skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I read about diagnosed psychopaths in the mainstream press, they always seem to be married (with kids). I find this interesting. What were their spouses thinking? Wouldn't 'total lack of empathy' rather preclude starting a family with someone? Were they that good at faking romance, or were they different when they were young? Or is the 'cold as steel' personally attractive? Were they just willing to marry anyone who asked them? Actually, a general study of 'why people decide to get married' would probably be even more interesting than studies about psychopathy...
Sounds interesting. But please disable debugging on the live version of your projects or put at least a http basic auth in front of it. Debugging messages are not meant to be seen by everybody - http://babynames.cc/
...just like they do when the receive a text for the first time.
I feel like the reason cities court sports teams to their possible economic detriment is due to the selfishness of the city leaders. Who wouldn't want to be mayor of a city with the Super Bowl?
Is it really how it is done in Angular? Sounds like it would break if I introduce a minification step with name mangling.

Edit: I am not really into Angular so I was surprised to see such reflection on functions. Good to know there are a lot of solutions to that already.
No, it's all genetic.
I wonder if the patent system can be used to protect civil rights the future. i.e. we file overly broad patents on methods likely to be used in a dystopian surveillance society and sue anyone who uses those methods in order to make sure they are never used.
I'd like to do this too.

Is there any interest in creating a subreddit for people who're interested in doing their own "game/website/app every day/week/month"? Just a place to chat about what they're doing, encourage and inspire each other, etc.

It's inspiring to read about projects like these. Related:

http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-...
It does break if you introduce a minification step with name mangling.

http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_05 (see A Note on Minification)
I thought "growth hackers" were media buyers and blackhat SEO'ers.
I may be using words incorrectly, and I'm not positive you can even make the distinction, and I am happy to stand corrected, but it always seemed to me that CSS was fine for style, but terrible for layout.

So I think I'm agreeing with you.
The Jamaican bobsled team are going to the Olympics based on donations from a cryptocurrency based on a set of jokes centered around a picture of a dog from a blog.

There is a reason William Gibson stopped doing straight sci-fi.
W/ Fedoracoin: Dedicated payment platform for Fedoracoin restores faith in coin
If you're having trouble justifying time spent on developing software, why not develop software which helps you manage your teaching job? Most software is pretty generic, so experience on any old project should involve a wide enough array of knowledge to give you a start.
There are at least 2 startups on this idea with big funding coming this year and there are some problems already mentioned that are hard to solve right now. Also be aware that companies like amazon offer cheap products and delivery. Taxes must be considered at the airport and many more.
Sales tax exemptions for non-profits are state-level exemptions. States don't have to accord the NFL non-profit status for state taxes if they don't want to.
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That's because git-grep doesn't need to bother to go through the filesystem for the on-disk files. It greps directly from the object storage instead.

And AFAIK it can run the grep in parallel. Practically any non-archaic machine has multiple cores now, so git-grep can easily be faster than regular grep from command line.
> With tons of comments and discussion too

To be fair, the majority of comments tend to either be ones like yours, or ones elaborating on the "CSS is somehow well-designed" front.

As others have noted, tools like flexbox make what the article is trying to accomplish easy. The issue is that lots of users run really old browsers, so if you want a single solution across your user population, you're going to have to resort to the same really old hacks.

It's silly to say that "nothing has changed", when what you're really saying is "nothing has changed in the browsers that haven't changed". I'm not sure that should be surprising.
Ask HN: What is the best combination for a simple multiplayer game
Hi,

I want to build a simple multiplayer game about stickman fight (no previous game development experience, no mobile native code experience)

Which technology should i choose for the best efficiency? Platforms : web,ios,android

I think i should choose html5,node.js,socket.io for web and i think i can build mobile versions via phonegap.

I am trying to find best solution for me (because of my experience), how does it sound?

Thanks.
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After using Yahoo! as my portal for the last 15+ years I must move on. It is a dysfunctional relationship that I must end. I have just recently recovered from the forced email upgrade debacle and now the forced my.yahoo portal change that forces a massive ad down my throat. Please, recommend what I should switch to. And quick.
Yeah, it's pretty rare that someone is outright banned from a store. I've only ever personally heard of it in the context of a private grocer and a many-times-repeat offender.
As far as income taxes that's true. However the NFL's current nonprofit status means it avoids taxes that most other entities (individuals or businesses) would have to pay even if not profitable, such as sales tax. Many (most?) states allow nonprofits to show a tax-exempt ID number at places like Wal-Mart or at hotels, and have sales, occupancy, and other taxes removed. The motivation, I believe, was to provide in effect a subsidy to the work of organizations like the Red Cross, by reducing their expenses.

