skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed that too haha. What's nick been up to?
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Most humans can tell if the person they are with is into what they are doing or not. If you can't, then you have problems, maybe asperger or something, idk, not a doctor. I'm not endorsing this guy in any way. The entire thing seems sort of pathetic to me, to be honest. But honestly, it's probably hard to write about things that most people intuit.
WebRTC, WebGL, Web Speech et al. make today's browsers look like today's operating systems.

So stop making silly jokes and get with the program :p
I just had to do it:

http://jstalin.neocities.org/index.html

It's going to play audio if you clink the link, unless you're using click to play
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It's nice to see that giving all their users data to the spy agencies is a business model for these companies.
Because our government is made of bricks?
I made the parent comment. I also pointed out as to why employers offering extended services works in the very next sentence. You are providing no real evidence to the contrary other than the fact that Australia doesn't do it. Apples to oranges.

There is no viable reason why employers should be banned outright from offering extended benefits as a condition of employment to compete for talent.

If they entire system were overhauled to divorce them, there is no reason it needs to cost more to buy as an individual.

This statement shows a complete lack of understanding of actuarial science, which is the basis of all insurance. See Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science

A simplistic example: Employer A, hiring white collar office workers will get better rates when they say that they won't hire someone that is a (for example) a pilot, so the insurance company excludes all pilots from the base tables they use to rate the group. You as an individual don't get this luxury. You use a larger pool of people, but they aren't predefined as much into your own lifestyle subset, ergo, you don't get the benefit of lower rates. Even better, your employer's annual renewal actually takes into account the actual experience of your company directly. So, if everyone in your office sees the doctor one less time this year over last, your rates go down. You don't get this benefit in individual insurance - the pool is just too big to make a meaningful difference to a single data point.

At any rate, HN comments is not the right environment to teach someone actuarial math. Read the link for more details.

how much profit are health care providers making in Canada under the current system?

The nice thing about using math is that everything is out in the open. Profit on insurance premium is actually pretty low - in the 5-10% range. It's strength though is that it is entirely predictable, so it is rare that the profit is suddenly a loss. Insurance companies make most of their money through selling services and via investments.

My conclusion here is that although well intentioned, I think you are entirely ignorant of the topic at hand.
Call the police and/or social services.

The article doesn't mention the police either, wtf? Surely they did an investigation?
Just as long as you understand that in this context, "live dangerously" means that you might rape people without meaning to, just because you couldn't think of a sexy way to say, "So do you wanna fuck?"

That's an easy choice for me.
Sure - you're three times as likely to get a woman's number if you ask while walking a dog:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/201007...

A light touch on the forearm also increases the chances of getting a number:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15534510701316177

That's a start for ya.

There's nothing this society hates more than beta males. Your comment confirms it. God forbid a guy ain't a natural with women and needs some advice. He's probably deformed, deranged, and dangerous.
This thread is hilarious.
I suspect it's out of an honest attempt at doing the right thing. NSA spooks aren't evil trolls out to crush the free world under their boots. They're regular people, with typical moral compasses. And they have a difficult job. Unfettered access to information pretty clearly makes their job easier, so it's something they push for.

But they likewise understand that this kind of thing is controversial, and so (either out of an attempt to limit the impact or deflect blame) they want to make sure that everyone internally knows what they're doing and that it's not quite kosher.

Lots of folks here are programmers: occasionally you need to commit some horrible design affront in the name of expedience, right? Do you hide it or do you call it out in comments and commit messages with a big "HACK HERE" message? I know I do. It's the same impulse.
i personally hate it.

its great when learning a new api or whatever, but i've had 4 out of 5 questions (in 4 years i need to ask 5 questions) closed as off topic, i tagged them with the tags from their own site also. example: config file management question in linux, automation, automated-install closed as off topic.

it's just a big karma jerk-off
This is such bullshit. People have been buying and selling used games for the last thirty years. If it is such a detriment to the game industry how come the combined annual gross sales have exceeded Hollywood movies over the last few years?
No previous experience, except for manufacturing the iPhone.
I'm trying to figure out if this is earnest, or a satire on "Non-technical founder seeking a technical co-founder"
Care to give a few examples of where three.js docs are lacking?
> Don't look for talent

Isn't talent the ability to do things well? Or maybe I lack a nuanced definition of "talent". Or maybe the headline is trying to be sensational.
According to links to the state.ny.us links posted above; Zeldin, Carlucci, Gantt, Heastie, Jaffee, McDonald, Abinanti, DenDekker, and Mayer are all sponsors of the bill.
The flaw of StackOverflow, to me, is that activity is discouraged.

