skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, Yes of course it is! Usually it it is coded under law as vehicular manslaughter; generally, it involves death that results from the negligent operation of a vehicle. Same as if you killed someone while drinking and driving or if you just decided to run them over cause you were driving recklessly.

Anyone can be charged with murder even if there isn't a specific vehicular manslaughter statue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_homicide

Oh yeah, and if you don't believe me:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_jer...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/06/justice/massachusetts-texting-...

http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/sun-prai...

http://www.fox11online.com/news/local/fox-cities/little-chut...

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel-county/woma...

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/woman-who-killed-toddler-in-te...

http://www.nbc4i.com/story/20746093/1st-vehicular-homicide-w...

http://www.mygeorgiadefenselawyer.com/2010/02/12/vehicular-h...

Besides, what does vehicular manslaughter have anything to do with this?
The Defensive Patent License (DPL)
OP nailed it.

PHP has similarities to Bash scripting. Language sucks. Syntax is awful. You wouldn't want to build anything big with it. You feel dirty and ashamed every time you use it.

But... if you just want to get shit done, it's often the path of least resistance. I can live with the shame.

By the way, Mike isn't just talking about PHP here. It also applies to CGI, ColdFusion, ASP, JSP and lots of other old technologies that make you want to cry. Basically anything where you have a web server and you can just drop executable scripts in a directory.

Even though I rarely use PHP any more, I still write a lot of my Python and Ruby web-apps using classic CGI instead of the popular frameworks because it's just so quick and easy (and dirty). Deployment is a breeze, managing servers is simple and it's ideal for quick mashups. Been meaning to write more about this: http://helpmewrite.co/people/joewalnes/ideas#idea-1978﻿
Why do you phrase the "data showing zero correlation" thing as a hypothetical? That's the world we're in, right now.
As comments to your first comment have already pointed out, pollution per unit of primary energy produced in power plants can vary wildly among different parts of the world. Yes, we know that China is putting up a lot of buildings. We know that China has huge amounts of air pollution. We don't know if China would be doing either of those things to the same degree if China had a freer market and more effective rule of law. That's why observers like me think that China could still stagnate at its current level of economic development, and lose the growth magic that it (undeniably) has enjoyed during most of our adult lives.
This is incredibly cool. Great work.
Ask HN: How do I transition to a different position?
I am relatively new in my career as a Software Engineer. I started out doing contract web development on my own for 2 years. For the past 3 years I've been working as a full stack guy (with an emphasis on the front-end) for a mid-size company in Seattle. I got the chance to work on some projects that were much closer to the OS, and I really liked it. I've also been doing some projects in my spare time. Can someone give me some advice on how to transition into more of a systems or embedded position from where I am now? I am willing to be junior again if that's what it takes, but I have no idea how to approach this. Should I contact a recruiter, hunt through Craigslist? Go to a meetup (which one)? Do I need to go back to school (my degree is not in CS, but I have a solid understanding of algorithms in data structures)?
> While I'm on the topic, you realize that because the money supply can't be increased in any meaningful way once mining is no longer viable, prices will experience constant deflation?

Yes. I consider an annual deflation rate of 2-3% just as stable as an annual inflation rate of 2-3%.
Did you?

“It is not a failure of the vaccine,” Frieden said. “It’s a failure to vaccinate. Around 90 percent of the people who have had measles in this country were not vaccinated either because they refused, or were not vaccinated on time.”
LG G Flex review
A simple explanation is that the journalist is over-simplifying a source which said "...found a semiprime".
Scrolld.js ― Dynamic Page Scrolling
Apple to begin using iBeacons at 254 US stores
Drupal, Joomla and Magento are horrible, and the others are certainly not widespread enough to keep PHP alive by themselves
Umm... what plants convert CO2 -> O2 at night as claimed here? Photosynthesis = 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy -> C6H12O6 + 6O2 ... so unless you leave the lights (Energy) on at night, it's not happening...
>Ensure has been used as a complete replacement for decades

No, it has not. An ensure contains a mere 11% of your daily potassium for example. Has anyone ever actually recommended that someone drink 9 ensures a day?
There is actually plenty of reason to attach stigma to discussing beliefs in an area where there is plentiful hard data.
We have CA DATACOM databases on a Z10 series Enterprise server running Z/OS 1.13. We're looking for an easy solution to analyze, update and/or transform lots of data from a PC based interface (not the current terminal interface) - we thought SQL would be the most flexible.
Likeastore - An easy way to keep all your likes in one place
sorry for the self promotion.I am working on wrinq a meesaging service that values privacy. You can check it out here http://www.wrinq.com/
Welcome to the new relativism, where the facts don't matter and semantics rule the day.
Hi,

This is a lot of firsts for me.
First (real) github project. First open-sourced project.

