skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I like google, but your point that "different account for youtube and gmail, Google is perfectly happy with you doing exactly that" is false.

I have way more than 1 Google account, and I've had no issues with it at all. What evidence do you have to support your claim that Google is not happy with people having multiple accounts? Because the variety of ways Google helps you have multiple accounts is pretty strong evidence they are OK with this.

> Google did make a significant effort to require real names on Google+ (and by extension youtube / gmail).

Your "by extension" is false. YouTube never had the real names push like G+/gmail did. My account with a real name has always and continues to show a completely different pseudonym on YouTube, which was one of the options Google provided.
A question which no one has asked yet: what are the fees? Alipay charges a flat 3% while Stripe normally (for credit cards) charges 2.9%+$0.30. The variable cost to Stripe from a credit card processor is (of course) lower than 2.9% (so Stripe has a margin), 3% is (clearly) not (the fixed $0.30 only helping for small transactions). Will Stripe be charging more (variable, to have a margin) and/or less (fixed, to pass on the lack of a fixed interchange fee to customers) than its usual credit card processing fees when a customer is using Alipay? (An answer may also shine some light on whether Alipay is profit sharing with Stripe to get Stripe's support or if Stripe is being forced to charge on top of Alipay to get access to their users.)
All those systems can't deal with self-occlusion of the fingers but gloves can deal with it. Also, the gloves can be out of sight of the user (hands behind the back)and still be effective.
No, that's not it. I actually ended up talking about it my mixergy interview
San Francisco stops startups selling public parking spaces
Sweet! Hadn't seen that one yet!
The key point, and one the author believes applies just as well to computer science, is:

He was insufficiently confident of the power of the intellectual tools he already possessed and did not drive his thought to the very end because he felt instinctively that new ideas and new methods were necessary to go further than he and his students had already gone. Some may call it a lack of faith, but in my opinion it was more a turning away from the hard, crude methods of theoretical physics into a mystical realm of broad intuition.

In my own field of network security, I think that's largely true: we have a lot of analytical tools that we haven't applied sufficiently well, largely because people are not interested or educated in the sorts of theoretical tools we could apply (ML or graph theory, for example).

How well this applies to theoretical research is outside my expertise, though...
I will additionally clarify that "gray at temples" may be misleading. It is more like on either side of my forehead, along the edge of the hairline. So the old photo of me where I kind of have bangs -- those bangs would obscure any gray hair. Newer photos where my hair is swept back would be much more inclined to reveal gray hair against the brunette -- at least in photos where I am not so blonde that you can't really tell the difference between the blonde strands and the gray ones.
I was curious about that. Seems somewhat obvious that an immunosuppresant would work, I guess it is the potency that is impressive?

For disclosure, I don't have universalis, yet, so I'm not overly concerned with hair growth at my age. However, I do sometimes worry that I passed this on to my daughters. While I don't think alopecia is the worst thing in the world, it would ease my mind to know that my daughters might not ever even have to worry about it.
In my experience over the past several years, I've seen lots of contracts and employment agreements for tech firms but very few non-disparagement clauses. I expect if he were terminated they would get one signed (or try to).
I'm not sure why you think it would be okay to fly over non-highway streets, where presumably there will be pedestrians. Already there has been an injury caused by a drone falling on top of someone (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26921504).

Regarding avoiding power lines: is that actually feasible? Either you have to program a GPS route from the warehouse to the delivery address avoiding all obstructions, or you have to use some kind of radar so that you can detect obstructions even in fog (or maybe just not operate in low visibiliity). It's not a trivial problem, and I'm not sure if the proponents have really thought it out.

PS, if you're going to downvote my comment, at least explain why.
BSD isn't Linux. Android uses the Linux kernel, but not iOS. I'm not sure which dominates, though
Using double-edge clocking usually comes from a misunderstanding about how FPGA timing works. When you look at a waveform in a simulator, it's intuitive to think that you would need to change states at opposite edges to guarantee setup time. The synthesis tools will actually guarantee that setup times are met even if you use the same clock edge, though.

Also, the use of a clock divider in this way is bad practice and another trap for beginners. Use clock that are on global clock lines, and use a clock enable to slow things down.
Huge win for Amazon, which never actually intended to use drones to deliver packages. The whole thing was a PR stunt designed to gain traffic on cyber Monday. Now they conviently can blame the government when they never actually invest the money to build the drones.
Read the summary, and you'll find it is not condemning the specific technology, but rather the way it's being used. The website is named after drones because they happen to be the warfare tactic du jour. If instead we were lobbing bombs from howitzers, it would make perfect sense to title the website accordingly.
That's great! I've been thinking of starting a similar project. What fork/ version of news/arc are you using, and could you provide some technical details about how the parent site is implemented?
It's not my responsibility to give up my rights to make the police safe. They exist in balance and this is not the balance I accept.
Crowdsourcing can be used nefariously, too. The specific opportunity of squatting on public parking spaces, then "selling" them to higher bidders, exists because parking is sometimes priced below market rate. And even if it's priced at market rate, the market rate will be artificially boosted if squatters suddenly take up all the spots.

