skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For tens of thousands of years we lived as tribes of hunter and gatherers. We are biologically programmed to form groups and hate other groups that are perceived as an enemy to our group. Evolutionary psychology is complicated and speculative, but it's quite clear we have evolved an ability to form strong feelings of hate towards other groups.

I like this quote from HPMOR:

>Because the way people are built,... the way people are built to feel inside -...is that they hurt when they see their friends hurting. Someone inside their circle of concern, a member of their own tribe. That feeling has an off-switch, an off-switch labeled 'enemy' or 'foreigner' or sometimes just 'stranger'. That's how people are, if they don't learn otherwise...

>You grew up in a post-World-War-Two society where 'I vas only followink orders' is something everyone knows the bad guys said. In the fifteenth century they would've called it honourable fealty... Do you think you're, you're just genetically better than everyone who lived back then? Like if you'd been transported back to fifteenth-century London as a baby, you'd realize all on your own that burning cats was wrong, witch-burning was wrong, slavery was wrong, that every sentient being ought to be in your circle of concern?
I received a number of emails regarding deactivation of certain accounts. Other accounts which are actively used didn't receive any notifications and remained as they were.

But yes, the Google Apps freemium is greatly missed. Over the years I've mounted quite a number of domains onto the free Google Apps simply to have a single email address available on the domain. In normal circumstances these accounts would receive hardly any traffic.

I'm still looking for an alternative email service where I can, in a single account, mount a large amount of domains for the single reason to have any number of email inboxes available for that domain. To be more precise, I'm looking for a service that allows me to mount an unlimited number of domains and charge me for traffic and storage rather per domain and/or inbox. Maybe this includes a reasonable annual flat fee as well (say $50 USD or something).

Any suggestions welcome..
yeah, basically.
Don't forget that organizations like Stormfront give people purpose, something people often struggle to find in places like Montana.

We all want to be part of something bigger. Some turn to open source, contribute to the community. Others build wild conspiracy theories and focus their energies in that.
I already have a name for the first part (the example part)
Would tidal locking really happen fast enough for that to be a plausible reason?
Ask HN: Why did "Coolest Cooler" fail their first KS campaign?
I believe many of you have heard of the "Coolest Cooler" that has already raised $4M on Kickstarter [1].

I was surprised to find out that the same person ran essentially the same KS campaign only a few months ago and only managed to raise $100K, failing to reach his goal of $125K [2]. The two campaigns look very similar to me.

I think this is an interesting case study about crowdfunding. What do you think they did wrong the first time? How did they fix it?

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryangrepper/coolest-cooler-21st-century-cooler-thats-actually

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryangrepper/the-coolest-cooler-with-blender-music-and-so-much
Are you referring to Espresso book printers or another type of print technology?
Electro Theremin
What Does it Take to Run a Hackathon?
I miscalculated; let me revise that to tens of milions deaths, extrapolating from [0] - "Approximately 1.24 million deaths occurred on the world’s roads in 2010".

http://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/

(I couldn't find a source for a total deaths from car accidents estimate and I need to go to sleep now; any link welcome)
Well - ignoring the fact that city maintained street parking is a public resource - I believe you are ignoring the cost of time (of the person searching for parking) in your analysis which, in effect, creates a perfect market equilibrium....or something.
Oh cool! They presented this at Dorkbot-SF a couple of weeks ago. A bit I particularly liked was that, because of the relative speed of the probe, a couple of km/sec, the frequencies sent and received had to be separately adjusted. And also, Arecibo was broadcasting with enough power to boil birds that flew over it.

It's cool space shit, is what I'm saying.

Edit: here's some video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTljlMH-0oM
I think the eventual solution to racism will be love.

OK, maybe not love, but at least lust. We tend to take a very narrow time view of a few hundred years. However I can't but imagine in the US in two or three hundred years it will become increasingly harder to tell races apart.

Look at countries like Brazil. Look at the amount of interracial marriage going on right now in the US as opposed to 50 years ago. That I suspect is the future and I don't know how racism survives it.
He works for Google.
It's a real shame that Julia doesn't have a well defined syntax, especially given that the parser is written in the author's own non-standard lisp dialect.
How it was faked: The account was set to private, tweeted every possibility worth noting, delete each as proven untrue, then make public.
> However I can't but imagine in the US in two or three hundred years it will become increasingly harder to tell races apart.

So instead of various diverse races you prefer a single mass of people with no distinct race?
> Dealing with suppliers and Chinese factories may present a logistical challenge, but it's still easier and less expensive than doing the manufacturing yourself.

I sort-of agree with you there and sort-of don't.

IF (and this is a HUGE if) you already know EXACTLY what your product is going to be THEN you MIGHT be able to save a bunch of money using Chinese suppliers and factories.

