skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mormons are expected to have lower or no consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs (and it's fairly more difficult to obtain at least the former two in Utah). Though, I can't find any actual study data showing they do in fact have lower consumption of those, it would be interesting to see if anyone has some data showing they are in fact lower.
Freedom of press and freedom of speech are complete red herrings here.

DO is a private company and they are free to agree to whatever they want in their contracts. They don't owe anyone any obligation other than to adhere to the agreements they form with their customers.
I would just do the check-in and set privacy to "Only Me" - like I do every time an app share-walls me.
Zuckerberg’s Forced Reality: He’s in the Ad Business
> I know it is hard to control for culture, but seeing as how mormon men are still American but have a 10 year gap in life expectancy over other American men

The study [1] did not find that Mormon men have a 10 year advantage of other American men, it found that the "optimum" subgroup of white Mormon men ("optimum" defined as never smoked, married, 12+ years education, and at least weekly church attendance) had a 9.8 year life expectancy advantage over white males in general in the US -- and that similar figures were seen for the same "optimum" characteristics among all religions.

[1] Original source: http://www.belnapfamily.org/brentjbelnap/institute/Preventiv...
Is the answer to build a new social network? No.

Funny, your phrase "what are those little people statues at the 14th St. 8th Ave. subway station" returns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Underground as the first response for me, which I assume is what you are looking for. It seems that many of the examples are just location based information that is better served via map.
If you didn't bother to read the "learn more":

When in the viewer, press C to see the 3D interpretation of individual shots and M for a map of the path taken by the camera.
Silicon Valley is no longer the only game in town
It looks like this means we can now redirect traffic on highways to avoid congestion. I know current gps' do this now. But in future, they could suggest different paths for different users, even though they are travelling to the same approximate destination.
Hello, new year. Hello, new Chromebooks.
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Also very impressed here. However, it appears to have a huge limitation over the previous implementation: You can only move in a linear fashion though the scene. Gone is the ability to jump around in a 3D environment. At least from the first handful of examples I looked at.

Does anyone see an environment in this new version that still allows freedom of movement?
Ex post facto doesn't necessarily come into play with statute of limitations though. Ex post facto prevents a once-legal situation from becoming illegal, so as (extreme hyperbole here) to prevent the government from outlawing reading books tomorrow, and punishing everybody who read a book today. There are additional sideways extensions to ex post facto that prevent milder penalties from being increased, and that sort of thing (e.g., so that if they'd arrested Capone on Jaywalking, they can't increase the penalties to be life-long prison sentences or what have you), but there aren't any provisions in the actual Constitution that prohibit adjustments of statute.

That said Stogner v. California is the relevant case here, which ruled that express act as unconstitutional, despite its omission from the Constitution proper, but even in that case, it was overturned, then upheld, then overturned again, so its provisions aren't so obvious that some clever wording couldn't complicate the issue further enough into more vagueness. Lest we forget that the government can, and very often does pass laws that seem "clearly" unconstitutional. Even further, sometimes those laws are upheld.
PlayStation Now game-streaming service coming summer 2014
From my experience with retargeting it drives amazing lift in conversions. A lot of platforms allow you to do this dynamic ad placing where you show the recently added item in a cart, but not purchased.

Also, let's not forget that Amazon is obsessed with testing, I am sure they have troves of it to back up everything they are doing.
I absolutely detest TrackPoint-type sticks. I find them largely unusable for pointing, and every one I've ever had has got in the way of actually typing. We have them at work and thankfully they are removable. A non-removable one would be a deal-breaker for any laptop for me.
Do you have a citation for that US usage statistic?
One trick that helps me be productive is to expect that I won't finish an entire task in one sitting. I used to have this problem of procrastinating because I want to finish a task in one go. Now it's easier to break up work into chunks and work on them separately, knowing that eventually they'll all be finished (not working up myself too much in expecting I can finish them all).

I also found this book "Your Brain at Work" really helpful, especially in the chapter about what gets us motivated (a bit of anxiety coupled with novelty helps).
More likely: there will be no hybrid approach and you'll see a piece of paper tacked to the bulletin board: "House throwaway Facebook account login for those without an account."
It's the one thing that hasn't improved over the years.
"Pigeon milk" does exist: it is a type of crop milk, the regurgitated lining that parent birds feed to their young.

But "pigeon milker" as pigeon fancier instead is a copy of the Dutch word for nightjar ("geitenmelker"), according to NL Wikipedia:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duivenmelk

Nightjars were known once as goatsuckers in English because it was believed they sucked milk from goats.

