skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I imagine he would LOVE to pay $82 per year for that level of extra patrolling. In fact, I'm sure they'd prefer it, because taxation can remove the free-rider problem Kirsh is struggling with, meaning that he'd get more patrolling for less money, all else equal.

The problem is that all isn't equal. Krish no doubt knows, just as you do if you'd think about it, that there is no possibility of paying $82 in taxes to obtain that level of extra patrolling. The local government is dysfunctional, their cost structure bloated, the political process broken. Keep in mind, Oakland has some of the highest local taxes in America; in a very real sense Kirsh is already paying that $82 per household (and more besides) yet not getting the patrolling he wants. What would adding another $82 do? Would it fund 12 hours of patrolling, five days a week? If you know ANYTHING about the cost structure of modern police departments in general, or Oakland in particular, the notion is absurd. The city of Oakland is not capable of providing what Kirsh and his fellows want.

It's like looking at someone buying a second hand Acer laptop $200 off Craigslist, and muttering that you bet he would refuse to pay $300 for new Macbook Retina. He almost certainly would not refuse that, but we'll never know, because that deal is certainly not on offer.
There's a second factor, which is that certain specific fusion designs are heavily over-funded, in a way that doesn't necessarily reflect their practicality. A case in point: NIF isn't even supposed to be the basis for a reactor design. ITER is, but it's still a fair way off and even assuming it lights it'll be 2 more generations before possible industrial application.

The problem is that these approaches can't work without enormous budgets, and while they produce lots and lots of very interesting science, they hoover up talent and funding resources that might be better spent exploring other avenues.
Top Editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer Is Dismissed
me no talk english like muricans cause me being from BC eh?
A guess at ranked practical benefits of this screen:

1. Reduced risk of phone breaking from a drop.

2. Thinness (More room for a battery and other components)

3. Lightness (More leeway for other heavier components)

4. Bendability? (not sure it even makes the list for a mobile phone), though if bended for side displays or around the entire phone.. could be.. interesting, maybe. Jury is out for mobile phone applications - could be really cool for other applications, maybe.

I wonder about differences in efficiency, reflectivity, brightness, viewing angle, resolution, etc, too.
It's normal when you work in a physics or chemistry lab using vacuum chambers.
It is working for a highly Hackernews Distracted person, except I have to write this comment!
That doesn't look completely legal to me either.
> you make a profit of P per user

I believe the point of the quote is that they're making a loss per user
Do you use Entity Framework with LINQ? How does that work out for you?
Well, then the text isn't really "in" the triangle, is it? Leading you to rely on further hacks to make sure the text stays in the triangle with a nice padding, correct wrapping, and all the other features you get when text is really inside a container.
Attention Deficiet Hackernews Disorder
Wow I didn't know that, thanks.
> why should anyone need to give the keys to their instant messaging castle to Google?

Equivalent to cc'ing the NSA.
Some proprietary applications of the gigabit Ethernet PHY use shorter inter-packet times, but those aren't compatible with regular Ethernet switches or NICs.
As I said, if you can't see with a quick grasp, an they are very evident, it is worthless arguing.

You can believe what you want, facts will remain, problem with Digler are not his ridiculous opinions.
Back then there were images for borders and even images for padding. CSS solved that. If you add borders why can't you add triangles as well?

SVG would be awesome if it could be freely intermixed with HTML. I think I'd ditch HTML for everything other than text boxes and forms.
One thing that has always kept oppressive governments in check was their incompetence. While the Snowden revelations make the NSA seem like some all seeing all knowing bunch of geniuses they are probably more like the people at CIA or FBI. Even with tons of resources and a free reign to do things no normal citizen is allowed to do, they simply don't have incentives to put these abilities to best use and certainly won't suffer when their failings are exposed.
TextSecure should release a new version soon that is able to use the device data channel instead of SMS.
Sure. Incorporation and where you do business are two completely different things. It's all legal as long as you comply with regulations of all involved countries.
These are not losses. Losses are, as in Twitter's case, when P is negative.
Yep, it's rather concerning, as nobody knows who they are. They haven't even said why they don't want to be known, as far as I know.
Usually I use a :after or :before for the triangle.

#box { position: relative }
#box:after {position: absolute; top: -10px; left: 45%; ... }
I sure hope so. Whoever does security right has a competitive advantage in my book.
Right, the EQ controls the volume of each of the 10 (each one corresponds to a slider) sounds. (Every sound has been previously decomposed into its frequency components.) The Web Audio API is used for browsers that have it present, else HTML5 audio elements are used. The slider just adjusts the volume of the sound (exponentially of course!), leading to an equalizer effect with no filtering required. (Garnered from looking at the code.)

