skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction#Univers...

In general, these are laws against things like war crimes. The UK (Brit here) also extends some child protection, fraud and bribery laws to cover acts worldwide, the former intended to be used to prosecute sex tourists who are unlikely to be prosecuted where they committed the offences.

I'm unsure whether any of these laws have actually specifically protected you, but the reason for their introduction is to afford people in other countries similar protection from UK-based criminals to the protections people enjoy in the UK.
Your premise and your conclusion is entirely unconnected by any form of logic.

The point of the post you reply to is that art can be created even when it is not possible or meaningful to do it as a live performance. Performers do not have a monopoly on creating art. In fact, sometimes performers are props that are or have been necessary due to the lack of technology.
I wonder if you can really reach a worthy conclusion. Because life is so messy, it seems hard to control for the thousands of other factors that could affect what you measure.
This is one of those articles where you really wish the author had a better grasp of technology. From what I could decipher the really story here isn't ending of Cookie Tracking but supplementing/replacing it with unique identifiers for users. Which, if you're logged into Google's system at the moment, I'm pretty sure is already the case. Google knows who you are throughout all of its systems. What it doesn't allow is advertisers to know who you are. If they're considering allowing advertisers access to unique data about each user, that would be a really big story.

Facebook requires you to be logged in to do anything, so there's nothing new here.

Microsoft assigning unique IDs to its Surface devices doesn't really matter because nobody uses them.
Reddit has related links that no one uses. There is also a comment bot that finds reports. AI looks for Similar titles and site links. It's more complicated when trying to tailor it to a persons history. Digg and reddit have tried AI frontpage customization by history, but idk if it was ever to bring new people to catch up on old posts.

Facebook sort of did it with old posts randomly coming up on the side to trigger nostalgia I guess.

Taking into account vote history, you can tumble through old popular posts not similar to anything voted on yet. Maybe push it out to groups of people who haven't seen it to keep the comments and discussions to thrive.

Can use the API to gather the needed info
Update: and it's gone
Relational Databases and Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, I definitely don't see this as making AC "obsolete" so much as perhaps raising the threshold of when you turn on the AC. As a resident of the Deep South, this could potentially make sitting outside during the height of the summer a more pleasant experience.
I am still skeptical for the effectiveness of FizzBuzz. I wonder if there are actual science experimental result to support this hypothesis where asking FizzBuzz as a filter would actually be effective. I wonder what is the percentage of those candidates who failed this filter are actually the worst kind of candidates, and if those who passed this filter would turns out not be a good fit. I see no correlation between passing FizzBuzz and being a good fit, productive engineer. Most of the proponent of FizzBuzz seems to assume that engineering skills could be accurately form a pyramid, where there are some questions where you need to understand before tackling other higher level questions, and that people who don't understand the "basics" will not be able to grasp or excel in the skills in higher levels. May I ask how many interviews here have taken CS courses and may I ask how many of you find FizzBuzz is relevant to any of the courses you have taken? Do you need to know FizzBuzz in order to tackle the vast problem spaces of Computer Science? Do you need to know FizzBuzz by heart to have experienced working in a large projects with thousands of people? Do you need to know FizzBuzz to implement a binary tree? Do you need to excel in FizzBuzz to code up a language parser?

To me, it is absurd that people believe in FizzBuzz because I see this mindless ritual of asking FizzBuzz question can be best described as Cargo Cult Science as coined by Richard Feynman (http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html), where in this context of hiring, recruiters are hoping that by asking FizzBuzz he will definitely filter out all incompetent programmers/engineers so he won't have to waste time finding out if the candidates are actually suitable for the position and the team.

If FizzBuzz is the ultimate filter for the position he is applying for, or if it should be considered universal, then why wouldn't university teaches them to memorize all possible variations of them in their introductory programming classes? Also wouldn't you think people who are not good programmers would cheat his/her way out by simply memorize the solution? Then aren't you still wasting time asking FizzBuzz questions?
c. You agree to pay $ 100,000 for your use of the Estatis Free Password Security Checker if we ever ask for it.
The resistive screen on the N900 is excellent. Better than some capacitives I've used.
Very funny.

I have a friend in this general field. Last time I checked, he told me those two words in the "Stimulus" bill expands in ~ 700 pages of regulations and it has made a bunch of consultants on it quite wealthy. Per Michelle Malkin, who lost her Primary Care Physician to this insanity, talking about another (http://michellemalkin.com/2013/10/23/dont-forget-obamacares-...):

"Dr. Michael Laidlaw of Rocklin, Calif., told EHR Practice Consultants that he abandoned the Obamacare EMR “incentive” program “when I realized that I spent the first two to five minutes of each visit endlessly clicking a bunch of garbage to make all the green lights show up on the (meaningful use) meter. I said to myself: ‘I’m not wasting precious seconds of my life and my patients’ time to ensure some database gets filled with data. I didn’t go into medicine for this. It is not benefiting my patients or me. I hate it.’ I actually refused to take the $10K-plus this year. I have even accepted that I would rather be penalized in the future. What is worth the most to me is AUTONOMY."

