skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood why all the paranoia with pedo...

I mean, I can see why it is a bad thing, but I saw even some really silly stuff, like a muslim friend that I know, being resolute that anyone having sex with a minor is evil and must be punished immediately.

Then I pointed that their prophet had a 9 year old wife (that by the way this girl also wrote good part of their holy book) and then she said that this does not count...

Why?

You know, my grandmother married when she was 14, and she is still married with the same guy, they make a great couple (last time I saw them, it looked like a typical teen couple, with my grandma JUMPING into my grandpa and hugging him like if it was a japanese anime or something, it kinda startled me to see old people do that, but then, why not?), and I have a hard time believing that a 14 year old girl is so dumb to the point of needing heavy-handed state protection in deciding her relationships.

Likewise I can say that I am a perverted evil man too... I started seeing porn when I was 14, and I found out girls of roughly the same age attractive, not some random aunt... Probably the hard-drives with that porn is still somewhere on my electronic quasi-junk stash... What happen if someone fiddle with my junk and find them? According to our current law I will go arrested for posession of child porn, even if I got it when I was a child myself...

Kinda child...

At least, Brazil only buckled to US pressure regarding the porn laws (That I think are absurd and silly, you should prosecute those caught in the tape abusing the kids, and maybe use the fact they filmed it as a aggravating factor, prosecuting random people for having any kind of porn or media is really stupid), the child sex laws make more sense... (here people above 14 can have sex, not 18 or 21... and if you think the law is wrong about that, then tell me how you will punish half of the 14 year old people in your area)
There was a bridge built over a waterway, yes, with a hard concrete channel underneath. Unless done absolutely correctly (and this is a very complicated subject of environmental science) the hard bottom channel can create erosion that destroys local riparian habitat within the erosion zone, as well as sedimentation that destroys (yes, destroys) downstream habitat. The increased sedimentation also changes the water chemistry and particulate content, so species of fish, insects (which fish, birds, and other animals eat, being an important base of the food chain), and other species are greatly affected, if not entirely killed off downstream. Of particular interest with this stream is salmon spawning, which is extremely sensitive and a huge focus of environmental groups in California and the northwest, for good reason.

No one is simply claiming it—it is absolutely proven.
> If you are ever arrested, don't say a word especially if you are innocent.

In the UK (which is where the OA is set) we don't really have that option. The police will warn you when arrested:

"You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."

So basically, you're required to mount your own ad-hoc defence when arrested, or "it may harm your defence" in court. This when you might be under extreme emotional stress from the arrest, or the incident which led to it. When your state of mind might be borderline rational or worse. Effectively, we do not have a right to silence.
I remember watching Threads years ago... creepy as hell, but well worth it.
Good idea.
I think hijacking of user's upload bandwidth can be done by "conventional" methods and server-client api's today, Web-RTC doesn't bring any additional risk here. Just the idea that it is actually useful to leverage user's uplink.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/discu...
Too much big gumment.
> Because we're subsidizing inefficient actors already, that makes it okay to subsidize other actors?

I didn't say that, but I would note that talking about established industries which do not benefit from government intervention in some way is a bit like the dumbed down problems we used to get in high-school physics, where we could just ignore things like friction or inertia when it was convenient.

In the real world, all our industries have a relationship with government. It's fair to say that you don't think a new entrant with a seemingly good idea should receive any subsidies like the DOE loans, but what you're really saying is that we won't level the playing field to neutralize the effect of subsidization of the existing players, and there will consequently be less competition.

> More efficient combustible engines however are doing that, despite the lack of subsidies.

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. The companies making those engines - American, German, Japanese, Korean, whatever - are subsidized and supported by their governments. The companies making the fuel are similarly entwined with government. It's not a comparison that should cause a libertarian-minded person to immediately want to pick on Tesla specifically, which is why this line of argument strikes me as so odd.

> Tesla is certainly not curbing carbon emissions.

Certainly. Yeah...
So, I love anything spaced repetition and am addicted to Anki, but when it comes to productivity in your favorite editor, I feel the bigger problem is learning how to use various bits of functionality in a realistic setting and learning to see when you have a time saver at your disposal. Learning to automatically recognize "when in situation X, use Y with shortcut Z" rather than simply "Z is a shortcut for Y".
Just a question re. this video - how relevant is it in non-US jurisdictions?

