skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we had an unlimited amount of transparency, how many people do you think would die from terrorists

I don't know, because I haven't seen the data that currently isn't visible to the general public. Do you have an estimate?

please be specific about which terrorists and how

Now you're just being silly.
I'm a marketing consultant so maybe I can help point you in the right direction, but... Can you specify what kind of needs you have? "Marketing needs" covers a huge swatch of things. If you're looking for a company that "does it all," then really what you're looking for is a boutique marketing agency.
I second that. I have met a number of devs who are not idiots, have good analytical thinking, but refuse using frameworks, libraries, etc. The result is unmaintainable code base, which no one wants to maintain, and re-writing is too expensive so the business owner is, well, fucked.

The majority of the Web apps is CRUD + a bit of logic. It makes much more sense to use a framework because 1) most of the things are already there 2) easier to maintain for someone from outside 3) and, most importantly, very few developers have skills to create a nice, maintainable design, accompanied with a useful documentation.

Yes, in ideal world, maybe you should be able to stay framework-less (just made that word up) but the world isn't ideal. We have to sacrifice philosophical ideals for the business because that's what pays the living.

In rare cases, when the app is much more than a simple CRUD, it might make sense to ditch frameworks... But it's very, very rare.
"The company died largely because of that."

What a crock of shit. Most companies fail, and you can blame the guy with a family as the main source of failure? I wonder what he will blame the next failure on.
Or worse. In a crowded office that can't control its climate with small screens and poor equipment. The equipment makes a lot of difference, I agree, as does the environment. It's unfortunate that many companies do not realize this and implement policies to cut costs that end up just hurting productivity in general and their bottom lines in the end. To not see this from a management or executive POV is to be intentionally blind. It's a loss all around from the individual to the whole company and one that can't be mitigated against any other way.
I prefer comics and cartoons to live-action movies. It's ironic, but somehow, a primitive smile or frown on a cartoon character's face feels more genuine and "real" to me than a professional actor pretending to be happy or sad. I can take a drawing as the unfiltered expression of the artist, but when I watch a live-action film and see real people carrying out the trappings of fiction, I have a hard time taking it seriously. It feels silly, kinda like how the so called "uncanny valley" effect makes bad CG creepy and not just unconvincing.

I don't think that's a common opinion, given the lasting appeal of television and Hollywood, and the lack of respect comics receive in comparison, but in my mind, if a drawing feels more "real" than an actual human acting in front of a camera, then photorealistic CG doesn't stand a chance.
Totally cool! Can't wait to have one!
I have 3 question:

1. Will this only work with Android phone for now?

2. Do you agree that smart watches are more for apps that don't need a lot of user interaction. Like Instagram or Dropbox will not be great on these. Simple things like showing weather etc. will be okay.

3. Does anyone know the price of the Moto G or another Android Wear devices?
The point is that value is not directly mutable for a person. For instance you would probably happily give up all your property in exchange for surviving something that would otherwise kill you but would not do the same for some John Doe. Just like the victims may be happy to exchange the wrongful death fee in exchange for punishment and a millionaire might happily pay a wrongful death fee to drive around town so drunk that he can't stand up.

Then there is the key point that jail costs time which is proportional to the individual fined rather than the victim. In a proportional payment system there would be an even larger perverse incentive to get hit by moneyed people if the fine was in anyway punitive.

"But it costs society to incarcerate and is a net negative from the point after the accident on", Yes but we decided that prisoners shouldn't incur debt for being imprisoned for some very good reasons.

What of the victims? What benefits the victims more than giving them money after the fact is reducing the risk of it happening in the first place. A payment system has either a more harsh proportional punishment than the current system to decrease this happening further, or reckless driving will increase because it is more tenable for the drivers (or people are irrational when assessing jail time and money as punishment and the deterrent affect is not proportional).

So my main point is while I agree that it may be utilitarian to lower the cost to society after the fact there can be even more utility to play the ultimatum game before the event.
Perhaps you should move then. You are free to do that after all.

