skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'If you don’t love San Francisco like those of us who love it do, there’s a simple solution; don’t live here.'

Does this girl hear herself talk? The pretentiousness of that makes me want to gag.
Read this story, then come and tell me if you still want nuclear plants in your country (or even in other countries). This is scary.
A word of warning: the name 'Kal' will be funny to russian-speaking devs. In case you care.
Judging by the interior photos of the craft at least part of it was powered up. Probably just an APU but still, it's not entirely trashed.
Leaving empty seats is much worse than null voting. It doesn't accomplish anything more, as in either case your vote doesn't go to a real, voting politician. It surely wastes more money as the corresponding parliamentary stipends are given to - I guess - the party for doing nothing. Surely doing nothing has a much better price point at "free".
Django: serving hashed static files with Nginx
Top 100 Agile Books (Edition 2013) - The Creative Networker
Thanks so much for posting that video link, the best thing I've seen on YouTube this month!
You wouldn't predict it but if you assume decent code/data locality, which isn't an odd assumption in this case, the Mill's concept of scope and execution is close to a hardware implementation of Lisp's apply.

FYI; I'm at the limits of my understanding here, so if you're a compiler or CPU architect and you doubt what I'm saying here is true then you're probably right ;)
I think that what this could achieve is stating the importance of the issues to the main political parties. Most "mainstream" political parties that I've seen will change their positions on things if they think it will get them more votes.

So what would this achieve. Well having a "privacy reform" party candidate on all the ballots would draw attention to the problem, in that voters would see the name and potentially hear about the platform. Also getting on the ballots would be likely to draw some mainstream media attention (heck the Monster raving loony party gets attention in the UK when it's on the ballot at by-elections)

Then if the party actually gets a decent number of votes, it may persuade mainstream parties to change their positions. My feeling is that at the moment none of them think it's that important a topic, so aren't formulating policies on the topic.

Personally I think it's a good idea to try and do something about this now, as once the idea that PRISM etc are fine and accepted gets embedded into culture, the next steps are likely to follow (e.g. what the US seems to be seeing with DEA and other law enforcement areas getting access to data). How long would it be before your local police are trawling your smartphone GPS data to see if you were speeding...)
> How do we construct soundscapes that blend into the background like natural sounds do?

wetter reverbs, in particular the late reflections are pretty strong with far-away background noises. maybe even stronger than the original sound itself (though I'm not sure if that makes physical sense, it's easy to do with a regular reverb effect, and really muffles the sound into background)

also something with the stereo image.

if funds allow, ask a professional sound mastering studio, maybe? there's people that might know just the tricks.

oh and if you want to place the sound in the room, bury in the other ambient sounds, tell the users they really need somewhat decent speakers, not plastic desktop speakers and definitely not headphones (even if they're really good headphones).
I'm not a Brit but how can a country be run by corporations if the government is telling them what to do? Whether through judicial orders on what to filter, legislation on how to filter even more, and extraditions at the request of US federal government.

There is a legitimate concern about regulatory capture, about large entities having an unfair advantage... However, whenever I see the whole "OMG CORPORATOCRACY" shtick nowadays I just think that the author has seen one too many scifi movie from the 80s about how we will be ruled by some Japanese Omni MegaCorp and it has forever tainted his world view.

And then there's the signalling. UKIP is, of course, racist. The Pirate Party has a silly name. "What would my peers and colleagues think? We need a party that would make me, a constituent, look good to my friends!"

On the other hand, moral preening as a primary political concern surely is a first world thing. So that's a good illustration.

Not to mention that this article is yet another political manifesto with tenuous connection to technology at best.
Great comment, thanks.

I imagine this is blocked from being appearing higher up on the page by the parent not having more votes than the parent's siblings.

(Do votes for a child have an effect on the parent's sort order? A workaround would be to vote the parent up when voting for the child, but you shouldn't have to do that...)
The vast majority of new treatments fail in Phase 2 - that is, in showing effectiveness in a human model. A huge chunk of the remainder fail in phase 3.

People whine about how slow the pace of research is, but that's not because clinical trials are so slow - it's because most drugs fail. The vast majority of drugs that work in animal models get bounced in Phase 1 (when they show unacceptable toxicity in humans so great it can't be dosed) or Phase 2 (where it just shows no effectiveness in humans at all - not even some level of effectiveness that fails in cost/benefit analysis). this is the problem with people complaining "But every delay kills people!"

No. You don't know going in whether it's going to work - that's why you're doing a trial. And from a naive position, the probability is pretty clear that it's very unlikely it's going to work. There's absolutely no reason to think any particular drug is worthwhile, and every to worry about its side-effects. With a sample size of 12, this one may yet became a last-ditch drug with toxicities worse than chem/rad. We don't know yet. Using this is an example of over-cautiousness is ridiculous.