But opportunities like this exist all over the place. Crowdsourcing and coordination are great when they lead to new opportunities, but it kind of sucks that companies like this are out there coordinating for the sake of monopolizing some existing resource.
I've always thought that one of the best way to address those issues would be to have a simple tax sheet to decide where your tax money goes - one of the best ways to vote with your money. Want to support drones programs ? Tick the box. If you don't, while you can't stop the program by yourself, at least you are not financing it.
The irony is that Game of Thrones is big and successful enough that it probably could make a tidy profit even in the alternative model you mentioned and despite being one of the most pirated shows in the world.

The difficulty with the "adapt or die" reasoning isn't GoT, it's shows 2-10 on the popularity chart, where show 2 has only a fraction of the audience and brings in only a fraction of the revenue but its fans still want the same production values.
Looks like he agreed to sell after all: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ss...
I hope that jshack takes this blog post down. Even if everything in it is true, he comes out looking worse than Pivotal Labs. I understand the urge to vent, but blog posts like this make someone close to unemployable.
Can someone explain why "phones" should not be considered a treat to privacy if you think Google Glass is?
Hmmm. I get on with the software, it's better than almost every other piece of software I've used along these lines. I've yet to use it in a big team but I imagine it's fantastic.
Court ruling: No right to send unvaccinated kids to school
As a Canadian working in the US I would love to have access to an E3. It's way better than our TN visa.
People do stupid stuff while tired... Shocker.
With Glass though, who knows if you are recording or not?

Without Glass, who knows if you are recording or not.

The hysterics (largely driven through anti-Google rhetoric, fwiw. People like Gruber are on the front-lines of anti-Glass hate) seem naively simplistic. In this case, there are people stealing your pin codes, and they do it in bulk, using tiny, concealed video devices that you never knew were there.

And as for everyone else, any of them, and any of your environments, can be absolutely coated with surveillance devices. High capacity, very tiny cameras are literally low-single digit prices now.

Singling out Google glass users is luddism that uses it as an easy bully victim in hopes that it makes technology suddenly regress. Only technology is long past it.
Redhat and Centos have the command "tuned-adm" which has various machine profiles with settings like this. It is an official thing supported by the vendor.

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...

eg when I run it on one of our KVM hosts.

$ tuned-adm list
Available profiles:
- throughput-performance
- laptop-ac-powersave
- virtual-guest
- latency-performance
- enterprise-storage
- default
- spindown-disk
- desktop-powersave
- virtual-host
- laptop-battery-powersave
- server-powersave
Current active profile: virtual-host
And more pro Google propaganda, that seems to popup whenever anyone criticizes google glasses.

Even now, I would suggest there are more google glass wearers than people with hidden cameras.
On the flipside, infinitely more happened in Europe than in the US during the same period regarding this.
Oh okay, I go to a school just south in an miniscule town by your standards then. Haha.
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We're not talking about passports, we're talking about air travel.

As it stands today (correct me if I'm wrong), a US citizen could be on the no-fly list and be denied the right to board a flight from New York to California. Passports don't even enter into it in this case.
Unless something gets between you and the target 44 metres away and blocks your view. Then your master plan is foiled.
Oregon District Court rules no-fly list unconstitutional (court opinion)
Your link refers to the same swat raid, which would explain why it reminds you of it.
I'd rather have a live child and a dead police officer. That's part of their job, the risk.
I don't know I can see fingerprints being more secure than 4 digit pin. I can watch people enter their 4 digit pin and memorize just by standing next to them on the subway. I can't do the same thing with a fingerprint.
Philosophy is more concerned with consciousness being a black-box and thus physical measurements not being able to be fully trusted. Science assumes a physical world that does not lie above untrusted surface. However, philosophy takes nothing for granted. It's possible that you are the only real conscious person, and everyone else is just merely 'reactive.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

There is not a divide between Philosophy and Physics. Their axioms are merely different. Physics has axioms. Philosophy is about life, and therefore examines it with NO precepts. In order to discover the truth about the universe, one must make no assumptions. One must simply understand the level of truth each thought holds. This is the 'golden key.'
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It most certainly is the case in the US...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_penalty
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This would essentially be voluntary taxation, which I certainly support but is not something any legislature would ever willingly pass.
Thanks so much!