That can be solved at the state level, however. The states do not have to defer to the federal government's classification of 501(c) tax-exempt organizations when choosing who to exempt from state taxes. They could adopt a more stringent state-level definition. Or they could still defer to the federal categories, but a more restrictive subset. For example, a state could limit tax exemptions to 501(c)(3) charities (which have more stringent requirements), and not exempt 501(c)(6) organizations like the NFL. (Considering what kind of stuff slips into 501(c)(6), this is probably a good idea beyond just the NFL case.)
Absolutely, and thanks for clarifying. My thought is simply that the creativity has evolved towards work that takes longer to reach fruition.
That's not accounting for lost coins (either because the wallet is lost or the owner is prevented from spending them).

The idea in the github thread seems to be that the 5% inflation should approximately cancel out the unknown loss of coins that would be going on.
If other peoples' misfortunes are influential in keeping others from making bad decisions that have an effect on us all, then yes.

Even the 'good' behavior in this case is awful. Why would a text message fallback to MMS rather than SMS? I'm pretty sure it's because Apple wants non-iPhone users to think of their phones as broken.
This is true, but on the flipside it's hardly Apple's fault if the only copy they have of highly important and sentimental photos is a cached messaging stream. There are countless ways to back up that data. It's like blaming Microsoft because you didn't save transferred files during a Skype session. Once they're on you're end, they're your problem. Apple's job is to send them and make sure they arrive, that's it.

This bug sucks and Apple's solution isn't a good one, but that rebuttal is equally weak. Use PhoneDisk, PhoneView or one of the other methods to pull a text messaging history if it's that important to you and then blow it away.
I'm not aware of any legal precedent under which you can refuse to cooperate with an ongoing police investigation, except where such investigation would violate your basic rights (e.g. Bill of Rights in the USA)

In the USA you'd probably have to contend it is either unreasonable search and/or seizure, which would be a difficult case to make.

Edit: Looks like the SCOTUS ruled on DNA testing & the Fourth Amendment just last year.
Mercurial 2.9 released
I'm not on my main box, so I can't give you links, but there are extensions for both Chrome and Firefox to add a "remove this element" entry in the right click menu.

Sometimes, it takes a bit of perseverance to get rid of nested elements; sometimes you accidentally nuke the <body>...

Most of the time it works fine.
Yes, I second this. We need a subreddit or community where we can share, inspire and help others with things like these.

Personally, I've tried a similar experiment, but failed miserably; I had no motivation, inspiration, guidance etc. I'd love to be driven by such posts and succeed...
There were some dataflow languages like VAL or SISAL that did exactly that. The hardware and software on top was built in the 70s and 80s, but such parallel research funding sort of dried out after the cold war ended.

There is a resurgence of dataflow related research again, which you would probably be interested in. For example, Jack Dennis is pushing the 'Fresh Breeze Architecture': a write-only-once memory CPU with in-hardware GC. This should be right up your alley:

http://csg.csail.mit.edu/Users/dennis/final-pact.pdf
This is worrying as my Mum's iPhone just bit the dust and we replaced it with an Android phone. I'm hoping that she doesn't experience the same issues with her friends and family (many of whom use iPhones).
On the contrary. If they were just wandering randomly around the oceans, you would expect collisions between two subs to be impossibly rare. In fact it's known that, at least during the Cold War, nuclear subs often played cat and mouse games with each other, using passive sensor technologies to stalk each other to keep tabs on them. Every now and again though someone slams on the brakes or makes an unexpected turn and bam, collision. Obviously very embarrassing for all concerned, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happens more often than we hear about, and only incidents with serious damage get reported.
It was a phase, multiprocess debugging is every shade of hell on one rainbow with a pot of self loathing at the end.

I changed my IRC nick to microcode after microcolonel, unfortunately HN doesn't afford that luxury.

P.S. Most message passing APIs require some system calls, nay?
> Many (most?) states allow nonprofits to show a tax-exempt ID number at places like Wal-Mart or at hotels, and have sales, occupancy, and other taxes removed.

They also allow any business to do the same, as long as whatever is purchased is sold to another party as a part of doing business.

