skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point stands though: "not guilty" in the US is not the same as "innocent". Juries in criminal trials do not determine innocence. They determine whether the government was able to prove its claim of guilt. Just because the government couldn't prove its claim doesn't mean the claim was false.

It's moot anyway: this wasn't a criminal case.
Andy, nice seeing you on Hacker News, keep up the great work and send Dane my best.
A previous company I worked at had both a huge selection of wine and a kegerator in the office. I don't think the novelty of having a glass of beer or wine easily accessible at the end of the day ever really wore off, especially since the beer and wine selection constantly rotated.

At least in our case it seemed to be more of a social experience for different groups of the company to relax and talk to each other, as the company was maybe 25% devs, not everyone got to regularly work with others from other departments. Sure we could have all gone out to a bar but most bars nearby were always packed with the afterwork crowd making just walking around talking to each other a huge chore (think near the front of a concert style packed).
If you're looking for a minimalist system, you should totally look into Linux after XP. It's not that hard to do the basics, and the installers really guide you through everything. If you do a lot of writing, browsing and emailing, Linux is just as easy to use as Windows. More advanced things like, say, file permissions, yeah I cannot say that they're easier, but you had to learn how to use that on Windows as well. That's something people often forget since they're already used to it. Anyway, if you need any help (pre or post install), there is contact info on my profile.
Let's not generalize too much. My wife is "Eastern", but only sees her parents on average once a year, because they live on separate continents. And since her dad is not in great shape physically, her count is probably down in the single digits.
The sole interest come from the their own interest. It's a career. A politician has to do something to keep themselves elected. So if they can keep enough supporters alive, they will be re-elected.
> Except that in America people are innocent until proven guilty.

This is a slogan, not a legal statement.
I consider this borderline scammy. Products shouldn't be expected to become unusable right about when the warranty ends.
Actually, I'd say it's in Google's interest to have more users for their browser, and in Microsoft's interest to have users upgrade because of a lack of support.
GP was probably in response to ketralnis' comment. :)
>because of their predictable, reasonable legal systems and regulatory environments...

Isn't there a argument, then, that increasing the number of laws (or pages in any given law) beyond a certain point begins having negative returns on your predictability and reasonability, because of the power-law increase in interactions between laws?
Finally! It's sad that the debt ceiling is a recurring bargaining chip. It just makes us look bad.
That is not a demonstration of what core.logic does.
+1 for coding on a plane. Definitely have had some of my most productive sessions up there.
Just over $0.07 in Manitoba .. which has gone up considerably (likely close to 50%) over the last 5-6 years! We use to have it great until they decided they need to build more dams :(

Oh, and that's a flat rate.
When I made our wedding website, I wrote a short python cgi script to push markdown files through a parser and paste them into a template. Then I wrote a CSS file to make it pretty, and popped that up with a static HTML home page on NearlyFreeSpeech behind CloudFlare. We're talking about 27 lines of python, 62 lines of HTML, and 135 lines of CSS.

My point here isn't that people should do exactly what I did. Rather, my point is that most of a web developer's job is finding the right components and then writing a little bit of code to glue them together. Stop looking for some special system that holds your hand like a toddler through every step of every process, and just write some damned code to do the thing you need done.

I personally don't believe in learning and deploying an entire framework to save less than 250 lines of code.
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No. (And I learned some of the references for this here on Hacker News, and others by personally knowing local researchers on extreme longevity.) Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

An article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why" gives more of the background.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...
I love coding on airplanes. Last time I was on a plane, I was writing some web-something that I can't fully remember anymore, but what I do remember is that I needed MarkDown, but didn't have lib or the api docs. Since Google and Github weren't available, I fired up spotlight, found a random js file in some old folder, and had to use Chrome inspector to navigate the api, and man was it rewarding!

I love it for the challenge. Coding without the internet is not something I do often, but for some reason, at 30,000 feet it's simply therapeutic.
Yeah, it really is an incredible bit of footage. If you can watch the series, though, it makes it so much better, because it really expresses the breakneck pace that these guys were working on. They would go from major milestone to major milestone within weeks or months of each other. I got the sense that they knew very little in the beginning, and basically had ballistic missiles, and they had to become very proficient very quickly to meet their goals.

If you can't see it on Netflix, it looks like it's very cheap on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/When-We-Left-Earth-Missions/dp/B001BEK...
Similar to other comments, my father (68), rides to and from work which is 30km+, then for fun, will also include another 2-3 hour ride after work. My understanding is eventually you get into the zone, 100km is easy work.

If we were talking 90, then I could see why 100km a day might seem hard. However for some, 70 can still be considered youthful.
I'm going to send out good old postcards to my folks every week.
And seriously think about making a living, living close by them.