Interestingly, this could be done using one file (rather than ten) using a Web Audio API filter node. This would limit the site to only Web Audio API compatible browsers. Unfortunately, at this time, that's only newer versions of Chrome, Safari, and I believe FF nightly (slight API variations). However there is some mobile support through recent Chrome and Safari implementations.
Why did you feel the need to comment at all?
then re-releasing it with distribution terms is probably not legal at all.
And if you look at some numbers, you'll get in which industry that wealth transfer happens most:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
the device uses brainwaves as input, and the vibrator is only an output. it doesn't know what kind of pressure you are putting on the vibrator itself, although adding a sensor to do that would be interesting to have as well.
Interesting choice of colors - red signifying that all the unit tests pass :-) (that is usually considered "green")
You never get to make the same joke for users of other distros, though, because it's pretty much always the arch users who feel the need to mention "cool, but I run arch so I'm all set" or whatever. It's the most obnoxious way to not contribute to a discussion at all.
Oh my god. I don't use windows anymore, but I remember this limit of 260 characters from DOS 6.0. I just assumed that they already fixed it long ago.
On the other hand it depends on how you "market" your product. Interestingly WhatsApp doesn't seem to mention their software to be secure on their web page. Yes, it says "Simple. Personal. Real time messaging." People can argue that personal is a guarantee of secure implementation, but there is no claim of extensive security audits or super ciphers.

Maybe it is people's false expectations, that what ever I send with my smartphone is secure.
Not until they implement real end to end encryption, like OTR.
Because JavaScript sucks in a multitude of ways? I don't think anyone with experience developing in a few different languages disputes this, nor do I probably have to namedrop A-list developers who have renounced JavaScript for large systems.

It used to be the only choice for cross-platform web applications, but with cross-compilation emerging as a real alternative that is no longer true, so the sentiment has merit, and it is a proper criticism of a framework that relies entirely on writing everything in JS.
It sounds absolutely ridiculous to pay someone else to do what the police are getting paid to ostensibly do. It also further divides a community between protected and unprotected.

Perhaps someone that knows more about OPD could chime in:

0. Can't slackers be fired?

1. Is there a recruitment problem that constrains 0.?

2. Is leadership failing to motivate and/or inspire morale?

3. How many OPD regular officers live in Oakland? (I would wager it's very high or very low.)

Postscript: I love Oakland, both its gems and its warts. It's hard to find good music in the Bay Area, especially live blues.
"An exabyte is roughly 100,000 times the size of the printed material in the Library of Congress; a zettabyte is 1,000 times larger."

How big is a Mega-Library of Congress? Are people actually able to relate to that measure? (How about instead, say, "one exabyte would store about 5000 short emails for each member of the world's 7 billion population, perhaps more by using compression")
> [...] crowdfund private security services, with the aim of compensating for an understaffed police department in the city with the highest robbery rate in America.

Why?!

Why should security become the responsibility of private people? That's pretty sick.

You are paying taxes to receive this service. But your "representatives" prefer to provide "security" to everybody but their own citizens, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

The solution is to protest and vote!
Try symbolhound instead: http://symbolhound.com/?q=%22%5C%5C%3F%5C%22
I'm with you. Anyone who says CSS is A-OK doesnt understand it fully or doesnt have the imagination for something better to replace it. It's really the most shite language I've ever had to deal with.

That's the thing though, we have to deal with it. I don't get why there isn't just a complete replacement trending on HN every other month. Sure, it needs browser support and it would forgo a lot of the CSS-specific optimizations baked into the browsers but there has to be a more efficient way to handle the DOM.
This is Rockridge. There is a 99% chance this person is Very Liberal(tm), and would be just fine with increased taxation.

There are also extenuating circumstances- OPD is its own worst enemy.
it was voted down, of course.
Perfect URIs
If you're rich, sure, but if you're poor, where do you go? To somewhere else just as bad and less convenient?

America's affordable housing policy is high crime and shit schools. There's nowhere to move to.
I think you are confused about the term "inflation". When there is an inflation, the value of that item/money goes down. Or in other words, you have to pay more to get the same amount of goods. This is clearly not the case with Bitcoins.

What I think you really meant to say was: "increasing in both value and supply". And that would be right.
If you're using a logarithmic scale you shouldn't be using a bar chart, for the exact same reason as above - when you see bars, you naturally compare them on length. If the scale is logarithmic, then the form of the graph is in conflict with the data, and the graph becomes confusing. You should strive for every part of the graph to be in harmony and to repeat the same message.

