skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say read http://meyerweb.com/, the posts by Eric are beautiful, sad and ultimately courageous. God speed to him and his whole family.
Use a fake email address.
different strokes for different folks. The AM daily has just worked for us
Fancy Twitter client on terminal with colourful stream and interactive cli tool.
It kills me when I say title tags on the front page as Home. I shared this one Facebook and it comes up as Home as the title: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kw9fie59eg6m2w/Screenshot%202014-...
Have you ever worn Kevlar body armor?

The Feds have rather stupid requirements for it, that don't match the real world, but depend on deformation of clay behind a vest.

So what cops wear is stiffer, and perhaps hotter than needed. Although I think heat is unavoidable, there's even relevant lines in Shakespeare's King Henry the Fourth:

Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,
That scalds with safety.

So plenty of cops are killed because they're not wearing their uncomfortable armor; it's sort of like strapping a barrel around your torso.

Another factor is that better, albeit more expensive polymers have been developed, especially very long chain polyethylene (as in 1-2 million units long); my next vest will be made from that. Also Kevlar loses its protective strength if wet. There was also a short period where a very bad new polymer was used by at least one company, it quickly degraded, and that cost a few cops their lives.

Finally, while the gun-grabbers' campaign against non-existent "cop killer bullets!!!" accomplished nothing directly affecting cops on the ground, indirectly it taught a lot of people that cops wear body armor, resulting, or so I've read without personally drilling down to the raw data, an increase in criminals killing them with head shots.

Ah, I should also note that soft body armor saves by preventing penetration, and decreases kinetic impact by stretching the fibers. So a hit can still hurt a lot, enough to potentially fatally distract you during a fight, especially bad if you're alone. My home defense body armor has a hard rifle plate in the front to mitigate this.

Ah, I should also add some numbers. There aren't that many cops killed on duty, here's numbers broken down by years: http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/year.htm...

I don't think Kevlar body armor went into common use until perhaps the '80s, and without adding heavy rifle plates, which only SWAT teams routinely use (and our troops in the last decade), it offers very little protection against the #1 killer of cops, vehicle related accidents (in them, or struck by them).
Although the majority of secondary schools are academies, which I had not realised, they all still have to follow the core national curriculum for maths, english and science subjects.
I dunno, dude. I was like you until recently, but smartphones are really personalized so my experience may not help you. What would you put on a laptop that fits in your pocket? I'm not much for social media apps and am actively hostile to Facebook's app because it has a history of spidering through your contact list and sucking up all your data. My phone has a couple of games (Ziggurat, King of Dragon Pass, and Lords of Midnight), an ebook reader, some useful map stuff, a couple apps that track the various public transport options in London so I know how long I have to wait for the bus. It's entirely possible that none of those are useful to you, if you don't play videogames or don't, you know, live in London. I also have google chrome. And skype. I find my phone (Samsung Galaxy s4) useless for writing longform, although email is more convenient when you can fire one off on the train.
> Developers always seem to be complaining about having to type this or that, when they should be much more concerned with what they have to read!

Or maybe they find terser syntax to be more readable. If verboseness was always more readable, if not necessarily more "writable", than terseness, then no one would have a problem with Java since it has good IDE support, including autocomplete and generation of boilerplate code. But it turns out that it's not just a matter of being lazy typists.
"And for those areas of high credit card fraud, what do merchants do now?"

Nothing, they lose out on the sale.

"It would be useful to know why those 30% of Americans don't have a debit/credit card."

Typically because of past financial difficulties. If you've got a bad credit record, or have a history of over drafting your bank account banks will refuse to work with you.

As an aside if you subscribe to the idea that Bitcoins transaction mechanism is the valuable aspect of it then the value of a Bitcoin is going to have to rise enough to handle the value of the transactions that pass through it. It can't be worth zero and still work.
The original proposal was to call it beccapurple ( http://discourse.specifiction.org/t/name-663399-becca-purple... ). However, Eric Meyer asked for it to be rebeccapurple ( http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/ ).
Aah, presented in a nice Q+A format and everything. Cheers.
If you click the mayday button you get this page:

https://mayday.us/

and this setence:
"For 2014, our goal is $12 million. With that money, we will make fundamental reform the key issue in five congressional races. And win."

Also they raised 1 Mio before and everything gets doubled by individual donnors.
In a video game company, something like (it was in Action Script, I don't remember the exact syntax of that language):

public class ScoreManager {
//some statements
public void updateScore(Action action) {
int n = action.entityDestroyed;
if n < n1 {
playSound1();
score += 100*n;
} else {
playSound2();
score += 200*n;
}
}
}

I had to deal with that piece of code for something, and asked the developer to move the functions playing the sound out of the ScoreManager class so I could reuse it, and he categorically refused without giving me any explanation.

