skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The issue is, speeding fines are in place so that cops can stop you and make the motorway safer.

Not really. They exist as a revenue source for the police department. This is why people routinely drive 10-15 mph over the speed limit and yet don't get pulled over - except when the police need additional revenue.

>>In any case, I don't think there would be a way to monitor your speed to any kind of accuracy from a moving object.

It doesn't have to be 100% accurate. There's a certain margin after which the small inaccuracy that results from measuring speed of moving object A from moving object B becomes inconsequential. If the police vehicle is driving at 65mph (the limit) and you're 10mph faster, that means you're over the speed limit.
I've had Glass for over three months now. I agree-- I love that Glass's display is out of the way. That being said, if GlassUp gave me on to try out I would happily. I'm excited about the future of wearable computing.
My differential equations professor had a 98% passing rate for that class over a 20-year span. He was an ex-Bell Labs and later Lockheed employee though, so he actually knew the material and how to teach.
It's not what they're doing yet, the current bill is specific to one person.
Or better yet, OwnCloud which IS open source and can replace gmail (contacts and calendars) too.
Previewing BLOB columns in JackDB
Funny I hit a paywall when I clicked through this link...
Not currently, but we are expanding to other devices. Our priorities will depend on demand, but OSX makes a lot of sense to us :-)
> The bigger issue here is that people look to governments and religions for pardons, permission and other validation.

This statement is vague about how many people are looking to governments and religions and how many people you think should be looking to governments and religions. It wouldn't be reasonable to expect nobody to be looking to them, as there are millions of people and thus there are going to be varied interests. There are also some people who I expect to be looking to them, and those are people who are currently, or were formerly, actively involved with a religion or a government.

> If worried about my status as defined by the U.S. government and the fairness I can expect from U.S. government, I would just kill myself now.

Pure hyperbole.

You bring up an interesting topic, but I think the issue needs to be framed differently.
The computer got overloaded because of crew error.
I don't dispute the claim that there are very competent cashiers all over the place. I just seem to be particularly lucky in finding their counterparts whose greatest usefulness is in flattening the curve.

Also, isn't it a little risky letting someone copy your credit card like that? Even if you trust the cashier not to steal the number, how do you know whether they're destroying the information after they're done with it?
All bills require multiple hearings and debates in both houses of Parliament. Why should this bill be any different?
Flexible identity systems: all played out?
> The problem arises that the legality of marriage was designed around traditional families.

This premise is debatable, but assuming it is true it's still not a particularly strong argument. The law was designed to be flexible and evolve with society's needs and desires.

Allowing gay marriage is a minor adjustment of what we in the US currently understand marriage to be - not a "changing of the very definition". If we were talking about polygamy that would be a much stronger case.

Society encourages and allows marriages for a variety of reasons - involving tradition, encouraging general stability, families, etc. It also has a certain understanding of marriage - a partnership between two people. Homosexual marriage vis a vis heterosexual marriage is the same in all these respects in practical terms.

To be clear, there are difference in say how gay couples reproduce (in general)...but there are differences in how heterosexual marriages reproduce too. The supposed fundamental "differences" in gay couples are already tolerated (or entirely unproblematic) in the hetero population so banning gay marriages as a means to discourage them is not a valid argument. It's an artificial distinction.

Let's be honest - opposition to gay marriage is based on religion, ignorance, or personal aesthetics. Hey, that's fine - we're all entitled to our beliefs ...but let's be explicit and honest about it instead of kidding ourselves and each other.

If you really do want to stick to this farce, then at least be consistent and start demanding people must pass fertility and mental health exams before they can be married - to prove that they can produce children and raise them in a healthy environment.
Dull razor blades?
What race is the President of the United States?
Religion. Fashion ex Louis chairs. Language ex regional accents and new words / phrases. Manners and other social protocalls. Operating systems, social networks, and computer languages.
I would not believe that the central server has all of the shared secrets. One possible solution is to hash the shared secret and send it to the central server. When someone wants to connect, just hash the key given and send it to the central server. You would get back a list of peers and then connect to them using encryption. The only problem is possible brute forcing of hashes. There are probably other ways of doing it.
This is amazing! I was contemplating getting SpaceMonkey / Plug , but looks like I can build my own thing that will work well enough and cost much less.
Still waiting for the "Prenda Law" moment in patent court.
I have twice as many decades of living as you do, and my certainty has only continued to decline, for all the reasons you mentioned.
I'd think that Apple would prevent someone using a beta OS from ranking apps. Their disclaimer says to run it on equipment dedicated for testing. That would preclude everyday apps, and the need to leave ratings.
Is backupsy any good. I'm really interested in setting something like this up.
It's $3.99 up front, and then $4.99 every year after as shown on the AppStore page: https://itunes.apple.com/app/narrato-journal/id668158681/
I've tried to replace Dropbox with BT Sync few weeks ago. It didn't work up to my expectations.

