skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a kid, you have a distorted view of reality and your prefrontal cortex is not fully developed. That is to say your morals, planning, and judgement is not fully developed.
This was part of SCOTUS [outlawing capital punishment for minors](http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun05/jn.aspx).

The Prefrontal cortex is key to what we'd consider a person's personality. The seminal case of this would be [Phineas Gage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage), who had his prefrontal cortex (along with most of his frontal lobe) destroyed. Despite a hole in his head, he miraculously survived. Without his prefrontal cortex, he was no longer inhibited by judgement, shame, or morals. He didn't ignore it, he just simply didn't feel it. A man went from being honest and upstanding to constantly thieving and telling lies.

Since the pre frontal cortex does not fully mature until around the age of 25, I would argue the 13 years this child does, in fact, not know the full extent of what he did.
Read up on Warp.
Either the US is a nation of laws or a banana republic. You can't have your illegal surveillance and eat a banana too.
This is how I read this: HIPAA data backend as a service. Can also connect to Stripe for PHI and credit card storage. Most companies are not HIPAA. HIPAA API. Other companies are not HIPAA. We handle HIPAA. We know HIPAA. HIPAA (AWS, FireHost, Rackspace) is not enough. HIPAA. HIPAA! Visit truevault dot com: recent blog entries- Do I Need To Be HIPPA Compliant?
When I think of "most mail clients" I think of Outlook, Thunderbird and so on - I wouldn't term something that didn't support at least one of POP or IMAP an email client. Proprietary email client maybe, like AOL's built-in one...
Look neat. Is GPG support in plan?

EDIT: also why a .pkg with password requirement instead of a simple .app ?
Oh that's an easy one, make it a self-steering bullet[1] too. After all, it can already GPS track.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/26/darpa_gps/
Plenty of theories on explain xkcd but nothing definitive:
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=792
Fuck You Instagram
Entirely different architectures are very unlikely to revolutionize any industry due to path dependence.
They are extremely important because you can use it to construct an attack that let you narrow down the number of guesses you have to do to recover the original key, so that it becomes feasible to crack the code. In general, leaking information about the key like this is almost a cardinal sin in cipher design, as it will give an opportunity for an attack. Modern ciphers will leak practically no information about the key.
Would love to know where the downvotes came from :)
Here is a Project I am working on : http://lovasz.cs.fsu.edu/stocks (My contact is given in the website)

Please take a look, I think we are working on similar lines, if you are interested let me know.
Laser projection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs (Pong on a 20 story building, billboards, etc.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S5_v2By3Ec (Multiple laser projectors)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-A9LvPbmg (Canny edge detector)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-jf-ans (Asteroids on a 4 story building)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF_OCvjq3ps (Reddit's Snoo on a 20 story building)

I've just added a second projector and a few more dacs (thanks to a very generous donor). I'm doing multiprojection and rectification/distortion now. I'm planning to get Skyscraper Tetris and Breakout going with some additional hardware.

I need about ten projectors at 60kpps (or 80kpps at low scan angle) with a combined wattage of 20W or so. I have endless ideas: I'll bring it online, do live art/graffiti, turn buildings into twitter feeds, multiplayer gaming, and NES emulator, etc.

I wish I could afford more hardware and the ability to work on this full time. :(
PlaceUnit (http://www.placeunit.com/) -- an iOS app to build a mini-responsive website.

Download here: http://www.appstore.com/placeunit

Just the video: https://vimeo.com/68029789

Demo: http://fantastic-vancouver.placeunit.com/

It's cool because:

* It is very very simple to use. Any person with an iPhone/iPad can build something in minutes.

* It's a PhoneGap app (HTML5/JavaScript) which integrates Open Source components with a hand rolled framework.

* It uses a no-password pattern. It supports offline work. You can use bidi-languages. It has CSS based themed "filters". Mini-sites are customizable and embedable.

