skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this is some quirk of the UK system of justice, but in the U.S. federal system, people don't even get charged, let alone go to trial, unless the prosecutor has reviewed all the evidence and determined that the case should go forward.
Yeah, it comes down to when you get something for free, they can do anything they want with it, and all you can do is buy a different product if it gets your goat.

My favorite comment from the link:
"Google! Don't re-design the userinterface of Google+ for the fourth time. FIX THIS BUG!!!!! F I N A L L Y."
A Fresh Look for Search
Amazon’s cloud is how big again?
Thanks for that! Actually it still introduces the scroller at some point, but is slightly better.
Let's have a look at some of the claims here:

> Six percent of US prison inmates are Muslim.

Given the incredible over-representation of blacks in US prisons and the number of blacks that embraced Islam during the CRM this is a surprising statistic?

> Like any other minority, they won’t integrate, but work to build their own separate community.

Good, I am glad that we have worked out that this text is part of a larger demonstration of the evils of minorities in the United States. All those immigrants over all those generations, what a waste. I mean look at what has become of the Germans and Irish in America!

> South Africa's Muslim population is 2%, but they control 35% of the businesses, a large percentage of the banks..

Oh, it is good to know that the author if this knows nothing about South African history. This argument is exactly parallel to the idea that a cabal of Jews is running the western world, you realize that? I could make the same argument about the "evil" Chinese in the Muslim nations of south east Asia - how is it that these great and terrible Muslims allow another ethnic minority to concentrate economic power in nations where they are the majority but are somehow crafty enough to take over the economy of South Africa.

> When Muslims reach 10%.. Ei: car-burnings in France last October.

France is not actually at 10% but I am sure we can trust you that the motivations for rioting had nothing to do with economic conditions or being marginalized.

I could carry on but I grow weary of this.
I think he refers to having a system that, using this approach, turns on his shower when he enters it. If this cannot distinguish humans from cats, it would turn on the shower when a cat entered it.

I think that's a bad example. The typical cat would soon learn not to enter the shower.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5824286

Other sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5823511

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5823936
Thanks for the compliments about Turkish people, jacquesm.

I can say that things have improved in the last couple of days; violence of police has been more or less throttled, the local media has started covering the news, and members of the gov't, the deputy PM, the President and even pro-goverment journalists have started realizing the significance of this issue. I would say the main opposition is actually against the PM Erdogan himself now, who has yet to show respect for us. We will see whether he will change his mind in a few days and apologize (not very likely), when he returns from his trip to Algeria.
Maybe an investment system, where an individual may invest on a team or player and get some ROI.
16 years old is also no longer considered minor as far as sex is concerned in many, many countries. A bit on the creepy side for someone on the other side of 20 to date, yes, but not illegal.
It's not nearly that expensive, though. A light socket is in the neighborhood of $15. A wall socket is less than $25. A transceiver is $30. For just over $100 you can get the controlling software, two wall switches, two light sockets, and a transceiver.

http://www.thehomeautomationstore.com/x10-home-automation.ht...
Can you provide links about that? I am in a "humanity is doomed" mode today and could use some dark infotainment.
Does it actually matter? Here the one thing, there the other.

You're complaining about "government picking winners and losers with taxpayer money". The loan isn't a waste of taxpayer money. The subsidy isn't picking winners and losers. Taken together, these two things do not provide weight to your claim: Tesla is not a messiah of the government on the wings of the taxpayers. Or, at least, you have failed to demonstrate that.
You should pick better role models :P

I wish you didn't have to fight so hard to get your government to respect your wishes, but I hope they'll back down soon.
That's it, basically. You have to implement this things through an ugly decorator thing because you just can't touch the syntax too much, or we would have another Python3 situation.
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> "vocal fry" is what people call it when they want to wring their hands about kids-these-days

Well maybe I do. ;-)
The suffix -ful literally means "as much as will fill", e.g. spoonful, and usually takes the broader meaning "characterized by", e.g. careful. As such, I've always regarded "RESTful" as a full REST implementation, and it seems most other people who have an opinion on the matter do too.

I borrowed RESTish from Dan Savage's concept of "monogamish", meaning a relationship that conforms generally but not rigidly and precisely to the norms of monogamy. As such, a RESTish API conforms generally but not rigidly and precisely to the norms of REST.
This is a really ridiculous request, several dozen people have already been arrested for tweets encouraging folks to protest. Asking this person to identify themselves this way puts them at significant risk.
Hi Guys,

If what you want is the ability to skim large #s of headlines, organize lots of feeds, label them, tag articles for later reading in one fast unobtrusive "no magazine layout" reader, SwarmIQ is your choice.
Sign up at http://www.swarmiq.com/register/askhn , click on the Google reader icon to get all your feeds, and get up and running straight away.

www.swarmiq.com is our landing page if you want to see some screenshots and get a sense of what the service is like before signing up.

