skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major terrorist attacks are extremely rare in America. They were rare before 9/11 and they have been rare since. Deer hits, on the other hand, are common and cause extensive damage to vehicles and injuries to drivers.

Also, there is a war on deer, but we prefer to call it "hunting." Hunting regulations are designed to cull the deer population, particularly in areas where natural predators were killed off by humans long ago. Hunting regulations balance the need to keep the deer population down with the need to not drive deer into extinction. It might make sense to bump up the number of kills allowed per hunter per season or to make the seasons longer if automobile hits are a serious enough problem (there are still more deer now in many eastern states than there were when the colonies were first established).
>A shame they didn't have the forsight to demand that all Vita games should be completable solely with the buttons.

Why do you think so? What VITA game is not playable without touch/motion controls? Uncharted you mentioned is perfectly playable without either, I know because I played it.

There had been an issue with the OS that did not support buttons in the system dialogs but it's been fixed in one of the first updates more than a year ago.
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Does Windows 8 help the government to spy on us? Hell yes.
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Metaphysical God is metaphysical.
> but Joshua Stewart figured out that just by incrementing the number to 5 or 6

Wait what, people still do this and admit to it?
Not sure. Of the four recent crashes that come to mind, two involved landing or takeoff (sfo crash, ny plane that landed in Hudson). Casualties were minimal. The other two (French flight from brazil, upstate ny crash) basically fell out of the sky mid flight. Everybody died.
This looks good. I don't have my left hand from birth and did try a prosthetic hand in the nineties. Then i found them to heavy and 'stupid' to use. This is something I definitely would like to try.
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> According to the above quotes it seems he does indeed want a relationship with a real person, but he just wants that person to be submissive and totally devoted to his whims; in other words, the perfect slave. The problem here isn't the dolls. He's entitled to own them and enjoy their presence. But he's not entitled to compare them to real persons or claim that they are more than objects.

He could be very happy as a Muslim.
I'm 47, been using computers since high school, and find flat a disaster. I'm in Firefox right now. The forward/back buttons take slightly different shades of gray depending on whether they are currently disabled or not. I endlessly find myself speculatively clicking on them to see if they work or not. Sure, somebody will respond that the difference is clear to them, but that does not obviate my data point.

Further, I often find myself completely unable to discern which tab is for the page I'm on. If you use chrome, the tab in the foreground lays on top of the other tabs, so it is clearer. Firefox - a slightly different shade again.

Are there more tabs than are visible? Again, this is denoted by a slightly different shade of gray. This probably works great for 20 somethings with great eyesight. It is very problematic if your eyesight or monitor is not so good, if your windows color settings are not the norm, and so on.

As for cars, they are shaped this way because of wind tunnel data. Data and utility matter, design is not just all about fashion.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving#Decid...

Important to note Gödel's completeness theorem here!

You might be even more interested in Prolog, a language which has a close relationship with this stuff: "Prolog has its roots in first-order logic, a formal logic, and unlike many other programming languages, Prolog is declarative: the program logic is expressed in terms of relations, represented as facts and rules. A computation is initiated by running a query over these relations." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog)

This is why everyone should take an AI class.
Setting up a limited company isn't that hard, and only costs a few hundred quid. Get something like FreeAgent and the book-keeping is fairly straightforward as well. You'll also need an accountant.

If you apply for a contract role, you can wait until you get accepted before creating your company etc. You can typically turn that round much faster than the typical company's contractor onboarding process (i.e. less than a week).

I started contracting about 4 years ago after 15 years as a permie and I love it. Greater variety of roles, much better money, no crap like appraisals or objectives etc etc.
I've long wanted thermostat control on my windows, so they could read the outdoor temperature and decide whether to use AC or just open the windows.

The software part seems manageable, but I've been intimidated by the hardware component.
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Now what would be really interesting is some form of comparison between this proof and the conjecture by Brian Greene (and others) that it is highly likely that we are all bit players in a massive computer simulation of a Universe...
I agree, the sound quality difference in an Audiophile setup will be phenomenal between a USB source and a HDMI Source for the same lossless track played. Thumbs up for HDMI.
Redis Pub/Sub is /not/ persistent. You can go the resque / sidekiq route and use a List and do blocking pops. But you have to make sure you have some persistence in place that you feel comfortable with (maybe a master / slave setup, with master handling all real queue load, and the slave doing AOF for recoverability).
For giving context for those who don't follow him on twitter?
By insisting to be there you're only asking for it. You enforce the high-demand/bad-attitude relation. Find another place for business development, job-creating, and tax pay. One that might actually be grateful and respectful for what you do.
You're not a "PHP programmer" unless that's the only thing you know, and if that's the case, you're cheating yourself.