What I mean by that is, rehashing previous discussions is verboten, shooting the shit rarely happens, and nebulous questions are never explored (even though some of the better questions linked to on SO are often closed topics!).

As a result, StackOverflow is an authoritative source on a great many things. But the atmosphere of "ask any question" is absent. You're supposed to know what to look for instead of honestly throwing your query into the void trusting that someone will catch you.

In other words, your question has to be novel in a specific sense. Which is great!

But it doesn't mean it's an encouraging environment.

Edit: I mean, witness this comment, posted at the same time as me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5919768

I dunno, I have never felt motivated to "hang out" at SO.
To help answer my own question, I think I get it, maybe...

"The commissioner shall not issue any certificate of registration authorized by this section to any franchisor, MANUFACTURER, DISTRIBUTOR BRANCH OR FACTORY BRANCH..."

The rest of bill then talks all about franchisors, and mentions manufacturers very little. So perhaps there's something in here that doesn't allow New York to give registration to manufacturers, and only makes rules for franchisors.

Still, this stuff is arcane. It's like reading assembly code.
Generally it's cheap junk. Like if you are cold, buy a cheap sweatshirt for $5 or $10. When it gets annoying to carry it, and you haven't worn it lately, leave it behind. If it gets stolen from the laundry, who cares.

This is in contrast to buying a $100 Patagonia super-awesome lightweight shell, that is certainly better than that cheap sweatshirt, but that you need to treat as a prized possession and carry everywhere.
I'm getting a "Failed to open page" error, but perhaps that's because nobody should ever get tired of Pizza and Beer.
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Huge SO fan, and I have no doubt that there is serious ongoing work at SO. Each of the items you listed sounds like it will improve someone's life and is not so simple with 5 years of legacy. Based on these descriptions I would bucket that work as "improvements" and not "disruptive."

I think what GP was commenting on, which I agree with, is that SO doesn't appear to evolve its core mission from question-answers to something else -- perhaps a worthy HN/Slashot/Reddit replacement with discussions? Or expert-based code-reviews? Or documenting best-of-breed frameworks/platforms/service providers/etc/etc/etc (like GP posted)? I don't necessarily believe that SO should change its mandate, and I certainly don't know what would be a worthy change, but without an appearance of change then I can't help but fear SO will be relegated to the top google search result for me instead of a regular destination every day (like HN is).
I have a hard time believing a jury would convict someone of sexual assault for placing someone's hand on their penis if they were already (consensually) fingering that person.
Just use github pages.
Not positivity or nothing. Substance or nothing.
> The author states:

> > From now on you must ASSUME that she is attracted to you and wants to be ravished.

> There is a difference. The author says that you should assume the woman is attracted to you, not that she is consenting to sexual activity.

That's not really the most natural reading of what you quote the author as having written. If that's really what the author intended, the word choice ("you must ASSUME she ... wants to be ravished") is quite poor.

ravish
tr.v. rav·ished, rav·ish·ing, rav·ish·es
(1) To seize and carry away by force.
(2) To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.
(3) To overwhelm with emotion; enrapture. See Synonyms at enrapture.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ravish
Thanks. I agree with your perspective but I still don't grasp what is motivating so many developers to create new languages. Knowing that many languages are open source I would think people would improve on existing ones vs. going on their own language route.
What is the current understanding regarding the crackability of SSL?
This is noise. If you start looking around for arbitrary financial timeseries that track one another over a short period, you will find spurious correlations. I especially appreciate the author's thesis about the cause:

Historically, the US dollar has served as a risk-averse asset, gaining value as traders pull out of other financial products during periods of uncertainty and doubt. Bitcoin seems to be following the same path.

Yes, bitcoin is definitely right up there behind USD as a low risk asset. Uh huh.
I would argue that with MANY other publishing platforms available to the public, Kickstarter is NOT a "controlling body". Regardless, I believe wholeheartedly that censorship by the government is utterly and completely wrong, I don't believe that in this particular circumstance, it's appropriate to cry "censorship".
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I hate to break it to you, but humans (and animals!) value touch very, very much. Flirting without touching is not as effective at creating a bond. Generally, I'd say this advice is fairly sound, if your goal is to make another human being feel more connected to you. But of course, touching someone when they aren't interested does not create a bond, because they weren't interested in the first place.

So yeah, if your goal is play it safe for fear of lawsuits, offense, or rejections, then by all means, do not initiate any physical contact. Expect to be forgettable and for people to tell you "they just didn't feel that spark."
Why do you have to disgrace yourself by using the word "misogynist"?
utilities have looked into this "smart grid" application for a while.