Does most of the advice still apply for, say, the UK?
Umm... what? Theoretical mathematicians are always trying to reduce complicated concepts to geometry, or to other intuitive and more easily understood phenomena.
Thriving on Chance - Probabilities and Startups
He destroyed a national park? That's not my take.
In fact, the symbols that form the syntax, doesn't matter at

all: standard symbol set:

~ # access, forward (standard)
object ~ property
-> # access, backward ("homosexual" call if you will)
method -> object
->> # access, backward high ("homosexual" call with higher precedence than ~ and ->... very gay...)
some ~ linkage ~ method ->> object
<- # backcall semantics, normal precedence, "tailored" calling
"eenie", "meeenie", "minie", "moe" <- count toes:
take: basket: "apples", "oranges", "bananas" <<- fill basket:
# take(basket().fill_basket("apples",...), ...)
# BE CAREFUL with that code above
# basket doesn't get created with the fruits, just empty basket which
# is subsequently filled with goodies

All these operators can be a different set, but these glyphs are the best in my opinion

~
# PS: PLEASE do NOT get offended by my characterization

# of certain method calls as "homosexual"

#

# Don't! This is just for laughs at the language

# I am not against gay community in any way

# and "homosexual" calls are actually the most

# useful feature of this language

#

# Thank you.
The following is a description (slightly modified) from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam:

The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness.

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs [Europe, Australia, USA and Japan]. Six percent of US prison inmates are Muslim. Like any other minority, they won’t integrate, but work to build their own separate community.

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. South Africa's Muslim population is 2%, but they control 35% of the businesses, a large percentage of the banks and have five Cabinet seats while Christians (77% of the population) have none.

They will push for the introduction of halaal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves (along with threats for failure to comply).

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia; Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world, but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. (Ei: car-burnings in France last October.) Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats.

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning (India, Mindanao, Philippines).
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare [Indonesia].

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya (infidel tax). (Sudan, Kosovo, Lebanon and Egypt).
After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide [Western Papua (New Guinea), Iran, Biafra, Turkey and North Nigeria].

100% will usher in the peace of "Dar-es-Salaam" - House of Peace - as in Saudi Arabia, Libya and Yemen.

Islam is the main religion of the Turkish people, where the CIA World factbook states that 99.8%. It has not yet Implemented Sharia law there, you can be sure the unrest will continue there until Turkey is ruled by Sharia law.
You are a loser, you know that right? Fu&&cking jealous loser. All that negative energy around you will keep you down forever.
"What many of them did instead was to go bankrupt and ask for bailouts."

This is quite astonishing. A few large American car companies with large pension liabilities needed the subsidies (I would have let them failed and let more efficient car manufacturers take over their assets, personally). Every other large manufacturer didn't need subsidies.

"Furthermore, the incumbents had plenty of chance to innovate."

The combustible engine is more efficient than ever. We're getting many more miles per a gallon of gas than we ever had. The efficiency of the engine has done much, much, much more than electric vehicles to curb carbon emissions. Going forward, making the combustible engine and hybrids more efficient will do magnitudes more to curb carbon emissions than all-electric vehicles.
Remember the word 'loan' designates a debt instrument. It needs to be paid back. If you don't have the capital to secure the loan (and pay it back), no -- you shouldn't get the money.
Universal Makefile for Erlang Projects That Use Rebar
And maybe predict domestic violence before it happens.

I'm not sure if I qualify as one of the "privacy folk" or not, but I would say "As long as the police cannot compel you to install the thing and switch it on, or have an AI system issue search warrants in seconds based on what the machine reports." Unfortunately I think we will have both of those things 20 years from now.
No I'm referring to the app mode they're trying to get every application to use. The desktop mode is only for legacy and backwards compatibility purposes. Though they might have changed their mind on that now that Windows 8 pretty much flopped, I'm not sure.
Surely that questioning has to take place with a lawyer present though? The police can't question you (or get you to say anything) before you've had access to legal advice.... right..?
Back in the time the Inqusiton started their trails by asking "Do you know of what you are charged". A lot of crimes came out that way.

Sadly a lot of people visiting HN live in places where the police think of the safety of body and limb of the suspect as a optional recommendation. So keep you mouth shut may not be that easy.
This reminds me of what David Simon called the thesis of "The Wire", that institutions inevitably corrupt and destroy the individuals within them. It's possible that just about everyone in the system (except the original person who makes the accusation, though he/she may just have been made overly paranoid by the system) is a very decent person who, at any point, could've looked at the photos and called bullshit on it. But that opportunity doesn't arrive once the momentum of bureaucracy is involved.