So a computer tech shop, for example, would never pay for any parts it purchases at the store that are then included in a system it sells.
For which part? That a sophisticated, powerful entity is opposed to circumstances that will disadvantage them or that they will act to prevent other parties from causing those circumstances from occurring?
This Is the Giant U.S. Ship That Will Eat Syria’s Chemical Weapons
I just did some back of the napkin calculations on actual fuel costs for the reported BOS-LHR. I find the OPs description difficult to follow, but assuming a 777 from BOS-LHR

6000 gallons / hour of flight

$3 / gallon (currently $2.92)

550 passengers / flight

6 hours flight time

Results in an actual fuel cost of $193.36.

I'm quite surprised to see that fuel really is a significant price of the total cost of a flight. I always thought the Fuel Surcharge thing was B.S.

However, I disagree that it should be allowed to be separated from the cost of the flight. The airline isn't buying the fuel the day you buy your ticket or the day you fly, they're buying the fuel the day they schedule the flight via futures (or if they aren't ,they should be). It also isn't something out of the ordinary in the day to day business. Here in Australia their is 'public holiday surcharges' where you have to pay a surcharge on public holidays because businesses have to pay their employees more.

There should be requirements on what can be permitted to be placed as a 'surcharge'. As I see it, there is nothing stopping an airline from doing a complete 'a la carte' offering where every item of your ticket is broken out as a separate charge, but unfortunately, you don't have the option to opt-out of any of it.
Dipping my toes in the JavaScript and Node.js waters
Except there is no email app that I know of that presents conversations in way that is as easily readable as line, messenger, etc. I wouldn't want that either as the current presentation is perfect for large amounts of information that I get in my other emails.
Such as the mayor of East Rutherford? He seems to have gotten bypassed.
Super Bowl Wi-Fi password credentials broadcast in pre-game security gaffe
"After a few years with git everyone has his own bag o' tricks..."

So "everyone" (every developer, ever) is a "he"? I'm not here to bash the author, but remarks like this (whether or not they're intentional) really don't help make the field of software engineering, which is already quite the boy's club, any more accessible to non-male people.
Computer science education has an identity problem
Would you mind naming the well-known failure? I'd be especially curious to see links that describe the situation.
There is a lot of potential for repository corruption, using this way. You can use Dropbox for backing up Git (or Mercurial) repositories though, with bundles:

cd $PROJ
git bundle create ~/Dropbox/git/proj.git --all

This would create only one file, bundling all commits, in a corruption safe way.
"'The West Wing' arrived in 1999 as a televised fantasy of what we wished our government could be. 'House of Cards' arrived in 2013 as a nightmare of what we fear our government has become. [...] The politicians in 'House of Cards' [are] morally bankrupt and endlessly opportunistic. The show is no cri de coeur, but a cold dissection of the post-Obama (or post-the-Obama-many-hoped-they’d-elected), post-hope political landscape. It's a vision of American government not as we wish it were, but as we secretly fear it is."
Is there a framework that allows one to avoid most of CSS and just use js?
> we can't center stuff reliably or conveniently

Yes we can. The problem is not the lack of ability, it's that no one is backporting to IE8 or IE9 but lots of people still run them.

> images won't scale up to fit (only down...)

I don't understand what you mean here

> multi-column text is barely implemented and Google is ripping it out

No, the currently shipping implementation of multicol will be staying. I think you're confused about the rewrite tied to CSS Regions, which has never been turned on in Chrome.

> the box model is borked by default

box-sizing

> it's non-trivial to determine the layering of UI elements

I don't know what this means either. You do have to know what a stacking context is, true, but a quick trip to MDN and browser developer tools will help you out if you're confused.
Under a VAT system, that's true across the board. But under the U.S. sales-tax system nonprofits have blanket exemption, while businesses generally don't. Services such as hotels used in business travel, for example, are generally not exempt, so the NFL would pay occupancy tax if it were not a 501(c)(6) organization (or a state chose not to recognize that exemption). And whether purchase of goods is exempt depends on the state and the specific kind of good; most provide very specific lists of exempted "machinery and equipment" that fall far short of everything. For example, here are California's rules: http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faq426.htm#1
I have a 13.3" Zenbook Prime. 256G SSD is plenty but I wish I had more than 4G ram (newer models do.) Running Windows 8 and Ubuntu dual boot; the problem is that windows doesn't handle high DPI nicely and Ubuntu is ugly as hell... If I could choose again I might go with a Macbook Air.
I don't like the idea of your gg function, but I add files to the index using git add -p exclusively since it gives me a chance to review my changes as I'm adding them, as well as let's me ensure I split up different logical changes into separate commits. Likewise, I think git commit -m encourages lazy git commit messages (see: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa...)