So it seems it is just a play on words. I am not Dutch, though.
> I would add a counter argument to "it feels hacky" because to me, it feels like the perfect solution: icons are symbols that we use to explain things, just like words.

Interesting point! But I think where it falls down is that the HTML content used to conjure a given icon is never related to the icon's content. If there was some way of representing words as icons with a font (perhaps using ligatures?), that would be one thing. But as things stand, it's still a hack.
It's once a month, and is a two-meal fast of both food and drink. Another concrete cultural practice that could make a difference is that Mormons abstain from alcohol, coffee, tea, and tobacco.
An Almost-Linear-Time Algorithm for Approximate Max Flow in
Undirected Graphs, and its Multicommodity Generalizations:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.2338v2.pdf
They use bing.
All nice guesses but I don't suppose you have any data to support them?

Yes, war for examples, sounds logical, but how many Americans have died in wars in the past 30 years? 10,000? Does that really move the needle?
Another big difference in the American way of life is that, in most cities, we've managed to engineer a wholly car-dependent transportation system, such that the average American walks half as much people in other countries:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/the-pedometer-test-...

All that driving also puts the average American at huge risk for dying young in a car crash.
I go crazy under 6 ... That's why i'm spending more and more time behind my chromebook; it has all day battery life. My laptops hardly make 3 hours and it makes me not want to use them for much of anything anymore.
Trying to register with Twitter, get the error: "Error creating user". Can't even use the app, bad first impression.

Edit: same thing with Facebook.
If your package exports a single type only, New is more appropriate, if it exports multiple types, you should use NewObject:

http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#names
If you look at the original study, the biggest single-factor difference (and its not Mormon men that have the 10 years advantage, but Mormon men that have never smoked, have 12+ years of education, are married, and attend church at least once a week) is "never smoked", and the next strongest is "attend church at least once a week" (though whether that's causal or covariant is at least debatable).

And unique features of Mormon practice presumably aren't involved, since the study found the same improvement for members of other religions with the same identified "optimum" features.
This one is really cool http://photosynth.net/preview/view/31e5927d-af4b-4678-8bba-c... !
Innovative Philips SlimStyle LED bulb goes on sale for $9.97 (short review)
Wohoo! https://twitter.com/jnunemaker/status/420634885552754688 :)
ouch because it makes this submission obsolete in a record 9 hours.

Agreed on the actual feature :-)
Fukushima Meltdowns: A Global Conspiracy of Denial
I can't even create an account. Get error creating user when trying to connect to my twitter.
A few others that come to mind not related to food/drinks:

* Absolutely no work on Sundays (not even checking work email)

* A strong social safety net. Mormons are expected to tithe (pay 10% of their income to the church), and this is used in part to provide for members in need. Extensive volunteering is also expected, and used for some of the same purposes (e.g. caring for elderly or disabled).
You may be sympathetic, but it seems like most people aren't. Most folks start saying what they'd do better and how they could improve the availability in a weekend.
Google and Election Commission of India proposed controversial tie-up
Bigotry? Bigotry against torturers? Seriously?
package main

import (
"log"
"net/smtp"
"github.com/jordan-wright/email"
)

func main() {
e := email.NewEmail()
e.From = "Jordan Wright <test@gmail.com>"
e.To = []string{"test@example.com"}
e.Bcc = []string{"test_bcc@example.com"}
e.Cc = []string{"test_cc@example.com"}
e.Subject = "Awesome Subject"
e.Text = "Text Body is, of course, supported!"
e.HTML = "<h1>Fancy HTML is supported, too!</h1>"
err := e.Send("smtp.gmail.com:587",
smtp.PlainAuth("", "x@gmail.com", "pw", "smtp.gmail.com"))
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
In what world is 9-10 hours of active use "short" battery life?
I wouldn't say that the American public at large seems perfectly fine with it (or they wouldn't allow it.) That's a very broad brush you're painting with. A large proportion, probably a majority, don't like what's being done with our military. We tried to get Bush Jr out of office after his first term, and that was a very close election with just as much evidence of vote tampering as the his first election. Obama was overwhelmingly elected because everything thought he would do things differently and restore our standing in the world, but that's turned out not to be the case. His reelection was much closer, and he probably only won because his opponents were so weak.

After all these years, I think the American public has largely given up on their votes making any difference whatsoever; President, Senate, House of Representatives, they mostly all do whatever their financiers want once they're elected, public opinion be damned.

