skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is a good idea.

But it's an extension of "stop relying so much on a non-free, proprietary 9-digit number as your id only to be at the mercy of your phone carrier".

Personally, I use a data-only plan and feel much better than when I had a carrier-provided phone number.
"Tracing garbage collection has better throughput than reference counting, but reference counting has lower and more predictable latency."

Exactly this. I would actually back off a bit and only claim that reference counting has more predictable latency, but the point is to sacrifice throughput in order to reduce worst case latency.
What third party database was stolen? As usual, they never tell you the details.
I don't know that it's worse—more different. Maybe there are particular genres of action games which are not possible, but games like cut-the-rope, angry birds, flight control, etc, wouldn't be possible with a console controller either.

The genre that really feels unexplored in my view is long-form adventure games—touch feels like a natural fit for a game whose structure is "go there, now there, observe, repeat". This is what Republique was supposed to be about—it's supposed to be excellent; perhaps if it is a commercial success, others will follow.
> Most water is used for farming (grain in particular)

Is artificial irrigation used for growing grain in the US in any meaningful amount? Rain falling on crops shouldn't count towards "water usage", since the rain would just fall on other plants (e.g., grass or trees) in absence of farming.
The blogger is actually pointing out that America is a very accepting and safe place for muslims in comparison to Pakistan. If you click the links in his post where he references events you will see that they all actually occur in Pakistan.
Do you not rinse the dishes?

It is thought (I dont know if it is true) modern dishwashers are more water efficient than hand washing. It has been repeated to me before. Might be an urban legend.
The article was satire, if that is what you would call it.

That being said what do you call this style of writing, where the context is purposefully inverted?
The problem is that the people sending the messages can't control how they are sent.

The software I'm using can't solve that problem.
"Most water is used for farming (grain in particular)"

True, but how do you know they didn't already make that adjustment? I can't find any reference in the original report.

"household water usage with a sewer system is a null usage. Reducing that does almost nothing - all the water used gets recycled downstream by the next city downriver"

Except in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and many other coastal cities, where the sewage outfall is in the ocean....

"...septic systems waste water."

Functioning septic systems don't store water. They drain it to a field, and it goes wherever any other form of runoff would go. I don't see how you arrive at the conclusion that this is "wasteful".
Ask Grace Hopper... (and I think you'll find the answer was yes)
Screw flying cars, I want cars that own and maintain themselves
When I was a consultant in the construction industry world, our contracts all had an clause requiring a "reasonable standard of care". Basically, if something would be reasonably expected to be included (say accessing a website from the public internet which is the reason it's being built in the first place), you need to provide it.

Whether software contracts include that same kind of verbiage, I don't know.
Nintendo says it’s open to merger or acquisition
The reason iMessage works well is because it's integrated tightly into the OS. So for an open-source alternative to be competitive, it would have to run on... an open mobile OS, which would in turn require open hardware.
There's actually been a bit of work on this very idea!

http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/
Electricity generation uses a lot of water, but it's generally not used up by electricity generation. AKA, dams take all the water from a river but a river can have 6 dams and still have significant flow, because the only real loss is evaporation. Farms on the other hand evaporate most of the water they use.
Also, people whose writing is good enough have the opportunity to leverage their web audiences into purchasers of paid books. For example, Joel Spolsky (joelonsoftware.com) and Michael Lopp (randsinrepose.com) have published books based on their web postings. If you have content that is consistently interesting, people might actually pay to read it. And Spolsky's unpaid writing on the web also paid off through increasing awareness of his various business ventures. Ads aren't the only way to get a return on your writing investment.
Sure, not much, but some.
But not faster.
I don't know that RyanZAG is so much being user-hostile as reminding us that there are facts of non-free systems that are going translate to user-hostile for at least some subset of users.

There's incentives for people who make closed systems to make the most common edges of them comfortable. There's also incentives for them to ignore other sharp edges or to even actively make other edges nearly untraversable.
A data-only plan still has a carrier-provided phone number, and it will still default to that phone number when sending iMessages, happily ignorant of the fact that it can't call or text or MMS.
> for muslims

Specifically, the subgroup of Ahmadi Muslims.
Monkeypatching is for wimps. Use set_trace_func.
Couldn't have explained it better. Just one thought though: What if you buy it in a duty free shop?
Every square meter of Spain could be farmland and the United States would still have 3.5x as much farmland (that is, Spain's total landarea is less than a third of the United State's cropland).

