skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Guardian has an article that walks through the changes. It's pretty shocking. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/texas-legal-doc...

I too am interested to know if this means that there are more bad doctors in Texas. Having a colleague try to take the surgical instruments from you during a surgery because you are so incompetent sounds like an extreme yet the hospital did nothin after that incident.
Looks like a spaced out Outlook design. I actually like their current layout, except for configuring settings, that can be made more apparent.
> especially when GitHub lives on top of a tool designed to avoid SPoFs

You're saying it as if it were a bad thing.
This is another step toward confirming my hypothesis: Google didn't kill Reader because they wanted to stop providing a feed-reader; Google killed Reader because RSS is a knock-off version of email. You can subscribe to regular updates on a topic over both RSS and email, but the updates that actually get read are the ones that hit your email inbox.

So, gradually, Google are transforming Gmail into a capable feed-reader. First they added the auto-categories; now they're rearranging everything into a single chronological feed.
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Read the actual trial history. Your analogies don't reflect what actually happened, which is why you can't understand it.

Liebeck was hospitalized for 8 days with multiple skin grafts. She asked asked McDonalds for medical expenses from the injury from the coffee and lost wages (<20k). McDonalds offered $800.

At that point she got an attorney. They tried to settle. McDonalds refused. In the trial it came out that McDonalds had more than 700 reports of medical injuries from the coffee that they were aware of. Their internal quality control manager reported that they recognized that they were posing a burn hazard to customers with the heat of their coffee, but that it was a minor concern that they were unwilling to adjust.

McDonalds admitted that not only were they burning customers who drank the coffee straight from the cup, many of whom needed medical treatment, but that this was something they were unwilling to change.

That's why the jury hit McDonalds with punitive damages of the profits of two day's sales of coffee (which the judge reduced). Through the whole process McDonalds was acting like a criminally negligent bully unconcerned with injuring customers. Punitive damages did correct this.
the form factor is small enough that i'd worry about the whole ATM being stolen.
Great Project. Just note that there is inconsistency with the price shown on your website for any items which are on sale.
See also, FireChat[0] - released a month prior to Shortwave.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8
Don't over fixate in a single data point. I give my family a pretty good life thanks to that WordPress community, and all my colleagues do too. Both in the services and products space.

That "ugliness" you mention has worked really well for my career and I know more people that think the same than people that think the opposite.
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I'm not even sure what kind of data this would be but it sounds fascinating.
> What cements the case as being meaningless in my mind is the fact that they were not ordered to strengthen their cups or to brew at a lower temperature.

And if such sanctions had been within the ambit of the jury empaneled, in a civil case, to consider the damages specifically due Stella Liebeck as remedy for her injuries, this statement might actually mean something.

You know, you've got this hilarious sort of completely unintentional doublethink going on that I just can't get enough of. I mean, on the one hand, you're tossing off all the slippery-slope-to-the-nanny-state clichés which are so depressingly common in arguments over this very case -- and on the other hand, you're blithely implying that the very same jury, which you hold in such thinly veiled contempt for having found differently from how you believe you would have in their position, should have had the power not merely to award monetary damages to Ms. Liebeck as they did, but should also have had nigh-untrammeled power to regulate the operations of a world-spanning corporation in whatever fashion they saw fit.

There's a certain essential irreconcilability in these opinions which I think you haven't yet noticed. Did the jury have too much power, or too little? Is the state too nanny, or not nanny enough? It can't be both. Make up your mind!
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It's actually very simple. We've released a much more featured version of this at http://getloopd.com
I wouldn't go so far as to say that such a person needs to be protected from himself. But, as with any other bizarre fetish revolving around self-harm, the proper place to indulge it is at home.
Steve Jobs: Music streaming is too expensive at $10/month
Loopd: Linkedin with iBeacon Networking
As crazy as it sounds, I did some back-and-forth tests to find things nearby and I got the same or more relavent results from Apple Maps. I switched over and the service has gotten a lot better from where they were at launch. Google Maps has gotten significantly worse.
I really haven't needed anything beyond Pocket (which has been fantastic).

The UI is clean and minimal: it's never in my way. Saving an article is one click away, and it's (pretty much) instantly available on all my other devices. If I decide halfway through an article that I'd like to read it on my iPad, boom, done. It even parses the article Readability-style so that I can read it clutter-free.

Is there some functionality that other bookmarking services provide that would change my life and make me wonder how I ever lived with Pocket?
If Tesla Would Stop Selling Cars, We'd All Save Some Money
She didn't ask for coffee that would stay hot after a twenty minute commute. She asked for coffee.

She was served coffee hotter than other places served coffee. Other places had listened to and responded to the CDC's warning about beverage serving temperatures and had reduced the temperature of the drinks that they served while still allowing people to order extra hot drinks.