Anyone want to come in and liberate us from our corrupt government? (I was going to say tyrannical, but I don't want to devalue that word; we're not there yet.)
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Doesn't draconian normally mean excessive? It wouldn't be draconian considering you're proposing to engage in the exact abuse such a measure would be meant to fix.
I'm interested now. Not enough to rewatch the entire show front to back, but how about you give some examples of the protagonists using torture (like episode numbers)? When the bad guys use torture in a tv show or movie, that shouldn't count towards what you are claiming - only when the good guys uses it.
China’s hi-tech emperors
5-year survival rate is a poor statistic for comparing cancers across regions. It's highly correlated with how early the cancer was detected -- treatment effectiveness is just noise in comparison.
Making the Right Resolutions and Sticking to Them
Ask HN: Have you ever open sourced your whole startup?
We created a flipboard like product (web and ios) that we ended up ditching to create a completely different company. Now we have a kind of cool product which a lot of us use but noone is working on actively, I would like to open source it or give it away to some young team. Have any of you guys done it before? Did it work out?
Disaggregation of a Bank
From my perspective as a child of the 70s in a province not on the US Canada has been flooded with US culture.

At worst in my childhood were maybe a McDonalds and a Dairy Queen. No cable TV and few other cultural influences.

Now we're fat, WalMart shopping, gun toting, rap music/urban culture, even dialects are more US sounding.
...or you might want to forgo the custom back-end completely and use one of the "nobackend" solutions: http://nobackend.org/solutions.html

For example deployd is open source AFAIR; others (like Firebase, Parse) are hosted solutions. But overall they all give you instant CRUD over your data. In your case, their turn-key multi-user capabilities are a bonus.
I wonder if the non-US OECD life expectancy might -- for some decades prior to 1990 or so -- have been excessively depressed by a couple of years. There are two major reasons I can think of for this. The first is that for at least the first half of the 20th century the U.S. population on average was probably substantially wealthier than European counterparts (European countries make up a substantial part of the OECD). The second is that the civilian population of much of Europe suffered much more during World War II. This might have resulted in lingering effects on life expectancy that gradually disappeared over the ensuing decades.
It is impressive. But, I have to wonder: what does this get you above-and-beyond taking a short video of an object, and then allowing the view to "scrub" back and forth within the video?
Exactly, and at $4,000/month you would have to be conscious about your money spending habits, else that income will quickly disappear. Sure, you can stretch that amount to provide you ample comforts but you'll be making specific decisions to cut back on certain things or perks to provide a high enough standard of living in other areas.

When I think of "living like a king" I don't particularly imagine "14th century royalty", but I do imagine being able to buy the latest laptop with ample memory and an SSD, for example, without having to think twice about the expense.
Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
What's an ALIAS record? I don't even see that here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types
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Django was basically that at the end - but its the fact that i've done it once and so until I get back into it the ramp up time is the same. I've dabbled in ruby before too. Have you had any luck with specific tutorials to get going?
... or don't go to a business that has purchased a Facebook WiFi router.
It's a little out of normal, mostly because they were able to hire phenomenal people right away. And I don't think that 4 managers is a fair description. None of them fit the PHB mold, and all of them have different specialties that they can make very solid individual contributions to.
before, we could use the free wifi without a facebook account
YC and B2B
How is the multi-monitor support on the XPS 13 running Ubuntu? I googled, but could not find much useful information.

How many external monitors can be connected?

I found some information here: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-031040.htm , but it looks as if most of the info applies to Windows.
Which Laptops? I always like seeing who's making Linux laptops.
The US has a higher rate of infant mortality because it has more premature births.

http://www.newsweek.com/us-leads-industrialized-world-premat...
"perhaps doing and eating what we want (to the extent we’re making choices) is more valuable than lower mortality and morbidity"

It seems more systemic to me. I go to my supermarket and decide to eschew snacks like candy or potato chips for dried fruit or the like. But even the dried fruit has extra sugar added to it. I look at the vitamins and such on some yogurts and there is very little healthy about them. Normal dinner type foods are loaded with sodium, cholesterol, saturated fat etc. Even when one wants to be eat healthy, it can be a trial, because so much food is loaded with junk, even "healthy" type foods.
Haha, the end kind of freaked me out. This would be fun for making scary photo collages.
The usual way for conflict-of-interest policies to work is for the one whose interests are in conflict to simply recuse themselves from voting.