Move or learn to live frugally.
Many people cannot afford a house/family until they get married and combine incomes.
IntelliJ 13.1 – what's new
Agreed. One of the final sentences appears to contradict the thesis presented throughout the rest of the article.

> In my view suicide looks unlikely – he would have had to been very lucky to kill the other pilot, then fly undetected to a remote spot in the sea and either crash or run out of fuel – it doesn’t add up.
Looks like they are still using PostgreSQL, just not a single instance. It looks like they are using Citus Data to handling sharding and merging responses.
That is illegal? I see propaganda every time I flip by Fox News.
I'm right here with you. This is not a compelling piece of jewelry for me. It's too thick, the battery is undoubtedly insufficient, my phone works better (and isn't always listening), and I don't want another device that impairs my attention.
The best cure to this problem is nREPL. It basically is an REPL server. There are plugins for Emacs (nrepl) and vim (vim-fireplace). With these tools, one may start a user repl and run tests within that. I have written a humble guide to set up Emacs for clojure here: http://gkayaalp.com/2014/01/28/taste-clojure.html#emacs My emacs configuration repository is gone thought; I'm using vim these days.

A JVM with smaller memory and cpu needs and faster startup would make me consider using Scala/Clojure again.
It's heating up! and more competition probably means better prices and better experience for us, consumers.
I think you're too caught up on syntax and missing the big picture. The m() method is simply a helper utility that returns a POJO. You can write the code in coffeescript if js syntax bother you, or you can go nuclear and implement a frontend or a preprocessor that take some popular templating syntax and spit out the appropriate data structure. The conversion tool I provide is a small step in that direction, but, with Mithril being at a mere v0.1, it still needs more work done to be fully automated.

Also, just FYI, the selector syntax follows CSS rules, so you'd write m("body.application"), not m("body class='application'")
I think you are missing a shift that has happened in the industry over the last few years. Yes, now that computers are fast enough, pixar raytraces everything in renderman. Most other major studios use that or arnold, a pure raytracer.
I never worked with Clojure, but a simple java "hello world" starts and finishes within a second. Same with a simple java Swing UI "hello world" sample. If some application is doing something slow during initialization - it is not the platform itself, but the specific code to blame.
Raytracing may be conceptually the most natural but it's not always the best choice for a lot of these cases - displacement, motion blur, depth of field and anti-aliasing are still often handled much more quickly by micropolygon/scanline rendering even if the lighting and shading is raytraced. Hair and fur is pretty problematic with raytracing too.

That said, physically-based shading is massively easier to art-direct, even if the "front end" as it were of the renderer isn't naively tracing rays from the camera. There's a killer set of slides and notes documenting ILM and Sony's switch to PBR here: http://renderwonk.com/publications/s2010-shading-course/
There is no indication that is a low flying aircraft. It's reasonably common to see aircraft in satellite photos and nothing looks too out of the ordinary about this one. Nothing is indicating that clouds are above it either.

Furthermore, the lighting is wrong. The aircraft took off at 12:41 AM Malaysia time and flew for at least 7 hours. Malaysia is GMT +8 and the Andaman Islands are GMT +5.5, meaning that at the time satellites received the last ping from the aircraft it was around 4:45 AM where this photo was purportedly taken.
I would assert it depends on the situation.