The bigger issue, I think, is what's the likelihood that your house/grid will drain your car battery before it can be recharged enough for you to be able to drive somewhere?

And you just _know_ someone is going to complain about "my car battery was drained without my permission! privacy rights! privacy rights!"
Yes, I'm just refuting the post above mine which stated that the manual was a terrible moral wrong.
People who are still locked into the mold of Henry Stimson, I would imagine.

I think people are more surprised that their own traffic is falling into this and not just diplomatic/military signals. But that's one of the unintended consequences of communications in general shifting over to Internet methods instead of dedicated circuits.
I think it might be this? The format is terrible.

The commissioner shall not issue any certificate of registration authorized by this section to any franchisor, MANUFACTURER, DISTRIBUTOR BRANCH OR FACTORY BRANCH,

(caps are additions)

I think the way Tesla has been doing business in many states is that they have just applied for dealership licenses.
Elon Musk reminds me of Preston Tucker. Lots of similarities between Tesla Motors and Tucker Corp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Tucker
>If you believe that's a reasonable "move" to make, then you not only have no imagination, but your judgment of what's acceptable behavior is way, way off. It doesn't matter if this is a woman who you're behind closed doors with for the first time, that's not a normal, acceptable "move". That kind of thing is for people already in an established, ongoing relationship with a solid foundation of consent.

Reading these comments has absolutely horrified me. I just realized that I have been sexually assaulted dozens of times and even raped on multiple occasions.

I was raped by a 17 year old girl when I was just 16 - and a virgin. She bought me alcohol, got me drunk, and while I was laying on my back on the couch, she got on top of me and without asking, pulled my pants down and enveloped my penis with her vagina. She didn't even ask my consent, which I did not give.

On more than one occasion, I have had a woman, without asking, touch my penis through my clothes and even put her hand down my pants. I remember one incident now in which, while confined in a car where I could not easily escape, a woman started grabbing my legs and crotch and although I repeatedly and seriously protested, she did not stop.

Multiple times a woman has grabbed my hand and forcibly moved it to her breasts, buttocks, and crotch, without seeking consent. More than one woman has sat down on my lap without asking permission. Numerous times women at bars have kissed me without asking permission.

When people talk about a Rape Culture, I guess this is what they mean.

Should I seek counselling?
Some people are not comfortable with shit storms. I certainly wouldn't be. That doesn't necessarily mean they are wrong.
Agreed. So far, it's working quite well, and is quite clever. I think I would have probably published the documents in this order as well.

It's telling that yesterday's document showing Eric Holder signing off on warrantless surveillance came days after Barack Obama reassured us it wasn't happening.
The encryption (if implemented correctly) is good, but if an intelligence agency has access to a Certificate Authority, or the target of your communications, man-in-the-middle attacks are feasible.

In short, nothing is safe anymore.
To repeat a comment downthread: I think the most deceptive thing about FISC is that it's not really a court. It happens to be staffed with federal court judges, and it can issue binding court orders on a limited set of subject areas, but that's it; in every other way, FISC functions as a form of internal review board.

FISC exists because there is no Constitutional anchor to policies regarding foreign intelligence. Foreign powers do not have rights under the Fourth Amendment. No state really requires its spies to get warrants for all their foreign targets.

But in the wake of the Nixon administration, Congress decided it needed some way to create and enforce policy for NSA. It can pass laws, but without an ongoing process by which NSA's actions are forced to engage those laws, they'd be toothless. So we get FISC, a sort of para-court.
This is a little black and white. Signatures belong on work emails, they don't on personal.
For continuous known functions we would look at the mathematical derivative (using stochastic calculus). For sparse sample data with an unknown derivative, we resort to calculating differences between consecutive numbers.
The original blink was way cooler (I read the story a long ago... Chrome should have this kind of "easter eggs")
To further explain the "fire" point above: What isn't obvious is that, while obviously immoral, the fire example is actually not a good way to test if something should be free speech protected.

Quoting from the article: "The "shouting fire" standard seems to require that the to-be-censored speech be (1) false, (2) said under circumstances in which there is no opportunity for reasoned reflection or debate, and (3) the cause of actual harm by those who hear it."

The problem is people who dislike free speech can argue that yelling "false" things shouldn't be protected. This is leads to selective enforcement.