Yes, when a kettle boils the water is at 100 Celsius. But you pour that into a cup and add milk. Try it at home if you have a thermometer. Try taking the temperature of coffee that you find acceptable to drink with the temperature that McDonalds was serving their coffee at.

Do you realise that the McDonalds coffee case was used as propaganda by insurance companies? They misreported the case (they said she was driving; that the vehicle was moving; that she sued for and got millions;) they also said "of course coffee is hot"'and did not mention that McD's was serving coffee hotter than other places and had ignored many previous injuries and the CDC warning on temperature.
I think it comes down to expectations. There's an expectation when you buy a drink that it will be served at a drinkable temperature. True, there's also an expectation when you buy coffee that it will be served at a temperature hot enough to cause injuries if you spill it on yourself. But the expectation is that those injuries will be first or perhaps second degree burns, certainly not third. Had that been the case, I don't think any jury would have awarded her any money. I also don't think she would have sued.

To continue your Walmart analogy, the expectation would be that the guns are sold empty. But if instead Walmart were selling guns preloaded without warning the customers that there were bullets already in the guns, I would argue that Walmart would be at least some percentage at fault when some percentage of their customers inevitably shot themselves or others, just as it was some percentage McDonald's fault when their customers spilled the dangerously hot coffee on themselves.
Reviews are for people that don't know statistics. Mostly what you get are unhelpful bimodal distributions, hardly a way to redress serious grievances. I think your discount of civil court is either naive itself or just o early cynical to the same effect.
we've released a similar networking app called Loopd (http://getloopd.com) which also uses iBeacon technology to let you connect with people at a social gathering, also includes messaging, tagging, and showing context of where and when you met
...and an external green LED that evenly illuminates the camera sensor.

it's not a closed system, yet. it shouldn't be hard to create a device that is self-contained, though.
i second that; if anyone knows why there are 256 hashtables rather than just 1, please speak up. my only guess is that it might be a way to prevent 32-bit int overflow in the C code..
And with nobody having to worry about surviving without a job, it also frees up many people to explore ideas they otherwise would never have had time for.

Well, even universal healthcare would have this same effect in America. There would be a veritable Cambrian explosion as hundreds of thousands of people quit their jobs and started doing something interesting, something they cared about. A lot of these interests would turn into businesses and we would all be far the richer for it, never mind the 50% taxes.
Happy to look into it, but please send support requests to hn@ycombinator.com, so as not to dilute the threads.
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>Your opinion isn't unreasonable per se, but the jury which evaluated the merits of Liebeck's claims disagreed, and it's as simple as that; the opinion which matters, from a legal perspective, is that of the jury which considered and ruled on the case.

Perhaps I misunderstood you, but it sounds like you just defined away the possibility of systematic, correctable jury error, the very thing we have eg rules of evidence for.
A week. I probably average 2-3 weeks. I almost never shut it down though but it will crash or need a reboot for a patch.
@johnlbevan2, you seem to be hellbanned.
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Tort reform boils down to "I know better than the Bill of Rights, because sometimes I don't like the way people exercise their rights." It's not much different than the thinking behind the cheerleading for other amendments being eroded.

McDonalds was egregiously horrible throughout the trial which is why they were hit with punitive damages. "Granny" wanted $20k for the medical expenses of an eight day hospital stay and lost wages. The jury watched McDonalds consciously weighing more than seven hundred reports of customers with medical injuries against others customers having a hot cup of coffee at the end of a long commute and saying they would live with people getting 3rd degree burns.

Also, even if your coffee is merely warm, rather than hot it's still "drinkable." If you are some coffee snob who wants a really perfect hot cup of coffee, you aren't drinking the swill McDonalds serves.
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I'm certainly not a fan of Gladwell but it was never because he was wrong, but because his arguments are more of a string of cherry-picked anecdotes than rigorous studies backed by evidence and sound statistics. Granted, the former makes for a smoother read, but it deceives (intentionally or not) a lot of the public because it sounds so darn smart!
Thanks, changed! For some reason I originally used max-height and a fixed width.
But bandwidth isn't a scarce resource in the same way electricity is. There's very little incremental cost to delivering each extra bit, so it doesn't really matter if bandwidth usage is wasteful. All that matters is there's enough peak capacity, and nearly everybody contributes equally to peak usage. The incentive to minimize waste is the fact that performance will suffer otherwise.
Check out this video of 'A sweet baby expression when sleeping'
The White House goes solar
Their value proposition is not "bits" per se, but capacity, which they do in fact deplete when they transmit bits to you.