Of course there's the poor grandfather here within our institution of justice. But his arraignment was the result of a chain of bumbling actions. At some point, someone in authority made a terrible decision. But the decision involved something that generally, almost no one wants to be on the defending side of ("Oh, but are you sure it's child pornography?")...and soon, you have the momentum of one bull-headed decision just propagating to other agencies and departments until anyone with the decency to stand up in the bureaucracy and say "Wait a minute" will already have been deterred by the mountain of echo chamber-derived evidence.

The incident as described here is abhorrent. But I can see why most of the actors here did what they did...certainly, no one at CPS wants to be the one who says, "Let me see those pornographic pictures just to double check"...And no one in law enforcement wants to be on the hook when a real child pornographer is caught, and it's learned that police had investigated him months/years before and did nothing about it.
He took it to his local computer repair shop. The geeks there went to work. In the course of their work they found a number of images of naked children.

I want to believe that the blame is on the image thumbnails on the Desktop or some folder that is difficult to circumvent. But still, such privacy violation and lack of professionalism from the technicians is not ever mentioned again in the OP.
You haven't a clue about what is happening in Turkey and what the protests are about.
That was completely uncalled for; I like it.
But it is sexist/discriminating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action
Have you tested it over a daylight savings period or if the user changed their local clock?
That's awesome! I hope you didn't mind the joke too much. I really do use/love Mongo and I appreciate anyone who contributes to it.
> These photos reveal the ugly side of the Turkish economic miracle: an authoritarian neoliberal state willing to kill in order to preserve its place.

It's good we've got the question of who's the boogieman settled. Nuance is too hard.
Except for specialized applications, I just cannot see how this is a good idea. As the table size grows, your indexes are potentially going to get enormous. And as your tables grow larger, there are other issues also.

He uses mySQL, which I'm not as familiar with, but I know with a index organized table in Oracle, or a table with a clustered index in SQL Server, there might be a lot fragmentation going on and the table might need to be reorganized.

In short: an interesting idea, but impractical in most cases.
I tried to get it setup once, but it doesn't work for my situation (for instance, my laptop is usually in hibernation when I'm at home. I have a connected disk that supports DLNA and I wish I could stream from that.) With this considered, just plugging in USB storage is fine. Not ideal, but fine.

Also, when I last tried to use Plex (though, this was more than a year ago), it was extremely clunky. Maybe things are different now, or maybe I was expecting it to behave differently, but I didnt like it.
Apart from its virulent anti-Islam sentiment this is a really confused comment: these protests are totally against the Islamist authoritarianism of the government!
Wow. That is one serious load of garbage! Never mind the incredibly baseless and stupid contents that follow, the premise is wrong: the protests themselves in the first place are opposing the present government's attempts to undermine Turkey's longstanding tradition of secularism.
’Eskimos Have Hundreds Of Words For Snow, and Other Myths Debunked’ by CPG Grey:

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/10-misconceptions-rundown.html

I live in the Netherlands, where it rains most of the year. According your logic, one would expect for the Dutch language to have countless words for rain. Instead, it has just a few, and less than a desert language like Arabic.
So because the company cannot take $500m and instantly start turning out third generation EVs that have a price point that the average American can afford, we should just refuse to invest any money in driving toward that goal and just stay with the status quo of oil-dependant cars?

The end goal of the loan was not to make Elon richer or enable Tesla to sell a few thousand cars to "billionaires and millionaires". It was to support a company that had demonstrated a plan that looked reasonably viable for building up the EV tech to the point that it can become a mainstream replacement for ICEs. The incumbents have not shown as much interest or drive, and the initial attempts by them at delivering EVs have not seen the same level of adoption and excitement from the public. I believe that this lack is due to the less efficient manner they are going about it: trying to retrofit EV technology into the ICE world.

I am certainly not a millionaire. I am above the salary level of the average American. That meant that it was possible for me to save up and purchase a Model S. Based on my experience of owning it and my research of the company, I believe that this is the future and I believe that $500m loan was not simply a capital venture or investment but rather that it was very much a benefit to the average American because it will enable a third generation of EVs to enter the mainstream.

