skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a problem I run into. As a more junior developer, nearly all of my questions I haven't been able to answer with research have already been answered on stackoverflow. Employers want me to have tons of points, but I don't usually have to ask any questions.
It will be an interesting contrast to see if Ireland is equally willing to shelter live persons as well as they do corporations.
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> he's in an international transit lounge and therefore not actually in any country.

What would prevent other asylum seekers or refugees from doing the same? Leave a war torn hell hole and camp out at Stuttgart International, sleep on the benches and busk or beg to get a meal. The fact that this doesn't happens means there are other reasons and the transit lounge isn't a DMZ as you claim.
The part where they offer alternative choices is for you.

The part where they suggest a choice is for people who don't want to make a decision is useful for many others particularly including potential customers.

The fact that they recommend offering both options here makes it good UI. Far better to do that than only offering one option.
It's just a belief in magical lines called "borders" that suddenly change the moral nature of a man. Within the "border" a man in a costume can arrest someone, but outside the "border" he cannot.

It's not any more magical than to claim that you have exclusive rights over everything that's inside some lines called "property limits", and that you even have the right to harm people who cross those magic lines without your consent.
Russia are not harboring him because he's not in Russia

So what happens if you commit a major crime in that area? Who responds to a terrorist event there?

I don't know specific international laws, but I would guess that Russia has such an area for her own convenience (that if you are just passing through there's no need to bother with forcing you through Russian customs). But I would guess that Russia has every ability (and every legal right) to do whatever they want in that area whenever they want to, but is choosing not to on its own accord.
Where I grew up (Darwin, Australia), gardening can kill you with a flesh-eating bacteria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melioidosis

Luckily, it's treatable with very high doses of antibiotics. It mostly kills the already infirm or elderly.
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You have just presented a justification for guy A killing guy B for now forking over his part of income to guy C.

Without the government, activities like that will take place without any justification.
I don't think he could be extradited if he was going to not be tried either; that would also be illegal in the US as he is a citizen...
Which other solutions do you suggest? Interestingly, tape libraries have also capacity limitations.
thanks for that :-)
Python Libraries > Ruby Libraries, at least outside of the web development world. There is nothing even close to the quality of SciKit-Learn, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Mapnik, PyCUDA, Sage, PyQT, PyGTK+, PIL, Celery, etc.

Ruby is an amazing language (as far as mutability-by-default languages go), but it is far too web-centric...which seems to have turned into a self-fulfilling prophesy.
neat project!
In fairness, it's causing genuine suffering and is so far incurable for many people.
There is a setting to disable whitelisting ,so you don't have to add the filter manually.
this is awesome, though i'd prefer not to scroll and also have the sizes for stuff like the wheel reduced quite a bit. seems like it's optimized for tablets or something.
The article is actually a little sensationalist. Because Coccidioidomycosis is actually ENDEMIC to the western region of USA and Mexico.

The rates do usually go up after earthquakes and storms that can lift up large amounts of dust up in the air.

In most people the infection resolves itself (much like TB in healthy people). Some people might get pneumonia and rarely do healthy people get meningitis. The disease is severe in immune-comprised but any disease can be severe in that case (eg: simple thrush - candida albicans infection)

simple anti-fungals eg: fluconazole is effective is most cases
1. Collective action makes progress a lot easier
2. Democracy is the least worst way to do it
3. I'm fine with violence not being a free market value

I think you'll find that the large majority of people agree with the third point, and even without democracy, the will of the large majority will impose itself onto everyone except in very few cases.
thanks jabiko, thats now top priority to fix
I would have liked the headline of the article (the correct original article headline was submitted here, as preferred by the HN guidelines) better if it had referred to "the President" rather than to "Barack Obama." This is an issue for every President. If government agencies can conduct operations that are secret even from the leader of the executive branch of government, they will not have effective leadership that reflects the values of the American people. I participated in the Restore the Fourth protests in Minneapolis yesterday (which were very lightly attended--my family of two adults and two children attending probably made up 3 percent of all protesters present between 6:00pm and 7:00pm). I also attended annual fireworks in the outer-ring suburban lakeshore town where my two older children had their earliest memories. Thousands of people there and tens and thousands in nearby locations watched fireworks and celebrated Independence Day together, with the celebration I attended including the whole crowd standing for the singing of the national anthem. Americans are glad to live in a country with a government with limited powers and constitutional checks and balances. If we are assured that government agencies have to follow the law set by Congress and are accountable to the President, we will be glad to go right on celebrating our freedom each year, whoever is President.
Doug Engelbart (1925 - 2013)
Quick ref to get rid of Google Ads (and some others too) on Adblock Plus:

FOR CHROME:

Go to "Settings"

Find Extensions in the list on the left

Find AdBlock, select "Options"

Click the tab "Filter Lists"

Uncheck: "Allow some non-intrusive advertising"

FOR FIREFOX:

Go to the Firefox menu in the upper left corner

Select "Add-ons"

Select "Extensions"

Find Adblock Plus, select Options.

