skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The harm of terrorism or the harm of our irrational response to terrorism?

Obviously 9/11 didn't start the Iraq War, President Bush did. He may have done that in a state of belief that the two were connected, but we should not repeat his mistake.

It seems odd to me to lump in how much we poured into terrorism over and above the direct damages, and not to lump in with car accidents how much money we pour into auto safety, road maintenance, and so on.

The general point is that we over-respond to trauma, both in our daily lives and a macro society level. Clean living is more important and has broader effects on your life than crime, but it is less sexy on the evening news. Just like car safety and terrorism.
I don't follow. The notion put forward was "hey people who like haskell, stop improving haskell and start adding visual studio support or else $BIGCORP won't use haskell". Nobody cares if $BIGCORP uses haskell, they are free to cripple themselves if they want. If $BIGCORP actually seriously wanted to use haskell, they could afford to pay someone to add visual studio support for haskell.
"He's better than Stalin."

Well, if that isn't the best damned endorsement in history!
>In the sixties, people were able to build interactive systems with virtually no delay.

That did virtually nothing. It is easy to be fast when you do nothing.

>I know learning a new language takes time, but if you know only 2 languages and one paradigm, either you're pathetic, or your teachers are.
X86 still dominates the desktop.

Wow, so CS is all about what hardware you buy and what languages you program in? I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on what CS is. While programming languages are part of CS, what language you chose to write an app in really is not.
Adding a staging environment to your Jekyll blog, with Wercker
Especially since expertise is usually one of the first things bought with donated money.
The world's most useless infographics
I am the total opposite. Seeing the result as I write feels just annoyingly distracting. The unpredictability of the jump to the next line is what I dislike the most.

Obviously I do look at the final formatting and possibly tweak it, just not at the same time I edit the text.

Obvious disclaimer: I do not think that this is "better", I'm just providing a different data point.
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Google Glass: Autocorrect For Your Life?
I'm not imagined, I am real. I know you were restating the analogy, the problem is that the analogy is wrong. I can't find anything about APL that a haskell developer would find new or interesting or frightening or anything like that.
"What Is ‘Seinfeld’ Worth?" - IP assets added to GDP
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The numbers I gave were the cost of damage alone, not the response.
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>This.

Go back to 4chan, kid.
http://caniuse.com/#search=websockets

Looks like iPhone does but the Android browser doesn't. You may want to use a library that provides fallbacks like http://socket.io which works fine on mobile (I'm using it on my new app at http://head2.me )
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Both SIMD and VLIW are techniques that only work on programs with a good amount of statically accessible instruction level parallelism, but VLIW is much more general since it can be used in cases where you know in advance that you want to be executing a number of instructions in parallel, rather than one instruction multiple times. The programs that can be sped up by SIMD are a subset of the programs that can be sped up by VLIW, are a subset of the programs that can be sped up by OoO engines. Of course, SIMD has a big advantage in instruction bandwidth vs VLIW, and if you're already going OoO the SIMD instructions only use up a minimum of the OoO engine's resources. Combining VLIW and OoO, on the other hand, is very difficult to do.
This reminds me of how ECL (Embedded Common Lisp) loads lisp modules; it translates them to C, compiles them to PIC with a C compiler, and dynamically loads the resulting .o file.
HN is being used for astroturfing according to PG.
Interesting section on illegal Chinese copies.

http://solowheel.com/about-illegal-solowheel-copies/
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The figures I gave were the direct damages, from wikipedia.
Why do you assume it is a bad idea? People are still clicking on the links, right?
The biggest problem with GIFs would be the colorspace: GIFs are usually limited to 256 colors. Color quantization from a JPEG to GIF would kill the photo.

The whole "living image" sounds nice. If it was possible to create a format, say "AJPEG", out of it, it would be awesome.
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Any cellphone can be traced by its digital fingerprint
Well that's one of the benefits of visualizing code... You get to see just how much of a spaghetti mess you've got. It can be a good motivator to start organizing your code better.
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Most people couldn't stand on one foot? Really? Am I that out of touch with reality?

Not even being snarky.
Show HN: Find your friends with realtime (but temporary) location sharing
He's always had computer access and did a Q/A on The Guardian a while ago. He probably tries to keep his profile low altogether.
I thought it was pretty poor reporting for the article not to mention that what Toyota donated was industrial engineering expertise.