* Bootstrapped. I'm sole developer/designer.
Sounds a lot like San Francisco (though I guess "wonderful" isn't the word some people would use to describe mass transit, but I think it's pretty great compared to the one I have now in the American midwest)
Exactly. That was the big mistake behind windows 8. Their "one interface for all devices" idea. We didnt WANT same interface on all devices
Not that you'll have any time to enjoy your presumably lovely 3 bedroom flat in Barcelona with two 4 hour commutes each day.
NYC plans to charge your EV from a manhole
That's not at odds with what the poster is saying.
Heh, I spend about 80% of my working life writing PHP, I use it for some of them!
I signed up to check it out and created a campaign. I can't tell if it's doing anything, though. Should I expect an email of some sort? Or do I need to check back to look at your page later?
Couple of things that bug me:

1) I have to log in to your service. Why? Makes me think you're storing my mail credentials on your server. If it's a cloud sync issue, use Dropbox/iCloud.

2) Doesn't use my Contacts in To: field. This makes it a non-starter for me.

It does look pretty, I think the filtering is very smart, and I like the "smart cards".
Thanks! Yep we're just a team of two, for now at least. It's starting to be a bit too much and we need to bring in more people at some point.
To Barcelona hackers - which districts are the best to rent a nice modern-built loft/apartment:

- from quality angle?

- from price angle?

Edit: formatting
Not the downvoter, but I think s/UK/London/. I agree with everything on what you say about London, but outside of London the rest of the UK isn't really that bad. You can rent a 3 bedroom house for £300/month in Yorkshire. Even if you are the only earner in a household, on minimum wage, you'll still have over £500/month left after rent (probably more if you have kids due to benefits).

Bonus: It's a three hour commute to London [1].

[0] http://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/20671512?search_iden...

[1] http://traintimes.org.uk/Gainsborough/London/06:30/monday/18...
By using the well defined meter.
Posted in the context of hn, this link/article seems to be nothing but an underhanded means to get this community to argue the case against net neutrality.
I'm working on CodeCube (http://codecube.io) - a pastebin that allows you to run the code snippets and see the output live in your browser.

It's built on Docker. I posted an article about how I built it here: http://hmarr.com/2013/oct/16/codecube-runnable-gists/

The source is up on GitHub at https://github.com/hmarr/codecube
How am I supposed to create new pages for a "book" project? Also, when I created a new document, it took me a while to understand that I was supposed to edit/delete the text in the current document to begin writing. (In that instance, I was also looking for a "new document" button.)

I don't want to do writing using a web interface. I think a desktop client would make a service like this far more attractive. However, I think it would be a bit of a hard sell because of the slight learning curve. I think you need to demonstrate Penflip's value proposition by providing actual use cases for such an app.

Otherwise, your app looks very slick and quite promising.
OK, here's a wacky theory about why this is happening: The article says that the kilogram copies are brought to Paris to be compared. Therefore the copies are undergoing significant acceleration (e.g., transported on airplanes or trains) while the original in Paris remains stationary.

From the stationary kilogram's point of view, all of the other kilograms had undergone relativistic mass increases during the time of their travel. Suppose a tiny amount of this mass increase is somehow actually retained when all the transported kilograms are brought to the same frame of reference (i.e., when the airplanes land in Paris).

What's a simple way to disprove this idea?
A local media player in the browser. I mean to make it full media player with video support but for now it's audio only. I also want to make it web app instead of chrome app but some apis are not available anywhere else. And background running is a key feature. It has about 7k users, which is more than I expected TBH. Also the occasional support email is the best thing to happen to me that day. It shows that people actually use what I made.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/achshar-player/fdd...
mod_python predates WSGI by many years, and I personally am not too happy with WSGI. I just wrote about it: http://grisha.org/blog/2013/10/26/my-thoughts-on-wsgi/
It's not a good thing. Only a handful of nations are capable of producing weaponized drones, and that's not likely to change anytime soon. This is very susceptible to abuse. The numbers here show my point exactly: http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drone...
Is there something similar (i.e. syntactic sugar/macros for defining callbacks that provide similar functionality) for "plain" javascript as base language?
Ask HN: There was a visualisation site link here a month ago I cannot find
A month or two months age someone posted a visualisation website link. The user was able to copy&paste date and can select basic visualisation (bar chart, line chart, etc). The visualisation was created done by D3 and as I recall the site was created by some italian guys? Anyone knows the link? Thanks
Thank you, spot on. Ignoring neurological development is fortunately getting harder as the science is getting more solid.
There is a fundamental flaw with this concept, which is writing a spec that good is more work that just writing the code yourself.