Be a "programmer". Learn other languages. It makes you a better programmer in general.
Agree re: 'keeping tech in its place' in life.

I've got an interesting solution (described a bit in my hn profile). I work a few months in the states with clients each year, do a bit more work remote, but slightly over the majority of each year I'm not working, and instead I live in my house in Pacific-coast south america. When I do work remote, it's mostly via screen and emacs over a 10k/s connection with occasional 20-minute commutes for videoconferencing/screen-sharing (although that's changing now that a neighbor and I have gone halves on a microwave setup).

I've been doing this for the past 7 years, and I love it. Each year, I'm excited twice: about flying back down to South America/seeing my friends again/glassy, heavy, warm-water surf ... and about going back to 'civilization'/seeing family/coffee/morning scrums/open-plan offices/Aeron chairs/slaying giants.

This year I split my workload between being remote 2 months and in the states about the same, and it's been a blast.
Pardon my presumptuousness in answering for someone else. But, it seems that by talking about apatheism, it was suggested that one should not waste time with such inquiries, as they give little to no value.

However, a different view on this, is that it's an exercise in logic. That whether god exists or not, is irrelevant to the actual discussion.

tl;dr: It could seem as the top post was "I don't care about this, because I don't care about religion. I'm an apathist.", which was met with "this can still be valuable, and interesting, from an intellectual point of view".
Actually, not quite - it uses UIWebView, which doesn't have some of Mobile Safari's JavaScript improvements, so no matter how hard it tries it won't quite be able to keep up.
Nope.

Your statement is completely illogical... I get the point that you're trying to make but I think you phrased it quite poorly. Unless of course you literally mean that god(s) physically exist simply because the concept of "gods" helped shape our society... In which case, elves and dwarves must also exist, fairies and dragons as well; after all, the effects of those can be felt in the lives of individuals, although to a much lesser degree.

>But if you can experience the effects of something it is very likely that it does in fact exist.

Once of the most ridiculous things I have read in recent history.
:) yes big monitors are good! and more comfortable for sure... but I can't really lug them with me thru the airports in Moscow...and I don't want to buy one here and leave it to rot while Im gone... already have too much stuff in storages.
Those stats reveal that the majority of fatal crashes only involved a single vehicle. Also, they don't specify which vehicle the occupants were in. You can totally control who you allow to drive you.
From the post he links to:

>> the loss last week of a planned follow-on investment leaves us little time to secure an alternate source of capital
This is the only correct answer in this subthread.

"Modern" is a look, not a time.
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A suggestion.

1. Create a separate, limited funds checking account explicitly for bill paying and the like. Replenish it periodically, as needed, but use it to keep larger balances out of reach.

2. Set up automatic payments against the limited funds account.

A significant one-time effort, but lower-bandwidth afterwards.

Alternatively, simply hire a part-time bookkeeper and/or accountant. Of course, this is also bandwidth-intensive, up front, and also demands attention to combat potential fraud.
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> As for questions of religious proof, existence, and so on... I'll get to them when I'm done with more important issues, which is basically everything else.

But some of the prevailing religions of our time tell us that one's eternal fate depends on the answers to such questions. To say that such questions aren't important implies you've already decided such religions aren't true; because if any of them were true, that would be important.
This feels like shameless exploitation of hunger and poverty, a step above Howard Stern giving out shopping carts to homeless people. I'm sure the best part for Groupon is getting to say, sorry hungry people! No more cheap onions for you!
:? Im sorry to hear that you think everyone and everything is being raided by the NSA and that my Amazon clusters are null and void...and that my 5yr old Macbook is a bad price/performance ratio for the job...I'll call you when I need to configure my next machine to be sure I get the best advice.. tanks.
Google APIs client library [1]

Supports [2] various Google services (AdSense, Analytics, Calendar, YouTube etc etc)

[1]: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/

[2]: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/refe...
But in retrospect, is it possible you would have made "better" (however you may define that) decisions if you had time to think about the decisions rather than making them instantly?

Also, a lot of people delay important decision-making when they lack time - or simply never make a much-needed decision at all, thus staying trapped, financially, professionally, personally. . .
? The US kills millions of deer every year.
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I use LibreOffice to create the invoice, a directory on my computer to keep my local copy, email to send it, and my bank's website to check whether it's been paid. It doesn't have to be any harder than that.

Though I rarely send more than one invoice per month. If you send a lot, I can imagine some specialized software may pay off. For me, however, that would be overkill.
What might be a typical yearly income for someone who did this? Assuming they last a year of course...

Is there a "standard" salary that a VC might expect someone to pay themselves?
It doesn't make me want try their tablet browsing experience when they screw up the UI on my desktop.
Another year, another awesome release.