It still needs cleaning up (sorry), but I thought I'd go ahead and get it out there.

I don't have any examples that show how much power you can get out of it, but I've done crazy things in my projects that use this, like reorganizing one query into a much more complicated Union query, etc...

Some of the unit tests give you an idea of what you can do.
I know it's more common today to use histedit, shelve, rebase, etc; but I have personally found the mq extension to subsume all of those (although it's more complicated than the other extensions).

I am genuinely happy with hg when I use it, and find it wonderful as a user, most of the time.
No. If a professional is available, better paths will be taken. If not, there is no requirement.
Well yeah, advanced offset will always work. But just replacing Q with W, T with Y and so on is already outdated...
>We're not talking about all commodities: we're talking about money.

BTC isn't money. You make a great comparison of BTC to gold, a commodity. Gold isn't used anymore as money because there isn't enough of it for that role. BTC is in even worse situation. BTC is a great collectible commodity that will be growing in value, like Campbell soup paintings or Ferrari California. Great storage of value, yet not usable as money.

The next cryptocurrency which would contain infinite mining, balanced by infinitely increasing complexity, will very possibly make it as a money. It is understandable that BTC in order to crack the glass ceiling and gain trust and acceptance had deflation built-in. Now that POC succeeded the full-featured release is to come (though lets see about alpha/beta/etc... :)
Even without formal interest, some incremental benefit over time, if a funding takes longer to convert than expected, seems justified.

Has anyone considered a gradually decreasing cap as a way to simulate the time-varying rewards usually delivered via interest? (That is, decay-the-cap rather than grow-the-principal.)
> So the it's up to the parties in that eventuality to work things out.

That's usually a bad way to make a legal contract. As an investor I'd want something a little more definitive.
Macro photographs of single snowflakes
sorry for the self promotion. I am working on a messagin service that values privacy. Check out wrinq

http://www.wrinq.com/
Then explain the process. Tell me what you hope to create, why you want to create it, and why you think your chosen method will work.

As it stands, all I see is a six-month vacation in Thailand. I don't see the grand vision you say you have. Make me see it, and then we'll talk. And if you cannot help me see it, then why should I support you? Why should you go unquestioned?
Redis critiques
Goimports on Sublime Text 3 with GoSublime
Cheap-ass hosts won't need keys. They'll give you a hostname, username, and randomly generated password.

Insert into Filezilla, and mission complete.
Because the vast majority of PHP programmers began their programming journey by trying to post from a form built with static html, and worked their way down. In my experience (YMMV), they tend to lack the general programming concepts and practices that programmers who come from a CS/general computing (instead of web design) background are more likely to have, making it more difficult for the PHP programmer to move into another language.

I think the pervasiveness of modern, complex js techniques in recent years have been eroding that situation, because (especially with the gentle on-ramp of jQuery), PHP programmers are forced to become good js programmers too. Right now that means that a lot of the parochial attitudes of PHP programmers end up in the js community - and you see that in node.js, but ultimately it means that those programmers become familiar with two extremely different programming paradigms, and that will make a third language a lot easier to learn. When not trapped, they will leave.

I never understand the argument that PHP is an easy language (which this post doesn't suggest), though. PHP is hard because it is awful, and it's awful because it's hard. Consistency and lack of hidden state make things easier, at least for me. PHP is an easy language to put into production. Ruby is an awful language to put into production. I'm not even sure why the two get compared other than that Rails is supposed to be "easy" and PHP is supposed to be "easy."

A better feature to use to compare Ruby and PHP is that both of them fall to shit pretty immediately at load unless you are so good at enough layers of the entire stack that you're running on that any ease of learning or using PHP and Rails will make a minimal difference to you.
They were found guilty, and paying a truly trivial percentage of their income from the business unit in question to monitor compliance is part of that. The article rings true only as sincerely entitled whining.
There was a bit of discussion about this on the subreddits for LoL[1] and Dota2[2]. I don't think any esports fan or player is happy that Riot is going this direction.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1s38ea/lcs_...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1s38uc/dota_2_censore...
I think the global stat ledgers and unified multiplier progression paths lend themselves to qualities normally associated with other "massive" games. True, the maps are limited in player size, but the feeling that there is a huge world of individual characters of varying class/strength/expertise that you may randomly encounter is pretty similar. It's like WoW battelegrounds/instanced dungeons minus the persistent world.
Not encryption, but: Kik does not save messages on their server. After some # of messages (100?), they disappear in the client as well.
ChatSecure is a crashy mess, TextSecure is android only and requires a phone number, you can't use tablets. I'm looking forward to the CryptoCat clients that are supposedly being released this month, it might be an actual usable mobile OTR client for both iOS and Android.
Japan passes a democracy-muzzling Patriot Act
i'm going to assume you're the developer/creator. Does the product originate from your location or is it sourced from 3rd party? ($5 w/shipping is difficult to garner any substantial items. Neat Idea
Could this be from bots scraping reddit links?
There's a toggle at the top of the app that lets you choose whether you want to send your contacts an SMS or an IM.