Some in Congress should probably read this, too...
I have two brothers in the highway patrol and they believe that it's imperative that they chase anyone trying to get away, in order to make sure that anyone in the future knows that they can't run from the police, despite the risks of collateral damage to innocent people.

On the other hand, high speed chases frequently end up causing car accidents with innocent people, sometimes fatally.

The question becomes, is there a way to still capture the person trying to escape police without putting innocent people in harms way?

I applaud any efforts to eliminate casualties caused by high speed chases.
Sqwiggle https://www.sqwiggle.com - It's cool because we're making peoples lives genuinely better by enabling them to work from wherever they want. We're also doing our part to rid the world of commuting and grey cubicles.
Before you get too angry, consider that this experience is common of soldiers in war, not many of whom would after combat use terms like warrior. I doubt he chose the headline himself or was even asked about it, and it is contradicted by the tone of the article. There are far more important questions here than which labels are used to describe the people who carry out the killings.

This one guy (part of the largest group ever inducted as drone pilots) killed 1,626 people, and that figure won't include the civilians near the targets, who were often at home or travelling with their families. The real figure is probably 2-3 times that.

“We’re gonna shoot and collapse the building. They’ve gotten intel that the guy is inside.”...Bryant stared at the screen, frozen. “There’s this giant flash, and all of a sudden there’s no person there.” He looked over at the pilot and asked, “Did that look like a child to you?” They typed a chat message to their screener, an intelligence observer who was watching the shot from “somewhere in the world”—maybe Bagram, maybe the Pentagon, Bryant had no idea—asking if a child had just run directly into the path of their shot. “And he says, ‘Per the review, it’s a dog.’ ”Bryant and the pilot replayed the shot, recorded on eight-millimeter tape. They watched it over and over, the figure darting around the corner. Bryant was certain it wasn’t a dog.

What I find most troubling about this is that:

This program has been expanded to Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan already, and the same legal justification given for killing in Pakistan with no trial or even proper investigation could be given for a drone killing in Idaho. There is no limit to this war in time or space.

Even if you are on a battlefield, killing of non-uniformed and unarmed combatants is illegal under the Geneva conventions - you're supposed to avoid civilian casualties - clearly targeting houses and markets etc doesn't do that.

People who have not been positively identified as combattants and are away from any battlefield are killed without trial, without counsel, without charges and without official remorse if there was a mistake or they were innocent.

The distance created by the drone and the lack of risk to US personnel gives a very real risk that substantial abuse of this method of killing will occur. What if the US withdraws from Afghanistan/Pakistan/Iraq, but continues to kill from a distance? What if they expand the war to other countries and don't tell anyone (JSOC is in 100 countries)? All this has been done without even declaring war.

This drone pilot deserves to be recognised for at least having the courage to speak up about what he was asked to do, about the mistakes made.

The book Dirty Wars is definitely worth reading if you are interested in finding out more about US drone programs.

http://dirtywars.org/
So your differing point of view means it's OK to malign us publicly? By "FUD" you surely meant to imply that we were trying to do something malicious, when, literally, all we're trying to do is make people's inboxes ever-so-slightly happier places.

To be clear:

- this is a really hard problem

- we're iterating in public to get user feedback

- we're not charging anything and don't have any immediate plans to

- we specifically ask for feedback via <hi@inky.com>

I'm not sure which aspect of this gave you the impression that our objective is to foist -- as you put it -- "false FUD" on poor unsuspecting consumers.

Sorry to bitch, but snarky comments are the main reason HN -- once my absolute favorite place on the web -- is turning into a useless cesspool.