In college we called the guys in the IE program "imaginary engineers" but in real life the discipline is responsible for making assembly lines and other manufacturing processes work as efficiently as possible. All modern manufacturers of any scale live and die by their IE departments.
It's clear that for backup the author means, backup for disaster-recovery purposes. There is no other reason to backup a git repository, and the previous "Don't Panic" section covers recovering from git fumbles. The mailing list thread he links to in the Backup section details a traditional off-site rsync backup.
I don't know, but I would suspect it's still the case, because doing anything else would require a lot of analysis of the code's behavior. In order to safely merge all those definitions into one, the engine would have to know:

* That the function in question never accesses anything in its closure that could be different for each construction

* That hasOwnProperty() is never called on the object to check which way the method is declared (alternatively, remember that it had done this optimization, and spoof the return value)

* That the function is never used as a constructor. Otherwise, Person could update sayHi's prototype and wind up changing its effects for all Persons, where it was supposed to create a customized inner class.

And if you think any of these are easy, remember that you can get a pointer to that function via the following:

var a = 'say', b = 'hi'
var sayHi = (new Person)[a + b]
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That's basically what I've done with [trofaf][0]. 3 subdirectories:

posts/

public/

templates/

Posts without valid YAML front matter are ignored (drafts, for example), and the few options available are on the command line, no config file. I run it with upstart and it watches the posts/ and templates/ directories for changes, rebuilds as needed. Pretty much the simplest still-useful static site generator I could think of. Fits my needs anyway.

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Redirecting stdout of a process to a web page using websockets
This Computer Program Turns Famous Writers Into Anonymous Hacks
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To elaborate on what knz42 said, C expects addressable memory but doesn't say anything about registers at all. In fact, the existence of registers is sort of vaguely awkward from the perspective of C's model of computing.
The story behind the BBC Mobile Accessibility Guidelines
Notice that the bogeyman of "terrorism" is coming up just as the drug war is winding down (Cali legalized medical MJ in 1996, and this year Colo & Wash legalized it completely for recreational use).

The powers-that-be need an everpresent bogeyman to keep us in control.
It is because deaths due to terrorism are wrongful deaths while most others are not.

In 2011, 9,878 people died in drunk driving crashes - one every 53 minutes. Is that not considered wrongful death in your mind? That's twice as many people in one year dying from wrongful death than terrorism has killed in 148 years. If we were treating this wrongful death as seriously as we did terrorism, we'd require breathalyzer starters on every single car. Hell, we'd probably bring back prohibition.

Source: http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/about/drunk-driving-statis...

Your lazy fake criticism of the statistics justifiably ignored.
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Kids playing with a new toy: Fun with a Chromecast
Yes, this was a really well written book that told the story of how Harrison, a carpenter, accomplished what even Newton thought to be impossible.
Google ignores periods in email addresses
Why do they call this the greenest solution? What's different than other electrically driven vehicles?
After doing a quick google search of zuvikomx I'm pretty sure the company's located in Mexico City, Mexico.
Also, some of them are not actually WFH, e.g. this one requires relocation to Portland: https://www.wfh.io/jobs/16/
Of course, at one time corporations paid enough in taxes to fund social security programs that meant people didn't need to go to soup kitchens to get a meal.
Hmm can anyone match the cost of the "donation" to typical monetary donations for similar causes?

Because deploying engineers is not cheap too. Toyota provided more bang for the buck that is for sure, but were they in the red or black compared to just writing a check?
I'm curious about why a discussion about this question does not seem to be possible. Because everybody seems to be fairly exited about and interested in the revelations themselves.

- Is the above question not relevant to you?

- Is it not worth being discussed on HN?

- Is the entertainment value too low?

- Do you think there are no insights to be gained?

- Is this what you would call a "political post" and therefor to be ignored?

- Would you say that it's not your job to think about this question?

- Do you simply see no solutions?
There is no any anti-gay law in Russia, only law prohibiting gay propagand to underage persons.
Well he did post the email and now WAY more people have heard about this thing they are doing. He better get his $500.
IOS vs Android, Great Balls of Fire
BBC Mobile Accessibility Guidelines
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Efficiency experts coming in to a situation they know nothing about and suggesting things can be done better? That sounds awfully familiar. I'm glad it worked out here, but it's often a recipe for disaster.

Edit: Wow, guess there is a lot of love for efficiency experts.
Sorry, what? Survival of whom, exactly?
I'm pretty stringent about that -- if you click the employer's job link, you'll see:

"We'll work with you wherever you are (in the US) or help you relocate to Portland, OR."
I just added the tutorial to explain how the app works. Feedback very much appreciated!
If it wasn't for Snowden the general population of the US would never be even having a discussion about widespread national spying on everyone.

They could bury previous whistleblowers and Manning but Snowden has finally made people sit up and realize while the TSA is groping your genitals at the airport, the NSA is groping everything else about your life at that same intimacy.

The sad part is, in 100 years nothing will have changed, it will just be hidden better and whistleblowers seized before they can get to the press.
In 2005, mobile web meant WAP.
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Soooooooo... Anyone know anything about SSAC?