Mostly because this helps me keep a clean history, which is something I value highly.
Even if there was, if something went wrong you'd just have more shit to sift through.
Then again, this is based on Thatcher-era BBC's "The House of Cards".
hf: if you see this, I think you are Hellbanned. All your posts come up as 'dead'.
Lone Fan Tackles the N.F.L. Over Super Bowl Ticket Prices
Google Voice has its own issues. He can't group message (with MMS) with Google Voice. Worse.. it fails silently.
> Even if you think Bitcoin will triple in price tomorrow, it still makes sense to spend Bitcoin today because you can easily replace it with Bitcoin purchased at the current price.

No, it doesn't make any sense, because you'd have to pay 3x as much to replace that Bitcoin. That's the whole point.

That's also why you should spend your dollars first. Even if Bitcoin value doesn't change a bit the dollar becomes worth less every day, which means you can buy less and less and less Bitcoin with that dollar as time goes buy. Better to use the dollar while its value is still at a maximum.

With Bitcoin the value will likely keep going up, especially once the supply crunch happens. A Bitcoin you give up today will be harder to recover tomorrow, the day after that, etc.

Accordingly you are wasting money if you're spending Bitcoin now which will be more valuable in a year while you have dollars you could be spending for the same thing that would otherwise be worth less in a year.

You might make the decision to use Bitcoin regardless, but that's a decision based on your own policies and wants, not a decision based on maximizing the value of the currency you spend.
Surely we can agree: designing text and images in a fixed frame without alternatives for accessibility is a completely different ball game then designing for screens of immensely variable dimensions with audiences as diverse as completely blind users and search engine bots.

Does anyone have an alternative to CSS that tries to take on a problem this big?
97ers and identity
> government-imposed fees,

For contrast, on your car rental or telecom bill, you find these labeled as "fees permitted by law", in an attempt to obfuscate.
Mainstream music is impoverished by its adhesion to danceable tempos and rhythms. With classical the music 'breathes' more.

Listening to the top charts on Spotify, the defining trend of today's pop music seems to be a driving bass drum through all 4 beats of the bar, and getting louder for the chorus.
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I'm addicted, as well. But I'm not dependent. I simply do it out of inertia. I feel no sense of withdrawal if I am away from my computer, but I will cling on if I am in near distance at the comfort of my home.
I think your analysis is spot on, although HoMM 2 (which your parent poster is talking about) would be perfectly playable on a tablet/iphone, since it's not fast paced and most interaction could be done by tapping.

I'd love to see HoMM 2, too.
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I was using "Vegas" as shorthand for "the gambling industry". Which is selling an addictive product that makes people worse off in direct proportion to the amount they consume. Which, yes, sells the hope of winning. Talk to anybody on a flight to Vegas and ask them if they hope to win. If they're playing, they're not playing to lose.
Yeah, I had not realized that states and municipalities were granting exemptions just based on federal tax status.

I wonder how much of their expense is salary (taxed) and "home office" (where the locality has plenty of opportunity to consider the exception and deal with it as they see fit).
Except that the price of doge was driven up by individuals believing they weren't buying into an inflatable currency. The fact that this article got upvotes and the comments around indicate that people are gonna pull out.
Have you considered adding an online business service that allows them to offer their customers evening delivery? (they ship to you - you ship to the customer)

Some kind of partnership i guess. Nice idea. The website looks good, i'd just reduce a bit content fonts, should be a bit smaller than main header.
Alternate title: How to destroy a business in a day.
I, like almost everyone, heard about Litvinenko without trying. Nevertheless those circumstances are different: A dissident openly slamming their own (non-ally) government is a far clearer message than a dissident dying under dubious circumstances. It can also be repeated indefinitely.
> Seems to me to be very lynch mob-ish.

Really? You are comparing calling your elected representatives to a lynch mob? wtf?
Ultimately, calling it "tax" isn't really the problem.

Not including nationally standard costs in national advertising is the problem.
That's not what I said. I said cost is not likely the reason it is not covered.
Okay, good point. :-) I've changed it and hopefully it's more obvious.
Psychopaths are known for being very good at getting people to agree to things; they are described as very glib and superficially charming, which is why they excel at being con men. So it doesn't seem hard to explain how they manage to get married. What is peculiar, though, is how their spouses manage to stay married to them even after they find out the truth. There has to be some denial involved. If something like one partner belatedly coming out as homosexual is considered an obvious reason to invalidate a marriage, discovering that you married a psychopath can only be even more obvious.
yet another? I beleive this is the first one
Poignant end to the article: "America, what has happened to you?"
CodePen shows live code that can be edited and played around with. It does make sense.
A better organised, more complete and updated MEAN seed