I've been using the Hangouts app for a few weeks now and am pretty impressed with it so far. It's become my go-to messenger. All of my friends usually keep their Gchat open during work, so switching seamlessly between chat and SMS has been a pretty good experience so far.

The app, though, is a little slow to load and send SMS's, but not enough to warrant disuse.
That might be what they are intended to be reserved for but the reality of what they get used for is much more of the "Jump Somewhere" sort.
Redis as the primary data store? WTF?
They don't let me have babies of my own because I would do all sorts of psychological experiments on them.

When I was a Camp Director I used to construct "lies" over the course of a week that would lead kids to the wrong conclusion.

Just with in the earshot of campers I'd say things to the counselors like "I think Kahn is back on the camp again"

And in the Animal Lodge we had a huge empty tank that said "Kahn: Rare Aquatic Gargantuan Boa Constrictor" with some facts about the fact that they could grow to over 150 feet in length, and they eat mostly bear for food.

I'd drop other "hints" like "You don't have to worry about Bears in the woods, not since Kahn got out..." and if anyone asked I'd just blow off the questions about Kahn, "Oh, nevermind just a camp pet that got out one day"

When the wind would blow through the tall grass the counselors would hurry the kids to an area where the grass was shorter. And we'd say "Camper count" and count that we had everybody, then sigh, "Kahn never ceases to scare the daylights out of me"

Towards the end of the week campers were convinced there was a conspiracy to keep the giant snake a secret. It kept them from wandering out at night, or sneaking off on their own.

Worked far better than any amount of threats of discipline could.
I admit, I was inserting personal opinion when using the phrase "a major qualifier". I think it's silly and antagonistic to the problems we already see with our demographic and police to always have an adversarial stance against law enforcement.

Do you disagree? Are there examples where you would talk to the police? For example, if your home was broken into?
>This kind of behavior needs to be publicly shamed and banished back to the pre-industrial age. Immense social pressure should be brought to bear.

That is already the case. It (shaming others) may feel good to some people but it doesn't appear to be effective.
Good to hear. I'd love to consider ArangoDB for analytics project at that time.
Extremely curious how this turns out.
Doubtful. The exact submarine used for this test launched was used in combat as recently as 2 years ago (Libya). Precision bombing from a submarine has been a solved problem since the late 80s, if not longer.
What Separates A Healthy And Unhealthy Diet? Just $1.50 Per Day
1. In the UK the tabloids (Daily Mail, Mirror, Sun et al) publicized bogus scare stories about the MMR vaccine and autism.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-ana...

2. In The Netherlands, certain groups reject vaccines on religious grounds. Specifically the Dutch Reformed.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/measles_outbre...

I'd assume that the cases in "rich" Europe are related.

There are some pretty poor countries in Europe so I'd guess that that the majority of the cases will originate from there..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism is an entire category of theories of ethics (IMHO the only sane ones) that focus on consequences (for everyone, not only yourself) and do not grant style points for failed efforts.
Currently, pro gamers have a lot of downtime between League of Legends games due to having to queue up for a game after finishing a previous one.

These queue times range anywhere from 10-25 minutes on average, during which here is literally nothing to do besides playing other games, like Hearthstone.

I don't think Riot thought this one through. Instead what they should do is figure out a way to fix the queue times at the highest level, and this would honestly not even be a problem. At this point, they just appear overly controlling.
The real reason for pensions
This is at best anecdotal evidence for a mass exodus of the 'best and brightest' fleeing SA. The only time I have been mugged, attacked, or stalked was during my time as a student in the UK (have had all three happen). Ironically I suffered a serious racist attack in the UK, where someone tried to stab me because I wasn't the right colour. The only time I have serious feared for my life. I have never had any such problems in SA. I have never been robbed, threatened, or put in a bad racist situation - this has only happened to me abroad.

For many of the millions oppressed during Apartheid, SA is far, far better now. Don't forget crime was rampant during Apartheid, and police protection was not afforded equally to those of difference races. My family, living in non-white areas, had a total of 9 cars stolen during Apartheid. This doesn't happen anymore. Crime statistics are far more accurate now, and show a decreasing trend since Apartheid, though of course it is still high. This crime remains mainly in township areas of SA - set up during Apartheid.