Capacity in this case is a rate, not a quantity. The same capacity is required to deliver a web page at 50mbits/s as to deliver video at 50mbits/s.
I didn't necessarily mean as a direct action of the participants in the case. Corporations are often compelled to change their behavior regulatorily after losing a lawsuit for only monetary damages due to the findings of the case.

Instead, we get an obvious warning on cups to join the other few hundred obvious warnings.

Obviously the CPSC/FDA or their local/state counterparts (I'm not sure who would exactly be responsible for such regulation in this case) didn't see the need to get involved.

I don't know where you're coming up with "nanny statism".

I generally do not hold juries in great respect; they often rule on emotion rather than hard fact. But that is a rant for another time.

Have you any other thinly veiled insults you'd like to throw my way as a result of my communicating unclearly? If not, I think we're done here.
This article is by Paul Heckbert, who is also known for writing a raytracer that fit on the back of his business card. http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/

Since there seems to be some confusion in the comments, I'll point out that the Jell-O paper is 100% not serious. It's a satire of excessively-mathematical computer graphics papers. (Source: I shared an office with Paul.)
Facebook seems to be having a fair amount of success using the HipHop VM (http://hhvm.com). Seems to have support for most of the PHP frameworks I've heard are worth using recently. Just curious, why the move to PHP? I've been having wild fun with Node.js and Golang.
Those that enjoyed this may also enjoy the film "Dimensions".

A brief guide for the film that gives an overview: http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_tour_E.htm#guide

Watch online (Deutsch, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Arabic subs available): http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_regarder_E.htm
I reread it and I don't see where you're coming from.

I agree with your impossibility statement; that's why I said it's ironic that Unix tries to be all things for all people, despite its philosophy.

And why is FreeBSD it? Is there a quick, convincing pamphlet that can help answer this question? I keep hearing it but have never seen the reasons distilled, other than "it's more secure".
NASA Launches Live HD Streaming of Earth from ISS
> I'm not sure there's any way to stop it,

It's not enough to campaign, vote, or even lobby. We need to form a vanguard party and run our own candidates and get them elected.

We should think more broadly than just legislators and chief executives. Consider sheriffs, judges (where they're elected), district attorneys, city controllers, public utilities commissions, etc.
Steve Perlman discussing pCells at Stanford [video]
> Why did that fridge even have code that allowed it to send email?

If it has a remote code execution vulnerability, it's trivial to make it send spam (or do all kinds of things) whether a MUA was already present or not.
Like I said in the comment you replied to, if you have a better term, please mention it here.

I don't think that these people, or more specifically their attitude and their approach toward software UI design, are "nebulous" nor "ill-defined". It's extremely easy to identify incidents involving them: Windows 8, GNOME 3, Firefox 4 and later, this new version of Google Maps, and the Slashdot beta website, among others.

There are some common traits we see with these cases:

1. They hijack an existing, well-established software product.

2. They throw out years, if not decades, of accumulated knowledge and experience.

3. They usually come in with little to no relevant experience themselves.

4. They consider appearance far more important than usability, efficiency or productivity.

5. They create a design that's obviously flawed in many different ways.

6. They refuse to accept or even acknowledge these many flaws in their designs, no matter how loudly long-time users point them out.

7. They release their changes into the wild, often forcing them upon users who absolutely abhor the changes.

8. Their design efforts drive away more users than they could ever hope to bring in.

The fourth and sixth points are the key ones here. They are the very essence of the "hipster" attitude, regardless of whether we're talking about clothing, food, software UI design, or pretty much anything else they're involved with.
Interesting twists on Piet would be:
* animated piet programs - perhaps where the incrementing the PC would also increment the frame of animation, or the current frame of animation is another property that can be manipulated.
* writing an editor to make it easy to convert works of art into Piet programs.
No? The fact that GitHub is based on a distributed tool is a large part of what makes it so awesome. I can take advantage of the sweet social/collaborative elements of GitHub without locking myself to a central server. If the lower-level they used weren't so open/distributed, I doubt GitHub would have taken off like it has.
Yeah color scheme threw me off at first. Thought it was outlook.com
It will taste better if you use water that is at 90C or 194F.
I've used CamelCamelCamel a few times - they let you choose a price, and they'll send you a notification when the price drops below that. Something that can determine when the price is at its lowest based on previous trends would be pretty neat.
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"tends to emphasize that their earnings came through hard work and merit."