As it stands, the United States has about an order of magnitude more cropland than Spain[1].

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=farmland+in+united+stat...
8 weeks
Time to switch your friends to WhatsApp
Better, but still not good.

5 billion a year will be noticable in the short run, but in the long run, the inflation per anno will approach 0.
I'm giving an alternative explanation for why the female named resumes are rated worse by the professors.

I'm "pulling it from" the same place you pulled your preferred explanation (that female performance conditional on the same resume is the same, and so the worse ratings were due to professors preferring males, even given the same performance, or incorrectly expecting worse performance from the females).

The issue with your interpretation of the study is your selective appeal to evidence.

You would like to provide evidence for the fact that worse outcomes for females are due to discrimination. But the evidence you provided is consistent with both explanations (discrimination vs actually worse performance from females)
Give me back my vertical screen real estate!

(inspect element... untick position: fixed... done)
Philip Seymour Hoffman dead at 46
Philip Seymour Hoffman's body was discovered at 11:30am. He had a syringe still in his arm and bags believed to contain heroin were found.
You can do better than that. User marks iMessage account as 'inactive'. Next time someone tries to send to his address via iMessage, ping their client with an "invalidate-cache-and-send-as-SMS" status code, and it's done. Everything is handled transparently to the sending user.

No matter what, it would require some sort of update.
Hey, apparently patriarchy costs women 23% of their wages. But I want to ignore 18% of that. That leaves me with 5% which I don't think is a problem. And I'm a woman, so I can't possibly be perpetuating patriarchy, can I?
Also, airlines are very sketchy about people carrying stuff for other people. Major security problem right there, as well as the fact that the import rules and rates will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction - the fact that people are being incentivised to carry it may also bring it into them "carrying on" as an import business, rather than just general travellers.
Does not america discriminate asians and other races at university admissions?
You need the water for cooling in a power plant, this is why many are built near rivers or lakes, and if they aren't they will have large manmade ponds or lakes from which to gather and dump water.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generat...
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Why you should marry a Blogger?
> Why does generating electricity use more water than farming?

It uses it in the sense that water touches the machinery. But it doesn't use it in the sense of the water not being available anymore.

The water is used for cooling, but it's put right back in the river it came from and can be used again by another power plant, or for drinking water.
Why LTE is indispensable in Germany
The assumption that poverty = lack of access to the internet was pretty generally true until about five years ago.

Today, the generation just entering the working population in developing countries still live on pretty meager incomes, but unlike their parents, are commonly on Facebook and able to participate in an online community without any intermediation from local organizations.

Most Zidisha borrowers are young adults living on about a dollar a day in the urban slums of Africa and Asia. They often have high school degrees and many are enrolled in university, but they live in sheet-metal shacks in muddy streets lined with sewage. They help support their families by searching for low-pay day labor or selling small inventories of low-value items. They usually access our website via public cybercafes (the price to browse the internet in Nairobi is just about ten cents).

So to answer your question, to support Salamatu herself you would probably need to lend through Kiva or another local organization. But if Salamatu has children, they may well be raising their own microloans through Zidisha someday.

Here is a story about one of our members who operates a cybercafe in Nairobi, which gives a pretty good idea of how young adults in developing countries are going online: http://p2p-microlending-blog.zidisha.org/2013/06/12/life-wil...
"Won't know, can't tell." Although you can't tell what the NSA might be able to tell border and customs... ;)
Same problem here and I know quite a few people who've had these issues as well.

iMessage is a huge mess - even if you're still using your iPhone. Back in December, when I was still on iPhone, I went in a month-long trip abroad. Since data roaming still costs a fortune, I had data switched off most of the time. I'd just connect on wifi whenever possible and occasionally switched on the data connection when I really needed to get online while on the go.

Yet, despite the fact that I was roaming and that I had my data connection switched off, most of the text messages that my iOS-using contacts sent me were sent via iMessage instead of plain SMS. Which meant that I'd only get their message when I went back online, hours and sometimes days later.
Improved ultrasound imaging provides alternate way to visualize tumors
The best alternative is TextSecure[0] I think (another one is the Telegram[1]), but they are not used by "lots of people".