Somebody made http://pigeonpic.com just for this kind of scattered families.
If you check the source repository, there was activity in July 01, 2013.

https://nimbus.io/dev/source/nimbus.io.git/
True; the main purpose of the Petition/Declaration of Factual Innocence seems to be to seal (and eventually expunge) arrest/prosecution records and legally allow a person to answer "No" to whether they have ever been arrested or charged with a crime, and it applies to arrests even where no charges were ever filed.
I added the article here because that is exactly how I felt after someone forwarded it to me. There was no value in the comments on VentureBeat (and the author was commenting at all there anyway) so I figured there would be some worthwhile discussions here on the topic and potential someone with data to backup Michael if they agreed with him.
It's comments such as this that bubble up to the top of the comment chain that often makes me wonder if only a minority of HN users have deployed to enterprise environments with rigid infrastructure policies.

In my more cynical moods I wonder what percentage of users have non-novelty code in production at all.
Ugh...I hate this type of comment. First, the lame "been done before". Then criticizes the project for being on Kickstarter. Next, references a product that is not even available (and throws in "~5 years ago" to try to really rub in how late this product is). Then admits it's different! Yuck, yuck, yuck.
I agree, but I think people should still maintain politeness even if the interviewer appears to be doing a less-than-awesome job. Even if you already know halfway into the interview that you're not taking any job-offer from them... just go through it 'till the end. If nothing else, it's an experience and maybe you'll pick up more info on how to avoid those companies in the future.
Ask HN: Best Ad Networks for Middle Eastern countries?
Which are the best ad networks to work with if your website has got good traffic in middle eastern countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia etc. ?

Of course besides Google Adsense.
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All I want to do is build a website!

Oh, and it should have a nice menu system for doing things related to the site when on a page.

Oh, and it should respond to the device and browser of the person using it, with the layout and functionality adjusting accordingly.

Oh, and the images should be the appropriate size for that device, because we don't want users on cellular networks to have to download large images.

Oh, and it should display for them in their preferred language. And without having to choose the language from a menu. Don't tell me about this internationali-whatsit and local-whoozits, I said it should display in their language! (God, you developers are annoying.)

Oh, and it should mirror the smoothness of the native applications of the user's device.

Oh, and it should be built on roughly the same technologies which websites have been using for the last 15 years. And I don't want to hear about "HTML is a system for describing documents, not applications" or "CSS is for styling documents, it's not a layout engine".

Yeah, you know, jeez, why is this so hard????? Everyone is stupid and in my way.
'"36V Lithium" battery, but no spec about how many kWh it stores.'

Speculating here…

They look like standard 18650 cells to me - they're readily available in both LiFePO4 and LiPo chemistries, but with 22 cells visible in the pictures, I'm guessing they're LiFePO4 because the nearest configuration to "36V" I can think of for 22 cells is 11S2P LiFePO4 cells at 35.2V, (the LiPo cells in 11S2P would be 40.7V nominal - a 10S LiPo would be "37V", but that doesn't make sense with 22 cells all up - maybe a 10S2P "motive" battery and an independant 2S pack to run the electronics?).

Typical LiFePO4 cells in 18650 size are 1350mAhr, so I'm guessing thats a 2.7Ahr @ 35.2V or a 95Wh - call it a 0.1kWh if you like. That seems a little low to get the indicated range/speeds quoted though - if you assume reasonable efficiency at half power, and that the bulk of power at top speed is aero drag, then the 250W used to ride at 25kmh would drop to doing only 19.5kmh at 125W (power going up with the cube of the speed thanks to the v squared term on the aero drag), so your 90Whr battery will only get you ~15km. If you halve the power again to 65W, and drop to 15kmh, you'd still only get a range of ~21km.

If they're LiPo cells though (with their increased fire risks), you can get inexpensively 2600mAhr cells in 18650 size - 22 of them (ignoring the difficulty in configuring a "36V" pack) gives you a bit over 210Whr - that'd still only give a 32km range @19kmh based on my assumptions above. Cells of 3000mAhr and over are around, they'd give you 244WHr and get maybe 40km @ 19kmh and _perhaps_ 50km @ 15kmh (but that'd take you 3 hours 20 mins)…

The "1000 cycle" battery life perhaps suggests LiPo instead of LiFePO4 (which is more commonly quites as "2000 cycles").

If I had to guess - I'd say it's a ~100Whr LiFePo4 pack at 35.2V, ad that the "50km" range relies on you providing over% of the motive power and travelling at a maximum of half top speed or so.
> "not guilty" in the US is not the same as "innocent"

Yeah, it is. That's exactly what "not guilty" means.

> They determine whether the government was able to prove its claim of guilt.

Right. Because people are presumed innocent. The failure to overcome the burden of proof to rebut a presumption means that the presumption is true. That's what a legal presumption means.