The later refers to the concept that this is firmly inserting the visible foot of government into the physician patient relationship.
Stumbling Towards Agile [2011]
Failure is never final
I strongly encourage everyone to abstain from buying the book or seeing the movie. You're lining Orson Scott Card's bigoted pockets to oppress sexual minorities.
Ex-NSA Contractor Snowden Finds Computer Job in Russia
So what does it say that US diplomats have the most unpaid congestion charge in London?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23266149
Python: The import system. Why can't I easily import a file from any location in the file system?

Javascript: Lacks support for 64-bit integers and arbitrary-precision decimals.

SQL: SQL injection.
The key thing that Soylent is going after is Ensure/Fortsip/Sustagen's margins. Full meal replacements are cost competitive with normal food at $5 a day. Medical suppliers currently charge a steep markup of $14 a day for their full meal replacements. At this price it is uneconomical for most people to adopt full meal replacements as a large part of their diets.

These margins must be destroyed. Soylent, and its competitors, are out to destroy them.

Full meal replacements will only hit critical mass if they cost less than the $7 a day an average American already spends on normal food, and if they are easier to prepare, eat and store. They need to taste nicer too.

The first part is the hardest bit. $6 a day is the current mean cost of full meal replacement production in small batch sizes. Large batch sizes and huge volumes can probably half this cost through economies of scale. Once we have at volume, non-regulated full meal replacements that cost $3 a day, with say a 20-50% gross margin, I expect the entire market to explode.

First one to market wins.
"If you're not capable of convincing a few people to invest a minimal amount in your idea, you probably won't be able to sell it to those you need to (customers, or at least other sales people)."

Angel investing is only a workable solution if the company has massive potential. One should not forget that there are all kind of SME companies that don't quality for this. Still, many of these do add a lot of value to the local ecosystem.
Very clever. Great. Compliments my blog post today nicely
http://pushingsocial.com/write-great-headlines-without-hype-...
Google wins everything
There is no mention of Yahoo in the article at all. The article's title is "Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking". HN's title is misleading.
Satoshi mined bitcoins alone for a long time, back when it was easiest. If they did not lose those original coins, they are stupidly rich.

When you hit a jackpot like this, remaining silent and denying everything is one of the most sensible courses of action.
Are they visible from populated areas? My first instinct was some form of advertising/viral promotion.
I on the other hand hated that screen. My N900 was a great device but every time I had to scroll I cursed the screen.
> as an alternative to products like Boost and Ensure.

You specifically mention people with medical needs: What does Soylent do that isn't done by existing meal replacements? What extras does Soylent bring? Or is it just nice to see more products in that segment?

I guess with the investment Soylent could employ qualified dietitians or nutritionists to write information for medical professionals, and to answer questions from medical professionals.
I have a related question. Why hasn't the creator(s) come forward? What reason is there for hiding their identity?

I'm starting to add more tin foil to my hat these days and this sort of thing worries me.
Good point. I doubt political feasibility in the short term, but I fully agree.
One of the ideas I want to find out by trying Soylent is: What happens when hunger is no longer an issue? Will I still crave juicy burgers and fries everday at 12pm? Will I really be satisfied by only eating small bites if I'm already full off Soylent? I definitely see myself using this on days where I'm just too busy to run out for lunch, early morning breakfasts, or as good healthy travel food. Not sure I'll replace my whole diet.

What a cool experiment though...
"Facebook's new ad service, launched earlier this month, gets around the traditional third-party advertising cookies by doing the tracking on its own. When a person visits a website selling shoes on a work PC, a piece of Facebook code placed on that site—Facebook's own cookie—recognizes that the person has logged into Facebook using that browser before. The shoe seller can then send the person an ad for the shoe on Facebook's mobile app—even if that person never registered with the shoe seller."

This highlights the dangers of the seemingly harmless social widgets. Anyone who doesn't already, I highly recommend using a plugin such as ghostery[1] to block them.

[1]https://www.ghostery.com/
It's not a matter of "didn't realize it's impossible". The problem young startup entrepreneurs have is they don't realize that valuable problems exist. Valuable problems tend to be industry-specific and narrowly defined, so you need to be at least aware of the problems of an industry, and the existing solutions/workarounds. Without industry experience at anything but being a college student and reading HN, how are you going to find problems to solve? That's why you see so many me-too social apps. You solve what you know, and if your most extensive experience with computers is Facebook and Twitter, that's your space for problems.