EDIT: typos
I see what the author did there, he used DNA to disprove evolution.
http://mathb.in has worked really well for me.
Ubuntu seems to have that as a near-term goal: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3
Yes, this time with green grass and rainbows and happiness, please!
>Rust is a browser development language.

That's a ridiculous assertion.
Well, the system they're batteling against is known as one dollar, one vote, not one Yen, Peso or Roebel. :-)
You don't even need the external linker. Just build a normal linux/arm binary with CGO_ENABLED=0.

What this proposal brings is access to the NDK APIs. You could run Go on Android since over 4 years now.
Isn't a large part of the problem with micropayments that they are complicated for the user with the current state of online transactions? I've read the article and it does posit other reasons, but it seems to be purely hypothetical.
Scientists tend to exclude God, and creationists tend to exclude science. It would benefit all of us for each side to recognize that they can live in harmony. Science can provide insight into how God's creation works, but it can never exclude God. If religious interpretation of scripture flies in the face of provable, observable science, then perhaps our interpretation of that scripture is wrong. I'm tired of this ridiculous standoff between the two side.
Beyond Lies the Wub
No one ever said it was a "solid island of plastic" except some uninformed members of the public. You're taking an urban legend to criticize a valid concern. That is like saying hackers can be stopped by banning ski masks because everyone knows a hacker is someone in a ski mask.
I myself have been wondering why this is not their original plan with Go.
Considering that tptacek, patio11 and many other experienced (ex-)consultants on HN don't have many nice things to say about oDesk (basically, "don't commoditize yourself")... is oDesk a requirement?

If nothing else, HN job threads tend to be full of people looking for remote work.

(I have no experience with oDesk, on either side.)
You could find one of those online typing tutors for her. Why rely on the school for this, if they let you down you can just go around that using the web.
"and an informed public are the answer; not avoiding government altogether."

One small edit - an informed AND ENGAGED public.

We now have a perfect cycle in the US.
- Government isn't working, so people believe government can't work.
- Government can't work in the future because very few participate.

Wash, rinse, repeat - and remove funding for education while you're going along to make sure people are not getting informed or engaged.
Ask HN: Google AdSense Still Bans Ajax. What are the Alternatives?
I looked into this many years ago, and Google had a beta going for running Adsense on ajax-loaded content.

The other day I was really surprised to learn that Google had actually killed this beta program a couple of years ago, and now it looks like they'll never support ajax loaded content.

What good alternatives to Adsense are there for ajax-loaded content, or is there a way around this with Adsense that I'm not aware of?
Research on Climate Consensus Provokes Strong Reactions
"Then we got the $1 Million matched by a group of donors who, unlike most political donors, would like to level the playing field, even if it means seeing their influence decreased."

... and with that I lose my trust in this PAC. Human nature has a pull towards being self-serving and this nature is amplified when large sums of wealth are on the line.
If that's the worst, that's not too bad - I mean, it's ugly, but apparently it works well. ;-)
One of the problems is the connotations tied up in the word "God". Because there's so much history, baggage, and tradition tied up in that word it makes it difficult to do any sort of real experiments based on it, nevermind using that word in any defined sense in the first place.

But that said, I'm with you. It saddens me to see most scientists completely close their mind to an idea. It flies in the face of the idea of experimentation and discovery. Especially bad when you see people dismissing very valid interpretations of experiments simply because the downstream ramifications make them uncomfortable (the Copenhagen interpretation comes to mind).
Is Tesla Model S Really A Quality Green Car?
"Web browsers have never been more memory efficient, and web pages have never had more memory bloat."
- someone on Twitter a couple days ago
So touching to read the thoughts of a parent as they go through the last days of life with their very loved daughter and family. This is what family is and the joy of life through the process of losing it.
Try not to think like a system administrator.

Instead, think about your unique life. What do you do in your daily life that you might like to enhance? There are apps for just about everything, many suck, some are good. You might also write a better one.

Track your health? Know where your kids are? Calendar and synchronizing with other humans and organizations?

Where might you eat lunch where you are right now? What stars are visible in the night sky, in the direction that you're pointing your phone? What else can you know based on where you are or where you're pointing?

Oh, and take a shitload of pictures. I set my camera to the maximum resolution, so that I can crop and still have a nice result. I also take videos at work when something weird or notable is happening with the [thing] that I test.