1 bad parent < 2 parents in a bad relationship (such that it negatively affects the child) < 1 good parent < 2+ good parents/parental figures

So I think in general multiple adults putting real effort toward raising a child is the best scenario. You can say what you like about specific circumstances, but as a whole, multiple adults are clearly better.
Signed up to be a developer and told them I'd make a beer pong trainer app. Here's to hoping they give me one for free!
Yes, but that's more of a Clojure problem than a JVM problem.
You could actually do this without a single change to the JSX transform, and instead just make a simple object that calls m() with the right params. Then you just change the @jsx pragma to point at that object. With a complete array of elements this should mostly work.

```js
/ @jsx m.dom */

function m(type, props, children) {
// assuming m() looks something like this.
return { type: type, props: props, children: children};
}
m.render = function(lwDOM){ console.log(lwDOM)};
m.dom = {};

// React hard codes this array so we can do something like this to build the mapping
['a', 'span'].forEach((el) => { m.dom[el] = function(props, ...args) { return m.call(null, el, props, args); } });

m.render(
<a href={"google.com"}>
<span>hello</span>
<span>world</span>
</a>
);
```
Yes. PLEASE don't use this for regular documents. It's only for games and "web apps".
Greg makes great arguments here, and he's not the only one who has been making these comments. Indeed, the level of rhetoric in our burgeoning class warfare is escalating rapidly; "technocrats" is my new favorite label.

But I question the TNCs strategy of approaching this long-term. It appears the strategy was simply to try and go the popular-opinion route. Of course the market has spoken, and it prefers Uber & Lyft by a huge margin over the traditional taxi market. However, in dealing with regulatory matters, political dealings are a necessary cost of doing business.

Instead, the TNCs did a few things wrong: 1) they jumped into the process a bit too late, 2) they took an antagonistic, condescending tone with the powers-that-be, and 2) they under-estimated the power of old-fashioned lobbying by the taxi industry.

Principles of market openness, disgust with the political climate, etc. don't really matter in light of moving ahead. Now, the Seattle market is likely stalled for a lengthy amount of time. And, future markets know they'll be able to extract a pound of flesh as the TNCs look to expand.

I hate the outcome and think the City Council deserves to be revoked, but the TNCs needed to do a much better job in handling this situation.
Whatever you wear reflects on you. I don't think this is something for someone who is fashion conscious people (like many people in LA). Wealthy people would prefer an Audemars or a Rolex any day compared to a Motorola or Samsung. Definitely see maybe teens and techies in Silicon Valley wearing these.

Like the iPad when it first when out, the smartwatch should do some key things better than any other device, which it does and some minor things like telling the weather, taking notes etc. although reading long articles, viewing photos or anything that involves a lot of interaction is be suited on a phone, tablet or computer.
Or is it possible that we know about those world-class smart people because they're outgoing/charismatic? ie. perhaps listing off names of smart people we can think of who are/aren't outgoing/charismatic is maybe not the best way of determining any statistical inference whatsoever.
Of course you have to understand in my context I've really come in close intimate contact with Java twice. The first time about 14-15 years ago when the JVM was pretty doggish. I think it was Java 1.4 or 1.5. I don't think Eclipse was even out then, and the first version I remember seeing was so dog slow at the time compared to Visual C++ that I remember just writing off Java entirely.

To my surprise it stuck around in Enterprise spaces and I ended up running a team that ported a pretty large-ish Perl project (about 20k lines of Perl) into a piece of Java middleware. I didn't do any of the coding, but I knew the Perl bits inside and out so I knew what kind of testing and performance to expect and getting the Java port up to 1/3rd to 1/2 the performance of the original Perl was a pretty big challenge at the time. This was about...8 year ago. But to the credit of the team and I guess the tooling, they were able to get the port done remarkably quick.

So I've been pretty surprised to see that Java code can get fast, really fast. I've also managed to bang out some pretty slow code if I wasn't paying attention. For my latest touch into it, I ended up spending a week just benchmarking various collections to see how they actually worked under the kind of real-world uses I'd be putting them through (vs. what their big-O sheets claimed) and came away with a set of practices for me to get going with.

