skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
beside working, I spent time lurking on reddit, lobste.rs and /g/
Show HN - Evolux, Uber meets AirBnB for Per-Seat Helicopter Travel
How sad that we've reached a stage in Britain where one can talk about "both parties", and not be misrepresenting the situation.
The problem with quotes about money that money is considered to be some limited resource akin to wood and spending money is like burning the wood.
LG Unveils Internet-Connected TV Running WebOS Acquired From HP
Is what I did something like what you're talking about?

(Replace every 3rd word with fizz, every 5th word with buzz)

I don't crave an invite, I just want to know that this is for sure what you're talking about.

Oh! You want program code :)
Would it be rude of me to ask what the business model is? This doesn't seem like the type of venture that lends itself well to the standard ways of making a profit off of open source, ie consulting or support.
Again, if the advertisers, panhandlers and petitioners are not harassing you (which violates existing laws), what exactly is the problem? Not to mention that some places may have laws banning certain practises outright. If enough people are feeling uncomfortable by non-harassing panhandlers, then a general no panhandling law will be passed. Some places (a city in Brazil) has a no advertising law.

The question isn't about someone's right to feel comfortable, it's laws targeting an individual instead of a class. A place decides no petitioning? Sure, fine (putting aside any civil rights issues). A place decides petitioning is OK, unless they don't like a specific petitioner? How does that make sense? If the petitioner is acting correctly, why should they get a ban? And if they aren't, why isn't their unacceptable behaviour categorically banned?
I pay almost 50% in taxes here in the Netherlands, and wholeheartedly support this system. The current system is worse.
Snapchat CEO and Forbes Clash Over Recent Cover Story
that is a very narrow way to look at it.

the 9% 'drop in work' will be offset by the increase in consumption caused by a large range of people suddenly having more purchasing power,

businesses will have to increase production, and hire more workers to do so.

they will have to pay the workers more to entice them in, and provide better working conditions.

this will generate more work, and higher consumption.
This sounds like NYC's stop and frisk, which, while still nominally requiring probable cause, became in practice blanket permission to stop any black or Hispanic person for any reason.

However, it might be different from a law allowing the police to turn people away from a part of town.
In Go, nil is a value, not a type.
Assigning 'nil' to an interface only assigns the value, not the type.
An interface has both a value and a type at runtime, but is "nil" only if both the value and the type are nil.
Could this be used as an alternative to a bloom filter ?
/g/ & StackExchange. Still waiting for my account to be accepted at lobste.rs

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Gwyneth Paltrow Detox Diet
What strikes me is how little was gained by both sides in this, and how futile their actions seem in hindsight.

History probably would have ended up in a similar way if Hoover had not devoted so many resources to spying on Viet Nam protestors and counter culture revolutionaries. He was really pursuing his lifelong obsession with communism, which was another political movement that probably would have died without so much government surveillance. His spying didn't do anything to dissuade Martin Luther King or other members of the Civil Rights movement. All that effort and violation of privacy for a difficult to discern impact on history.

Stealing and publishing documents from the FBI didn't seem to have much of an impact either. There was a temporary public outcry, some commissions were established and the whole thing was forgotten in less than a decade. We just wound up in the same situation 40 years later and will most likely end up with the same results. It takes a mountain of courage to steal from the freaking FBI, and that group of people deserve credit for standing up for what they believed in. If only their risk produced a more appreciable reward for society.

I fear a never ending cycle of surveillance and protest. Chicken and the egg. The stakes seem higher now, on both sides, but there are no guarantees that we won't go through the whole process again to achieve the same non-result. We need to figure out how to use the political process instead of theft to stop our government agencies from doing things that we don't like. Or else we'll be reading this same story again decades from now.
There are links to the studies in the right hand side alongside the text. Here you go:

Homeless study: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/support-rough-sleepers-lo...

Experimental evidence from Uganda: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2268552

An Experimental Assessment of the Women’s Income
Generating Support (WINGS) Program in Uganda: http://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/wings_full...

OECD study "Just Give Money to the Poor -
The Development Revolution from
the Global South": http://www.oecd.org/dev/pgd/46240619.pdf

It's a bit harder to find as they're not at the bottom of the article where they usually are. But the author of the article did cite several studies. Did you choose to ignore them?
The Internet's Cicada: A Mystery Without An Answer
Written evidence to UK Parliament Home Affairs Select Committee hearings on "Anti-Social behaviour Orders - Analysis of the first six years"
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/c...

"Again this year, in Manchester, the Council used its powers to obtain an ASBO to stop mobile soup vans operating in the city centre. These vans provide food and assistance regularly each evening to about 100 homeless people. The Council however argued that after the vans had left there was a mess all over the place and people had complained. Probation staff argued that the same could be said about every kebab shop, pub, chip shop and off-licence in the city." [section d, para 3]
My take is that they simply want independence from Android. Maybe no longer possible in phones, but they could make a go in TV.