Disclosure: I'm on the team that built this site :-) Also, we don't have "Google Alerts" type functionality yet.
I noticed that some blogs create a post, submit the link on HN, then add a link at the end of the post toward their submission on HN for comments.

Something great (and simple) would be to create an API for that. The first useful feature would be to get a listing of comments for a given post. The second one (a little more complex) would be to allow HN user to comment via the API. A simple listing for the moment would be great.

This way there could be a similar plugin to Disqus for instance but for HN. It could help some post get interesting comments.

Thanks,
Goddamn adjustment milliseconds being all annoying.
I agree completely on the GH slow down / fail whale type of problems.

I use GH for about 12 hours a day almost every day, between open source and client projects. I face slow downs in the issue tracker, the git repos themselves (I only use command line), and the web interface to browse a project (code, history, pull requests). I notice a slow down about once a day. Some features, like the contributors graph, are always dead slow. About 10-20% of PR merge attempts fail, and I have to click the button again, sometimes multiple times. I see the Unicorn fail page or some Octocat fail page often enough.

It makes me think exactly of what you describe, a combination of Rails perf / scalability and perhaps a lack of strong backend engineering, I'm not sure.

Right now the problems are in the level of a mild annoyance / surprise that a company like GH has these issues. If it gets worse, I would consider moving away. But because I truly love the UI and overall functionality, it's a positive tradeoff for us at the moment.

You're very welcome regarding the YouTrack suggestion.
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Faster String#repeat method, with ancient Egyptian theory
From that link:

> no inferences can be drawn from any failure occurring before the accused is allowed an opportunity to consult a legal advisor

I would be shocked if they could actually use you refusing to talk without legal advice against you
I will assume this is a work of humor.
The problem is not with the finger pointing. The problem is with the awful process of "investigation" and prosecution that happened afterwards.
Amazon plans big expansion of online grocery business
Total business psychopath. I am not all surprised of Parker's lack of consciousness for what really actually matters; that place in which we all live - Earth.
I don't use Vim, but love the logo. Very reminiscent of the early '90s WWF logo.
"Unfortunately I discovered audiobooks and podcasts,"

As an experiment, mess around with the subject. I'm about 10-15 years further along the path than you by description. I found that liberal arts / history / pretty much any lecture series from "the teaching company" really cleared my brain and gave me things to think about.

On the other hand trying to listen to "tech" stuff just turned into an extension of work, drained more than recharged. Nothing wrong with that stuff while puttering around or doing yardwork, but it didn't recharge me like doing something "new".

So do some A/B testing like this:

Podcasts : "Software Engineering Radio" "The Linux Link Tech Show"

vs

Podcasts : "The History of Rome by Mike Duncan" "In our time with Melvyn Bragg" "Dan Carlin's Hard Core History"

Now see which "group" of media clears and refreshes your mind better. Takes you off task, lets the unconscious cook for awhile. New ideas sprout to the surface. Comparisons and Contrasts and historical analogies...
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You said: "I mean look at what has become of the Germans and Irish in America!"

I read your sarcasm. But the logic is flawed, just because some groups are peaceful does not mean all groups are peaceful.

For example, Muslims are rioting RIGHT NOW and threatening Norway with more 9/11 events if Oslo is not made into a separate Islamic State.

Why would Muslims do this?
Looks like a super hero icon.

Better then the current gvim icon that's for sure. That icon is fugly.
No, not if they're all the same website. Take 3 comment pages on hacker news, for example, you'd have to look around the page for context to know which was which if you had several open at once.
Exactly. That's also why they ask "Do you know how fast you were going?". It's less burden on them to provide calibration charts, etc. in court. Also, the only good answer to "you don't have anything illegal in here you don't want me to find, do you?" is "you do not have my consent to search the vehicle, and if you're going to search it anyway I would like your supervising officer to be present".
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This is also the case with Hebrew (Jewish) and Gurmukhi (Sikh) names.

Jews believe Hebrew is a Holy Language (loshn-koydesh). All the names of characters in the Old Testament describe their role in the story. For instance, my name, ‘shmu-el’ (Samuel) is short for ‘shma Elokim’, which means ’listening to the Word of G-d’. The Biblical character Samuel was a prophet, hence the name.

Sikhs also believe that their language, Gurmukhi, is a sacred language. It is believed that uttering sounds in a certain order, and repeating those, has an effect on your consciousness. This is called Nada Yoga. A Sikh name is chosen using vedic astrology, and it is descriptive of the challenges you’ll face in your life. Listening to your name and repeating it often is said to help you in realizing your destiny.
Not that I necessarily disagree with you, but some might complain there's little difference between stealing $1000 over ten criminal acts or all of it in one robbery.
Conversely, you restate the typical inability to look beyond a minor layer of snark for the benefit of not even getting to the interesting points.