It is not so simple for the IETF and IRTF, since they traditionally have eschewed voting and instead opt for “rough consensus and running code”. Also, the position of the NSA is fundamentally opposed to what the CFRG is supposed to achieve, so I don’t see how a normal conflict-of-interest policy is going to help.
Very cool, but I found the interpolation artifacts to be super distracting.
Excellent point. It seems to have lost functionality over the previous implementation (see my other post).
Some people legitimately can be though. I take that statement as an axiom.
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I posted a link to a "Year of Edits" video as well to visually demonstrate the progress that is being made - http://vimeo.com/48984270
Is abstaining from coffee and tea necessarily a health benefit? Not meaning to imply that that is necessarily the intent.
Google's Humans.txt
All that shows is who they're hosting their DNS with, it has nothing to do with using a CDN. Dynect offers a CDN management tool that makes it easy to balance multiple CDNs across specific regions, so I'm not at all surprised they're using them for their DNS.
My laptop goes easily to 7-8 without changing my usage significantly, 9 if I'm only doing email. I hardly carry the power brick outside the house anymore.
thanks mmariani : This looks very close to the model/py in django.
The worst part of ALIAS is that traditional hosted DNS servers don't support it, as far as I can see. Usually CDN providers do handle static IP addresses at the zone apex somehow, but in this case it seems they don't.
>(with no physical harm done)

You're going to subscribe to the idea mental torture is somehow less than physical torture? Nope, wrong. Ask anyone who has suffered from a mental illness and ask if their illness was less than a physical illness.

One example.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/five-forms-of-torture.htm#p...

Number 1 - Mock Executions

It's against international law and The U.S. Army Field Manual expressly prohibits soldiers from staging mock executions.

>and the interrogator knows the subject has it

Oh really? How does this interrogator know? With 100% probability?

I'm not familiar with interrogation techniques, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say we study them like we study most things, with DATA and FACTS, not just some comment on the internet saying "they say Tell me! or I'll say 'Tell me!' again!'" because there is a good incentive to get the technique right, and people know more than me.
Hah, nice! Thanks for that.

I never bothered to search that exact phrasing of the question. When I initially went looking I used a few phrases that didn't turn up anything. It seems like "statues" or "sculptures" are the operative words. Try "decorations" (which is what I tried), and you won't get the same result. Getting the phrasing just right is an unnecessary hurdle. Had I posted a picture to Jelly, it would've spoken for itself.

So considering my failings, I actually see this exchange in favor of Jelly or a service like it. After all, it was you, someone part of my social network, who gave me the answer I was looking for, not google.
The Amish present another interesting divergence from the general populace's life expectancy:

"[T]he Amish have had a 72-year life expectancy not only for the past few decades, as have most Americans, but for the last 300 years—since they settled in the United States in the 1700s, when most people living in America were dying in their 40s."

http://gerontology.umaryland.edu/documents/Advances_in_Aging...
> no drinking alcohol, coffee or tea (I think it may be caffeine)

I can't speak for Mormonism, but this was the most informative summary I've seen on the subject:

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/whats-not-on-the-mormo...
There are dozens of instances of New() in the standard library.
I was mostly disappointed he never got hungry. You'd think he'd at least be eating a clif bar or a sandwich every few episodes.
Interesting. I've never seen that in the Nordic countries or the US. Typically either the wifi is just open entirely, or there's a WPA password written on a little card by the cash register. Helsinki even has open wifi across the whole downtown, and in Denmark all the Baresso locations have open wifi (no login or password). Does the UK have laws requiring the hotspot providers to collect that information, or are they doing it of their own accord for marketing or abuse-reduction reasons?
Well yeah, that's my point. Object oriented is not always the right way to do it. A crude example might be just how hideous and over designed an OO HelloWorld can be.
I've looked at kinvey before. Maybe worth looking back into this. Have you had any experience with their ability to scale? (I know - get users first and then scale :| but you know.. can't help but thinking it)
Jelly - the new social mobile app by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone
House vote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/guantanamo-bay-clos...

Senate vote: http://swampland.time.com/2013/11/20/rand-paul-aids-surprise...

Both on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act
Real conversation happened to me in an ice cream shop with a home-brewed facebook captive portal in Cambridge, MA.

me: Excuse me, is there a way to log into the wifi if you don't have a facebook account?

clerk: No, we've had a lots people doing illegal stuff on our wifi, so we need to verify their identity.

me: I understand, however I don't have a facebook account. Would you like to verify my identity with a photo id?

clerk: No, you'll need to get a facebook account.

me: I have serious concerns about my privacy. I will not make one just for the sake of getting online here.

clerk: Just make one with a fake name!

me: …
Real torture has been policy for over a decade; no one has been prosecuted for it, and the evidence was intentionally and unashamedly destroyed.

Why shouldn't television reflect reality? Torture isn't wrong or illegal anymore in the US.
the movement is much smother than anything I could accomplish with a cam ...
There's lot's of elements to the problem. For example, the infant morality rate for black Americans is double the rate for white Americans, and triple the OECD average: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6205a6.htm.