But when you're doing a hardware Kickstarted kind of product you don't necessarily know exactly what the product is and how it will work. You might well be inexperienced too.

Manufacturing in-house gives you the ability to rapidly iterate and close the feedback loop (which any good software engineer will tell you is critical) so that you can go from sorta-working to working to working perfectly.

3d printed parts are not the same as injection molded parts for myriad reasons. The screws for assembly you buy off of mcmaster carr will almost assuredly be different than the ones your Chinese supplier gives you, especially if you don't know to ask what the material is, what the tolerances are, etc. A screw is a screw right? Not even close.

Software guys often have a lot of trouble understanding hardware because software is so pure. A bit is a bit and it always will be. An object has a type which often fully defines it. Bits can largely be counted on not to flip. If it passes the tests in dev and test it should work in production, and if it doesn't we can revert it.

When you do all this stuff in China your feedback loop might be 3-6 months long. That means that you might spend two years (4 to 8 iterations) getting from an idea to a worthwhile product. Doing manufacturing in-house can bring your feedback loop from months to hours, days or weeks. For the same 4-8 iterations you might only spend a few months. That's the difference between "very nearly success" and "quite late, eventual delivery way behind schedule and expectations"
no, I didn't say it did. But there's also no convincing evidence that either of the synthetics I mentioned does cause negative long-term effects (let alone serious ones).
one possible way to solve this problem is to not initiate turning the lock if the battery is too low.
Well, as a German I don't have problems understanding German, I just prefer having it like everything else in English. But it is a reason for me not to use them.
And in looking through the discussion around this article (see link in parent) they seem to view separation of ethnicities (into homogenous countries) as the solution to their problems.
This is sweet as f- in terms of showing off a full platform as needed by weirdo stats people for their models plus enough data to choke on...

And the ipython + docker container to wrap it all up is just kind of showing off.. I mean really.(haha no I want it bad..or some people I know would if they could give up R fetish)
A scarce resource is a scarce resource. It doesn't matter what intentions it was made with, or what rhetoric is used to justify a clearly defective pricing strategy.
Yeah, I agree with this. On the internet it's so easy to get sucked into an echo chamber and completely cloister oneself in some belief system or another. Then every other perspective is the foolish mainstream media who are only there to feed the sheeple or some agenda of the enemy. I think these echo chambers breed/cater to a sort of messianic paranoia.
Powell's Books: http://www.powells.com/info/salestax.html does not collect sales tax.

AbeBooks: http://www.abebooks.com/docs/BooksellerPolicies/4.shtml does not collect sales tax.

Apple did not collect sales tax until they started opening Apple Stores in other states.
Ask HN: Do you tiptoe through your codebase like a minefield?
Is your codebase a frightening, brittle mess of dangerous interactions likely to collapse with any little touch, that you need to slowly and carefully tiptoe through like a minefield?

Or is a well organised, robust, structured code base that you can fly through and make changes at will?
You could describe the app, like

CoolappERP.com
CoolappHR.com

Or put an action on it, 'get' is popular

GetCoolapp.com

I hate when I see things like

CoolappInc or CoolappCo.com
Neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki had any effect on the Japanese leadership of the time, as minutes of government meetings show. The nuclear attacks paled in comparison to the firebombings or larger cities such as Tokyo.

What ended the war was Soviet invasion. Apparently Japan would rather surrender to the USA than face a post-war country divided on two fronts as Germany was.
WTF? Access denied? Banned IP? Because of my VPN? What a crock.
He's referring to this character played by Danny DeVito

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027129/
He didn't consider your particular (bad, IMO) analogy, therefore his story is "excessively colored by his idealistic mindset"? What is it about your analogy that makes you think it's such a good litmus test for serious thought on the subject?
Well, technically parking spaces aren't public goods in the sense of goods freely distributed by the city.

At least in downtown, "public parking" is rented by the city at the rate they set. You may claim the rate city sets is too low, yes. But that doesn't actually entitle you (or anyone else) to lay claim to parking spaces and auction them as you please - since, well, they don't actually belong to you.

This doesn't really have much to do with "publicness" actually. Rental car companies would be equally upset if people developed an app for car renters to extract a surcharge for handing a rental off to their "friends".
The different types of mutability are also quite important for the concept of "borrowing" in Rust, which is simply taking a reference. The compiler ensures that ownership of the variable isn't transferred while any such reference is active, and only one mutable reference (of a mutable type) can exist at any one time. This means that bugs like that shown for Swift are impossible in Rust, because the language ensures no two things can ever modify it at the same time.
A mix of both (depending on time constraints)... with a lot of unit tests so refactoring it is part of life, and not a part I'm particularly afraid of.