Thank you so much, PostgreSQL team!

As always, there's one feature that makes me want to upgrade immediately. This time it's the NO KEY UPDATE lock mode which will greatly improve the performance of our main application during its lengthy importer runs.

Using pg_upgrade, switching major releases has become something comparably simple to do over the last years, though after last years issues in 9.2.0 (some IN() queries didn't return the correct results), I'm inclined to wait for 9.3.1 this time around.
Perhaps you should have studied more? It definitely has meaning, and actually quite trivial at that.
Yes, well put, thank you for answering for me.
Good on you! No sarcasm. Good on you for wanting a great job while still supporting a family. It's a tough balancing act.
Their screenshots are of twitter.
It's worthwhile to note that Chrome (on iOS) uses its own network stack; I suspect Coast just uses the entire stock web stack (this is from having worked at Opera until recently — it shouldn't be that hard to verify through testing for presence of known bugs).
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I probably can't justify a part-time accountant, but I'd love to pay someone say $500/month to come in, pay my household bills, make sure my car is registered, etc.
His point is that something doesn't need to literally exist in physical world for it have a real impact on reality.

Of course, the bigger point is that everything boils down to what you mean by "exist." The predominant opinion of today is strongly biased toward physical sciences, so if it doesn't exist in flesh and bone it's meaningless. Which is strange coming from a site catering to software engineers.
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I am not sure but I think you are trying to say:

We should not forget that professionals have a lot more advantages than the working poor.

Comparing them in this way is useful, but may hide the serious problems and lack of opportunity that the working poor suffer: professionals inflict this problem on themselves where the working poor have limited choices.
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I didn't say physically exist, I said exist. Two different concepts.

Yes I do mean to say that gods exist simply because the concept of gods exists. Because that's all that they are - concepts/ideas.

You see the problem is, unless you accept that is enough for gods to exist, then you must also deny the existence of things like justice, law, copyright, mathematics, software, et cetera. Otherwise your belief system isn't even consistent with itself.
The logic goes like this: You can't sue, because the actions aren't being taken against you. They're being taken against companies. Therefore the companies must sue.
If I were single I'd go longer. But married w/ kid - anything more than ~12 hours ultimately cuts into time with my family at both ends of the trip.
Theoretically the best way to scaling a startup, but unless you are YC funded and Techcrunch AND NYT and other similar hyped, dont expect any success with this. You have to bring a critical mass to the table, 0 -2million improbable but more likely can we say 30k-5,000,000 is very possible
now that is interesting.
Very few poor people work 60 hour work weeks. Many of them would love to work 60 hour weeks but are stuck working 31 hour weeks. They'd love to grab two 31 hour jobs, but of course they don't know their hours until just before they work them so it's impossible to actually work 2 part time jobs.

The reason they have reduced cognitive bandwidth is because their mind is occupied worrying about money instead of relaxing during down time.

And for many poor people, those 31 hour jobs are jobs that should be mentally relaxing. To a rich person, sweeping the floor is a job that lets you zone out and rest your brain. But if you're stressed about something, it just gives your mind more time to dwell on it.
If New York is better than ever—and it is It is—why does it kind of suck?
It's currently 2013 in case you didn't know :)
I feel like moving with the military, or going to an American school in a foreign country is less problematic than other situations. Starting at a new High School in Norfolk VA is different from starting at a new High School in St Louis. Going to college where you don't know anyone is not a problem because everyone else is in the same boat. Military brats and expat kids are much more receptive to new friends than their typical peers. If the new school has plenty of them, the experience is likely not so bad.
I was counting all the server OSes too, and still haven't looked at Windows 8, only Windows 7, which had ~5 consumer versions in both 32/64, the K and N versions, etc. I kind of like this because I get a few keys for each with MSDN from BizSpark, and thus never run out of licenses when I install new VMs.
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What programming language do you plan to use for the reference implementation?
Didn't see an email in your profile so thought I'd reply here. I'd love to get some advice about travel in Europe and travel to Japan. I'm living in Austria and want to see this place while I have unrestricted travel =D
I think they do. There are always people on higher rungs of the socio-economic ladder looking down at those on the lower runs and marveling about why they can't pull themselves up. Sometimes they are looking at people only one rung below.

I think rich people also marvel at the failure of the middle-class to not go to the right schools, make the right connections, marry into the right families, not take "full advantage of the tax code" (e.g., for Americans - bank offshore).
I personally find all the decisions I have to make outside of work exhausting. I loved having a cafeteria at work because I had like a handful of lunch choices instead of the frankly crippling array of choices available in midtown manhattan.
Horrible name - please change it. People are going to have no idea how to pronounce that. Just because you were able to get a 5 character .com domain name doesn't mean you should use it for your new venture.
"If you fork a repository on Github, clone the repository with the ssh link. Otherwise, you will have to authenticate with Github each time you push a branch."