> It's moot anyway: this wasn't a criminal case.

Agreed. In fact, I said that upthread.
I think when people say, "Everyone should learn to code", they are referring to at least understanding the basics of how things work. Coding really helps develop problem solving skills. I don't think they mean everyone should become developers or change their professions. This takes it a little far.
Yes, there are many papers about Ötzi listed on Google Scholar.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%C3%96tzi
6500k, matching daylight.
Well I think the "ninkompoops" invested about $10M in the 60's so they must have thought he had something going on.

I guess it was that era's version of a dog/pony show.
We're not going to get into a functional vs. imperative discussion I hope ;-)

So if Python makes a .pyc file that's not pollution but gcc making an a.out is? How about we create a RAM disk, compile into that, and dispose of it after we're done?

A compiler is a process that takes source code as input. You simply need to draw your circle a little larger.

The reality is that the lines are blurry, definitely more blurry today then they were in 1998 (that paper that was referred to). They are blurrier because computers are faster and with more storage, compile is now more of a continuum with JIT and there are many languages that straddle multiple categories.

I've used C for "scripting", e.g. a "quick and dirty" parse some files and spit out some results and I use Python for "production" style very large applications. C++ has become more expressive and safer but I'm not sure what we get by saying it's a "scripting language".
since litecoin uses scrypt hashing algorithm, which has memory requirement. early asic for litecoin mining is not likely to be as huge a performance jump as asic for bitcoin mining (compared to gpu mining).
so his investment may not be that bad. :)
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Don't oversell what you can offer. It's amazing how perfectly reasonable customers become "problem clients" when you can't deliver what they bought.
I think this is quite the opposite.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/us/business-groups-see-los...

Read the first paragraph. Executives are expressing concerns on their influence over Republican, primarily over the Tea Party. As TP is constantly fighting with the other Republicans, these executives see poor prospect in Republican's re-election.

Take immigration for example. Sure SV excutives have moved a bunch of people to start working on the immigration reform bill early this year, the group is broken. I believe all but one Republican is left in the group of 7 drafting the bill. Which means the bill will not get through neither House nor Senate in the next 6-12 months unless the seven congressmen sit together again.

Surely government is relying on the Internet to spread their agenda and is constantly working with new startup to make government operation "more efficient", but these people, IMHO, don't really make politicians move.

On the other hand, bankers continuously influence economic policy. This is an extremely specialized area (and since Federal Reserve board is made up of bankers around the country).

SV is still not close enough. They shake a President's hand, but that's pretty much it.
Those are all terrible reasons to introduce complex code into the kernel.

Making kernel development easy won't actually make it easy. The thing that makes it hard isn't C.
Electric > Water

Earth & Rock > Electric

Bulbasour its Grass though :p Electric is not very effective against Grass. /endOfPokemonNerdComment
GPS is not that much of a differentiator, and looking at the Kickstarter I don't see much else that is different.

The OP is right. This has been done before, and failed before. What is different about this? How will this succeed where others have failed? The site doesn't seem to address that at all.
I counted 22. I'm suspecting thats either a 35.2V 11S2P LiFePO4 pack with probably under 100Whr, or a 40.7V LiPo pack which could be upwards of 250WHr (and could get ~200Whr quite inexpensively). Another possibility it that it's a 37V 10S2P motive power battery and a 7.2V 2S pack to power the non-motive electronics (microcontroller/gps/bluetooth/…)
IIRC, neither one has an advantage or disadvantage against the other. It'd actually be an even match!

Edit: According to http://pokemondb.net/type , when Grass is attacking Electric, the attack is "normal," 100% of the damage takes. However, when Electric is attacking Grass, the attack is "not very effective," and only 50% of the damage takes.

So Bulbasaur is totally going to win this.
That's quite awesome. Must have been a double shock.
No, "not guilty" is not the same as "innocent", for the same reasons as posted above. "Not guilty" means we can't prove you're guilty of something, "innocent" means we CAN prove you didn't do it.

"Not guilty" is not a claim to absolute knowledge, where as "innocent" is. And that's an important distinction.
yes and no. it's a tremendous amount of work to organize information and build associations between what you ask and what you get, although it certainly has a lot of gaps. it's also a neat way to look at how to combine information.

that said it's within grasp of many of us: natural language interfaces (NLI) and SPARQL databases and endpoints. have a look at this semanticweb q&a:

http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/12747/natural-langu...

some good links in there. basically find your SPARQL endpoints, have a list of synonyms mapped between your inputs (which you parse with NLP tools like weka or the stanford parser, or even python's nltk) and map your query to your ontologie(s) from your endpoints. then try successive answers.

a good, simple interface to play around with that is quepy:

http://quepy.machinalis.com/

a few others exist.