I write code on several computers and I use Dropbox to keep the files in sync so that I am able to quickly resume working when switching computers. I've never had any kind of sync problems with Dropbox.

I tried doing the same with BT Sync. The biggest problem I had was that sometimes it didn't sync all files. Say I had a directory with 10 files and 3 computers in the BT Sync "network". It was not unusual that 8 files got synced between all computers but 2 of the files would never get synced to one of the computers. Then at a later time, randomly, it would resume sync-ing. After having this problem 3 or 4 times I went back to using Dropbox and never looked back.
> Human races are not a matter of belief....

Oh. Then please provide the list asked for, and while you're at it, list the genes and loci you use to classify members of a "race".

I mean, if human "races" are not a matter of belief but are a matter of science, that should be really easy for you and the parent commenter.

Right?
On the other hand:

The Sentinelese people (of the article) are not the only indigenous people around there, they are just on the most distant island.

On nearby larger islands there live e.g. the Jarawa [1] and Onge [2] people and some others [3].

The Jawara inhabit jungle areas of a larger island, that has also for already very long time been settled by Indian farmers. The Jarawa used to stay in the jungle, and there were occasional violent encounter and conflicts. But in 1997 the Jarawa started to make peaceful visits to nearby villages, wanting food and gifts.

The farmers see the Jarawa as a nuisance. They don't want to escalate violence, but they also don't want the Jarawa to learn that they could walk in people's homes and steal whatever they want.

Apparently [4,5] the Jarawa and Onge languages are not very well studied, either.

So, whatever anthropological, cultural and humanitarian interest anyone might have toward the un-contacted people on the North Sentinel island, they could first direct their interest and charity toward these other nearby tribes who have already had some contact with civilization for last decades or centuries, but are apparently not faring very well at the moment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_people_%28Andaman_Island...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onge_people

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands#Indigenous_Anda...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_language_%28Andaman_Isla...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onge_language
This is typical though. You don't really expect "Holy cow! Something is screwed up!!" from Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, Dell, Ford, etc, do you? Sassy/cute messages like that are the domain of Github and Twitter.
Procedural error, really. The crew followed their instructions, the instructions were just wrong.

In any case, my point is that a somewhat more powerful computer would have tolerated this problem while the real one did not.
How do you know I'm not right? Do you provide any evidence? Also what is your obsession with calling me a bigot, when I'm open to dialogue. You are the one who is glad that I'm a "dying breed", so I would say you're the bigot. Also, if you want to talk about literally being a dying breed, I would think homosexuals who do not have children fit that definition better. Also, I'm 19 years old. Much how there was a reactionary swing to the left in the 1960/70's, there could very well be a reactionary swing back to the right that is emerging. (I'm using the archaic "left/right" metaphors just for sake of argument)
Perhaps the driver is not ready?
I was talking about the pranksters that made the signs...
Does OwnCloud run well on Raspberry Pi?
A lot of the infant mortality in the 3rd world is due to infectious disease or conditions like diarrhea. These are diseases common in crowded unsanitary places accompanied by poor nutrition.

It would be mistaken, therefore, to assume that the same conditions would prevail in isolated places like North Sentinel Island, where the people are apparently well nourished. So the infant mortality rate there may be above the best found elsewhere, but it is probably lower than many other places.
Well a really interesting thing is that the channels approach helped me "discover" the queue approach that you are mentioning. As I worked on the channel examples I kept seeing the equivalent Js patterns that would make a more functional approach possible.

The decoupled queue approach seems to be rare in practice and obviously superior. Wish I had thought about it long ago. I just followed the examples available to me.

I really believe the channel approach lifts this notion (values on queues) to the forefront with the addition of blocking sequential semantics.

Yeah my examples were a bit simplified, but I did try to make the DOM state a function of the application state. There will be more examples coming in the near future :)
Well actually, from a recovery point of view, you get some options. You can mount the image as a block device and perform operations on it. Say the image was corrupted, you could always try to mount the specific partition and run a fsck utility on it.
Oddly enough, the forums went down sometime after the dev center. I was able to access them yesterday, and there were no posts on the issue. At the time, I figured that a new beta might be going up or that it was a short outage.
Those who want equal rights under the law should just “kill themselves now”? Wow. To borrow your own phrase, the proper response to that is “fuck off.”
Simon, did you adopt the idea from http://geoguessr.com/ ? I came across that game a few months ago and couldn't reach the developer, but I'll share with you my comments at the time:

Love geoguessr! Thank you for making it, I am officially addicted.