The following paper on lucidity in scientific communication has been a big influence on my thoughts. Briefly, the author stresses that you should aim for lucid pattern repetition over gratuitious variation, i.e. the repetition of the same idea communicated in similar ways, over variety for the sake of appearing to be superficially interesting.

http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/mcintyre/papers/LHCE/lucidity...
Let's be honest, I'd rather have NSA snoop on what on my texts than a criminal. Both are bad but NSA is at least slightly better.
Thanks, that's quite enlightening. I hadn't considered how much electrification could make things more efficient and thus easier to make more convenient.
Quite cool when you think about it. Each cluster probably represent a different method for solving the problem. Awesome that it's possible to classify the solutions like this. I think this might be usable for better feedback on Coursera. Cool!
Yes, that was exactly my point :)
I have an article in drafts named "Money is Time" about this subject. I've heard the idea of money being used to buy time much more in some circles than others, and I would like to push the idea that it's an option.
No mention of the data format. Is it json, csv what? I know you can always head -n the file but a little hint would be helpful!
What happens in other parts of the code doesn't have the same impact on your code it does in Perl 5, though. In Perl 5 it's very easy to globally change the behaviour of code, while in Perl 6 it's a lot since harder since almost everything is lexically scoped.
Designer: "wow this is cool"

HN reader who's not a designer: "don't like, bleh CSS, should SVG, used to do that in VIM, TIMTOWTDI" and other similar useless rants missing the point.
I asked myself the same question. At first I thought it was some kind of editor using the Stack Overflow Markdown flavor. It's really confusing.
Or irrigation water, for that matter.
Ask HN: How often do you ship code? (And how do you manage to do that?)
Facebook refreshes the site 2 times per day. That's impressive given the product's complexity. How often do you ship code and how do you manage to do that ?
Reading that a second time it does seem that way. At first it seemed to be less flexible and required a degree. Just that the particular discipline was flexible.

Thanks.
I don't exactly see the value in this visualization. Clustering measures and feature analysis would provide far more insight into what's going on here. In fact, it's not even clear how large the dominant clusters are or what all of those speckles mean.
And don't overflow.
The Cost of Free Apps
I just love the LateX support. I was actually just looking for something similar.

Great work, the editor is pretty impressing even without that feature.
I care about them being allowed to express their opinions, but I'm also realistic enough to realize there are venues and times where those opinions should get them beat up. They can create whole movements if they'd like to, I don't care.

How you make your voice heard matters and in this case it was so obviously right for them to get "assaulted". Even more so with the almost too obvious possibility that they went there expecting a bunch of docile homosexuals that were too passive to do anything about their shit and learned the hard way that being a fucking asshole can get you in trouble regardless of where you go.

To reiterate: I don't care what their opinions are but I certainly think it's right in every way except the law for them to get beat up when they express it in that way and in that particular setting/venue.
If you were willing to spend hundreds of dollars, why not hire a lawyer to proxy your application? With a POA the attorney should be able to sign documents on your behalf.
Silent Circle is a good alternative. I work for them, so I can recommend them, but I can't speak for how secure the other products are.

The apps developed by Moxie Marlinspike also seem good to me, I've used RedPhone and it's pretty nice. The texting app sends SMS, though, it doesn't go through the Internet, so it might not be what you're looking for.
The trick is to let nobody snoop on your texts.
I don't know the specifics of shift truancy, it's possible that management is making impossible demands- but OPD has a plummeting budget to work with, and has been flunking out of federal receivership for years. Leadership regularly gets booted for that offense.

Probably ~90% live outside the city: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-high-costs-of-outs...

Detroit passed a fatwa requiring police to live within the city a while back, I'm not sure it solved anything.
> Basically every piece of performance-critical open-source infrastructure (ie. what we can actually all see and evaluate) is written in C or C++. That is empirical data.

Beside the fact that this is an appeal to an irrelevant authority, it is also false.

MongoDB is about as far from being performant as you can be; Riak is not written in C++, but in Erlang; PostgreSQL and MySQL predate Java (and predate Java 1.4 – when it started getting performant – by many years), as do Exim, Postfix, qmail, Sendmail and BIND (don't know about PowerDNS); Microsoft has been an enemy of Java for political reasons.

On the other hand, recent Apache projects are all Java: Tomcat, ZooKeeper and the list is long. Cassandra and Voldemort are Java; Twitter Storm; most benchmarks show Java web-servers (of non-static content) to outperform or match C and C++ servers (http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...).

> It's not hard to write good and high-performance C++ when you have a good set of guidelines like the Google C++ style guide (http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...) and a solid set of core libraries, but without these it's easier to go astray.

This may have been true 5 or 6 years ago. But modern multicore hardware requires a high level of concurrency, and a high level of concurrency requires low contention, and low contention requires non-blocking data structures, and nonblocking data structures require either a GC, or some other method of automatic memory reclamation that's extremely hard to achieve in C++ (or any other language, for that matter). Even C++'s natural way of pointer sharing (reference counting) is a huge contention point and a performance killer. Not to mention the fact that until C++11, C++ didn't even have a memory model (which, BTW, was designed by Java people).