Sometimes a picture is the quickest way to note something. I know some people snap every meal they eat, for example. Or take a picture of your kids if you're out somewhere, in case they get lost.
Another bad engineering decision from Adobe
In addition to the other comments, it should be noted that soft body armor materials aren't useful against edged weapons, the required physical properties are very different.
>Oh really? That must be why they removed all of their USB and HDMI ports to replace them with Thunderbolt ports.

That doesn't even make sense. Thunderbolt and USB/HDMI cater to different needs. When they added thunderbolt they DID take out their Firewire ports. And when they added USB they did take out legacy mouse, keyboard etc ports.

>Anyway, let me get back to writing my IOS apps in AppleScript

Again, doesn't even make sense. Applescript is a legacy language they maintain. Designed pre-OS X. Not something they actively designed for iOS or anything.

>and hosting my website on my Xserve

They would, if enough people were interested. They weren't, so they killed the product. Same for ping.
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The R-Factor: A Measure of Scientific Veracity
Not really, if that was the case, quantum computers really would be faster than classical computers. A qubit is basically a normal bit, with probability a that it's in the 0 state, and b that it's in the 1 state, with a^2 + b^2 = 1. If you do some clever maths, you can get these probabilities to cancel out, and give you something that will collapse to the proper state when read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm#Finding_the_pe...

Shor's algorithm is still very theoretical though, we need to actually build a quantum computer to run it first.
So is this basically the NDK but using Go instead of C? I was hoping I could not use Java at all...
creationists tend to exclude science

No, that's exactly the problem - many creationists try to pass off their theological scriptures as science. Which is why rules like this have to be imposed. Thankfully, they are an exception among religious people as a whole, at least here in Europe.
Sonic had debug mode 20 years ago:
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Debug_Mode
Nice to have you be less internal!
staff are generally thought of as costs and universities try to pay them as little as possible expecting high turnover. at least that's my assumption based on their actions.

with adjuncts it depends on the major and class. the whole idea is that they are not full time, so if a person chooses JUST to do that , then I am not surprised they have a hard time getting by. I have a full time job and adjunct (the adjunct position pays pretty good), but from what I observed adjuncts make more for their time than joining the reserves.

I dont know how the hours and the workload worked out for the french teacher, but usually a class is either 13 3 hour courses or 26 1.5 hour ones. thats about 40 hours for the semester. the outside of class time really varies on subject, years of teaching the course, the students, etc. I generally expect to spend 1-2x the time of the class with outside of class time.
The fact that they could look at the raw data and figure that out is really awesome. Shows you artificial intelligence has a long way to catch up.
Yes, it's running a bit behind that curve.

On the plus side, there is at least another 7 million out there that people want to go to this cause, as we can see by the matching amounts.

For the moment there is a 'all or nothing' effect, but that's for psychological reasons, and it may be working against them at this point. The people willing to put 7 million toward the cause probably still care, and will find other ways to donate it.

Please donate, and consider checking "I want my donation to be used to support MAYDAY.US, even if the goal has not been met by July 4th." This is one of those causes that seems fundamentally worth while to me, and your donation will mean even more if they come up short, because it will give them funds to keep fighting.

You should donate now. https://pledge.mayday.us/pledge
Indeed. There has been a lot of controversy in recent weeks about how some schools operate and the influence of certain religions in what is taught:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-27944190

Although that situation is about something else, it did renew attention on other long-standing concerns about how our schools today aren't all required to follow the same rules as much as they used to be and how this might negatively affect their children's education.

Incidentally, the article title is misleading here. In the UK, "public school" means something counterintuitive and quite different to "school receiving public funds":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_%28United_Kingdo...
There are laws against accepting campaign money from foreigners that probably apply to PAC money too
Which iPhone? 5s does not *work with Linux. You get an endless 'trust this computer?' loop when the cable is plugged in.
I disagree with drug laws, but that doesn't mean I can possess drugs without penalty.
Ok, I will try to compile the dog again, and I might well queue Engineering General Intelligence onto my books-to-read list.
Good idea. Is this a scam? Does not look like that. Can this be harmful? Probably not at least in this scale. Ok, here's my money. Test this and let me know if it worked.

In general it is good to be sceptical, but sometimes it can also prevent good things from happening. I think it is better to just throw them some money (or ignore this) than spend time trying to find reasons why this would not work. It's not like we would need to pick either this solution or something else. We can try this, and that and five other ideas and see which one works best.
In a world in which everything is monitored all the time, like the police State the government agencies dream about, lying is a necessity.

We need more of this. Our messenger app sending false data along with the valid one, but is automatically discarded by the app. This way, anyone intercepting the data is not certain of what it means.