The more narrowed definition was added in Brandenburg v Ohio tto something is protected under free speech unless it has a likelihood of inciting "Imminent lawless action".
From another site [1], it seems as if it monitors the amount of time spent underwater, and is activated if this exceeds a preset amount of time.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/28/seal_syst...
But nobody wants 1080p. That's not a high-DPI screen, and it's also the wrong aspect ratio.
The exchange rate is denominated in USD. It's the BTC/USD rate... What's in the denominator
That's true, but if she lacks consent, she should also voice it/make it clear at some point (disregarding obviously illegal power-imbalanced situations such as student/teacher, boss/worker, ...). Someone shouldn't be charged with rape just because their partner, after passionately and vigorously fucking the whole night, says she actually didn't want to the whole time.
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Because if you put several thousand engineers on the project they got to do something great, isn't?
may increase the odds of being asked to pay someone off.

Even if you look like the quintessential dirty hippy?
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The current arrangement came about as a means to benefit the manufacturers. The carrot was that they in turn would not attempt to circumvent the dealer system.

Hence manufactures would produce cars in volume and sell them to the dealers. The dealers who made that investment in buying those cars then sold them for a profit. Dealers are protected by these same laws usually geographically. This in some way insulated the manufacturers from market fluctuations and allowed more efficient factories.

Plus you cannot pass up the test drive. Really, would you buy a car without a test drive? Dealers took that job which does incur some risk of loss. It was a good idea at the time. Society was not as integrated as it now, you could not just look up your car in any sense of the word we do now.

Just like other franchise setups, they are entrenched and not necessarily bad. Would you rather be beholden to a large auto maker or have a small shop to talk to in the event of a problem? A sole dealership will be more likely want to create a long term relationship and would work to solve you problems, a distant manufacturer who is large could afford to blow you off.
Feel free to restate it in such a way that it isn't so easily missed.
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How many of those employees are in fact biorobots?
I like SO, but its focus is just too narrow. Any question that seems to involve an opinion is shut down as not constructive, yet I can assure you that the vast majority of questions that bring me to SO are of this type.

You already rely on the users to vote up the good answers and vote down the bad ones - why don't you trust them to continue doing this, rather than shutting down useful and interesting topics?
Since this is part of GCHQ's mission, and publicly declared on their recruitment website, it shouldn't be that surprising.

(http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/about-gchq/about-gchq/)

> As one of the UK's intelligence and security agencies, we gather and analyse digital and electronic signals from many channels, from all corners of the world. Converting this information into intelligence material, we play a significant role in informing national security, military operations, police activity and foreign policy.
Wow... whoever this person is, I sincerely hope they were not certified (in that attempt). This person is almost guaranteed to lose it at the first minor hassle (say getting wrapped in kelp) underwater.
Cool demo of the technology. Cool technology. But many if not most of electric car owners will never use it. They only travel to a from work, around town, into the city. Road trips are few and far in between. It is nice to know you CAN, not that you will.
Sorry, but it sounds like you're poorly-informed on the subject, or otherwise biased. We're unlikely to reach agreement.

And good luck with those Turing-denying programmers you hired. Let us know how they work out in the long run. There's a difference between someone who doesn't completely understand a given theory but accepts the process that led to it, and someone who actively denies the theory and, in doing so, rejects the entire epistemological framework it rests on.
The info nav system can be avoided with:

info () { command info "$@" 2>&1 | less; }

to get the content with a more (or less) familiar nav tool.

Another useful approach is to 'project the document' rather than to
'document the project'. Write the draft documents as part of the
specification and development process. Code the project. Finally,
edit the docs to match the code.

You get to capture the state of early energy and an over- or
top-down view before diving into the code, and will remember to
mention details of the design while they are fresh and new, rather
than at the end of the coding process, when everything has become so
familiar that it all seems trivially obvious.
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I love the browser editor you made. Very easy to get up and running fast. It'll be a useful tool for teaching, and also for small js projects. Fun project- Thanks!
If you swapped batteries for a recurring subscription fee, it would help to offset the cost of batteries wearing out.

Battery replacement is a huge problem with electric and hybrid vehicles right now. The cost of replacing the battery is similar to the cost of replacing a combustion engine, yet the battery will wear out considerably sooner. A good system like this could remove that factor entirely.

A company called BetterPlace[0] has/had plans to do this.

[0] http://www.betterplace.com/How-it-Works/battery-switch-stati...
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There was some drama about a bunch of Fisker EVs catching fire[1] after immersion, but apparently[2] not (directly) battery-related.

Offhand, I'm not sure if the specific battery chemistry requires vents for in/out-gassing, or whether you could reasonably fully seal them. Or I suppose you could[3]
have the battery pack detect such a condition and use its power to electrolyse some water to keep the pack at positive pressure. Or maybe some kind of self-destruct that dumps the stored energy into a chemical reaction or passivates the cells somehow (wave hands)

[1] http://jalopnik.com/5956179/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-h...

[2] http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1080277_fisker-determines...

[3] points will be awarded for the number of different ways this is a bad idea