skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not know that. Though I'm aware of the risks of firing a weapon when you don't know where the bullet will land, I don't see why a warning shot should be illegal if done safely (shooting at the floor, etc).

I also wonder if any state license(s) held by the shooter required learning that warning shots are unlawful. As a guy who doesn't own guns, it seems extremely counterintuitive.
More of an enclosed recumbent bike than it is a 'car' so you could say "dangerously fast for a 3 wheel bike" :-) (tricycles are notoriously prone to flipping over because of the way they convert angular momentum.)

I suspect it is a bit more fun than a golf cart though.
Are you asking how C gets turned into Assembly or how does C interact with the machine? A compiler will compile your C code into assembly and an assembler will produce machine code from your assembly. Everything, no matter how high level it is, eventually is a series of instructions on some physical processor. C is basically just a higher level of representation of the assembly code the machine runs. Since you have experience in both, I'm sure you can see how C constructs translate into assembly code. Example how a while or for loop uses conditional branching or how local variables are allocated on the stack. Operating systems are written in a mix of C and assembly, as some things are specific to the machine you are running on. For instance, switching between Protected mode and 32e mode on an x86-64 processor. If you're also wondering how your code calls into operating system calls, it depends on both the processor and the operating system. For example on x86/linux, some arguments are passed via registers and on the stack and a software interrupt is called to transfer control to the OS and have the OS service the request on your behalf, such as file I/O or memory allocation. The more you study both of them, the more apparent it becomes how easily linked they are. I think what most people like about C is that its higher level than assembly but still gives you enough constructs that are close to the machine.
I would instead recommend Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" then. It explores how the many-worlds interpretation could play a part in consciousness and is overall a great sci-fi novel.
One other challenge is that some of the presentation (especially portions of the front page) isn't data-driven. It can be tricky to figure out which information to highlight, what the clustering topics should be, etc.
i think the point though, is that the governing body for soccer has stayed the same, and a soccer player's status continues to be recognized despite a change in the rules. the structure of governance for whatever game is currently popular gets tossed and re-established as soon as a new game gains popularity. The organizations sponsoring these gamers for immigration purposes don't have much in the way of permanence or reliability. it seems like a huge potential for fraud or abuse.
While acknowledging that none of us were in the courtroom, I think the evidence that Martin attacked Zimmerman is pretty scant.
"An empty seat is better than the wrong person."

Perhaps at the executive level, but I'm not sure I agree with this as a general hiring strategy. This mentality might go pretty far to explain why there are so many companies that claim they can't seem to find enough talent, while un(der)employment is still high.

Companies interview and interview, but are petrified of hiring "the wrong person" so they just keep on interviewing fruitlessly.
The 39'' version of the 4K monitor you mention seems to be at Amazon right now for $700. I'd be interested to know if this works as an external monitor (in clamshell mode) for a MBP running OSX. I understand that it won't work as an additional display.

This size seems a bit overwhelming for use as a monitor. (I used to have a 30" display but got rid of it because it was too imposing on my desk.). It's still nice to see this as an option. It should be good for visualization of large data sets.
Github lists his repos, you know. :-) But thanks for pointing this out. I am getting interested in Lua and was unaware of this.

https://github.com/zedshaw/Tir
looks like a pretty awesome tool, making web dev possible for anyone. excited to see where this goes!
Like so much in Linux, it varies from app-to-app.
The 13-inch Macbook Air has a native resolution of 1440x900, which is a fairly low pixel density for a laptop and only slightly better than typical desktop monitors. Any modern[1] laptop should exceed the MBA's pixel density, and high-end laptops (Macbook Pro, Chromebook Pixel) nearly double it.

For any given pixel density a 32-inch panel will be much more expensive than a 13-inch panel, so it doesn't make much sense to compare a laptop screen to a desktop. A better Apple product to compare with is the Cinema Display, which has a 2560x1440 resolution at 27 inches and is priced the same as any other equivalently specced monitor.

