had a run at it. Sure, the head of the program attributes it to his belief in correlation over causation, but there are many other and arguably more important factors present here.
I'm not sure about psychopathy, but could you say with a straight face that you can know that someone's favorite language is brainfuck, and simultaneously not know whether or not they are insane?
Varnish is pretty awesome, but gets complicated when you have user-specific content. You can use things like edge-side includes and such, but it becomes more than plug and play at that point.
My major gripe is that some formatting is completely hidden, making it impossible to deal with.

I've often tried to copy-paste from an email thread to a new compose window, which looks like it works. But then the resulting email has a line break after each word!

The clear-formatting button doesn't reveal this, nor does plain-text mode - this has led to a number of embarrassing emails.
I sounds like it doesn't, yet, have a good use case.
OP here, totally agree with this. That question is almost "How honest are you with yourself?"

Takes a bit of scrolling down the page of results[1], but people are actually pretty honest on that one, the mode response is "Agree somewhat" (this finding is from our initial, seed sample).

Also agree about the ease of getting around this. Particularly if you're a psychopath, and are therefore good at being manipulative. The version of this test used in parole settings[2] deals with this by having professional interviewers who use the person's history and records to make assessments, in addition to the interview. (Note that I'm not actually defending that process; part of the point of this and NPR's recent discussions about psychopathy is to stimulate thinking about whether stuff like this should actually be used for important decisions like parole)

[1]: https://www.statwing.com/open/datasets/6beda395392cc4b0115e0...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Psychopathy_Checklist

edit: clarified that results from [1] are from initial seed sample of respondents, not the HN sample.
I've considered standing outside on a hot day with a cooler of icecream sandwiches. At $1 each it's even more cost efficient, though people may not be as willing to stop and chat as they are in starbucks.
Bingo. Even if we don't start out with the assumption that she knew what the result would be (which she probably did)

1. The girl heard that mixing drain cleaner (which would have warnings all over the bottle!) with tin foil would do something, but she didn't know what, and decided to find out by conducting a hazardous experiment at school.

2. The girl knew exactly what would happen, and decided to blow some stuff up at school.

Both possibilities would be an exhibit of extremely poor judgement, and I can fully understand why the school would want her to not come back. (Which is what expelling her really means: "we aren't comfortable having you here".)

Even from the perspective of "but it's SCIENCE"... well, an important part of science (especially chemistry) is knowing appropriate safety procedures. Running a reaction that'll inevitably spray hot, corrosive NaOH all over the place is definitely not appropriate.
I'm not a partner at YC (as far as I know all the YC partners who were alumni were from fairly early batches, and also had exits; I have a YC funded company which is ongoing).

The relevant detail here is that I've had ~20-30 people/yr ask for advice on applications, and aside from "be concise and straightforward; emphasize your strengths in every answer; be clear and don't assume people will have the patience to decode some rhetorical trick", "wtf, I can't see your video because you left it as 'private'" and "I can't actually hear your audio" are common.
A friend told me that Netflix will probably continue allowing this in the hope that the freeloaders get a taste of what the service can offer them and sign up for their own accounts. I think the company can do more to incentivize that, such as tweaking the algorithms to be better responsive to individual viewers. If five or six people are all using the same account, you could have an over-eclectic smorgasbord of suggestions that wouldn't be very helpful. There's also social networking features, though in my personal opinion it's hard to execute effectively.
> still have the childlike sense of awe that can make things look significantly larger than they are!

Considering some of the fishermen[0] I know, that one never goes away.

[0] and guys I subsequently shared a locker room with
Poor software can be as dangerous as poor food. And there is, Professional tools, eg Paint -> Pixelmator -> Photoshop (features more than UI, but you get the point).
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It has connection points to fit rear facing child seats in the rear storage compartment.
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Sorry, looks like astroturfing comments from my end.
Cool! I wanted to add a control for the door, as well, and experiment with computer vision.
I'm sure there are, if anything it can be a substitute for the GoPro. But there just doesn't seem to be a use case with enough mass appeal to justify the price.
Aside from the beauty of this restore, I thought it was cool to see the UI influences the NeXT's OS had on Mac OS. I've never seen screenshots until now, but you can definitely see aspects carried through to its successor.
Self-diagnosis, especially of mental illness, will always lead to a poor result.