See you on Quora, where the discourse is still reasonably civil.
How far can you get on the Eurostar in four hours?
Can somebody explain to me why an SI unit has the "kilo" prefix already in it, making other SI prefixes unusable with it?

1 kJ = 1000 standard units of energy.

1 kg = 1 unit of mass.

Was this just an unfortunate historical accident? But if the too that much care to make a unit system that makes intuitive sense, why would they let in such an annoying exception? Why didnt they just make "gram" the standard unit or just made up another name?
http://reverb.com - a musician's marketplace.

It's cool because we're putting the care into hand curating our listings so that we have really cool collections (you can check em out here: http://reverb.com/handpicked-collections).

It's also cool because we're experimenting with machine learning (poking at prediction.io currently) to see if we can give people more of what they want. And we're building Ruby services and we have an iPhone app. And all this with only two developer, a UX designer and an intern. And it's cool because we're actually making money. And, we're hiring ;)
Cutting the Cable Cord
When I hear drone warfare, I always wonder what would happen if someone puts on his uniform and guns down a drone operator in a crowded shopping mall. Obviously he distinguished himself as a combatant and engaged in a act of war.
GPG: certainly encrypted mail is on the list

.pkg: it's so we can clean up prior installs; maybe not a permanent thing
Or you could live in Birmingham, in a £650/month one-bedroom apartment 10 minutes away from New Street station, where you can take a 70 minute train to London Euston.

Sure, Birmingham is not Barcelona or London, but I'm not sure how you'd enjoy them by living most of your off-work time in a Ryanair flight.
Why would they fire bullets at you if they aren't trying to detain you?

To me, that speaks less of "Sir Please Come With Us Quietly" and more of "This Ain't Working, Let's Cut Our Losses And Try To Disable Their Escape"
Well sure, the selection of tapas in England is rather limited, it's colder and rains more, the local football teams aren't as good and you have to speak English all the time because Catalan and Spanish aren't very widely understood. But if you can't beat Barcelona for living, you'd probably want to work there too. You can definitely get similar space for your money to the Barcelona flat highlighted in the blog post in a perfectly adequate dormitory town a short commute from Liverpool Street, if Southeast England is more your thing.
Octopus - http://www.octopus.org - a Marketing app directory and community blog/forums. I think it's cool because Marketing in my opinion is the most important aspect of business - particularly on the web.
It is probably around 100 ms.

(Distance from Carson City, Nevada to Kabul, Afghanistan) / The speed of light = 39.3783 milliseconds
Police Departments Work to Expand Capability to “Shut Down” Social Media
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Do you have threaded conversation support (like the one in mutt)?
1) We address the (fairly complex) questions around authentication in our FAQ: http://inky.com/pages/faq/ -- you have to scroll to the bottom for security details.

2) It will. Give it a little while to find your contacts. :)
The "mass" gained from motion is really just the extra energy. When the energy is removed from the point of view of the stationary kilogram, all the extra "mass" is gone too.
Malware was served to php.net users
Really proud to be a part of this.

Also, a group of HN users (taskforce.is) built the StopWatching website. Big shoutout to Thomas Davis and Beau Gunderson for a load of hard work on the site.
I really liked this article. I am just now starting to learn Scala. Great post.
> People in San Francisco who are going on the commute on the 101 don't say "I'm going to the Bay Area today" - they say "I'm going to South Bay today".

Of course not; they're already in the Bay Area. People in Palo Alto don't say "I'm going to the Bay Area" when they drive to SF, and people on the Upper West Side don't say "I'm going to New York today" when they take the A train downtown, either. I honestly can't tell whether or not you're trolling, at this point.
Why not do it for a gram and just multiply?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconvolution
They called it a "bullet" about eight times in that article.

The thing is the size of a bloody coffee cup.
If you mean indenting according to thread parent/child relationships, no. We've found that the majority of users find that really confusing. It also has the negative effect that new mail arrives buried within the thread tree, not at the top where users can see it.