I've also had to come to terms with benching code a bunch of times to give the JIT compiler or whatever runs under the hood in the JVM some time to optimize, the first few runs are invariably much slower than run 1000.
Well, in either case it is meant to strengthen.
Online porn and bullying – children 'need more protection'
Specifically, core.async brings Go-like goroutines (channels) to Clojure.
Great now spotify is going to want my heart rate information to figure out if I am asleep or awake while listening.
Nice publicity stunt, never having heard of these guys before, im now listening through their albums on Spotify, love it.
How the Economy Works
New power/wealth generation is and will be in finance for the foreseeable future. I can go into great detail on this but for TL;DR purposes, I will generalize: finance > tech in making aggregate money because finance only cares about making money and tech cares about a lot of other things, which in turn generates money.

I moved into tech because I liked it, not to make money. If I were still in investment banking, I'd be making 7figures a year (and killing my soul in the process). This is not a judgment call; it's a personal choice. There exists good-willed bankers as well as selfish, rent-seeking coders.

Moving money around has not been limited to the 19XXs. It's been around since humans put a face of an important person on some piece of metal (actually earlier, but it lacks the imagery).
Airlines Use Digital Technology to Get Even More Personal
I am amazed that people would go through the effort to counterfeit a £1 coin, you would literally need to counterfeit millions of coins to make the enterprise worthwhile and then how would you launder them all? Obviously the benefit is worth more then the cost but I find it strange none the less
Sony announces Project Morpheus, a virtual reality headset coming to PS4
Welcome! If you want to grab a beer, I'm @thenthj on twitter.
> If raytraced scenes were hard to control, why would every single animated movie be raytraced?

That's a bit of a stretch. Pixar didn't use ray-tracing until Cars [2006]. Even then, it was only applied for secondary effects.

It wasn't until Monsters University [2013] that they produced the majority of a movie using ray-tracing [1]. That's a recent development, IMHO.

[1] http://thisanimatedlife.blogspot.com/2013/05/pixars-chris-ho...
2014 is going to be the year of virtual reality headsets. Now that Sony have announced they're in the game, you can bet your bottom dollar that we'll be hearing of other companies like Samsung and Microsoft announcing their own virtual reality headsets which are most likely already in development.

I was young in the 90's, but I remember when the 3D glasses thing was a trend for a bit. It was crappy, but any Direct3D game would work with the glasses and the ones I had would only work with an NVIDIA graphics card. They were shutter glasses, but in a darkened room, they would work quite effectively.

The thing that excites me other than new competitors in the space driving up the quality of the VR headets space, is the price coming down. The more competitors the better, the Occulus Rift is great if you've ever experienced it, but not affordable for the average consumer just yet. If Sony can price it right, they've just upped the game.

The future is exciting. Surprised it took this long for competitors to emerge in the VR space, especially when the Rift started attracting large amounts of funding and key players.
My first thought: who would want to wear that? I think that watch is way too unwieldy to have mass appeal.

But let's assume that I have no taste: assuming that the model shown is an average western white male, the size of that watch cuts out 50% or more of the population because it is too wide for their wrists.

And yes, they do mention "a selection of styles", but I doubt that will include size differences. If you scale it down to the size of a ladies' watch, chances are you will run into problems w.r.t. Battery volume.

Power usage may be the Achilles heel, anyways, but they may have tweaked that through software (I think it might be possible to use motion and light sensors to infer when the user might be looking at the watch and switch off the display when he isn't)
That's an impressive proof of concept, but without expression trees it can't quite measure up (e.g. you need to remember to use `.and` instead of being able to use `&&`).
It's Yahoo news, what do you expect?
Why is this question being asked? The transponder codes clearly weren't stopped - the MH370 one stopped transmitting and no other aircraft followed the known onward flightpath of "MH370". Otherwise this is just rehashing and conjecture. But then this IS Yahoo...
Go work with C++, and you'll pine for Java.
btw, I use packages from nginx.org, they're updated in time with every release: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
The exported user scripts are actually .Net assemblies. They are run via the mono VM using it's JIT (just in time) compiler on platforms that support it, and are AOT (ahead of time) compiled on platforms that don't like iOS.