Additionally, the slowest part here wasn't the clinical science - it was the basic science. Gene therapy has been a failure for decades, and we've been repeatedly going at it to try and get it to work. It's not as though this is the first clinical trial for a gene therapy: it's just one of the first to be worth anything.
Given the size of these ‘planes’, they could possibly even act as train ferries! Imagine your standard high-speed train going into a plane to get from, say, Rome to Barcelona (or Bari to Athens or Warnemünde to Helsinki…).

I’ll stop hallucinating now.
Ask HN: Can a freelancer 'work' in US without a visa?
Hello,

recently I've switched to freelance and got many interesting projects from US. The problem is all companies wants me to be there at least for regular face checks and coffee meetings.

I'm based on Europe and planning to move to US. Can I go there without a working visa and work like beeing in Europe?

I'll meet my clients out of office and we will sign regular freelance contracts as we did before.

Is this legal?
Good post. I became very interested in mechanical watches
a few years ago.
All self-hosted GPL compilers have this 'problem'...

The output of the compiler under the GPL can be licensed however you like.
I'm not an expert, but simply removing the sidebar dramatically improves readability. Other than that, it looks very feature rich for a 'simple' spatial database extender.
I just moved to NJ myself and you can find very nice places for 1200 or so. You will probably find that 1000$ a month for living expenses is very low. I would raise that to 1500 a month.

Regarding your green card, are you a Chinese citizen? If so, be prepared to wait a very long time. Citizens of India, China, Mexico and the Philippines are artificially restricted in how many green cards are handed out a year- took me 7 years although now I think it's more like 5. Also iirc, citizens of these four countries are not eligible for the green card lottery.
I still want nuclear power plants in my country.

I would be happy to live within 10 miles of a new nuclear power plant.
This link now has 200 comments. 49 of them are pure, vitriolic negativity of the sort I expect to see when my local small-town newspaper posts an online story about first-year students getting drunk. Apparently it was flagged off the front page. Get the fuck over yourselves. If it hurts so much to read a story about a life crisis, you should probably take a few steps back and examine your own life.
Now, a variation on that where I could designate a room in my (tiny) house where people could come and just take stuff would be good. Do people ever do this while still living? Perhaps moving away?
I too took longer than necessary to get the joke but when I did it was quite funny. Made me chuckle out loud. Like, for real...
Actually, did you ever think about writing a book on
mechanical watches? There's a need for a modern book.
Most of the material out there is from the 50's.
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He's inviting people to harass himself by being an extortionist, not by having his cell phone number online. Feel free to call me and I'll explain!
The Hyperloop - Not just SF to LA
You're correct. He had no other choice to gain recognition. He reported twice moreover.
"Worst part of selling your stuff: getting rid of our books."

The actual mechanics is easy, OXFAM. Its the choosing I find hard. I cleared a couple of single shelves (out of 34!) and ended up re-reading about 5 books.
I still haven't realised this is a joke. As in, have yet to find it funny...
"They have sacrificed their health and remaining life to have a large house to hold it all rather than take a bungalow which they can actually get around and live in."

Having had similar experiences recently, that may not just be the things. It may be the memories of children, life &c, coupled with a reluctance to face the loss of independence.
>> Firstly, no idea how you can conclude he hacked an account. A bit strong of language there?

>This is like... the textbook definition of a hack.

Perhaps of "hacking FB", but he didn't "hack an account".

I don't see what the problems are for FB here. They have a moral obligation to reward him for reporting this bug, especially since their ToS are apparently not available in Arabic. Claiming that he showed any sort of malicious/inappropriate behavior is a really bad tactic to save some money when they clearly handled this very badly from the start, while his intentions were obviously good.

All they are achieving by reacting this way (including the apologets) is that next time, such people will just sell their exploits on the blackhat market.
No. An MP is elected from each constituancy always.

There have been times when a party ran on a particular platform, enough MPs got elected so they decided not to sit in the House of Commons and set up their own Parliament, and managed to successfully break away.
A quick question what kind of IDE do you use when developing?

Couple things about the sites, you might be - as you said - good with HTML and CSS, but you don't have very good design sense. The pages you've linked don't look visually appealing, at least to me.

Also you say on your page that your websites are "coded to W3C XHTML strict guidelines.", but noelvock.com uses HTML5 doctype (as everything should imo) and wildhives nets almost 30 validation errors.

It's a good start and at least you are putting yourself out there, but these would be the things you'd get burned for from my experience.
Actually you are infusing the economy with much needed demand and liquidity this way. And inflation.