Find the "Filter Preferences" Button

Select the tab "Filter Subscriptions"

Uncheck: "Allow some non-intrusive advertising"
Be careful here: viability is _perceived_.

And the mainstream media does _all_ it can to present the competition as "not viable".

Why? Because the media is not free, it's owned by a few rich people who don't want that competition, because that competition would obviously protect their wealth much less than the 2 parties in place (which are for a good part bought via "lobbyism", which is the "nice" word for "official corruption").

Thought experiment: If you knew for sure that a majority would vote for a third party, would you do it? Yes, because you'd know that it'll work.

The problem is: Enough people see that we can't continue like that. It's just this transparency that's currently not there.
Sprout (was pivotal_workstation): build your OSX dev machine for Ruby with Chef
lol, try tiresum.com
That worked rather, uh, well: http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/11/pol...

On the other hand, it works relatively well if you only consider going to war against each other within Europe, which definitely was the main concern in the 1950s. How peaceful this united Europe is towards other countries is another question altogether – again resorting to history does not necessarily offer hope.
How will you stop people pointing a gun in your face once there is no government?
sorry about that, I have put a default on the page
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The best line in the video is at 5:10 where an officer says:

"But he's perfectly innocent and he knows his rights. He knows what the Constitution says." as they continue to search his car.

I don't see how government authorities can expect people to to be law abiding when they themselves are not. They've clearly taken the principle of the ends justify the means.

It's a very sad state for our society.
these days

I'm pretty sure soldiers were never largely composed of particularly sadist people.
As I said, I've used it. But it doesn't really give me much back (apart from the headache of rendering my computer useless.) Modern libraries (!?!), and 3D graphics and window transparancies isn't really a game changer. They uttered something about having a semantic desktop at first, but those ideas fell from the wayside. Synapse and Xfce give me easy application launch, I find it less jarring also. I hate that transition in Windows 8. I can get by with Gnome 3 though (when it works,) it's usable.

You can't even configure the appearance of your apps (colour scheme etc) that easily in Gnome 3, it was pretty sucky in Gnome 2. This was pretty much customisable in Windows 98!

Anyway you didn't rise my challenge of trying to summarise what Gnome 3 is! But thanks nonetheless.
So stick it in a metal box as well. Every escalation can have a counter. If it can't communicate or pick up signal, its as good as off.
I agree that ELBs need much more functionality.

In order to get around the lack of features, I only use the ELBs for SSL termination (well, and DNS, and autoscaling). For anything fancier, I've developed a coprocess that manages HAProxy behind the scenes. It leverages Auto Scaling notifications to keep the backend instances in sync. It has a REST API so that you can drive configuration, and it works in a master-master configuration.

It's been running in production for about 9 months now, and has proven invaluable. Having hooks at this layer is incredible. I'm able to get amazing debugging information, I can "bumper" the site at the frontend, I can do 100% zero downtime deployments with quick rollback, I can tarpit and rate limit, etc.

Once I added enough "sugar", I started to realize that maybe AWS is doing it right -- it'd be impossible to add all the features that every customer would want to the ELB. However, WebSocket support and request draining are low-hanging fruit. Same goes for the support for generic HTTP methods, which was implemented some time ago.
haha, how naive.
Hah, nice one :)
This is untrue; T-Mobile uses GSM, and can therefore also do data+voice.

Once Verizon switches to VoLTE, and drops it's CDMA/EVDO network (a few years at best) it will also be able to do voice+data.
I agree that the article is too California-centric, but if you follow the link to the Valley Fever Center, the first thing it says is "Two-thirds of all U.S. Valley Fever infections are contracted in Arizona"[0]. I'm not saying this is the next epidemic in the 'West', but I do feel a watchful eye is needed. I live in LA, I'm a runner and don't live in a coastal city. My lungs are very susceptible to bad air (particulates). I moved to LA from a city with much cleaner air, and I've read LA residents tend to have more lung problems. Sorry, I don't have a link/source handy.