Threaded view might resurface some day for advanced users, but right now it's not on the roadmap.

We do support a (non-hierarchical) conversation, though (of course), as well as a sender-based view that's pretty handy in certain circumstances.
>they believe that it's imperative that they chase anyone trying to get away, in order to make sure that anyone in the future knows that they can't run from the police, despite the risks of collateral damage to innocent people.

Kinda forgot about the whole "to serve and protect" part didn't they.
That's awesome. I was thinking about buying a personal plane to fly back and forth from Canada to California. I came across this, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcDIXDRBJis

It's called the Synergy plane, and I think it will supposedly the most fuel efficient personal plane. Thoughts?
People sure seem to hate a lot about Ryanair. I also flew with them regularly back to the UK when I was living in Ireland. I tried a few other airlines (FlyBe, Air France, BA and Aer Lingus) but found Ryanair to be the easiest and most reliable.
Rest assured, my definition of "Bay Area" is the same as yours.

One poster, for whatever reason, didn't like me using the phrase "commute to Cupertino from the Bay Area every day".

My Edit to that poster should have been clearer, but all I'm saying is that people I know describe themselves as going to "South Bay" when referring to their commute from the Peninsula to Cupertino, to distinguish the subregion from the whole region.
Dude, I love you! I started playing guitar again after a 10 year break and I'm learning new songs via youtube mainly nowadays. Just the other day I was thinking about how cool it would be if there was an app available just like yours. That slow-mo thing is a killer feature for sure, I always wanted that.

You may want to check these guys called Cifra Club over youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZUuCyyQe0 , they pretty much are doing the best of whats possible to do on youtube in terms of animated tabs.

Best of luck for you on this project!
Solving a problem that people find valuable enough to pay you for is very cool.
Keep in mind that the JTAC is usually an enlisted soldier embedded with a ground unit. He is highly trained on ROE and positive ID, and generally has a good first hand perspective on what is happening on the ground. He is responsible for protecting the lives of the unit he is embedded with, and air assets are tasked to support him. From my experience, these are not warmongers, just guys doing their jobs, trying to protect lives.
my belief isn't based on just the AMA. Its just another example of the dynamic.

my observation is there's no shortage of willing participants for officially sanctioned, military actions where the participants believe there will be no consequences.

And I'm not saying that as a value judgement. I'm saying that as an observation about human nature.
There's a startup called FirstJob (http:///www.firstjob.com/) targeting the same problem. Worth at least looking at.
A question: are the double taps which allegedly end up killing rescuers meant to cause terror? I've seen these referenced by some sources claiming this, but I have never seen an alternative explanation, which makes me slightly skeptical.

It's one thing to kill people you are at war with(even if it's an odd war), it's another to intentionally terrorize civilian populations to not help your targets. The later, if it's actually what's going on, would be terrorism by most people's definition and very distressing.
snapcard - Allows people to spend their bitcoins on any website at anytime, regardless of whether the merchant has it integrated.

Like Amazon 1 click, except it works on every website and requires no merchant integration.

Video Demo - https://vimeo.com/76122291

It's cool because
- Spend bitcoins anywhere you want
- No merchant integration
- 1 click checkout so you don't flood a million websites with your personal data.
Did you consider/play with Lilypond at all?
I don't think a "honeypot" is protected by law for any criminal activity it engages in.
Sparrow is no longer being maintained, though. Personally I am pretty happy with the switch to Airmail [1], which has all the same features, at the expense of some minor, not very annoying bugs.

[1] http://airmailapp.com/
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This is a good out for Obama. He can't cancel the program or he may appear soft on terror, hurting Democratic presidential chances. Furthermore, the underlying surveillance law was passed by Congress (FISA Amendments Act of 2008), and he has a duty to uphold it. However, he doesn't want to continue these programs unless they are constitutional. Letting the Supreme Court review the program either shuts it down or gives it a stamp of legality. Now that derived evidence has been introduced into a criminal court, someone finally has standing to sue. This may be a part of a gradual wind down of the war on terror.