I'm not sure what you mean by success stories. There are numerous successful companies in SA, especially tech companies in the Cape Town. My family have risen from rags through businesses and professional work, and my father was able to rise to a judge where people are now fairly tried regardless of race. I'd say that is a success in the rule of law. Our government is not perfect (which is?), but it sure has come a long way. Just while growing up in SA, malls have risen, houses built for millions who lived in shacks, universities opened up to reflect the demographics of the population - the country has prospered even during the rescission, and property value and sky rocketed in some areas. I have numerous opportunities in SA, and run a startup there.

I carried out research both at Oxford, in the US, and in South Africa. The researchers I worked with in SA are as highly regarded as their peers in their field abroad (bioinformatics), as highly cited, and are happy in South Africa. I know of people going abroad to do PhD's, then returning to lecture here. I only know 1 other person who has moved to the UK permanently, and this is because they have no family in SA and no higher education.
Inspiration bias.
Crecord is great. Someone has made a fork that works on Windows[1]. The regular one is only for Mac and Linux. (Haven't tried the Windows one myself, but I do like using crecord on my Mac at work.)

[1] https://bitbucket.org/jmb/crecord
I don't know about the terrorist networks part (although I would not be surprised) but TOR does have an active black market scene (read: silk road) as well as other illegal websites on there.
I'm afraid you're misinformed. When we think of PHP, most of us are thinking of PHP embedded in the Apache web server using the mod_php extension. This is what almost everybody was using until very recently when FastCGI gained some popularity and people started using PHP-FPM with nginx. Pretty much any PHP host will be running a LAMP stack with mod_php.
Couldn't agree more. What people miss here is that just behaving like successful people don't make you one. There's a lot more to it than just following one or even many aspects of people like RB. So, if you are inspired by this and are going to start something before you're ready - be prepared for failure and don't blame anyone else but yourselves for being so gullible and simplistic. Instead - find something you're passionate about and labor through building it.
> Of course, any still-pending transactions in A will still be pending in the queues of the miners working on fork B, and so all transactions will eventually be validated.

I don't understand this. So you have fork A and fork B, and once fork B wins, what happens to the transactions being done on fork A? Discarded? Do transactions sometimes not ever get verified?

From what I've quoted, I'm guessing no, transactions in fork A somehow get verified by work being done in fork B. How? Do these transactions exist in both forks?

Also, in general, how do p2p networks facilitate the finding of nodes? The links provided [0] describes how a node figures out what to tell other nodes about itself [0], and how to talk to other nodes once they've been discovered [1], but how does a node actually find other nodes, to begin with? Best I can tell it's just a text file with a bunch of "starter" nodes.

[0] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Client_Node_Discovery
[1] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Network
I have one of those awful people as a client right now. We spent hours with a truly fantastic marketer (and I don't throw that kind of praise around lightly, especially in marketing), who not only helped us identify great copy, but also helped us identify some broader values to give the company character. I sat in that meeting with the 2 founders. We took notes, raved about the meeting, had a bunch of great concrete stuff to move forward with.

A week later the CEO designed the startup's landing page. None of the good stuff from the meeting was there, just a generic uninformative slogan and a generic long parallax marketing page that doesn't tell anyone what the product does. Sigh.
New Google Cloud Platform Logo: An ode to Sharkon
The worst thing about people refusing to vaccinate their children is the fact that they themselves probably had all the vaccines in their childhood and did not suffer any consequences.

I support banning of unvaccinated children from kinder gardens and schools as I think it's unacceptable to compromise herd immunity because of selfish non-scientific beliefs that verge on ideology at this point.
Nelson Mandela - Ideals for which I'm prepared to die
> That the United States actively supported the Apartheid regime is a great national shame.

The real shame is that The Afrikaner nationlist party that instituted apartheid ran on the platform in 1948, the same year that the Dixiecrats in America ran on a segregationist platform. Apartheid started to crumble in 1990, less than 30 years after George Wallace, as Governor of Alabama, declared "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!", less than 25 years after he ran for President, and just over 20 years after MLK was assassinated.

Of course, by 1970 the situation in the U.S. was far better than it was in South Africa. But apartheid in South Africa was less far-removed, temporally, from segregation in America than most Americans appreciate. Ronald Reagan, who opposed Mandela as President, spent more of his life living in a legally segregated America than he did living in a legally integrated America.
Without viewable source code, or a solid explanation of the algorithm at play, this feels a bit like the Turk.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
What I think happened is: there was a big pushback against Thiomersal in local antiseptics

So, they create a campaign against its "dangers" while maintaining it in vaccines? It confuses people.

Yes, it has its risks, but the benefits outweigh it.

But it's being phased out in vaccines as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal
An Antagonist’s Guide To Destroying The Surveillance State
Whn says that more than 95% of measles mortality was in low income areas. Is the low mortality rate in higher income areas due to a higher rate of vaccination, or does better medical infrastructure itself lower the moratality? Genuinely interested to hear what knowledgeable people think.