It is mostly a number game - you have to keep the basic income:

1. Fair - everybody gets the same sum no matter of employment status.
2. Really basic - it should be enough for food and utility bills but not rent.

Employment is complex topic. I go crazy if I stay without work for more than a few weeks. People like to work - case in point - almost every person has hobby that he is very passionate about. They don't like being forced into it.
Not using the word cure is superstitious claptrap.

If I get cancer I want a cure. If anybody in my family gets cancer I want them cured.

This wariness of using the word cure is just because of the idiots in this world. People who can't understand percentages and possibilities. People who believe that anecdotes prove a point.

HN doesn't have to conform to that silliness.
So in essense it dosen't, not more than any other language atleast.

It originaly compiles from coffescript.

It's a point of view thing.
It's one of the best elisps I've planted in the past few weeks. The other one was dired-efap.el, which eases your filename editing in dired buffers.
Giving money directly to the poor (as in rural Kenya poor) seems to work pretty well actually. There's little overhead, which is great, and with no strict limits it doesn't stop people from doing something sensible just because theres some contract/other complications ("oh sorry, this grant doesn't cover buying a roof"). It turns out that the people seem to use the money productively.

Givedirectly [0] are a charity that do this, and they do randomised trials and conduct follow up interviews.

Maybe it's a difference in money. Give someone just enough money to make their life slightly less awful for a bit (e.g. enough for a drink, not enough to get somewhere to live) and it's probably not going to help much. Give someone enough to actually make a difference and they probably will. GiveDirectly finds that people get things like tin roofs, invest in their businesses, pay for education and medicine.

A couple of quotes from their page

> Cash transfers benefit children. Many studies find positive effects on the health of children - for example, large increases in height-for-age and weight-for-height in South Africa, large reductions in HIV infection rates and psychological distress in Malawi, and large reductions in the incidence of low birth weight in Uruguay (2,15,16,17,18,19,20,25,26,27,29). Several studies also find that unconditional cash transfers substantially increase schooling and decrease child labor. (21,22,23)

and

> Cash transfers have long-term impacts. Recipients often save or invest a large proportions of the transfers they receive, generating increases in future income. (1,2,3,4,5,6) One study found that men's annual income five years after receiving transfers had increased by 64%-96% of the grant amount. (24)

The references are on the linked page.

[0] http://www.givedirectly.org/evidence.php
Most "mainstream" political parties that I've seen will change their positions on things if they think it will get them more votes.

Yep, this has happened before. 25 years ago the Conservative party brought in a law banning the "promotion of homosexuality in schools", now they are legalising same sex marriage.
Because karma whoring.
I am from India, and our parties do not give a shit for the ideals engraved in our constitution. Like the ones in most(all?) other countries, they have transformed from leveraging a shitty status quo to enforcing a shittier status quo.

Back to your post. What I understand is, you want to show to the existing parties that a sizable population wants something the parties are not offering, and hope that they will notice. And you yourself cannot support any of the existing parties because you disagree with several of their policies. Won't your proposed party face a similar problem? It probably will be less of a problem because the degree of disagreement on issues won't be so big, because the kind of people you will gather think similarly of most issues, have a similar (modern, liberal?) morality.

But I think you have to relay the implicit message of your post explicitly. LETS STOP BEING FUCKING LAZY.
Free Software is not synonymous with GPL. GPL is a specific kind of free software with copyleft provisions which guarantee that users (can) get the source. The post you're responding to seems to argue not just for the role of free software, but for that of GPL specifically.
They will pay for reporting of the bug. What's with the apparently intentionally inaccurate description of his actions? All he did was post to someone's wall, that's hardly "invading someone's account".
That's just horrible.
Fantastic story, good to hear about people who decide to tackle the hardest problems. One step closer to understanding and defeating cancer.
That was, as you said, utterly fascinating. It's amazing to see mathematical problems being solved with mechanical solutions. To think the leaps it took to translate these problems to digital solutions (e.g. what was [technically] an infinite set of inputs now recorded as a 32-bit floating point representation).
The only way of leaving seats empty is to win them and refuse to take them up. E.g. Sinn Fein regularly gets MP's, but their MP's refuse to take an oath of loyalty to the queen out of principle, and so they can't take up their seats (though they can now use their House of Commons offices and get financial support for their office; previously that too required an oath of loyalty).
It's nuts to give to any 501C3 without looking at the
free preview at Guidestar. I give to the guy's on the
street without strings attached. Someday--that just
might be you, or me?
If I was this guy, I would rather say screw it than trying to get attention by posting to Mark's wall. Given the recent cases in the USA (e.g. he used wget!!!), Facebook could give a massive slap and sue him. And probably win.
To all the commenters that think Facebook should pay this guy: he became "the guy who hacked Mark Zuckerberg ON Facebook" overnight. I guess that this will probably open some doors for him, and if not, he's still become famous. :)

Maybe Mark should just hire the guy to replace the initial bug responder.
As the OP suggested...