I think there are lots of interesting things one could do with the gameplay and data. I would classify it as a Game with a Purpose[1], and I wonder if you have considered using the data you gather to answer some interesting questions:

1) Can we re-map the world according to the similarity measure measured by your game rather than the geographic measure? If so, what does the map look like?

2) How much additional information do you get by exploring? (What is the relationship between distance explored and subgame score?) Is there a way to add this as a feature of the game, i.e. require players to "invest" points to explore a larger area?

3) What are the salient features of a landscape that place it geographically? Language on stores/signs, architecture, landscape geography, prominent flora/fauna, type of cars/roads. Can we identify and classify these features?

Having built a few games with a purpose before (e.g. Wikiwarp [2]), I would love to help if I can. I would be happy to contribute to development to get access to your very interesting data!

Thanks, and best of luck!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_with_a_purpose
[2] https://github.com/nsrivast/wikiwarp
More like a knife with a blade as a handle.
I never felt it was a good idea to integrate context/memory, persistent store and networking into a single library. I've gotten burned with that.

The whole concept of integrating business objects with some RESTful API that is supposedly going to be soooo perfect that everything just works is funny, you're always going to run into trouble and wish things were separated so it would be easier to work with the API.
Anyone have an Xcode 5 dmg?
Browse HN and edit in Vim most of the time.
It is variable depth - the main ranks also have ranks between them, with some denoted by super- and sub- prefixes to the major categories, and others of unnamed rank defined only by its position between two adjacent levels.

The NCBI's taxonomy browser is good for exploring the various lineages, e.g. here is the data for humans: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode...
Wow, that looks a lot easier than I thought it would be.
I think the underlying point is that while humans have an extremely strong (and undeniably useful) urge to classify things into clean groups, not everything lends itself to being so classified. The human urge to classify things is what makes possible paradox like the sorites paradox.
Yes, you're in great company there, with well-respected allies like Iran, Uganda and Afghanistan. Congratulations.
what RPi kit do i need to buy to make this work? Do I need the complete starter kit, will that block the usb?

edit: here's what i purchased:

[1] CanaKit Raspberry Pi (512 MB) Complete Starter Kit (Raspberry Pi 512 MB + Black Case + Micro USB Power Supply + Original Preloaded SD Card + HDMI Cable)

[2] Edimax EW-7811Un 150 Mbps Wireless 11n Nano Size USB Adapter with EZmax Setup Wizard

[3] SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB Flash Drive (SDCZ33-032G-B35)

[4] Preloaded SD Card for Raspberry Pi (16GB, Raspbian "wheezy")

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DLUXD64/ref=oh_details_o...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MTTJOY/ref=oh_details_o...
[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00812F7O8/ref=oh_details_o...
[4] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AYH22VY/ref=oh_details_o...
If you can't provide a basic list of races, and a repeatable procedure for determining which race(s) a given individual belongs to, then I don't see how you can claim this has anything to do with science.
> My understanding is that upgrading to Hangouts still
> disables the old XMPP support.

Sort of; the web interface will connect to either Hangouts or XMPP, but not both at once. XMPP continues to work fine for non-web clients, such as Pidgin.
No, actually it isn't. A chroot environment to run Sublime and a few other GNOME applications is not the opposite of "just works." You're going to have to do a hell of a lot more configuration in OS X than in Chrome OS if you want to run X applications.
Algorithms shouldn't be patented;
UI components/metaphors shouldn't be patented;
Anything potentially leading to monopolism shouldn't be patented;
Monopolists should get their patents revoked.

This is my opinion.
> The problem arises that the legality of marriage was designed around traditional families.

The current legalities around marriage are mostly based directly on the idea that a marriage is a special bilateral promise of mutual support, and not much on other features of "traditional" families.

They've also changed a lot over the two centuries to remove most of the vestigious of the older model of the wife being legally subordinate to the husband. Marriage legalities, and the underlying model of the relationship in marriage on which they are based, aren't the product of some long-static "traditional" model that had been undisturbed for an extended period of time before the same-sex marriage debate.

> There's nothing that stops homosexuals from fulfilling their emotional, romantic, and other needs.

Actually, not having access to the legal rights involved in marriage does prevent that.

> But when you involved tax deductions because children are such an expensive commitment, it gets hairy.

The tax deductions on that premise require you to have children that you are responsible, they aren't an automatic consequence of marriage. So I don't see how they are relevant. The situation in which marriage has tax benefits is if, as part of a couple's arrangement of mutual support, one focuses more on work outside of the house (which is taxable) supported by the other taking on a heavier load of the domestic duties, since married couples pay lower taxes than two individuals when there is a significant disparity of income.

So I'm not sure how your statement above has anything to do with marriage. It seems to have something to do with not wanting people to get tax deductions or credits that come with raising children without actually raising children, which is sensible but completely irrelevant.