"Do you have a heart condition? Take this online questionnaire and find out!"
In that situation, a simple zip gun would probably meet your needs and be easier to conceal, carry, and assemble, than something with so many pieces.

"What, my big cigar holder, little cigar holder, tie tack, and rubber band around these legal briefs are a problem?"
I just want to say this kind of future really gets me excited! I love it when a product/service I use is open enough that if I ever spot a typo, it's easier and faster for me to fix it in the source and submit a PR (and enjoy a more perfect product) than to ignore it.

That's the kind of future I want to live in. I'm very thankful to Balanced, Gittip for being some of the ones paving the way there.
Adult-induced fear should not be a reason for stifling childhood-inate curiosity. I remember as a kid we were extremely good at taking apart fireworks, putting them into other objects, and blowing those things up. Was that a good idea? Well, we were careful about and we had lots of fun and no one got hurt, so maybe yes, maybe no. Most importantly: at the end of the day it was just another way to explore the world and revel in the wonder.

It pains me to see kids beaten down by adults who may never have experienced that thrill of experimentation and the simple "whoa!" that comes from blowing something up. Clearly missing out on that has damaged those adults in some fundamental way.

(*I'll always feel a bit bad about blowing up my friend's sister's Barbie Dream Camper in this way...)
> The point is that these days having Google recognize your claims to being a country is more important than having the UN recognize it (which it doesn't, yet Google does).

Actually, Google is (and this is covered in their announcement) following the UN and other international organizations in the wording change (which is not, on Google's part, recognition of Palestine as a State so much as recognition that it is an entity with the name "Palestine" rather than "Palestinian Territories".)

Also, the UN, as of last year, actually does recognize Palestine as a State, having accorded it the status of a "Non-member observer State". http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/ga11317.doc.htm
Self-diagnosis, especially of mental illness issues, will always lead to a poor result.

"Do you have a heart condition? Take this online questionnaire and find out!"
I'd be inclined to agree, except that the same prosecutor just decided that there should be no charges where a white boy shot and killed his brother. The boys were pointing BB guns at each other, and didn't think they were loaded.
I can't even try to plan for work from may 26th until just around the end of the month. AD has the most in-depth style of writing and that show deserves my full attention.

Mitch is a genius and I'm pumped to see what they've put into this new season.
You really need a AT-ST for mars exploration.
More efficiently? For two minutes of video? I could see if you were trying to stream Zombieland or Spaceballs... but porn?!

I guess whatever inspires people to innovate is okay with me.
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You can install and sync Bitcoin Wallet for Android 3.0 in a minute and it supports QR codes for payments.
Even if that were true, only the shareholders would have standing to sue them for failing to maximize profit. Clearly the only shareholder, the Mozilla Foundation, is not going to sue Mozilla Corporation for doing what the shareholder wants it to.
Pretty much all systems marketed as 'active' aren't really 'fully active'. Remember from mechanics/Differential Eqns, a suspension system is basically a damped harmonic oscillator. The two main constants are the springing and damping. The majority of cars just have electronically variable dampers. ie the same oem parts from bilstein/dephi/bosch with some silly marketing acronym on like Porsche PASM, MagneRide etc.

Some have variable strength roll bars, but roll bars are really just a 'hack' anyway. Very few have used a variable springing system (Merc ABC). An air suspension can change springing and ride height, but's it's slow.

In addition to low latency damping/springing adjustments/ride height, a fully active system in able to apply force into the suspension so the attitude of each corner is under complete software control, milli by milli. You can have a perfectly smooth ride, but no roll. All current non-active designs are a compromise between sporty and confort (high vs low springing/damping constants, and movements in attitude due to accelerating/braking/downforce/cornering/road surface.

The main problem with fully active is that it uses quite a bit of power and is very complex. Here's some more info http://www.autozine.org/technical_school/suspension/tech_sus...
Ahhh ... lets say I painted the floor with nitrogen triiodide in front of the teachers toilet when the philosophy teacher was taking a dump there. She jumped and screamed maybe a minute and on every jump she landed on a nice patch of substance and small new explosion and scream and so on ... It was fun being in eight grade.