hope that helps. despite challenges in the adoption rates of the semantic web, i think it's the future of information retrieval because it makes sense for us as users and truly organizes information.
Isn't this similar to Windows wanting to rebuild their entire userland on top of .NET?
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The lack of distractions is appealing, but I'm only 5'6" and I find airplanes to be extremely uncomfortable. I can only imagine how bad it is for someone that's average height or taller. I've done work on a plane, but it isn't really an experience that I long to duplicate.
"Lean startup" is often a euphemism for poorly-thought-out designs, long hours and understaffing, poor compensation, and reckless, political firing. I'm sure that's not what Ries intended but the psychopaths ruined "lean startup", I would argue.
Not usable on my android tablet either. Zooming in just makes the left side enlarge to fill the screen.
?? where is my queue, my asynchronous library, my database exception handler, my security check, my cache database, my socket sub/pub.

OMG. HOW THE HELL DO I BUILD A WEBSITE?

Nightmare. Hence why I rather build tool that runs over command line than building an actual website. It is damn hard.
Not sure if these are for UK, but you can check some here - https://www.mashape.com/search?query=print
Yep, I find coding on planes to be pretty productive too, if only for the fact that it's not like you have anything better to do. The only hard part is looking stuff up, like APIs. I find airplanes really useful for code reviews though. I often end up with less code after a flight than before.
The 'debt' is just treasuries. Interest bearing dollars. They get exchanged for non-interest-bearing dollars as they mature, continually rolled over as a backwards facing record of past deficits. It's the deficits that matter; and given that the rest of the world is saving dollars, they are quite necessary to maintain private sector spending.
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Interesting interpretation of that comment. I read it as "30,000 miles is WAY WAY WAY more than the average commuting distance in a year." Not "is equal to". Do you think the average bike commuter lives 50 miles from work?
>1000 cycles of 30 miles is in average way more than an average commuter spends

Even if you rode your 30 miles every day, that's more like 3 years and less like 1. I wouldn't be disappointed if I had to change my battery (which really should be considered a consumable) after nearly 3 years. None of my phones that cost this much or more have done as well. I would like to see a slightly longer warranty on such an expensive thing, but its not completely out there.
A small, light notebook with a good battery for $300 is pushing into impulse buy territory for me, with the condition that it's not an enormous pain to install linux on. I will be watching closely.
Python is 22 years old, Golang is 4 years old. Give it time.
> ... what about the other 30%?

That assumes the other 30% are going to move the needle in anything remotely the same scope and scale as the 70% of things you can't test.
You can compile NetBSD without kernel Lua support.
Literally no reasons for complaint unless this breaks something, which it doesn't.
Except Vista (and consequently 7) did massive reworkings of things that were fundamentally broken or obsolete in XP.

Things as they were in XP are not worth keeping or branching as it is an old outdated OS and fixing it would basically produce Win 7 (or even Vista).
Part of the thrill of reading Hacker News is just that it gives such unexpected fun, out of nowhere. Who knows why, but yes, the posting is from 2006. People used to think that microbes couldn't live in extreme conditions like these guys (Firmicutes - from the Latin for strong) do. They are in the same family as the microbes in animal guts.
Want to know what else is cool about haproxy? The stats unix socket. With it, you can query the existing configuration at whim, and with haproxy 1.4 or greater, you can configure haproxy on the fly.

show stat -1 4\n
disable server xyz\n

What's not so cool? Disabling a server does nothing to kill off existing connections to that server, and idle timeouts can cause problems if your processes are slow to respond.

With care, though, it's a great component of a HA solution, in addition to a being a great load balancer.
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Perhaps replace them with Snowden and let him deal with them?

That's almost as crazy as putting a man in jail for terrorism and then later electing him to be president - without an armed revolution in the interim.
On the flip side, since the network doesn't care where the miners live, for-profit mining will end up happening in countries with an abundance of hard-to-transport cheap renewable energy.
The cheapie Bay Trail convertibles seem like, potentially, the much more awesome--lighter, more touch-tastic and fun--revenge of the netbook. The 'problem,' such as it is, is that lots of the target audience already has tablets or faster small laptops, sort of squeezing the convertibles from either side. That and that Win8 can't seem to catch a break.
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Yeah all those poor mopes on food stamps should just starve to death. What have they ever done for you, right? Fuck everyone except yourself, that's the way to a successful and balanced society!
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Few of the Rethuglicans actually expect the President or the Dems to completely abandon ObamaCare. They would like a few concessions, perhaps merely offering a delay for a year in the individual mandate while the dust settles on the health exchanges, would have been enough. Up until a few days ago, the dems refused to even talk to the rethuglicans about it.
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>> PHP is great for rapid prototyping

A few of the worlds most trafficked websites use PHP is production: wikipedia, facebook, wordpress, and hundreds of other bb forums.
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