I believe the established companies see that plausible future also and are fighting as hard as they can with lobbying and lawsuits to prevent being overshadowed by it.
The difference between Top Gear and this situation though is that the cars they smash up aren't a shared resource. Top Gear smashing up a sweet car doesn't really affect me in any way (in fact, it can be pretty funny).

One might argue that by making changes to the natural landscape as Parker did, he affects the shared resource that is the environment, which some find to be less than totally acceptable.
Kickstarter is supposedly limited to US/UK companies and individuals. Are they solely Canadian or do they have a US presence as well?
This is ridiculous, racist garbage. You cannot extrapolate the actions of a group of people based on their percentage of the population.

Furthermore, the "Muslim population" is not a single mass, it is split into numerous sects.

This kind of comment has no place on HN.
They have to. Franchise laws. Look it up. Here is MA's: http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXV/...
Your absolutely correct in my mind. I get more from the favicon then anything else, and since moving to Linux and losing the title bar I have not found myself missing it or lost.
Let's hang out.
Sean Parker’s destruction of a redwood grove for his wedding
Contrary to what the article tries to evoke, the Fukushima meltdowns were a huge catastrophe that severely impacted a whole region. Ask the people who live(d) there if they think the impact of this thing was overstated in the media - they're likely to tell you if anything consequences were buried not exposed. Even if these very first statistics are true, there is likely to be more impact further down the road. There will be shortened lifespans as a result of exposure. There is massive economic damage as well. People's lives were severely affected. And let's not forget the destroyed reactors still aren't safe. There are very likely huge unpleasant surprises yet to be revealed.

Vice Japan did a fascinating story about a man who's been living inside the exclusion zone[1] and has yet to feel any ill effects of being exposed to radiation (though in the article, he was described as being a freak of nature in that regard).

[1] http://www.vice.com/jp/read/alone-in-the-zone-jp (Japanese)

[2] http://macaronics.com/article/2f7763d5d38a49c5aea761ce2fb2f9... (partially translated into English)
Member for 1199 days and you post this rant. Seriously, the best thing you can do right now is delete your HN account and not come back.

Edit: Assuming that maeon3 is merely trolling and is not actually deranged, please lets not feed this troll any more.
> I wonder how he would explain rhombuses with negative area.

The rhombus is in the II or IV quandrant. Alternatively, the endpoint of the vector sum is of the form (-x, y) or (x, -y), where x and y are positive numbers.
They do that with traffic tickets in Finland and Switzerland. You've probably heard of the $290,000 speeding ticket levied against a wealthy Swiss guy.

http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2012/02/speeding-fines-t...

(The link is an interesting discussion of relative vs absolute risk aversion, with regard to tickets.)
Yes, this is the way things have been done since 1965. It sounds simple enough, but as it turns out, in complex systems, this is a common cause of defects.

Programmers forget to check things all the time. Assumptions made in different areas of the code, by different programmers, at different times, do not always hold.

Fortunately, computers are good at remembering to check things. We just need to allow them to do so.
Again, the psychology is clever: you're not being asked to pay to complete one specific thing, you're given the option of using gems for a huge range of things. So it's not "I need to pay $6.98 to upgrade my Wizard Tower" (which would make most people balk), but "if I let them charge my iTunes account a bit, I get this pack of 1400 gems, which lets me skip some tedious grinding and get all sorts of cool stuff quickly".

Also, a lot of people get a single Builder early on for 500 gems ($4.99), and when you've done that once, the barrier to doing it again is lowered.
Hah. So that's why they always ask "Do you know why I pulled you over?" ;-)
Relevant: Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. "

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
That's interesting.

A crowd equity site doesn't exist in the UK, so I presume it is a regulatory problem, but crowd loans to businesses sites do.

I wonder if a specialist 'loans to businesses' site could loan to businesses that have not started yet, with interest proportional to profit, and a fixed 'interest only' term before repayment. Trading these loans would be a problem, and they would not give control, but for a small holder they would function a lot like shares. Sounds pretty viable.

I realize there are some incentives issues here, e.g. why would the board increase profit rather than increase management pay and break even. Conventionally this is because the shareholders would fire them, and because they are more shareholders than employees. But I believe an appropriate incentive system could be done via loans using contracts.
I just tried this on Nightly and the chrome that's left behind (tabs + URL) slide up and out of the way within half a second of entering full screen mode, leaving nothing but the webpage on the screen. Are you sure that this isn't happening for you?
We had fun building this - it would be interesting to know what other companies do with their CI servers