[1] The 13-inch MBA has not had a screen refresh in years.
This is great and all, but if there is one tool I'd like to see is a personal data exporter.

I want to get all the posts and messages I have ever posted, going back many years, and beyond the 1000 cutoff in their comment history feeds. I'd like to run some keyword analysis on my own data, search it, access it however I see fit. As it stands now, there is no way to retrieve it.
I just think its unlikely that an alien message would be coded. Our own messages sent with intent to space are not just unenciphered, they include a lot of meta data to make finding the patterns required to understand it easier.

If instead we used a one time pad, we wouldn't have much luck reaching out to aliens. This points to the more likely scenario that the manuscript isn't encoded at all (gibberish) or it was meant to be understood by only one person.
I'm living happily with this:

"relative number switches - show numbers in insert mode, relative in normal

autocmd InsertEnter * :set number

autocmd InsertLeave * :set relativenumber
Possibly the desire to comment on the NSA stories anonymously maybe? Do you have an approximate date when lots of new accounts were created?
Technically you can also call yourself an engineer in Canada if you're an EIT (registered Engineer In Training), and you're working under the supervision of a P.Eng (Professional Engineer).

ISTM that the primary benefit of the P.Eng system is that 'Engineers' are required to uphold a precise ethical standard; passing the ethics exam is probably the most significant hurdle in getting a P.Eng after actually finishing your degree.

That said, it's also about the only hurdle aside from gaining 4 years of work experience in the field. (In theory you need to show improving technical skills, continuous learning, etc., etc., but in practice it's somewhat of a rubber stamp. (And coincidentally, at the end, you can get a rubber stamp.))
s/Schwarz/Swartz
Time to sell a kidney I guess.
It's my understanding that the content provider is only responsible for laws in areas where their data is hosted. Does Twitter have a data center in France? If not, how did this end up in French court?
Nobody skews cat data on the internet and gets away with it.
In Iraq, the Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn't Work, Except to Make Money
No, the title is fine. There are problems addressed, for example the LA times states:

In another phase of the Princeton study, the researchers found that rats allowed to drink the HFCS solution gained more weight over six months than rats with no access to a sweetened beverage. The difference was dramatic: rats with 24-hour access to HFCS gained 27% more weight than the rats stuck with chow only. But the researchers didn’t include a third group of rats with access to sugar, so it’s impossible to say whether HFCS was worse than regular sugar.
Do you happen to remember what game it was? I haven't seen a case in over a decade where pure user-mode code caused a denial of service type attack on the OS. There is a possibility that kernel-mode DRM crap installed by the game caused problems in your case. When you're in kernel-mode though, all bets are off and no OS can save you.

Also I don't understand what you mean by resilient to stupid programs? A general purpose OS should terminate badly written programs the instant it runs into a crashing-bug.
Zed is not the pretty daughter of a billionaire?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
(I know it's not the kosher solution, but editing your hosts file [1] or justs installing adblock, helps a lot with this stuff)

[1] http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
By purposefully lying?
I might be wrong, but don't entrepreneurs usually need long stay visas to do long term work? An athlete/performer visa only allows you to stay for the duration, only. Hardly any residency.
What startups do you know that are writing their own web servers?

More efficient web servers will, if anything, be even better for startups than they are for Google, since they lower the barrier to entry.
We do, again, this is a seed investment rather than a major capital investment. The immediate plan is to fund the rest of the development to get the platform to beta. The initial cost is fairly small (<$10,000) since a good portion of the work is done by me on the tools, and our launch deadline is "the sooner, the better."
Examples of "tearing apart"? At its worst, the feedback is terse. If all one wants are warm and fuzzies, one wouldn't submit here.
Sorry, "x teaches y to z" as in "z concludes from x that the evidential support for hypothesis y has increased".
I like how people put "machine.jpg" as a file name. It's very descriptive. If I had to guess, it looks like a home made CNC machine.
As I said earlier: The idea that making something LOOK like (but not actually be) "human text" makes anything better is an idea we should have buried along with COBOL and other mistakes from the past. But I guess not.
But you were downplaying the project because it is "basically CGI" (inaccurate already). In context I think you'll find you were being hostile about the matter.