That's false. The credentials are cached after the first time you type them in, provided you are using a new enough version of Git ( >= 1.8.3 I believe).
Retroshare has a PGP web of trust, too, but I suppose it's not the most user friendly.

It seems they've just released a web interface for it:

https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/retroshares-...
"If we assume the purpose of a WoT is to unambiguously and unimpeachably map public keys to human beings"

Why would we assume that? I can think of a few other use-cases:

* I want to verify the PGP keys used to sign packages in some GNU/Linux distribution

* I want to verify the keys used by anonymous remailers (or at least a PGP key used to sign a mixmaster / mixminion pub key)

* I want to verify the PGP key used by a business to sign official messages (such businesses do exist, as I found out a few months back)

It is also wrong to think that the purpose of the web-of-trust is to unambiguously or unimpeachably map public keys to anything. The web-of-trust is a heuristic that makes a particular kind of impersonation more difficult, so that PGP is more convenient to use. If you need something unambiguous you need to manually verify keys (which most people do anyway).
> error messages which make sense to developers & end users.

Giving this sort of detail direct to users is generally a bad idea for two reasons:

1. It can scare the living bejesus out of some of them.

2. You are handing out knowledge of your applications inner workings. If you have an unfound injection route a malicious entity might be able to use of your error messages to either find the injection flaw and/or find things to do with it once found.

This sort of detail should be logged of course, but give the users a simple code to report to you when reporting the problem ("please quote issue XY0009 when contacting support about this issue") and record the detail against that for your reference.
However, as each religion contradicts the others and there's no way of telling which one, if any, are "correct", the only sensible stance is, "meh".
Ah but its hardly the only "attach to a TV to play games" device out there. You have an extremely narrow window between "don't care / angry birds is good enough" and "Must have major title XYZ or its worthless". So you're J6P with your $700 TV and $150/month cable subscription and there's a $100 device thats not nearly as good as a mere $300 xbox, err...

Back in the industrial era there was this car called the Edsel which tried to wedge itself into a ecological niche too small for it to fit in, and it became a legend. Not a good legend BTW.
My convention is usually to clone from the upstream project, thus it winds up being "origin", and then adding my own repository as another remote, named after my username. If there are any other users whose repositories I'm following, I add theirs as other remotes named after their usernames as well, remaining consistent.

That way, when I pull from origin, I'm pulling from whatever the official origin repository is; when I pull from another named repo, it's named after whose repo it is.

It's also frequently the case that I've cloned from upstream before ever forking the repo on GitHub. It's only once I have any changes I need to make that I create a fork and add my own remote.
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> like all browsers on iOS, this is just a UI skin and added functionality over the Mobile Safari core

Not true, for example Opera Mini[1], perhaps others. I wouldn't jump to conclusions that fast.

1. http://www.opera.com/mobile/iphone
Around where I live if there were not enough deer killed in the regular hunting season, the DNR will open a late season to bring the numbers in line with conservation figures. Deer population conservation is a highly regulated and very important activity since there are so many humans living in areas where deer congregate, and we have been incredibly effective in wiping out their natural predators.
Using rebase relative to HEAD can be tricky, and as others have mentioned, force pushing a branch is not usually a good idea.

When you are ready to submit a pull request, instead of rebasing the branch you have already pushed to origin, create a new branch called your_branch_name-final (I usually call the original branch -wip for for work in progress). Then, before pushing this branch to origin, run git rebase -i upstream/master.
>Doctors in many places have been lugging laptops and crappy Windows XP tablets around for a while now. The push to electronic health records will drive mobile adoption even more.

Sure, and a lot have iPads. But it's still quite peripheral to what the do 90% of the time -- and they could do the same almost as well on their laptop already.
Nice to hear. Syndicate Wars was a lot of fun. I have no interest in FPS games, except maybe Portal, so good to hear they are staying true to the format.
You mis-interpreted my statement :)

> you can't address [the existence of God] scientifically

Maybe one day science and philosophy will meld to the point where this might be possible in a peer reviewed in the Nature journal kind-of possible way, God cannot be addressed by the current scientific method.

What's valuable about Paul Graham's line-of-thinking is that he can distinguish between science and religion - something that very few can do (and is likely going to make this HN post explode into a pointless evolution vs. creation argument - which is missing the point of the experiment entirely).
I run an open source airplay server on my raspberry. It doesn't do everything that you listed and is without android support, but it makes it amazingly simple to stream music from the phone and computer.