Bandwidth is cheap.Just encrypting something does not make anything sure.

It is one of the earliest tricks on existence. You know someone spies on you, you act like you don't know anything but supply false information to your spies.
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How do you enforce these air rights when they've been violated by a polluter?
NASA astronauts watch FIFA World Cup up in space
> The Earth is a sphere, not a circle.

The earth is an oblate spheroid, not a sphere.
> Science can provide insight into how God's creation works, but it can never exclude God.

Of course it can exclude "God," seeing as "God" is nothing more than a fictional construct created by humans because they couldn't fully understand the world around them. Anyone who cannot recognize and accept this is either deluding themselves or lying.
How A Product Design Oversight In Face Wash Became An Environmental Disaster
I used s6 quite a bit in the past, it's got some pretty good improvements on daemontools. Back then I wrote some RPM specs to build s6 against musl: https://github.com/droyo/rpmbuild . I haven't tried to build them recently.
> Government can't work in the future because very few participate.

Also, it feels to me that "participate" has lost half its meaning: people think voting is enough. IMHO, the other half of participation is running for office. Many people complain about all candidates presented before them, but wouldn't put in the work to run themselves.
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Color-hex has some great info - it's what DDG uses to display color info when it detects a color search:

http://www.color-hex.com/color/663399
So the police have a tool. He writes a tool-fooler. No doubt they will return with a tool-fooler tool. Then he fools the tool-fooler tool. When will it ever halt?

Time for a drink.
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Writing a distributed system to talk to Lucene directly might be more rewarding? If it is possible?
> before any scientist can confirm it

Well, Isaiah was kicking about the Middle East in or around 650 BC. And somewhere in Greece at about this time, Pythagoras was one of a line of philosophers and astronomers who knew the earth was round. Eratosthenes comes along a couple of hundred years later, and he actually measured the circumference of the earth; pretty accurately too, considering the highly technical equipment (a well) he used!

In general, the ancients knew the earth was not flat, and had a pretty good idea of its shape and size a lot earlier than most people realise.
We already know of the cost of plastic pollution, just do a freaking Google search. From there it's easy to weigh down the payoff vs. cost.

(If you're too lazy to do, yes, reducing plastic pollution will save a good deal of wildlife, and improve human health too, as probably there will be less toxic bisphenol and polystyrene in that tuna can you pick from the supermarket aisle from plastic pollutants which easily land back in our food chain).

And why should they not do this based on the mere presumption that there could be a cheaper way? Everyone else is free to come up with a better idea.

Your post is incredibly intellectually disingenuous just for the sake of being critical.
mm wouldn't work in London or any where with considerable commuting I used to get in a 8:45 the rest of the team at 9:30 - that is 45 mins per day used suboptimaly.
IWatch coming in many size this October
> The earth is an oblate spheroid

To a first order approximation, such as would be suitable for a discussion on an Internet forum, the earth is basically a sphere...
> Ready to help us get big money out of politics?

Wolf-PAC [1] has the same declared goal (both focus on campaign finance reform, informally "getting money out of politics"), and the same means (~~both intend to call for a Constitutional Convention~~ [3]), I wonder if they might consider coordinating their efforts.

Ah, alright, did a cursory comparison of the two. Wolf PAC/Uygur's plan is to overturn key SCOTUS rulings (e.g. Citizens United v. FEC, Buckley v. Valeo) whereas Mayday PAC/Lessig's goal is to "unseat five congresspersons who are on the 'wrong side of this issue'". [2]

[1] http://www.wolf-pac.com/

[2] http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-har...

[3] Edited to note that Lessig's PAC isn't planning on calling for a convention (Lessig himself has called for it in the past, I was making an assumption here.)
She signed the patent royalties over to DuPont, but that is the deal that she made. There is at least an equal chance that she never would have created this material (there are scores of other men and women who have worked for DuPont, but not an equal number of such incredible breakthroughs). She traded away the ability to hit a home run for lower variance in compensation. She collected a salary, and I would hope that she indirectly financially benefited from potential promotions or raises.

Also, without the resources of DuPont she never would have been able to create this material.

It is a great invention, and she is certainly a great inventor; but just because she didn't become fabulously wealthy doesn't mean she was treated poorly.
It is ironic that the very same creationists tend to exclude Gods from other religions. Why do they firmly exclude the Mayan God, or the Hindu Gods? Why are their scriptures true but not the others? If there are contradictions in the scriptures of the various religions in the world, then perhaps the creationists "interpretation of that scripture is wrong".

The following quote comes to mind:

“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one less god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” —Stephen F Roberts