[0] - https://whispersystems.org/

[1] - https://telegram.org/
Ah true. Thanks ;)
Am I missing something or are most of the comments on the article missing the key / substitution at the end? I wouldn't describe the article as "sarcastic" but more of a looking in the mirror type thing.
By that logic, it would be impossible to escape them without being physically restrained against your will.

That's not the case. People choose to stop being addicted to things all the time.
Nothing scares me more than someone speeding past me on the highway blaring dubstep or some other genre with that much bass.
I had this same problem and the best case fix seems to be to reset your Apple ID password; this forces you to log out from all devices, and so iMessage will at least error out for people who try and text you. But their devices will never go back to normal texts unless they specifically force it too, and that kind of lock-in is utter bullshit.
I didn't notice the Key at the bottom which replaces all of the US place names for the true Pakastani ones. It would have been cool if he had a piece of javacript to switch out and reveal the true story at the end.
You're talking about invisible implementation details.

My iMessage/FaceTime are set to use an email as the only ID. No one else knows or uses my data-only phone number. Just like they don't know or use my IMEI number.
Also consider that water is renewable. If you use less than the amount that gets replenished, you're fine. If you use more it will just get worse and worse.
The same thing happened to me when I broke my iPhone a few months back. I ended up speaking to 3 or 4 different representatives explaining that I had removed the phone number from all my iDevices, but couldn't turn iMessages off from the device. I went so far as borrowing a friend's phone, and getting a new phone number associated with my Apple account. The solution that ended up working for me was changing the password associated with my Apple account.

I don't understand why Apple doesn't have a solution to this yet. It was obviously going to be a problem from the start.

The people I feel worst for are those who get a phone number that used to belong to an iPhone user. They may miss texts without any idea what is going on, and without any recourse to fix it.
Your link is referring to algebraic topology. It is one of several subfields of general topology. See the opening paragraph that lists a few others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology
When I first read this, I completely ignored the Key at the bottom for no particular reason. I imagine they are all doing the same.
Agreed. They should consider making it 5% (which is initially $5b)
If you were to send one of your FB friends a FarmVille invite today, would they a) join up or b) defriend you?

No-one can spread games virally anymore, everyone hates it.
Exchanges and other prominent users would probably also have to agree to the change. Things might get bad if there was a split between miners and everyone else because the miners could perform 51% attacks on the other fork, though.
It works -- Also, make sure if you have an iPad or you're using your Apple ID with Messages on Mac OS X that you sign out of everything beforehand. Last resort is changing your password but it works.
What about D 2.0? I haven't used it but I think they changed everything to const by default. Maybe you would have to write a collections library, not sure.
I am intrigued by this part: "It is possible to run this legally, but then the process won't be as cheap as I think you're expecting it to be." Can you please expand?

Do you mean that one can 'enforce' duty payment, and then it can work?
Oh, no way. Philip Seymour Hoffman was a genius actor, every role he's played he's been riveting in. He's consistently been one of the very best actors of his generation. One I'd hoped to see for many years to come. I think we may have lost his best years too. Very sad at this news.

EDIT: syringe stil in the arm? Ugh. So sad.
This entire debate is a great example of how people don't understand math or the idea of inflation. A constant rate of new coins trickling into the currency creates a rate of inflation that decreases over time until it reaches equilibrium with the coins exiting the system. The devs have, intentionally or unintentionally, created a coin whose quantity will become roughly fixed (at a number they can't predict exactly), instead of one that where the supply will diminish over time due to loss (as in Bitcoin).

Perhaps I should know better than to expect reason when it comes to greed, however.
xkcd had developed enough of a following that its author can make money by selling xkcd-branded merchandise (http://store.xkcd.com).
I suppose that's true. Thanks!
Actually... apart from some things like not having a mesh transform, extrude, skew and support for some color schemes, Inkscape is pretty nice, your comment encouraged me to try it out again. Apparently it will export in Illustrator's ai format as well. I was probably a bit rash to lump Inkscape in there.
now some entity has been entrusted with the ability to manipulate the value of the currency

Not really; inflation is built into the code and getting everyone to "upgrade" would be difficult.
Ruby Gem: Convert a Ruby Hash to an XML String
Duty Free shops, I believe, are for personal use only. Gifts to family and friends are overlooked, but the limits are small enough anyway that you can't possibly give too much away - i.e. 1L of booze, a few bottles of wine.
I don't believe I have. Would that have made the attack easier?
Yeah both the reporter and the police officer that gave out the information are real assholes. Incredibly unprofessional.
Uhhhhhh..... LOL
EU Reportedly Has Secret Plan For Kill-Switch On All New Cars
What I meant is to submit patches to the upstream manpages, so that everyone benefits.
"Most water is used for farming"