There were reports of bad behavior from LG w.r.t smart TVs [1].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/smart-tv-from-lg-pho...
You just described Google by other words.
"Your poverty makes my uncomfortable" is not a valid reason for enacting discriminating legislation.
FWIW, all I ever read about on HN is how DO is constantly a disaster. Why you would choose to host there is beyond me. Just move your blog- It takes all of a few hours.
I spent most of the time finishing my backlog on the multireddits I have made. To list down some of the sub-reddits, /r/dailyprogrammer, /r/cscareerquestions, /r/algorithms etc. This, in the time I would have been surfing HN instead, obviously.
I also had a bookmarks folder of links from HN that I hadn't gone through.
Hum... if you can run a browser, you can already run executable files (ELF or the Windows-crap-equivalent), including all TeXLive tools. Thus, running in a browser does not bring portability.

However, as "JoshTriplett" pointed out, running in a browser brings the possibility of client-side computation triggered from a web host. But this is not what I call portability.
They said they're both European
That's not entirely true. Early navigation was done with gyroscopes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system specifically:

"The INS is initially provided with its position and velocity from another source (a human operator, a GPS satellite receiver, etc.), and thereafter computes its own updated position and velocity by integrating information received from the motion sensors. The advantage of an INS is that it requires no external references in order to determine its position, orientation, or velocity once it has been initialized."
I had to recognize English for a cryptography project in college. This was my entire strategy, which the professor advised for rejecting non-English (it turns out recognizing non-English is easier than recognizing English), and works well:

1. Parse the full text of some long book available on Project Gutenberg. Record every trigram that occurs. Frequency is irrelevant; we just want to know whether a trigram occurs or not.

2. Go through your text, counting the number of trigrams that didn't exist in the sample text. If the number of strange trigrams exceeds a threshold (for my project I used a threshold of 3, but you can tune this), reject the text as non-English.

Given the constant finite threshold I used, that does amount to a regex, but I don't recommend trying to write it out explicitly.
At last, an antidote to all those horrendous Flash magazines!
yes you're right. so replies will now switch to how they don't stop you from deleting data, because... well, i have no idea why. it seems to just be a law of nature.
When Mark Met Evan
The problem with left wingers is that they assume money can be printed at will without realising inflation will turn their wealth into dust before you can say "poverty".
Your initial comment referenced the possibility of people being given an order for "clogging up the pavement", whether protesting, queuing for the opera, etc - that is what I've been referencing.
Mobile Gaming and the Pyramid of Scarcities
> Tacheles gone and the police evicting the last few remaining squats, and rents rising all around

so it begins, IHMO. Bergmannstrasse and Mitte seem to change quite rapidly in that direction, for example.
Can you elaborate an example where the neighbour is not violating any laws or bylaws, and needs a tailored law against them?

Best I can come up with off the top of my head is a restraining order, when there's obvious potential for very damaging acts, but no crime has been committed yet, or for parole type scenarios.
There's always gonna be bad guys, the trick is dealing with them in a way that isn't worse than the damage they do on their own.
And artists will have more time/freedom to create and thus inspire people, and from that create more happiness for the general population, which cannot directly be measured in terms of money, but is still very valuable.
In response to "Violent crime has been plummeting in the UK for years", we may want to bear in mind the possibility that the PR talents and ability to control the press of UK governments and police forces has been on the rise for years.
This hits the spot in so many ways! Just trying to finish reading all of it now...
Premium Times Restored After Cyber Attack
It's perfectly fine for a TOS to allow a service provider to comply with the law. The problem is when they have their own highly ambiguous laws and lack a proper system to resolve violations.
I'm glad I found out what kind of service they offer before I signed up for it, which I might have been tempted to do otherwise.
If that's all they were concerned with they could just use GPS readings to invalidate the service agreement rather than switching the machine off.

In any case, I wish that Congress would step up and put law around the issue of whether one can "sell" things with restricted use. E-books, for instance, are really leased rather than sold. A sane legal system would give teeth to that legal distinction.
Michelin produces printed maps based on OpenStreetMap
A pedantic correction not for its own sake -- Patrick's meaning wasn't in any doubt -- but because I think it's quite interesting.

Not "bellweather" but "bellwether". A wether is a male sheep. A bellwether is a male sheep at the head of a flock, around whose neck a bell is hung so that you can hear where the flock is even when you can't see it. (The rest of the flock will follow its leader like, um, sheep.)