Examples?
All the hyperbole is not really adding to the conversation.
You had better be damn good at hunting then, because as a human you'll croak quicker than you think from http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation
Neat project! One little thing - It looks like you are showing the list price - if you have access to it, the discounted price would be more useful.
Espresso 101: The Methods and Machines Behind the Perfect Shot (2013)
LLVM IR is much less verbose than CIL, isn't class-based, and on the whole is much simpler. The CIL's complexity makes it less flexible than something like LLVM IR or JVM bytecode; this is one of the reasons alternative languages have flourish on the JVM, whereas the CLR only has C# and F#, and F# had to rely on the developers' influence at Microsoft to get the runtime to support some of its features.
The writing is good because the author fearlessly and shamelessly wrote a story about himself. The narrative is "man goes on a journey."[1] Imagine if he had tried to distance himself from events or cast himself as the cause. He allows the story to reflect real life and the reader to feel the ups and downs and apathy of the workplace from.our own experience. [2]

[1] The other story is "a stranger comes to town."

[2] This but with a bit more amplitude than perhaps is found in our lives. http://sivers.org/drama
(C) is covered by generics in most cases. The others, yes.
Actually, my understanding is that McDonald's actually reduced the serving temperature of it's coffee for a decade or more after this lawsuit.[1]

[1] http://mentalfloss.com/article/26862/real-details-hot-coffee...
What's interesting to me is how much this has been criticized and yet it is still in place. This is pretty much the first point that comes up on HN every time the topic is Quora, so there is simply no way they are unaware of the complaints.
> People say FreeBSD is more coherent... it's been tempting to me to switch. But it's more coherent because it does less (has less features than) Linux or OS X.

I'm not sure that FreeBSD does less than Linux or OS X. There's certainly some divergence (FreeBSD has an active Linux compatibility layer, but I don't know if iCBS is still active in Linux; FreeBSD has jails, Linux has containers, etc), and FreeBSD tends to have less of the try 7 ways to move forward and then standardize on an 8th way (although, how many firewall apis do we need?), but I think that's mostly driven by lack of contributions than anything else.
Works pretty well for me. The argument you just made could have - and has - been about any other piece of infrastructure that we now work with third parties for. DNS, EMail, managed hosting, VPS hosting, off-site backups, etc, etc etc. I rely on GitHub to store my code and handle code sharing from separated networks behind NAT - why can't I rely on it for code deployment?

The days of isolating yourself from third parties are over be cause it really doesn't make sense to spend a bunch of man hours setting up and maintaining an infrastructure that GitHub - with the rare exception of tonight - specializes in and has an entire staff dedicated to keeping up and running. Third parties have become mission critical because they save money and time and are generally reliable.

If Travis CI or GitHub stop working I can do a number of things if I really need to deploy - for instance, push to production anyway, which, btw, is also hosted on a third party hosting provider. If several large services start falling like dominoes at once we have bigger problems than just whether my service is running.
What always irked me about the whole "vacuum train" debate, is that once you have vacuum, why bother with trains?

Trains beat individual cars efficiency wise, largely because they are long and have low frontal areas, hence air resistance, for their size and carrying capacity. Get rid of the air, and why not go whole hog with lightning fast cars?

Heck, put in place mechanisms to charge e-cars' batteries when in tunnel, and you can not only shoot someone to Europe in an hour, but allow him to drive out of the airlock and to his final destination pretty much interruption free as well. With Elon Musk being the latest hawker of vacuum tunnel hype, maybe we'll finally get to see a Tesla with no need to apologize for limited range.....

More realistically, before even contemplating doing a passenger version, someone should at least do a preliminary, by soundly and reliably beating FedEx Overnight Air between New York and LA/SF. Then plan on going from there with acquired learnings.
The compiler is always right
The coffee is always cold from a Chemex at Outerlands in the Sunset in San Francisco. I watched the video in the linked article. Five minute brewing time? Cold, cold, cold. Put a cozy on that Chemex Outerlands. Your coffee is gross.
In fact, the original documentation of Homebrew described this approach as "The GoboLinux Way". (They no longer call it that, but this reference is buried somewhere in their git history.)
Sounds like a good addition, but the big problem I've had with matplotlib is that the defaults are really terrible. The defaults of PGFplots are way better.
The qualities of a great WordPress contributor
>Tort reform boils down to "I know better than the Bill of Rights, because sometimes I don't like the way people exercise their rights." It's not much different than the thinking behind the cheerleading for other amendments being eroded.

The right to defend yourself in a criminal trial does not imply the right to bring in all kinds of inflammatory, irrelevant evidence.

Likewise, the right to a civil trial does not imply total jury autonomy in dictating the punishment. If that were so, there would be no point to eg rules of evidence, judges reducing damages, etc.
Tangentially related, my master's thesis is applying predictive algorithms to web traffic for scaling purposes and I cannot believe that their isn't more server trace data available. The best I've done is some data from the mid-90s and Wikipedia in 2007.

So if any of you wonderful people feel so inclined as to donate some requests/sec metrics, I would be deeply appreciative.