And most farming is for animal feed which is wasteful compared to consuming far less meat. We could reduce water usage significantly by reducing meat consumption. We should probably do this.
That's simple extortion, and is obviously nonconsensual.
My wife just switched from an iPhone to a Note 3 and this concerned me, but I was surprised her cell number is not listed with her apple id.
Honestly, Adblock is the world we live in. You can cry and complain that people shouldnt use it, but the fact of the matter is that we will. Unless you plan on somehow forcing this technology out of existence, the solution isnt to not use adblock. The solution is to come up with a better way. If I knew what that way was, I'd be a multi-millionaire at least, but I dont. My main point is that crying or complaining about it isnt going to solve the problem.
Shame that demo's take you out of the site.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the rise of campus kangaroo courts for sex crimes
Heh? Have you tried solutions like Whatsapp, GroupMe, or Viber? They all work absolutely fine on both big mobile OSes, regardless of hardware.

I don't see the need for absolutely open hardware for an alternative messaging system. Sure, they aren't FLOSS solutions, but they are much less closed than iMessage and are cross-platform.
> but they remain afflicted with it throughout the rest of their lives.

That is not accurate.
> but virtualization is nonetheless taking off like crazy.

I think that's more due to hosting providers being able to sell far more "machines" than they have hardware for.
I used to use a huge amount of water when handwashing by rinsing under flowing water. Soap tastes icky and some screw up your digestion. Its possible you're not rinsing under flowing water.

Also consider the ratio of sink size to dishwasher size, which is a fad/style issue. My kitchen sink doing a realistic sinkful of dishes only holds perhaps 1/4 the dishes my washer holds.

It seems difficult, although not impossible, to buy a non-energy star dishwasher which means less than 6 gallons per load.

One point that everyone seems to miss is the amount of soap and biomatter being flushed thru the pipes is a constant, no matter if you handwash and use 20 gallons or use a machine and only use 5 gallons. So I donno about sewer system efficiency given an intake flow that might be 4 times more or less dilute.

I can do one dishwasher full of dishes using about 6 gallons, or about 3 to 4 sinks full, each maybe 10 gallons, for a total around 30-40 gallons. I believe this estimate to be true... in the ancient years of hand washing and old fashioned tanks, I could use up all the hot water in a 30 gallon hot water heater after thanksgiving by the end of dish time. Now that I have the tankless that will never run out, even after a handwashing thanksgiving, ironically I also now have a dishwasher which means I use practically no hot water anyway. There are other benefits to the tankless of course.
Why have the Google Buses invaded San Francisco?
Unless, of course, you consider her a physicist and those as less than mathematicians…
I was thinking that this is about people buying stuff for others and bringing it for them. So this isn't necessarily an unknown item being asked to carry. But I see your overall point.
Anyone know if his parts in Mockingjay finished filming?

This is really terrible news, anyway. He was a great actor.
Is it your contention that we should never try to solve one crime if another one is ongoing?
The fucked up thing is that is actually benefits Apple. The economic value of your subscribers it approximately the number of subscribers times the switching cost. This bug raises the switching cost and therefore makes their customers more valuable.
They're lying to you. Most smokers pay lip service to wanting to quit. They're in denial.

The ones who actually want to quit, do.
Part 1 has, Part 2 is still in progress. I dont know if he'd complete all his parts though.
Washing by hand is always worse.

> It still seems to work out less but I guess it depends on how ofter you fill the sink/run the dishwasher.

No, it's not less. It's more. A dishwasher can hold a lot more dishes than a sink.
My all-time favorite git tip is adding the '--graph' flag to git log, which will show the log with a branch graph. But while you're at it, might as well go all the way:

git log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)' --all

(Kudos to the unremembered internet person who posted this in the first place)
What do you lose by setting those up as example.com/app and example.com/dashboard instead?
What is the radar number for this bug? You did file a bug report, right? http://bugreport.apple.com

If not... you should do so.

If you give people the radar number they can duplicate it at that same site and raise its priority.
Thanks. English is not my native language. Of course, this can not be an excuse.