So a bellwether is a single thing whose behaviour is a leading indicator of that of a larger-scale bunch of other related things.
The Way To Happiness: Remember The 4 P's
I spent the whole time on HN pressing F5
I thought the entire article sounded like a bit of an overreaction. It sounds like hashbrownchew (vpsexperience.wordpress.com) wrote this article with the intent of stirring up as much controversy as possible. However, when I read through it I was perplexed. Reading the article[1] that DO asked him to edit did not give me much sympathy for hashbrownchew either. He refers to Collins as "one obnoxious Googler" and then somewhat-creepily investigates (with instructions) where Collins is lives to use for another inflammatory point. This entire article sounds much like a hashbrownchew is a papparazzi trying to provoke a reaction from Collins and then trying to further stir up controversy after misrepresenting Collins gets him into trouble. I really do not see why he didn't just edit the article to be anonymous. Whether he _has_ to edit it or not isn't clear, but it is the polite thing to do.

1. http://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/googler-speaks...
"Stealing and publishing documents from the FBI didn't seem to have much of an impact either. There was a temporary public outcry, some commissions were established and the whole thing was forgotten in less than a decade."

I think what they did was both brave and highly valuable. They went through great risks to ignite a spark among their fellow citizens, so they would join them in opposing these practices.

It's a shame that the majority of their fellow citizens decided to ignore the problem. I too fear that we're going into "never ending cycle of surveillance and protest", but because democracy requires active participation from citizens, and these rarely do anything but complain and, sometimes, vote.
I guess both are liberal in the US sense of term but are not agreeing about if they have to mandatory delete the contents or to mandatory do the reverse. :)
Software Takes Command
SammyJS is taking a dirtnap
SammyJS.org seems to have a name server issue that has been going on for quite a few days. I tried contacting the developer via email, but it suffers from the same name server issue. If anyone here knows Aaron, could you please let him know?
> because one group gets away with bad behaviour does that mean we should excuse everyone's bad behaviour

That's not what was said, nor was it what was meant. I explicitly mentioned prosecuting both of them, but brought up the blind spots that contain the larger problems. Paying a lot more attention to the much smaller problem is not logical.

> Anyway global regulators are doing all they can to clean up the banks and have them pay restitution for their actions. So it's not like they are being allowed to carry on either.

Not as far as I know. Citation needed of the number of bankers prosecuted or jailed for malfeasance. And to why it can't happen again.
While some people may find a 'basic' income sufficient many of them are already on government benefits anyway. The real issue with the current system is the effective marginal income tax causes people pay effective tax rates in the 80-120+% range stranding them in poverty. With basic income that does not happen you always keep most of what you earn so working more hours always useful.

EX: Someone on unemployment can get 340$ a week for 6 months and goes away if you have a job. Minimum wage is less than 8.50$ an hour so you could make less money working a 40 hour week than taking unemployment. Social Security has similar issues where someone on disability can't take a greater job a Walmart for extra income without losing far more money.
I had an incident where there was a problem with one of my droplets and their response was to shut down all of my droplets, and only leave me a message saying they needed to verify my identity. I had to ask questions to even figure out why my droplets were shut down. After communicating with them for about a half a day they agreed to turn them all back on and in the future to only shut down the offending droplets (without giving them my identity, by the way). I'm still using DO but will definitely scale back in the future, they seem to be run like a hobbyist gaming clan forum.
I was using techmeme to get the latest tech news. To be honest, my work breaks got a lot more boring.
> Threads are a broken programming model too

Oh come off it. Threads are in no sense 'broken' - compared to CSP or actors, they just give you a larger set of things you can write. Some of those things are bugs. Others are very useful. For example, a disruptor:

http://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

Nulls are broken because they let you write bugs, but don't let you write anything you couldn't write with options or whatever.
Alternatives: http://bitdeli.com/ and http://githalytics.com/

Really a shame Github doesn't allow simple inclusion of a Google Analytics tag.
Join the mailing list for www-team: [https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/www-te...]

There is an open request to export the current blog entries for use with some kind of static site generator [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10479], so if anyone wants to take a crack at that with me, could be fun.
Same with The Times and Independent. The Telegraph is the only national non-tabloid newspaper in the UK that makes a profit.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/may/24/tele...
We don't really see tramps anymore in the UK. Your definitions are correct. A tramp is someone who is always on the move. We saw lots of them after the two world wars in the UK, as conscripted traumatised ex servicemen returned home. I'd imagine in the USA to see a few Vietnamese War veterans to be tramps now.
Relevant XKCD
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/haskell.png
Libel implies it's not true. If it is true then it is legal (as far as I am aware).