> I do support civil unions

Given your statement above about the "legality of marriage" and that "civil unions" as opposed to "domestic partnership" is usually the term given for providing the legalities of marriage under a different name, why?

> (but not gay adoption)

Why? Is it that you prefer children to have less chance of having permanent families and spend more time in foster homes? Or just because you dislike homosexuals?

> and I am tolerant of gays (I discuss these issues with friends who are gay)

And I'm sure they appreciate your magnanimity in deigning to discuss with them the reasons why you think they should receive unequal treatment under the law.

> but to change the very definition of marriage goes too far - and ends up confusing everyone.

"The very definition of marriage" has been pretty much continuously changing throughout all of history. Its not all that confusing, and, to the extent it is, your desire to avoid dealing with the confusion of changing social institutions isn't a reason other people ought to suffer discrimination.
This is an art project by Stephen Whisler; there are pictures of him installing them here: http://stephenwhisler.net/Sculpture/Pages/Speed_Enforced_by_...
The 16,000 alive can apply for pardon, but it's most likely not automatic, I guess their case must be reviewed.

The government didn't want to allow pardon to the dead because they said that in some cases they couldn't know that these homosexual acts were consensual and not under age. The Lord presenting the bill is advocating for rehabilitation of the dead if there is enough evidence available, and he hopes the Turing bill (which will pardon only Alan Turing) is a first step towards allowing pardon for the 59,000 convicted who are now dead.
I wonder if there is a market for "usability screen recording" software, which records simultaneously from both the screen and a webcam, and lets you play back the two streams in a split-screen format.
Finally someone has chimed in on this. I've been trying to update my provisioning profile since yesterday.
TCP ex Machina: Computer-generated congestion control from the authors of Mosh
I like Django, I work with Django a lot and currently I am developing another product with Django.

The only problem is that Django do not play very well with Non-relational databases, and Django has too many things for a small project.
The Rise Of The Niche Social Network
I'm still not sure what the argument is that you're making, or who you are accusing, and of what. Minute details tend only to be relevant in niche fields. Isn't the study of minute details what makes them niche fields? When you compute the area of a circle, though you may only use a few digits of pi, surely you can appreciate how those that need to precisely calculate the area of a circle might use more digits than you do. The fact that pi is irrational, that neither of you are using the "real" value of pi, doesn't make what either of you are doing "bullshit" though.
That's conviction for two separate acts, which is a different thing than, say, acts which are homosexual and also forcible or pedophillic or something. Note that I most explicitly don't mean to imply that these attributes are any more common of homosexual behavior than heterosexual, just that they can be attributes of the same act, and may even have been punished under the same statute.
Does anyone else think that it's hard to teach fractions because fractions are hard?

The tenor of these conversations is always about how difficult it is to teach fractions, with an implicit judgement that this is bad because fractions should be easy.

The thing is, you construct fractions by generating the equivalence class of ordered pairs (Z_1, Z_2) where Z_2 =/= 0. I actually find elementary set theory easier to grasp than the formal construction of arithmetic over the rational numbers.

A lot of people would respond that we don't teach children the formal construction -- fine, but a lot of the behavior of the rationals comes from that formal construction.

I recall a class in my freshman year of college that required differential equations to do system analysis. The only problem was -- differential equations was next quarter. I think the rote algorithm they gave us to calculate simple differential equations was one of the most frustrating experiences of my academic career. I tend to think that if you teach students things as though they can't understand it, you'll often find that they can't understand it.
Show HN: SessionFlow - js-only co-browsing & chat (free)
So far I would say Newegg takes the cake - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corp...
Agreed. This particular "pardon", if he gets it, is coming 61 years too late. The fact that he saved his country's ass ought to have counted for more than this. The whole case is a definition of ingratitude.
Possibly a brief spike in civic participation in the local government process, lasting for exactly as long as required to yank automated enforcement tools back out of local cops' hands.
> if you're developing an antibiotic...

Beautiful examples in theory, but blown out of the water in practice.

In the current age of bioinformatics, practical modern antivirals and antibacterials are not being identified, not at all[0].

As such, I find it awkward and outdated to claim that novel drug discovery is a great testament to phylogenetics and bioinformatics.

Can anyone offer a practical example of how bioinformatics has genuinely been (pref. statistically) useful in successful drug discovery? I would also be interested in evidence that existing antibioitics could have been discovered more effectively, using new methods ab initio.

[0] e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095086/ "the success rate of discovery has gone down"
Someone should print this out and make you read it out loud when you reach adulthood.
The argument would be that he wasn't wrongly convicted.

By modern standards it's obviously a stupid, unjust and immoral law that he was convicted under; but if he was correctly found guilty under the laws of the time, then it was a sound conviction.