There are a couple of other factors to consider. First, there are problems that can be solved with new tech that couldn't be solved with old tech. The web opened up a huge front of new solutions over the past 10-20 years. Mobile is opening up another wave of solutions.

And finally, consider the "aspirin or vitamin" question. Vitamins are tempting, but aspirin sells better. Me, I'm working in more or less the monitoring space for configuration management. My key competition isn't other monitoring tools, it's the DevOps movement and automation tools like Chef and Puppet. When people have enterprise configuration management suck, those are the recommended solutions. But they're vitamins being sold as aspirin. Simply getting to where there's organizational buy-in to go to DevOps or to automate what was once manual is a whole fresh sort of pain. My competitive advantage is a near-painless dose of aspirin - immediate relief without having to change the whole model.

Ain't no college kid coming up with that.
Yeah, I don't mean "jimifying Belch" would be necessarily bad, as long it would be really making a difference. More often than not it's however just boilerplate - understandable in a startup project for lack of resources, but certainly not something to see in a framework claiming to be "stable".
In all seriousness my opinion can be summed up as; Open Source Or GTFO
The fruit I am eating atm is a very modular apple. The only thing set is the core, stem, skin and the flesh. Everything else is super modular.
No shit sherlock. I'll take that count minus one from now on.
I agree, political willpower bottom up would be very effective. But obviously we cant rely on that
Environment: Waste production must peak this century
Will they use EME/DRM to make them undeleteable, too?

http://blog.notevencode.com/posts/html5-eme-is-not-a-drm-sta...
I can't find the article anywhere, but there was a similar idea done a while back where you would wear a 'dome' that was air-conditioned, keeping your head and shoulders cool. It worked wonderfully for keeping you feeling cool and as a result you didn't sweat.

Also as a result, you didn't notice when your body temperature was rising too high, so it did absolutely nothing to prevent heat stroke or any other forms of heat exhaustion. I'd be concerned about this wristband doing roughly the same thing.
I work with ASP.NET
ASP.NET MVC if open source. So is SignalR for real time. micro$oft, right
A good example is this privacy vulnerability in IntenseDebate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6591282.
Given the abundance of links about Soylent that get posted to HN, I can't believe this point hasn't been brought up yet:

Calcium.

Studies have shown it blocks the absorption of Iron and Zinc. At least one even indicates that the combination of all three taken together can be quite detrimental[1]

I'm not a nutritionist, and I'm not even arguing against the possibility that a Soylent diet may be much healthier than the average American diet. I don't have a wealth of other examples where nutrients being taken together at the same time could be less than ideal.

But I do believe that these are questions that the people involved in Soylent should have concerned themselves with before even entertaining the idea of an all-purpose one-size-fits-all meal replacement. I haven't seen this addressed, and it boggles my mind that so many seemingly intelligent people are eager to pay for the opportunity to be guinea pigs of a meal replacement powder that could very well be harmful in the long run.

[1] (http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20486142?uid=3739960&u...)
it won't. video is all about hardware codecs now and it's even worse in mobile - the codec has to be in the SoC or it doesn't get used full stop.
Very true. I visited New Delhi in December and noticed how heating/AC wasn't built in to the buildings yet it felt normal to just bundle up/unbundle up depending on the temperature. Getting rid of boilers and only boiling water when you need to is another approach that helps with energy cost - especially if they get smarter and can predict usage (on in the mornings, off when people are out of the home, etc).
Are these paid for courses significantly better than the free MOOC courses? If so, how?

Yes, but in a different way and for a different audience.

Videos from folks like Peepcode and Tekpub are useful for experienced developers who need to pick up an ancillary technology or a specific technique specific to tools they already use quickly. MOOCs are more for learning big picture concepts over a longer period of time.
The oldest item on that list is one day older then I am...
That's great but why can't we change the snooze interval? It's completely ridiculous to have it be non-configurable.
Edward Snowden gets a job working in tech support for Russian website
People like you are far more dangerous, in our times, than Orson Scott Card could ever be.
HashFast Open-Sources Bitcoin ASIC Interface Protocol
Soylent is the Kim Kardashian of meal replacements: it is famous for being famous. There is literally nothing else to distinguish it from the dozens of other meal replacements that make extravagant health claims.
I don't even know what a "soul to soul communication" is intended to mean. It sounds like you are applying some mystic qualities to it. I think most of us here don't think that the act of performance itself adds anything to the quality of the sound of the music over and beyond the sounds that are recorded, and so a "recording" that is painstakingly generated note by note is to me no different from one that is played live as long as they sound the same. If a piece has never, ever been played live, it makes no difference to me.