The whole site (including LGBT News) is built from scratch, using PHP and MySQL. I came across a few turnkey Hacker News sites, but didn't really like any of them. I decided to build LGBT News from scratch just because I thought it'd be easier to integrate into the existing site, and I thought it'd be a fun project (I usually tend to do that for the learning experience).

Login uses Facebook Login (which has been a huge headache), countries and regions were implemented using an ISO database, and some of the additional data (population, religions, etc.) comes from Freebase.
Yeah, this is great for commits, but I've found that I personally commit in sort of random patterns, and I'll stash rather than commit when I'm temporarily switching tasks that need a branch change.

That's probably a really bad habit, but journaling branch changes helps me quite a bit.
What's going to happen to all those existing videos which currently generate views? Discovery is important; personally I have stumbled into quite a few videos with a fair amount of "views" which led me to follow a band. If they take those those down according to this new contract, I can see why the smaller labels may be disadvantaged since they won't have the money to promote their videos.
This study is misleading, because it uses 'household' wealth, instead of individual wealth (...)

Perhaps, but there is no hard data at the individual level because, as it happens, basically every comprehensive dataset on income or wealth relies on tax or census data, which are aggregated at the household level by design. So any empirical claim about individual-level data should be taken ex ante with a big grain of salt and evaluated carefully; especially in a heavily politicized field like economics where data is scarce and motivated reasoning reigns.

Take, for instance, the graph you cite [1], which cites Kitov and Kitov (2013) [2] along with the US census bureau as a source. The problem is, what that paper provides is not an empirical dataset but a microfounded model for predicting individual income --with all the problematic epistemological/overfitting caveats that they come with. Presenting that graph as an empirical fact and not as a debatable modeling exercise is quite misleading.

Besides, as others have pointed out, all the links you provide discuss income, not wealth (and no, their arguments/reasoning about income do not readily/trivially translate to wealth, as you commented below). If you are interested, check out the work of Cheryl Doss [3], who has conducted actual empirical work about the differences between household and individual equality in Ecuador, Ghana and India.

(PD: Oh wow even their claims about changing family structure in that blog [4] is disturbingly model-dependent. Much is made about the percentage of single-person households following an S-shaped curve, inflecting at 1968. However, they fit a sigmoid to what is a patently linear trend in the total number of single-person households beginning in 1950, and extrapolate back to 1900 despite having only two data points for that period. This wouldn't pass even a cursory peer-review, sorry.)

[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g3WZGpDibPM/Up3ZAPRtScI/AAAAAAAAJq...

[2] http://www.ecineq.org/ecineq_bari13/FILESxBari13/CR2/p177.pd...

[3] http://www.genderassetgap.org/sites/default/files/Doss%20-%2...

[4] http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-widows-...
Because of the strict maintenance requirements on certified aircraft, you won't find many (read: basically zero) piston engine airplanes flying with improperly modified or defective mufflers. In single-engine airplanes, those could represent a significant safety hazard to the people in the cabin.

Turboprops and jet engines don't really have mufflers per-se. Some aircraft have aftermarket "hush kits", but that's relatively uncommon as well.
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War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Police – ACLU Report
If they're going to do that, they need to do it consistently...

Most ATMs around here don't randomize the layout, but every once in a while I come across one that does, and I've found that it's actually quite difficult to use the latter. Apparently I have my PIN memorized mainly through muscle memory... when using the randomized sort I've occasionally resorted to drawing a keyboard and looking at what numbers my fingers hit! ><
This sounds like sour grapes. I have no insight into Pivotal Labs except that we have used Pivotal Tracker for quite some time for our startup. Unless there's some major pricing change is coming, I don't see what about them is considered unfriendly to startups?
>1. Do drones cause more civilian casualties than traditional air strikes?

Yes, since drones are used IN ADDITION to traditional air strikes, and for different kind of attacks. If anything, with drones getting cheaper, smaller plus not needing pilots and not having any casualties on the operating side, etc, they will also be used more than "traditional air strikes" which are much more difficult to approve and costlier.

Technological changes are enablers and multipliers -- they change what we can do and how often we can do it.

>2. Do drones terrorize civilians more than a traditional infantry occupation, such as that prosecuted by the US in Iraq?

Yes, since suddenly you have essentially small planes taking over the area and killing people, especially when they can be used to occupy and have almost zero casualties from the occupying site.

>4. This point is silly. In war you needn't get clearance before killing one's enemies - attempting to do so constitutes an increase in respect for human life.