So while it's not too hard to make single-threaded C++ code run a little faster than Java, it's extremely hard to make multithreaded C++ code outperform Java, even for experts (and it was almost impossible prior to C++11).
That doesn't mean that I owe the government for every accomplishment that I've achieved. You seem to subscribe to Obama's "You didn't build it" statement.

I didn't say you owe the government for every accomplishment. But perhaps I have a different perspective, which is hard to convey over a message board, from having traveled and lived in several countries where the government does not enable the infrastructure (legal, financial, etc.) for businesses to thrive that we enjoy in the US.

Unless you believe that Americans are genetically superior Übermensch, you have to give some credit to "the system" for making the success of this economy, relative to most of the world, possible. And your taxes, to the extent that they are wisely spent, support that system and ensure its survival.
But the web is not WYSIWYG, so you're really just editing text in a bespoke 'format' layered on top. Fair enough if that works for you, but it's important to recognise this and understand the drawbacks.
This is one of the things I have been doing and I think it works well (hope it helps)

For every feedback, regardless of how small it is, I replied to the user - thanking them and asking them further questions.

For example, someone sent an email correcting me of a typo on my website. I fixed it and though I could easily NOT reply, I did and asked further questions about the site.

If getting feedback is important, I think responding to them is just as important and I don't mean responses like "thanks for your feedback", but responses that are going to proactively help you to get further feedback.

For me, this approach has had the following implications

- If it's a bug, it has forced me to attend to it immediately however small the bug is. So that I can quickly respond to the user. If you are not even fixing the bug immediately, shouldn't you question your motivation for your startup?

- It gives you an incredible opportunity to build relationship with your users. When I receive feedback from users (my target audience is developers), I usually offer feedback in return since many of them will have projects on their own. And this allows a number of emails to be exchanged.

- If you use Gmail, some of your users will appear with their social media profiles (or tools like Rapportive) - this will start you easily on doing some background survey on what kind of users they are.

- Sometimes I used this approach to ask direct questions - such as "Do you think you'll pay for this service?" or "Could you please write about my site on your blog?". Never hurts to ask (and ask nicely of course).

Hope that helps.
This surprised me so I googled it. Lo and behold [1]:

According to an independent arbitrator last November, the
daily absentee rate for the Oakland police department was
more than 40 percent. [...] Oakland's rate is at least
twice as high as comparable departments.

Michael Rains, attorney for the Oakland Police Officers
Association, did talk to us. He attributes many past
absences to Oakland's high injury rate and current and
future ones to a new 12-hour work schedule.

[1] http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=59864...
JavaScript is my favorite language. I love everything about it.
"I might add..." is a colloquialism; it's something that is said less formally. He meant "you should add..." (or "I might add if I were in your place".) It's a way of saying the same thing, but for non-native speakers it is a bit unusual.
Surely the proper answer is: use TLS!

Then they just have to google to get the latest TLS best practice cipher suite settings etc.

People shouldn't be using crpyto libraries directly; they should just be using TLS to talk client-server, and then its just a configuration problem, not a code problem.

And think how much time they'd have saved too :)
Who do you think will be winning them?
The Lisa had the Application Toolkit, which was a shared library written in Clascal (predecessor to Object Pascal) that had all of the basic behaviors of an application.

Then the Macintosh had its function library, called the Toolbox. That's where a great many people heard the term. (The Mac didn't have a framework, though it did get MacApp later - which was similar in design to the Application Toolkit and originally written in Object Pascal.)
Probably also allows them to more easily detect cheating on coding assignments.
Bitcoin is a deflationary currency, which means it INCREASES in value.

If you don't trust me (or my Finance degree), then google and read the paper of the Bitcoin creator, where he/she/they outlined the economics benefits of Bitcoin. Sorry, can't link to the paper myself.
Show me a million people or seven billion people. Will I be able to tell how many they are? I doubt it. These numbers are meaningless because we never see a million of something.
This is good!
I have been using stackoverflow's wmd which I host on heroku: http://wmd.heroku.com
You don't have absolute property rights.

I am not a lawyer, but I believe that lawyers spend lots of time discussing who has "an interest" in whatever issue. In any given case there can be multiple competing "rights" and "interests." Your property rights are only one among those. Property rights do not trump all other rights and interests. (I'm sure I'm not using the precise terminology, but you get the idea.)

Here's one link: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Balancing+of+C...
I wasn't speaking about the tech, especially the recent one which I find to be pretty nice (well, some of it at least). My point was about perception of MS tools in the larger tech community. At some point you get tired of fighting this fight, and in the context of a startup this can hurt you, or so I think.

Sure, I'd wish the tech community was less prone to those useless battles, Well, unless it's about bashing Java-the-language, of course :p
Well, Google doesn’t show one ad per SERP, it shows over a dozen. Also, ‘a search’ could be one search results page or several.
I agree partially. For most people there is no need to see web as any particular format or markup.