This "soul to soul communication" you talk of has no meaning to me.
Congrats Rob! I've had both tekpub and Pluralsight subscriptions over the years and was getting ready to sign up for one again. This makes the decision much easier. I always loved Tekpub's real-world style of teaching. Robs work over the years has really helped me grow as a developer. Joining forces will really help the development community as a whole. Great move Rob and Aaron!!
Report: Snowden gets tech support job in Russia
which authors would you recommend? I've only seen Scott Allen's asp.net mvc4 - his explanations are very clear and easy to follow but he's def not a passionate speaker.
This is what European countries look like
> These margins must be destroyed

Are those real margins, or are those the costs of sensible operation in a safety critical regulated marketplace?

> It is currently not economical for most people to adopt at the steep mark up of $14 a day that medical suppliers currently charge.

You Americans and your weird healthcare. Just checking - how do you work out that price of $14 per day? I don't doubt it, these things are expensive and something to make it cheaper is a good thing.
Music does not exist until the moment it is played.
Therefore you need the performance to create art out of a composition.
Computers can not create art.
I personally did not like Shadow, and stopped about 3/4 of the way through. The original two books were great. Xenocide and Children were...readable. The standard of writing went way down in Shadow, and while the concept was interesting, I didn't feel that it added anything to the story. It read like Card was just filling in the blanks in a plot outline he had lying around.
Nice. This should be the case in the Netherlands as well.
Snowden will probably work for VKontakte
NIH's Scandalous Attempt to Claim Full Credit for Sequencing the Human Genome
Old homes (pre World War II) built in the southern United States all are centered around high ceilings, cross-ventilation. The home I grew up in wasn't air conditioned, and the summers, while nowhere near India's level, are extremely humid (90% plus most days) and are routinely above 90 degrees F.

The drawback in this is the cultural need for privacy that seems to have developed in many modern countries. People want to be able to shut their door, and this interferes with the cross ventilation. The whole "separate rooms on separate floors" also drastically hurts this concept. My house was reasonable, but my bedroom was tucked into the roofline on the top floor. It was unbearably hot, so my brother, father, and I would sleep on cots on a screened in porch.
And all your experience tells us is that the Ti99/4A did not have good sound chips and/or you are not good at writing music for it. Meanwhile, I still listen to certain C64 music regularly that I greatly enjoy, because the composer knew how to extract great music even from something as limited as that.
Scary. To be fair, although this kind of tool should not exist at all, the sslshopper tool at least has a warning, enforces https and informs users how to check it properly on the command line. The others, however, do not.
Just wanted to add some thoughts on how one could try to make this RESTful. First, if it were me, I'd pick a media type that can express hyperlinks in JSON (since JSON knows nothing about hyperlinks), maybe something like HAL [1]. Next, I would define my link relations for this API, which in this case would be a collection of countries and the countries themselves (so at least two different types of resources).

After creating the representations of each of these resources, I would then create URI templates in my root response (I guess found at /rest) that allow for the searching aspect that this site is providing, which would be something like:

{
"_links": {
"search_by_name": {
"href": "/rest/name/{name}",
"templated": true
}
}
}

I may build on to this to provide other resources, like a collection of capitals, each with a link to "/rest/capital/{capital_city}", or a resource of currencies, linking to "/rest/currency/{currency}".

The goal of all of this would be to tell the client how to find resources rather than having that hard-coded into the client. These are just some first steps toward being RESTful, and there are lots of different directions you could take this and still be RESTful.

edit: example was incomplete

[1] http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
Because pro-gay-rights activists have so much blood on their hands compared to homophobes and bigots.

Oh right, it's the other way around. In America, a "vote" with a wallet means as much as a vote with a ballot.
Windows WSYP Project -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-c0YSsF_O0

Such a good video... even this many years later.
How does fooling the body into thinking the temperature is higher / lower affect the real temperature of the body? The article fails to explain that.

This is like putting a frog in gradually boiling water. The frog cannot sense the increasing temperature, so it stays in the water until its dead.
I grabbed a few sheep fences, and they weren't pleasant but not horrible. I grabbed a few cow fences, and they were not fun.

I never made the mistake of peeing on one.
All of those concerns exist with a clipboard of papers, and you can't encrypt those.
Anybody got older snapshot?

http://web.archive.org/web/19981207002851/http://stony-brook...
Getting Notepad++ to recognize classes and functions
Was that an opinion you just had right there?
Just observed a bug. I changed the font for one of the blocks, and it changed it for all of the elements.