There's also the fact that those are not even used in a properly declared war, and are even used against sovereign countries.
Not to be deliberately morbid but there is a time tested solution to not enough food that re-appears again and again throughout human history. It's called famine and has been a tremendous regulator of human overpopulation.

Maybe we can beat famine back forever. But I'm not counting on it. The whole situation is actually pretty tenuous. You don't see a lot about it on the news, but I understand the Horn of Africa has been experiencing massive famine over the past several years and hundreds of thousands have died from lack of nourishment. From an outside (rather than personal) perspective, this is just part of the cycle. In the first world we have beat famine back over the past century and the third world has enjoyed much of the benefit of this as they import much of their grain staples. But, we have sucked the aquifers dry, damned up most of the rivers and overallocation the water, are running short of essential nutrients like phosphorous and the whole thing is oil based. So, I am guessing in spite of massive efforts, the cycle of famine re-appears around the world again. Maybe next time around we can make our political/social systems a bit more efficient and forward looking which is, in my opinion, the only way to eliminate famine forever. But I'm not necessarily counting on that either.
Here's a short explanation of spider.io's approach that might interest you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSWhvNdjAAE
Google's Nest opens doors to third-party apps
> What TOML does or doesn't do is now a matter that needs to be worked out with Tom.

For what it's worth, I've just been brought on as a maintainer for TOML proper. Tom is still the guy though. Putting aside my involvement with Rust (<3), I also maintain the TOML library for Go, and I want to see an expedient path to 1.0 with minimal breakage. (There are lots of folks in the Go community already using TOML for things, including Mozilla's Heka project and CoreOS's `etcd` project.)
Show HN: The first cross-platform marketplace for web filtering
Non-paywall link to 2nd article:

https://www.adventuresofthemind.org/website/download.asp?id=...
As someone who regularly uses such a device, I agree fully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIovU2tpNWg
I call BS. This only "removed the feature" for sites that use such trackers -- the feature still works on 99% of the web.

So even what you said is not like the grand-parent's proposal that removes the functionality totally.
AFAIK, most routers use OpenBSD over Linux for security reasons.
This may happen regardless of tax policy. Many propose forcing it by slowly taking away the weight of the currency base by using alternate currencies: https://medium.com/@cyphunk/use-a-crypto-currency-end-a-war-...
How far just south? Rolla, or Jefferson City? My wife is from Rolla, and I know several people that went there. I don't know anybody that went to Lincoln though.
It's a generally around a 1/2 a % penalty which is swamped by other benefits.

AKA 2 incomes of $87,850 x2 = 175 700 vs extra 879$ in taxes.

At extreme incomes of say 20+M a year or below 18k it's actually far less than 1/2%.

However, there are huge benefits for SS for being a married couple even more so if there is a large income disparity, so on average if they plan ahead Marriage tends to lower taxes. On top of lower expenses which enable better tax avoidance mechanisms.
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How to get there is certainly a problem in itself, but if more people start talking about it, eventually it will gain momentum. Note that I am not for a 100% voluntary taxation policy, I don't mind having a "predefined base" + optional taxation kind of system.
usually those kinds of contracts are presented with guaranty of a severence package or at least a single big check, which is supposed to ameliorate/attenuate any hard feelings. nobody can coerce you to sign something like that, and besides, the enforceability of those contracts is dubious (outside of normal libel/slander laws) so they want you to take the money and happily leave.

there's also supposed to be an exit interview in which you are told why you are being let go and the details of the above. this is also designed to prevent anger. people, even when losing their jobs, respond well to truth and money.

and in my experience it usually works fine, but in this case, it doesn't sound like either happened. or maybe he refused the contract and hence, refused the money. that's certainly possible.
Not exactly and not a programming project.

I kind of flippantly said (something along the lines of) "I should do a comic about living with my medical condition. No, it should really be just a comic about my life with a main character kind of like Mae West, only opposite. Say, Mae East." And my son rebutted "November West."

I did an initial drawing of a comic that weekend. I bought the domain name six months later. I then spent a few years trying to flesh out what to put into the comic. (I was working for BigCo and it took up most of my mental landscape, so all my initial comic ideas sounded like Dilbert meets The Nightmare Before Christmas or something really macabre like that. I was afraid I would get fired if my employer discovered it and then I would lose my audience for no longer having a job to bitch about acridly.)

I eventually did get it off to a very rocky start. It's stalled currently. So not exactly a wild success story at the moment but I have gotten better feedback on it than other projects I launched in the past. I don't think it's dead yet but I don't yet have much to show.