I go for the well structured approach, but you don't always have the luxury of time unfortunately.
Yeah. That's interesting. I guess their ancestors shouldn't've formed empires. I imagine it'd be sort of hard to keep a racially separated empire.
By getting lucky with suppliers and parts, or knowing the pitfalls ahead of time?
30% legitimate grievance

Legitimate grievance? How is blaming the world's problems on "the Jews" (as if they all operated as one) anything remotely resembling legitimate grievance?

Poor, rural white Americans are getting a raw deal (thanks, in large part, to right-wing politicians they were misled into electing) but that's because poor, rural people everywhere are getting a bad deal these days. "Whites are an oppressed group" is complete idiocy and an indefensible position.
Collect plus sounds really good. How much does it cost ?
Created a PR for a basic table of contents, I can see this being pretty useful when the need arises.
I'm talking about a company name not a url, but good idea.
> False accusations are rare, so it is more likely that he raped her

That's not correct. Studies of false accusations have found roughly 5-8% are false. However, most of these studies are looking at accusations that are made to police reasonably soon after the alleged event and are investigated, and to count as "false" there must be strong proof that the accuser is lying or mistaken, not merely a lack of proof that the accusation is true. Note that this means these studies undercount false accusations.

I haven't seen any studies on the false rate for accusations years after the alleged event.
Pretty cool. I added it to add some colors to our website: http://referralhire.com Thanks!

Its getting obvious to me now, if a good designer suggests color add them else shutup and keep it white or black :)
Well that's very rousing, but only someone working for a chronically underfunded and at-risk institution would feel the need to write such flowery prose. If I was a rich taxpayer whose money was on the line I don't think I would be convinced.
How's that any different from Google linking to the thepiratebay homepage in its results?
I've actually looked for recordings of this show several times over the years, but sadly have only turned up short clips.

Seems I missed it being put up on Hulu at one point, but you can find some of it now (sometimes even subtitled in English).

http://vimeo.com/49589381

http://vimeo.com/53656752

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sc6kuxHbDk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUONIiWLjs
See also: http://www.iecc.com/linkers/
I'm sure that there's an aspect of what you say at work, but I can also imagine that they have a certain amount of "pick and pack" capacity at their fulfillment centers.

By choosing 2-day, you're forcing Amazon to pick and pack that order today probably, tomorrow at the very latest.

By choosing "no rush", you allow them flexibility to fulfill from a wide variety of centers, on a wide variety of days. Maybe there's a weekly cycle in order volume and no rush orders may allow them to even that out with a more constant labor force.
This isn't how satire works. Satire has sublety.
I'm also eagerly awaiting the next Patrick Rothfuss Kingkiller Chronicle book

Me too. The first two were great. Looking forward to the next book in the Mistborn series from Sanderson too.
Even though they take their views to ridiculous extremes, sites like Stormfront do have a valid critique of the hypocrisy of liberal American Jews.

Exactly the same people and groups who claim that White people desiring to live among other White people is stupid and immoral, also believe that Israel being a Jewish nation is non-negotiable. Only the far-left (e.g. Norman Finkelstein and Chomsky in some moments) are consistent in criticizing Jewish identity and White identity in the same terms.

The mainstream claim that these two concepts are completely distinct and incomparable, and yet there is no obvious difference. The only way that this discrepancy can be seen as something other than hypocrisy, is if either (1) Jewish identity is entirely defensive, i.e. a reaction to prejudice from the society in which Jews happen to live, or (2) Jewishness is an entirely separate category, incomparable to race or ethnicity (I don't include religion because I don't think that the concept of Jewish identity solely as a religious identity stands up to scrutiny).

In response to (1), I don't see this as the full picture as Jewishness is allowed to be celebrated in its own right. The idea that Israel should be Jewish merely for the physical protection of Jews, rather than the protection of Jewish identity, is not consistent with how Israelis or their liberal supporters describe Israel.

In response to (2), the only way that Jewishness can be rendered incomparable to Whiteness, is to accept that the most extreme views against Whites are true. Namely that (unlike every other cultural or ethnic identity), Whiteness is an identity of racial supremacism and oppresion. Some people (again, on the far left) truly believe this. But I find it a ridiculous assertion, and most people simply are too brow-beaten to dig this deep in to anti-racist discourse.
I agree the app should be shut down, but only because the city should build its own so it can take the money directly.

The poor can't afford smartphones. If your plan were implemented, how would they find parking? If they aren't able to participate in your system, then that will add a lot of time to their daily commute.

Poor people are already penalized for being poor due to overdraft fees, predatory credit, etc. Taking an extra hour of their life each day just so the wealthy can find parking more easily doesn't seem best.
> Once you stop believing the NYTimes, well, what do you believe? You can believe anything a random site on the internet says. So one obvious answer, which you left out, is to actually address the legitimate grievances.