Anyway, it is the start of an idea with a proclaimed possible direction (basic error handling, basic web server functionality). It doesn't do a lot right now (and maybe it never will) but it isn't just CGI.
I keep reading this, but I'm missing what makes it special. If you create a large enough vessel of anything and evacuate all the air, you can make it lighter than air. Is it just that it's rare to find a material strong enough with respect to its density to withstand the necessary vacuum? (ie: would a titanium bubble with a sufficient volume to thickness ratio to be lighter than air implode? Or would it just be too expensive?)
Show HN: The Email Management Myth - Don't insist it's your problem
How is it worse than X.509?
There's absolutely no good reason to think that it should be possible to make money propping up us bags of decaying organic matter for as long as possible. The idea of making money providing healthcare is absurd -- like being able to deliver a letter anywhere for a fixed cost or basic defense of our borders, it's the proper role of a minimal viable government.
Just to be sure, I went back into my comment history to check. I'm pretty sure this is the first time I mentioned his name or something related to lithium. I have pretty much avoided the Tesla/Elon/Lithium discussion until this point. I don't know where you got that idea about me.
Do you really need that large a spacebar anyway?

http://www.trulyergonomic.com

(I feel like a shill, but this is what I use when I'm not on the road, with the keys remapped like a crazy person.)
Does anybody remember that fish tank simulation? Are they still doing that?
Surprised some commenters have trouble figuring out what you do... You folks have fun doing it! But hiring will always be hard because finding people who fit and who also sustain your high level is hard...

No useful advice... except, stay extremely clear on who you are, don't compromise even a little on that. "An empty seat is better" is a corollary.
Given the mess started when the government implemented wage freezes in WWII and has only gotten worse since then, it is staggering that anybody could believe the US healthcare system is remotely related to a free market. And it keeps getting worse.
It seems to be a CNC machine capable of printing frosting!

http://www.templeos.org/images/Frosting.jpg
http://www.templeos.org/images/CttnTail.jpg
I've got an experimental, realtime comment search engine over at commentfindder.com. Perhaps some useful visualizations could be created off of it. Do you have any ideas for what kind of actionable chart would be interesting?
TL;DR: Science is sometimes confusing. So is religion. Therefore religion is no less invalid than science.

What is this doing here, danso?
> blacks are far more likely to die at the hands of another.

Poor people are far more likely to die at the hands of another poor person.

FTFY. If you ever go to the USA, you'll discover that in the urban areas socio-economic class and race are just the tiniest little bit correlated.
However you won't notice the difference between a 30Hz display and a 60Hz display unless playing video games.

Try moving your mouse around. Try dragging a window around. Then try it on a 120Hz monitor. You will notice the significantly greater fluidity of motion added by each step up in refresh rate, even with bottom-of-the-line USB mice, which report at 125Hz.

Movies are 24hz and tv shows are 30hz (25hz in the UK).

Sports, news, and daytime dramas (yarg) are typically 50Hz or 60Hz, so they will be less fluid on a 30Hz display. Also, watching a 24Hz movie on a 30Hz monitor will make for a terribly juddery experience. The video will appear to "chunk" every 4 input frames/5 output frames, or 6 times per second.

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All that said, for static design work, coding, writing, etc., 4K at 30Hz would still be very useful if you can put up with the less natural feel to basic system movements.
In California, the reverse is true. Your registration becomes revoked when your insurance expires, not the other way around. I am still insured since I pay a private party for coverage and the vehicle code here doesn't have the power to revoke that contract.
"It's not an evacuated tunnel"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/224406502188916739
I know, but I don't think it's particularly high-purity fused silica. I admit I'm guessing, though.
Publishing exploits should certainly be protected as free speech, but the sale of exploits to a party with ill intent (governments included, even ours) is moving into the realm of arms dealing because that exploit is going to be weaponized. Intent matters.