And yes, I've been there myself multiple times. What I'm trying to say is - both things really aren't so relevant that we should obsess about them. They're there, we cannot help ourselves, let's get on with things.
I guess I'm struggling with a) Computer technicians view photos and are distressed enough to call the police. b) Police view photos and believe it serious enough to press charges and prosecute. Yet the photos are simply of naked children playing in a back yard with a hose and buckets? And it was drop dead obvious to the Crown prosecutor upon first look but not at all to the shop technicians and police etc? The police were just gunning to go after an elderly man with a completely clean rap sheet? I suspect we're missing some key piece of this story - not surprising given the author.
The problem of radioactive waste...

Let's put it this way:

In exchange for clean, constant, domestically sourced, almost unlimited energy for an entire year, each person must dispose of or store their waste, which is the size of...

A pill of aspirin.

You could just put it in a little lead jar. That's all the waste. The alternative is fossil fuel waste, which would be...

10 tons of CO2 (volume = 5 American houses) which floats into the atmosphere, plus 2 tons of coal ash.

Of course, everyone can just pool their resources and put all the radioactive waste together. I don't consider it to be a very serious or unsolvable problem.
Or, maybe, the 2.5 million in fines actually had something to do with the actual event itself, which is shameful and disgusting.

Nobody is surprised when people from Hollywood do shameful and disgusting things, because they are openly and honestly shameful and disgusting.

But Silicon Valley and the SF area like to paint and market themselves as somehow better than that. So it's a "surprise" when they go and do something shameful and disgusting.

They've made so much money, couldn't they have found a better way to spend it? If you want to create a magical experience, why does it have to involve destroying the environment?
Where did the 500K per day number come from? The Forbes article put their revenue at 2.4m per day between CoC and HayDay.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/04/17/is-thi...
Oh no, not again....
So far people have shared 30GB of files in sharefest.me today.
and not a single byte of that has touched the server :)
That's actually the technique I use for buttons in my apps, and I believe I prompted them to add it to Bootstrap. You can see the thread about it here where it was added:
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/471#issuecomment...

But my point isn't who-invented-it, it's that it's very easy to implement this in your own buttons without using Bootstrap. I still use my own implementation, despite suggesting it to them. Just create some data attributes (I have data-default-message, data-inflight-message, and data-success-message) and change your buttons appropriately. I have a standard function that I call on my forms that handles that for me, which I've gisted here: https://gist.github.com/pamelafox/5714109
You could do that in a more elegant way than that bit of code. :-)

I prefer the changing-message approach to the showing-the-indicator approach because the verb stays, and you remember what it was that you were doing. Handy for us forgetful folks. You can use both, too, of course.
Although the actions may not have been illegal when / where they happened, I would suspect possessing the pictures in the US would be illegal, no?
There has to be a trick here. I mean I understand a business model based in most customers consuming additional services (like the $10 voice plan), but I'd just go around with my pockets full of SIM cards for the iPad.
http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/11/norway-begins-four-year...

Thorium Reactors exist and are being tested in other countries. Unlike Uranium, it is impossible to create a chain reaction and go critical.

Thorium also creates 40x more energy than a Uranium reaction.
Some matrices do not have a complete set of eigenvectors -- a rotation matrix is a good example!

This is incorrect. A rotation matrix is orthogonal and therefore has a complete set of eigenvectors (all of which satisfy |z|=1). For example, the eigenvectors of:

0 1
-1 0

are z=+/-i and the eigenvectors are [1,i] and [1,-i].

The right example would be a matrix like this one:

1 0 0
1 1 0
0 1 1
http://www.salon.com/2009/02/20/sexting_teens/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1041504...
Check out this beauty: "Like slavery in the 18th century, prisons are a necessary evil.."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5798034
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Not only you have to hack the routers, once inside the router you'll have to flash a custom wireless firmware, or "radio" firmware. And also the Chipset must be flexible enough to allow all the iFFT shenanigans.
I think it's a stretch to say you could do this with a common wifi device, maybe with a very specific wifi chipset you could, and maybe you could make it work with bluetooth or wireless phone chipsets aswell.

That said, it's an excellent paper about a soft-based radar.
> I think CCC is missing a 'Р'.

Ah yes, because having requirements for a permit before modifying certain locations that are a shared public resource totally makes California the Soviet Union.
You've got to be wary of the cheapskate. In my experience, its traditional for american headquartered companies to view non-american workers as second class.

You are worth what someone is willing to pay and you will find someone whom is less ridiculous with a starting rate.
I feel this is horribly close to some big data magic.
Important detail about this offer: an EU permit is required.