The original blog post strikes me as possibly slightly biased, but probably true, therefore not libellous.
I Threw Boiling Water into -14 Degrees F Air
What's The Deal With Crowdfunding Investments?
Granttree startup values
China suspends ban on video game consoles after more than a decade
Personally, being taxed close to 52% (in Holland), I don't have any issues with that either. Let's keep a close eye on the developments in Switzerland concerning basic income and take our lessons from that.
Isn't IRC dead yet? What are some of the IRC channels you would recommend to HN users?
FOLO, a new electronics toy in making
global regulators

You mean the banks themselves?
I think those that are employed on very good wages have a decent set of brains, and thus they can see that this is a good idea and therefore will NOT oppose it.
Didn't watch the video, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
I know this isn't what you're asking, but I imagine in this case it's because that's one of the challenges of regex golf. Matching regex, as short as possible.
Your question is being asked wrong. Even the police ask it differently now.

instead:

"When was the last time you walked down an alley at night"

"When (and where) was the last time you felt afraid when walking at night"

"How afraid did you feel yesterday"

Asking people for specific occurrences is a much better question than asking people to imagine fears.

The fear of crime is real, and it's more important than the actual risk of crime.
It was tough, but in the end I got by with a combination of work and spending time with friends & family
FWIW, this is one of only a few 'bad' DO incidents I've seen, among many very positive things.

As a DO user for over a year, I can say I am mostly very happy with the service I have received, although I hope they issue a statement about this, apologising to the author and pledging to review their policies on this.
Same thing in Firefox also
Solution: Stop using a 2-bit cloud provider.

But none of this would have happened if the article author realised that companies all over the world are doing this. In the UK there are even "zero hour contracts". Welcome to capitalism and life not being fair :)

Other than the Googler clearly being an unsympathetic simpleton. I'd hazard a guess that almost all other permies at Google, or any company, would be equally as disinterested and unversed in the subject at hand. It simply doesn't come on to the average, particularly the "well employed", person's radar.
The same exists in Belgium for about a year or so where it's called a "GAS boete" (Gemeentelijke administratieve sanctie ~= muncipial administrative sanction).

They have been the subject of a lot of dismay among people because they're often used for the wrong thing.

Some stupid reasons to get a GAS fine are:

- Eating a sandwich on the porch of a church

- Posting negative comments about the police on a news website

- Kids can't play football when the pidgeon herders (? - NL: duivenmelker) are managing their pidgeons.

- sitting on the back part of a bench

- Putting garbage from your car in to a public trash can. (yes, IN TO the trash can, not next to it)
It was seen as illegal dumping of trash (NL: sluikstorten)

Source: http://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/top-100-van-de-absurdste-g...
> You might think that at first, and it's probably true to some extent, but ultimately they would not oppose it too much.

There's a fierce and vocal opposition on HN though. Hard to tell what it really means without knowing everyone's country, political views and other various characteristics.
I missed them, thanks.

But the main studies I was interested in are still not there. Specifically, the US and Canada controlled experiments from the 70s (the one it claims reduces labor by "only" 9%).

Given how radically different the first and third world are from each other (one example: in the third world the poor usually work, in the first world they usually don't), I don't see much sense in extrapolating Uganda experiments to the US.

The closest they ever come is citing the same newspaper article about Mincome that everyone else cites: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/dauphins-great-experi...
Intel: All of our microprocessors made this year are “conflict free”
Reddit /Jailbreak :D
iOS Community Growing Pains
Indeed; political campaigning 101 (at least here in the UK) is that libel must both:

* contain false statements AND
* be designed to damage reputation.

If only the latter, then it's not libel.

However, if it's the former as well, then both the author and the publisher/printer can be sued, so DO in this case are protecting their own legal status by removing libelous material.

Saying you don't like someone online, quoting them and making inferences, are all part of normal political debate and are not libelous.

Quoting somebody out of context, or changing the quote, and implying that they believe the direct opposite of what they actually said, would be untrue and therefore would be libelous. True quotes, backed up by screenshots, would not fall into this category, at least in the UK.
I actually got some work done...
A quick look at the Lifx smart bulb
Sony and Microsoft must be laughing their arse's off right now. The whole point of a console is that its cheap and you get revenue from games. You lower the barrier to entry to allow mass market.

The re-badging PC gaming as console gaming without altering anything else is not going to usher in a new era of console gaming. I don't see the advantage of this over having a PC for gaming plus an existing console. Where is the USP?
The problem with central bankers is they print money at will to bail out corrupt financial institutions creating inflation that destroys the wealth of everyone except those who own hard assets
I can't take this article seriously, an oceanographer inciting people to eat more fish makes no sense in times of over-overfishing.

Any article telling me "you don't have to worry about fukushima because chernobyl was worse" is suspicious to me. It's the same as saying you shouldn't be concerned about this war, world war 2 was worse.
I'm not a left winger and it doesn't matter what's the total amount of money printed but rather it's about the way it distributes.
Jet in 'near miss' with UFO near Heathrow, pilot says