If there is a transaction with weaponization as the intent => arms dealing

If it is published to edify => free speech
The problem seems to be latency. TV aren't meant to be interactive as much as PC monitors are. Especially at a high resolution like this, you will notice a lag between the time you perform an action and the time the TV renders it.
The annoying thing is that the Linux RNG is really limiting without something like RdRand.

It used to be that most drivers contributed to the randomness pool, so it seldom ran short. It used to be that you could configure the size of the pool, so if you were running short you could make it larger. But then it was discovered that the pool resizing had a locally exploitable vulnerability so it was removed, leaving it always at the smallest value; and it was realized that many driver sources weren't very random and/or were externally controllable so most were removed.

The end effect is that much server hardware only gets about 50-100 bits per second added only to a pool of 4096, and /dev/random is constantly running out leading to weird performance problems (like ssh connections taking a long time). This results in a desperate need to replace /dev/random with something like RdRand when it could just otherwise be another untrusted contributor if the rest of the system around /dev/random were sane.
I vaguely recall Intel or MSR were doing research on something related -- dynamically changing LOD on 3D scenes to give more processing to where the eye is currently focused.
Your understanding is incorrect.
You just generally won't get your datacenter raided except for violating the laws of the country where you host data.

Most nations (US included) try to claim jurisdiction over anything that affects people in their nation.

In practice, your choices end up being:
1. Comply

or some combination of:
2a. Have any local offices (not datacenter) raided and any country-level execs possibly arrested
2b. Having any remote execs arrested if they ever end up in that country.
Balazs Ree
Ah yes, the "Marine Biology Simulation". It looks like the College Board is still using it.

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teache...
That first link is terrible. They should have used a rules engine.
Can't say that I like the association with this that keeps being made by the media that it's 'Elon Musk's dream.' By comparison to how old the core idea is, Musk would be a very late arrival to the scene (but as is regularly pointed out, his idea varies in design / flat out isn't an evacuated tube).
This is standard in Mathias Bynen's dotfiles that can be found here: http://dotfiles.github.io/
Very cool! I will follow @FISACourt on twitter after a suitable amount of time has lapsed so that this account and my twitter account are less likely to be chronologically collated.

Thanks for your public service!
Zimmerman not guilty in Martin's death
Here we go again :-)
Why is this front page? Because he is a celebrity? If Python is the drug of choice, Flask. K? Thx, now get off my news feed.
Cover this new stuff with a balloon and then fill it with helium. Is there any difference to a balloon filled with helium?

I suppose it could keep its shape, which would be a benefit.

When the shape doesn't change there is less wear and tear and tension on the "skin". It could be made of a light, inflexible but strong material, because the shape of "Beyond Helium" unlike with a balloon would not continuously change due to altitude and weather.
Hi Zed,

you nailed the name just right, but a single look at the mascot made me blind for an hour.

And it's already ported to NodeJS, congrats!
I was going to complain this didn't work then I realised my server (Latest Debian stable) only has Vim 7.2 and this requires 7.3. I'm not surprised to find my Mac, which I bought last year, has 7.3 but my server, which I installed last month, has older software.