(I can't edit my comment anymore)
Microsoft: Harbinger of the future
In theory, you could take the fine and use it for park restoration or expansion of the park. If thats true, than why not just take the fine and be happy? That would leave the environment in better shape and give someone a temporary job fixing it. I don't know enough about ecology to know if its possible
To me, this really doesn't have to do with CP, but with police that over reach and are not punished for that. It happens in non-CP cases, and the result is the same, no punishment.
So it's the very definition of "pay2win".

What I don't understand is how they get people to keep playing once they realize they don't need skill to win, but rather a valid credit card number.

Certainly it must feel like using cheatcodes? The victories must feel empty and you'd get bored pretty quickly, at least I think I would.
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yeah its pretty cool huh! :) plus its a cool community. We just need to get OT support
Sorry, I mangled the grammar on that sentence. I've fixed it now.
Ah, well then we'll take it on faith then. Why did you join the protest?
http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/06/cnns-disgraceful-coverage-o...
I believe there has been cases of accusation based solely on pictures of children while bathing. Pictures taken by the parents, in their own homes, for few others to see.

I also believe there has been accusations based on photos where no nudity was evident as well. They were just "suggestive" somehow, which says more about the person making the accusation than the photographer to me.
Meh. I have seen this exact article approximately ten times between 2000 and now; the only thing changing are the buzzwords. "IT departments won't exist in five years [because OMG $NEWEST_FLASHY_GADGET]". What about some flying cars? We've been getting those "five years from now" since about 1930...
> It is a pretty weird world we live in where nudity is automatically pornography.

It may be a fine point, but I think the distinction that clarifies the problem is "...where nudity is automatically pornography to somebody".
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5821139

From 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2137950

There are other submissions, but none have comments.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%2...
I use Octopress (built on top of Jekyll) and host it on Github. Updating my website is quite easy.
Thanks for re-submitting this. I submitted this earlier when the Google Reader shutdown was first announced. Any more additions or suggestions most welcome.
Yes, they have different goals - by design, Sails is frontend-agnostic. But we want to add a layer that supports the "template syncing" concept, however it will be an add-on on top of Sails core.

Aside from that, Sails brings a lot to the table (awesome ORM, asset pipeline, built-in API, etc). All we need are OTs and things'll be rockin :D
Old story: Arrogant punk thinks the world is his, will be shown differently in a few years.
Rock Health's fifth class includes Google Glass for doctors
I found working weird hours increased my productivity, because when a 500 person mini-skyscraper only has three or so people in it at 5am on a weekend, no one is sending email, no one is chatting, literally no one is here to interrupt me. This might even help at the coffee shop next door, I imagine 8:30 am at the coffee shop might be even worse than sitting in the office... but I bet 4am is a productive time.

I can physically be at work on a friday afternoon, but I guarantee I'll accomplish nothing other than being interrupted. It got to the point that I wouldn't even try to do stuff on Fridays... I'd just plan to sit there, maybe surf the net all day, until I get interrupted (which usually didn't take long). Its too risky to try to do stuff knowing you're heavily impaired by interruption, so trying to do nothing at all on Friday actually measurably improved my overall long term productivity, which I thought was interesting.
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> The event's venue, a luxury hotel in Big Sur, California, will include a custom-made fairyland-like setting with fake ruins, bridges, ponds, and a gated cottage

Sad to see that SV billionaires suffer from the same kitsch-mania as do the Russian oil oligarchs.
"Fractal Tree" is indeed a marketing trademark. But the algorithms used are not necessarily secret. The implementation is similar to the cache oblivious streaming btree: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/sbtree.pdf‎

Of course what's not described in the paper include: transactions, mvcc, logging/recovery, parallelism, etc. Those are really interesting topics as well.
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Wow, we are not seeing this on TV. This cannot be happening in Turkey! This is outrageous and I hope that it encourages more sharing on the internet to educate the world and that people go out in peaceful protests to show the government that they need to be LISTENED to. These people do not look at all as "radical protesters" as the Turkish Gov has made them sound like.
Why don't software communities serve as job hubs?
We did something similar on one of our office hack days.

http://waitable.adstruc.com/

https://github.com/ADstruc/waitable

We built a generic jQuery plugin which binds to jQuery promises, taking care of the waiting state and double-submit issues while firing off Ajax requests.
In England you say something like "I am glad to answer your questions, but I will only do so with a lawyer present".
> I think that's a bad example. The typical cat would soon learn not to enter the shower.

My black lab, however, would enter the shower every time I forgot to close the door.
You ignored all the criticism I offered of your original post.

Why would you do this?
So what is the best deterrent for such behavior? Obviously, fines aren't going to work - for someone who is worth billions of dollars, a couple of millions is pocket change. Also, if trees/forests are destroyed, it takes decades to restore them back. It is difficult to quantify the time and effort required, plus the negative effect of losing that ecosystem in the mean time.