In the case of WebGL the .Net assemblies are processed by a tool to convert them to C++ and then compiled into javascript using emscripten.
It might be difficult to become as successful as those people you were reading about, however, it wouldn't be beyond you to become somewhat successful, so that your kids will have successful parents and have a chance of achieving more success than you.

A family's wealth can take more than one generation to build.
InterruptedException is the worst. I know that I'm not calling Thread.interrupt() so why do I need to handle that case? It's already hard enough to reason about multithreaded code without worrying about future-proofing it for some case where it's somehow convenient for another developer to use Thread.interrupt().
How tech illiteracy threatened privacy of hundreds of retired police officers
More power comes not from voters but from corporate interests who have historically pushed for favourable conditions overseas (overthrowing often stable or popular governments that didn't suit foreign corporate interests). That has made the US a popluar target. Now the threat is predominantly to the people and not those companies whose top dogs likely have a lot of freedom and paid-for safety.
On the other hand it might just be a matter of getting used to it.

Japanese live-action movies are a textbook definition of overplayed, and few years ago I couldn't stand watching them. It was making me physically uncomfortable. Fast forward a few years and I enjoy watching them...
"life-like reflections"[1]?

allow me to disagree. the reflection is too green. probably not the hardware's fault, or is it?

[1] http://blog.imgtec.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/5_-PowerVR...
Who said anything about funding new companies?

We're talking about leverage and wealth generation. Big AUM means bigger fees. Non-VC funds like hedge funds and private equity are incentivized to have huge funds because they get the fees. Since most of their work is financial engineering, more AUM means more leverage and is an advantage.

Large VC funds are disadvantaged because they're investing in growth. A 20x return off a $5M investment is more common than a 20x return off a $100M investment.

I don't think it helps either community to pit one against the other. Finance and tech are different and serve different purposes and let's leave it at that.
A tweed jacket and polka dot chambray? Uniqlo and H&M got you.
Round is 320x320 and square is 280x280 according to this article:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/android-wear-facts,news-18491.ht...
Snowden Leak: NSA Is Recording All Calls From At Least One Country
I'm just going to leave this here: https://twitter.com/asymco/status/396253597551570944
Bastiat rides again.
The one miner who solves the block gets the reward. All miners who tried to solve the same block (and that would be every other miner who didn't get a solution in first) have wasted their time and do not get a reward.

I'm not sure what we're disagreeing about?
No.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Saskatchewan may have a big jobs boom, but in my experience it's not in tech.

A couple of years ago, my now wife had graduated from school and because she is originally from Saskatoon, we decided to look there for jobs. I work in the tech sector as a somewhat specialized software engineer. There wasn't much in available my specialization, so I started applying to jobs for which I was, if anything, overqualified, if anything. While my typical interview to application ratio is quite high, I had no responses after about 20 applications in Saskatoon. We ended up in Vancouver, which I'm happy for, but not until after desperately trying to live in Saskatoon. Maybe my experience was an outlier, but it seemed like there were plenty of jobs if I was a mining or potash engineer, not so much for a software engineer.
It's potentially a statement adding to or qualifying the first. Yes, the people must keep government in line, but the people are lazy and corporate interests or political parties have a stronger interest in remaining active and powerful.

It's possible that the active party eating away at rights are terrorists, but I don't think that is ever a key interest of those actors.
Ask HN: How are you tracking discussions on HN?
What tools/methods are you using to track followup comments to comments you have left? (besides refreshing :)
Some companies simply require relationships to be reported to HR. There are tons of different ways to deal with the problem. But, it definitely is an ethical dilemma. I tend to recommend to friends that they avoid office romances unless the romance is more important than the job to them, especially in situations where there is a power imbalance.
Are you sure you pronounce Scheme correctly?

Click the speaker button on the bottom left of the text box to listen:

http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/scheme
http://translate.google.com/#tr/fr/sikim

They have distinctly different pronunciations.
Some of my friends are driving used cars which range from $1200 to $1700.