Private browsing, as well as connecting through Tor, and the tracking didn't work.

My text is lost on refresh.

Thanks for reminding me.
I've had some good feedback about the Wild Hives site with regards design, but hey, preferences like that are largely subjective.

My portfolio site definitely needs some updating and with regards the validation errors, I could fix them, but its low in my list of things to do.

The ide I use is Dreamweaver. I'm also familiar with Photoshop and Fireworks.

Thanks for the feedback, its very welcome and hoping for further suggestions..
Yes, but this has to be built into the experiment, or at least considered in the statistical analysis. You cannot just stop something when it's statistically significant.

You have to be extremely careful about this, otherwise you can end up with much worse significance than simple analysis would suggest (and then that kills people).
Legally speaking, I believe it is not cloudy; it is still illegal because you have bought a copy of the movie, but you do not have the copyright of it so don't have the right to copy it (as the name suggests!).

Morally, I think most people probably feel that it is cloudy and in such a case often justifiable, but that has little bearing on the legal situation.
I'm so tired of memes. Most of them look stupid to me now, and I bet that articles that are written with that style now and are read in five to ten years (for the articles that are still relevant in that time), they are going to look weird and dorky.
Also https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt
The thing is, the owners of the private prisons want to get richer and invest serious money so their cells are kept as full as possible:

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/

See "2.) Private Prisons Corporations"

Lobbying is legalized corruption, in most cases.

It's obvious that we need to get rid of it if we want to fix the country.
Interesting.

But still seems to miss all the human elements in the equation. What about if someone is seriously sick can they be evacuated in a reasonable manner ? Likewise what about the inevitable "I need to use the toilet" scenario ?
Why do think they'd do nothing? Do you think Sinn Fein does "nothing" with the money it receives for it's Westminster MP's?

It's certainly possible for it to be a total waste, but in Sinn Fein's case, for example, whether or not you agree with their goals, it is a very clear principled stand: They don't believe Northern Ireland is rightfully part of the UK, nor that the queen is their rightful head of state, so they can't in good conscience give an oath of loyalty to the queen.

Voters who vote for them know full well that this will the outcome, yet they still vote for them because it accomplishes something to these voters: It (now) gives funds to Sinn Fein and it keeps sending a signal that a substantial number of people in these constituencies see British rule as unjust.

Surely there can be any number of other causes where the signal effect can be preferred by voters who otherwise don't see sufficient difference between the major parties to believe it makes a difference which one of them gets their policy through.

The reality anyway is that in the vast majority of votes in the Commons, the small parties votes have no bearing on the outcome at all because the first past the post system means the big parties has such a disproportionate portion of the seats, so most votes for parties outside the big three are still totally "wasted" by similar logic.
Of course it's a joke (April fool's at that). But it would be quite possible using cameras and screens underfoot... :-)
The grandparent poster used China-USA war as an example; nowhere did he said he was afraid of China invasion.
> Not using the word cure is superstitious claptrap.

Not using the word cure is the rational response to the fact that there is no cure for cancer -- there is only remission.

> If I get cancer I want a cure. If anybody in my family gets cancer I want them cured.

You just changed the subject. Wanting a cure, and having a cure, are obviously different topics.

> This wariness of using the word cure is just because of the idiots in this world.

So scientists, and medical ethicists, are idiots. Good for you -- I prefer it when a person reveals his ignorance without beating around the bush.

> People who believe that anecdotes prove a point.

It is you who are relying on anecdotes. Scientists evaluate evidence, and the evidence says there is no cure. Anyone who claims otherwise is deluding himself.
CDs are the low-hanging fruit. Digitize them. All it requires is about three hours per linear shelf foot of ripping... or half an hour of queuing up illegal downloads.
Cheat: interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
> I'm based on Europe and planning to move to US. Can I go there without a working visa and work like beeing in Europe?

No, but there is plenty of encouragement for technically skilled foreign workers here. Getting a work visa should not be a difficult issue.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1271.html
If by "working" you mean "bullying" and "strong arming" and "threatening" and "blackmailing" people. It doesn't take a lot of energy to bullying somebody into putting trojan horses into their encrypted email service, and threatening to arrest them if they shut down their company. What kind of dirt do you think they have on Obama and Pelosi and the rest of the Senate and House of Representatives, to make them so cooperative? More like "Work illegally, not smarter."
He has cherry picked some lines from the report, and ignored the 'confirmed fixed' date, and the follow-up visits.

So, while true, it is a bit misleading.