Does anyone know why Debian seems to move so slowly? Should I change to a different distro?
That's the point! We don't need materials that are lighter than Helium. We we need nano-materials that are strong enough to keep the vacuum in. Thanks ...
20mph is slow even for a bike. That figure was "top assisted speed."
Yes, I really feel like aspen is exactly this, and very well done too. Already has real-world things running on it, like http://gittip.com .
IOS 7: What’s New in Store For Us?
My workaround for this was practicing typing symbols and numbers using a typing program (back when I was a young teen). Now I can type a number like 42385 very nearly as fast as a word like hello.
EE Major?
Pretty much, though it's unclear to me whether this material is even strong enough for that. But make it big and strong enough, and you can make even a lead balloon float.
I had APCS around the time they were winding down C++ and ramping up Java. We had to implement BigInt, among other things, as part of our project (circa 2000). I believe the next years my friends had the fish simulation.
This is awesome. Who would have guessed that ultra-low-latency low-bandwidth perceptual coding of audio would involve neural networks and hidden Markov models? It seems obvious when you put it that way, but I certainly wouldn't have predicted it.
What about the effect of 15nm carbon fibres entering your lungs? Are we setting ourselves up for another asbestos-like scenario? Or is this stuff somehow safer?
This is a smart idea. All the power to you.
Social Media Marketing? Proof the value by dogfooding
Bruce Tognazzini described a similar idea from research at Sun in his book Tog On Software Design from 1995: future computers would have print-quality DPIs, and would blur or scramble areas of the screen that were far enough outside the fovea for privacy.
One thing you don't have in France that I've seen in places like Japan is that people can get home relatively early and actually get a good night's sleep. A seemingly universal trait of offices in Japan is at least one person napping because they just collapse from fatigue and overwork.
Of course, from experience living in India for several years, the problem with "less regulated systems like India's" is simply that aside from basic reactive healthcare of the sort you'd get from your GP, the poor do not have access to healthcare there. While even being able to see a GP when necessary is admittedly slightly better than the US's system, it's still not good enough, from the point of view of someone who can now take NHS Scotland for granted.
Security Enhanced Android - NSA edition
Sugar: The Bitter Truth is movie length but well worth watching.
That's silly. I block it (via the someonewhocares host file) and not it works but makes browsing faster.

Only downside is when i click done actual useful advertising result on gsearch i get a 404 :)
That's wrong (you may mean "in the US", though, I don't know about that). And incredibly stupid.

Of course it is desirable to give the attacker a chance to retreat by firing a warning shot. If he continues and you're in imminent physical danger, you shoot at the legs.

And only if that did not help you go for the torso.

(If there is enough time, if the killing shot is the only one you're ever going to get to fire, then that it is)
Debian does move slowly (that's why it is good for servers; you don't have to update often) but you probably need to update your server. On Debian Wheezy, I have got Vim 7.3.547.
(I don't do PHP) I had the same issue starting with using web APIs in java.

It's understandable though as the early web was essentially serving a filesystem directly (almost ftp).
let's just say the competitive gaming scene in ridiculously smaller than the physical sports scenes.

you have a ridiculously higher chance of going pro in a video game than playing in the NFL, etc.

his point, while perhaps not really the best worded, is correct. there are way more Koreans who are better skilled than western players (called foreigners... even by westerners themselves).

also, as an american, I feel that it's kinda sad that american gamers are in no way able to compete on a large scale against europeans or asians in most big competitive games.

this doesn't include console fps games, since playing an fps game with sticks is like playing hockey with your penis.
Errm, so what is the company's relationship with Musk, other than that they are both interested in high-speed transport? Seems like copy-paste PR journalism, with the company trying to get exposure by piggy-backing of his name. :/

"It's not an evacuated tunnel" is what Musk has constantly said. (twitter link in a comment below)
I wonder how long it'll take College Board to move to a more expressive language like Python or Ruby. The basicness of AP CS (learning loops, recursion, and simple OO) means students don't learn enough about programming for the benefits of Java to be apparent. I knew a lot of classmates who were put off of programming by APCS, not least because of the verbosity and density of Java.
We were talking about exclusives, not hedges.
Yeah, there are probably more cat pictures just in the "If I fits, I sits" category, than dogs altogether
Excellent work. I'm slowly adding entries on PlainSite...

http://www.plainsite.org/courts/index.html?id=223

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2487124