[0] https://www.vfce.arizona.edu/
Strange. I see only one blocked, and I've got everything blocked and auto-update turned on. I think your ghostery may be malfuctioning, because a cursory glance at the resources doesn't reveal much out of the ordinary.
Do you have any links to the crypto.cat bug?
'Asian flush' red flag for risk of cancer
Yeah, but AFAIK they have been researching that topic for like 30 years with very little progress overall.
Oops, you're right. Then let's agree to agree on the facts, and sorry for being obtuse. I had the impression you were belittling the fact that Germany is in violation of the EU directive, but that doesn't really follow from what you said, I read that into it.. probably because of "everybody is doing it (what the NSA does)" comments I read occasionally around here, and a general jadedness around the issue. Thanks for your patience ^^

Yes, it it's not great as it is, but it would be worse when the EU directive is actually followed, from what I can tell, and I wanted to stress that.
As long as they're only whitelisting text ads, I don't think I mind. Even image ads that aren't animated are okay with me if they aren't offensive. The only reason I have AdBlock plus installed in the first place is the really vile shit - noisy SWFs, scantily clad women, drive-by PDF 0 day exploits, etc...
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Are you running Ghostery? I noticed that at least one of the scripts that ghostery blocks is needed for this to work.

A small number of web pages are broken by ghostery, because their javascript calls functions in a blocked script.
Just uncheck the Allow non-intrusive option and this becomes a non-issue.

With recent onslaught of attack on Ghostery and Ad-block, I wonder if these two tools are doing exactly what they're supposed to do: help people.
Nope, the two wolves and sheep is is not talking about any particular system, but the Tyranny of the Majority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

It is a fundamental problem with 'simple' democracy or majority rule.
Since it seems to be a common misconception, I'd just like to point out that "Adblock" and "Adblock Plus" are two different extensions made by different people.
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My point is while We have more freedom and more ways to talk than ever before thanks to PRISM we know those ways to talk are being copied, scoured, and sniffed for content to use against people whom authorities deem targets.

The couple I referred to are upstanding law abiding citizens, but are vocal opponents of the local authorities. Not having any legal reason to shut them up, an obscure dark-humor posting by one of them was discovered and used as a pretext for totalitarian oppressive tactics (break into home without permission or warrant, confiscate lawful personal possessions (worth several months' pay) without adjudicated reason). It's akin to if you made some joke about observing the NSA like it observes you, a dozen armed-and-ready cops broke into your house and confiscated all your computers/phones/etc without a warrant.

The more they know, the more they can act against you when they want to.

ETA: I, like many, hesitate to say certain things on any recordable medium because we have reason to believe everything is recorded (and that which isn't can be derived from metadata). While my example used public data, the practical difference between public & private (chat board vs. PRISM) is becoming moot, and the consequences involving oppressive government acting without warrant is exactly the severity we are concerned about.
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How do they resolve this without having him face a trial?

Also, there are some countries that are even less benign than then US who would like to take advantage of this situation if they can.
Swimming in a lake here in Florida can kill you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

Personally, I prefer springs and oceans. So not too worried about that. Lakes around here are murky and full of gators any way.
Quite right .. Untreated Borrellia (Lyme's Disease) can actually be very severe (cardiac, large joint and cns involvement). You should always has some kind of pest-repellent on yourself in case you plan to camp.

Good thing you son had very TYPICAL presentation and history - H/o Hike in the woods , followed by rash with central clearing (bull's eye).

Lyme's disease is Endemic in the NE USA and some part of central US as well.

The article is a little sensationalist like I mentioned in another comment. Many parts of US (and the world) have their own set of Endemic Diseases to the Geo-location.

ps: It's untreated Borrellia infection that leas to lyme's disease.
> "Embrace simplicity in your product and in your code. The value is in what gets used, not what gets built."

There are all sorts of values. Usage value is only one of. If all that gets built is judged by what gets used, then a lot of great things won't get built.
LEED and CAFE are a bit different: CAFE is a set of government-mandated standards aimed at reducing pollution (whether effectively or not), while LEED is a set of standards that originate with a private-sector trade group, aimed at promoting the brand of "green" architecture (and it's done that quite effectively). I don't see it as distinct from the market: LEED is an example of the market at work. It's just that it's optimizing for what the market optimizes for by default (profits), not optimizing for the actual environment.