This. When people fall out of the bottom of the officially sanctioned narrative space, whether it be true, false or especially (as it probably always is) some really complex combination of the two they need to rely on their own judgement and sometimes that judgement will lead to Nazis or Reptilians or some combination thereof.
I am already finding it a bit slow/boring. If 6 to 9 are that bad then I might end up quiting on it.
* SF has a large number of private parking garages. Anyone willing to pay market rate can use them. The city is choosing to charge the rate that it finds most useful.

* The existence of the app in no way demonstrates that the city doesn't charge market rate. The people who "sell" their parking spaces in the app don't have the same cost structure as the city since, among other things, they don't actually own these parking spaces and are simply engaging in a scam.
...You really do, more people will find out about Hope, more people will thus want to come to HOPE. Thus growing the community. Most people don't know what HOPE is, even people in the hacker community.
Yeah, the issue isn't really that there are no similar services available, it's just that people don't really use those services very much. There are several search engines competing against Google too, but if Google blackballs your site and you're dependent on organic search traffic, you're still going to lose 90% of your visitors overnight.

Internet infrastructure is pretty important, so it's a little more disconcerting to me if some huge percentage of sites are dependent on the same single ISP/datacenter/etc.
In Europe they're very common
This map reminds me just how split the state I live in, Washington, is. Living in Seattle it's hard to imagine we come in at the second highest category.
Both but mostly knowing the pitfalls ahead of time, i.e. experience and knowledge.
If they were also looking for manufacturing services, all the big EMS companies do product design (EE, mechanical, PCB layout, software, + Potpourri for $1000, Alex), too. One of the biggest value adds in EMS is DFM work, where a customer brings in the "next big thing" that turns out is impossible to reliably or inexpensively build (Bloom boxes are an item I have some personal history with, for example). This is also why there is a pretty big EMS presence in San Jose / Fremont / Sunnyvale / Milpitas, and why Flextronics decided to open their hardware incubator (Lab IX) there, too. Besides all this, even the biggest usually only have a minimum investment of a few thousand dollars.

I've spent the past 14 years in the EMS world and am happy to help/advise anyone who has a hardware or manufacturing problem.
Wifi has always been a tricky problem for small devices. However, I think there are some good tricks that people have been using involving playing around with sleep times, skipping beacon intervals, etc. - tricks that the electric imp, the Wifi board used in Lockitron, utilizes to lower the current consumption by a bit.

You're totally correct that always-on-instant-unlock feature is a fool's errand as that would mandate always-on Wifi, spelling death for battery life.

I think one feasible method is sleeping the Wifi and using an external input (like a button or a "knock" sensor) that wakes up the Wifi, tells the chip to check the server for updated lock state, and then go back to sleep. I've played around with capacitive sensing on a door handle to wake up the Wifi and check the server as soon as someone lays hands on the door. Cap sensing is also incredibly low power so it had minimal impact on battery life.

This of course introduces all kinds of problems, but if Wifi is absolutely necessary, then this is one solution.

Either that, or wake up to poll Wifi every 5, 10, 15 minutes (destroying instant lock/unlock)
A lot of people know what HOPE Is. The problem is HOPE only happens every two years. Everyone knows what Defcon & Blackhat are & go to those conferences instead. There are large differences between the style, methods & ideals of the conferences, as well. The problem is, the venue is already very packed as is, they sent out an e-mail saying they had to close down their pre-registration because of the interest in the conference.
Scientists Discover that Atheists May not Exist, and that's not a Joke
I was expecting John Campbell to start something like this, but he seems to have dropped off the planet. He's an interesting but slightly crazy human.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-f...
The proposed solution is not just a matter of syntax but of types: a and b would not be compatible. So a would have type [Int] and b would have type [:Int:]. You simply couldn't pass b into arrayConsumer without explicitly noting the change:

arrayConsumer(b.immutableCopy())

Similarly, if you had a function that expected a mutable array, you would not be able to pass a in without making a mutable copy of it.

func mutableArrayConsumer(arg : [:Int:]) { ... }
var mutableA = a.copyMutable()
mutableArrayConsumer(mutableA)

(You want to keep a reference to the mutable copy since a function that explicitly takes in a mutable array probably does something relevant to it.)

This solves the problem neatly and statically without any implicit copying or conversions to trip you up.
That's more or less what I already believe -- that is I already agree with the statement "race is primarily a social construct". Of course some sub-populations have different genetic factors which may have some handwavey amount of effects, but I'd argue that 1) having multiple distinct "races" is primarily caused by group dynamics among humans rather than genetic variation, and 2) these constructs are generally harmful and we'd be better off not having them.
"How to get free single-user Google Apps accounts"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4885538

http://lifehacker.com/5967336/use-google-app-engine-to-get-g...

I'm about to see if it still works, 1.5 years later.