That process, where the market treats environmentalist sensibilities as just another niche market to cater to, is sometimes referred to as "green marketing", or more derogatorily as "greenwashing".
Our future already in 1968
Even if on a public chat board, the police shouldn't be sniffing up all your material to use against you. If they're doing sweeping "fishing expeditions" with public content, how much worse is it with private content?
Darwin wins again -- Saltwater crocodiles are bigger than alligators :D
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What were the attacks on Ghostery? I seem to have missed them.
The 4th amendment was not a response to British actions designed to root out dissent. It was a response to British actions designed to root out people bypassing customs tariffs.

In talking about intent you're projecting onto the framers a broad conception of "privacy" that they did not have. You can't just ignore the text. If you're arguing something is encompassed by the spirit of the law, there must be some evidence of it in the text. It's not there. The text and the discussion at the time is consistent with a more narrow principle: the sanctity of one's home and person, not some broad overarching principle of privacy that attaches to information even when it's shared with potentially hundreds of third parties (how many engineers at Google have access to your email accounts?)

The framers didn't have phones, but they did have all sorts of stored records. Banking records, ledgers, commercial transaction records, shipping records, etc. You can't just ignore the fact that all these things existed, yet the founders made no mention of protecting information that was routinely and by its nature disclosed to other people.
It's the difference between a guaranteed payout right now vs a possible payout down the road. In order to get paid for online games you probably have to practice for quite a few hours for free before you might get good enough to be compensated.
"Here’s a fictitious example to show what I’m talking about."

Yes, the author's fictitious example sucks.

The chart I linked shows the data points as discrete, so it's actually the stacked column chart the author claims to prefer and eliminates the confusion between height and thickness (that said, I don't object violently to that specific issue since I know how to read the charts).

Why convert curves to numbers? If you just wanted numbers read tabular data.

Tufte uses the equivalent of stacked area charts in one of his most famous examples (Napoleon's attack on Russia). Is it the width or the height of the bar that connotes the strength of the army?

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cartographia.file...

Tufte's great. You can quote him on both sides of most arguments. Displaying information well requires judgment, not just a bunch of rules.
Well, what others find offensive, you find funny and what you find offensive, other people don't even notice. It's a pretty subjective thing no?
I really don't get the comparison to Kinect at the beginning, since this is _just_ a simple motion detector and the only fun thing is the execution environment.
thx. what is CCP?
Modern concurrency: Erlang, Scala, Go, Clojure
I hadn't realised arduino came,or could have an option ADC. This is really cool. Thanks!
Although the ethics of paying as the method for being whitelisted can be subject to debate, IIRC Adblock states that whitelisted ads could be those that aren't animated, block access to content or distract the normal flow of browsing.

Adwords are just blocks of text. Ugly blocks of text, but they don't distract too much. And promoted search results are a fair tradeoff imo.

Anyway, disabling the display of whitelisted ads is not a complex task.
4th amendment interpretation already encompasses private computers as protected. As for servers, the law talks in terms if "private" not "not public." The examples mentioned in the 4th amendment are things that are deeply private, not just "not public." It warps any sense of "private" to say that something you share with hundreds of strangers at Google, AT&T, etc, is "private" although you ca say its "not public."
His charisma and intelligence

Oh. Ok, many people say he has those. How do they know? I do not see much, or rather, do not see anything special that would distinguish him from the other recent presidents (in a positive way). What have I missed?
I think it was immoral and dishonest to sneak in a whitelist feature into AdBlock, which is in direct opposition to the core product value. Imagine a firewall that whitelists certain networks. And background updates add more networks that bought their way into your machine. Not a product I'd be willing to use.
It is not just spaghetti code, though. Right? It is code that does not constantly check that input fits an expected pattern. Which is most code. I'm reminded of this talk by Sussman.[1] Essentially, in software we are (understandably) adamant about not modifying the input of our application for "pure" functions. Nature goes right the opposite, often attempting to make the input work at all costs.

So, whereas a schema based application that models a user with an address is unable to cope with being given two addresses. A schema-less approach where it just stores blobs simply stores what it was given. If code that reads this is unable to make sense of multiple addresses, it will raise an error. Not necessarily unlike a user being told to send a package to an address, but given a list of addresses.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...
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