skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not ? The rocket attacks are obviously human rights violations and war crimes. Indiscriminate attacks against civilians.

Is it truly so amazing to you that people complain about the obvious double standard here ? Moral absolutism, applied to ONE of the parties in the conflict.

Is there anyone who doubts in the slightest that the Palestinians (meaning their states, and a significant portion of them themselves) are evil, plain and simple ?

Of course the very laws the palestinians impose on themselves are human rights violations. But that's just another thing that'll never get mentioned.

If there is one people on this planet that has abolutely no right to complain about bias, human right violations, and outright deceit in the media, it's the palestinians. A few examples :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-hEbpow5WE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSOIAYy3cQ

Both of these are obvious war crimes, again, nobody will ever mention that.

And in case you're wondering, that second video was made and spread by palestinians (plenty of internetfora full of them). They are proud of doing this.
lol. thanks
The subscribe section gives you 12 weeks for $12.
A lot of managers, and even many executives, are not in the position to implement Spolsky's ideas. Take his suggestions on office layout, for example. If you occupy the C-suite at any given company, or if you're the founder of your own company, you might be able to call shots on things like that. If you're not, you probably can't. You probably have a boss, who has a boss, and you have bureaucracy to wade through.

Joel's advice is best taken at the founding stages of a company. It's extensive, and it's structural, and it needs to be part of the company's foundation. If you're the one group or division at a large company that "goes rogue" and operates on Joel's principles, even if you have the political clout to do so, you're painting a target on your back. You're taking a huge political risk. Maybe it pays off. Maybe it doesn't. At any rate, very few people reach executive status at established companies without a keen understanding of internal politics, and the constraints it imposes.

I'm not defending politics, of course. I'm just saying politics exists, and it's a powerful organizational force.
> Just let me spend small amounts so I don't become aware of my own habits.

ding ding ding

Amazon's mobile app does this excellently with the One-Click purchase.

And don't even get me started on Steam sales.

I dare not look at my spending history on either of those two.
People bugfix binary releases regularly. The original NES FinalFantasy shipped with dozens of fairly significant bugs, and you can get fixed for all of them now.

Ultima IV Updated graphics, native port:

http://xu4.sourceforge.net/images/shot3.png

Obviously it's harder with binaries; and these games had significant parts written in assembly anyway, so it's easier with games from the 80s than modern games.
Except that those who are "proud to be bad at math" exude pride because they've given up, but don't want to feel like a failure. In other words, all attempts at math education have so far failed them, and they have succumbed to learned helplessness.

When people are consistently frustrated using your website, you'd normally look into the UX so that you can make a smoother experience. You then test to make sure your changes actually made your site better. Math and science education is no different, except that those in charge tend to treat it like the bad old UNIX days of "If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand" and "RTFM".
I think you didn't get the story.
This is really cool. I think I'm going to start blogging about our business practices in a couple years, which are very different than most companies. In some sense, we are running our company more like a distributed project, like Linux or Bitcoin.

Our company's mission is: "Empowering individuals, uniting communities."

Our company's motto is: "People live lives, companies create products."

Why not something like "don't be evil?" Because our company's distributed, and focused on creating products that empower people. The whole thing about a centralized company opposing its users or doing something to screw everybody is exacerbated when there is massive centralization, data centers, a building with lots of employees, jobs entrenched interests, lobbying, etc.

We are embracing the new distributed world that git, bitcoin, etc. help usher in. So company's mission involves build products to empower people. Will the company be worth billions of dollars? Probably, because we're going to be the first movers on our platform. But the platform powering what we do will create tens of billions of value outside what we capture.

I think this new movement to decentralize our institutions really does help empower individuals and unite communities. And it's gaining steam along the lines of http://asyncmanifesto.org/#.U44s7gov84U.gmail and https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus...

I wrote this about 3 years ago: http://myownstream.com/blog#2011-05-21
I think a month is ready.
I think that's a fair point. In this context "absolute nobody" reads more like "worthless" to me, rather than just saying something like "unknown" and it seemed unnecessarily harsh.
I still don't know what it is...
GOG introduces Linux support
Autoflowering Seeds
I'm sure they had one of those "Oh..." moments when they realized there was something that didn't quite work out.
They are real lambdas. They're not real closures.
Vaccines by themselves are not 100% effective (see the Measles outbreak from earlier this year [1]). The additional benefit of Herd Immunity[2] helps to increase the effectiveness, which is at risk of being lost the more the anti-vax movement gains traction.

1: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6322a4.htm
2: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/pages/communityimmunity.aspx
People didn't plunk down $50 for a "general platform for stuff".
Unless you have a relevant trademark, there isn't really much you can do here

You can rant about it and get that rant read by people who make branding decisions. And sometime in the future someone may say something like "even though there's nothing legal stopping us from re-using this person's existing reasonably well-established online identity, there may be negative consequences, so maybe we should keep looking"

The charge is rudeness, not IP or Trademark violation. A community addresses rudeness by calling it out.
Oh wow, that's pretty funny. These "gamblers" on the stock market do actually make the system work better and moves investment to places where it's likelier to have a good return. So they do help, although in a very abstract way and maybe not as much in practice as in theory but still.
A better question than whether they help is how much and how much they should be rewarded for that help.
Looks like they've fixed whatever the issue was as our networking is back to normal.
There are people who cannot be vaccinated (very young, very old, those with immune deficiencies) who rely purely on herd immunity to prevent getting certain illnesses. If all the healthy people who could suffer through the flu opted-out of the vaccine, most of them would get through it just fine, but the illness would pass through the population and kill off a lot of weaker people.

Smoking obviously causes lung cancer via secondhand smoke, but it also leaves a carcinogenic and heavy metal residue on walls and floors (thirdhand smoke). Kids, especially, get sick from this from crawling around the floor. They don't have the luxury of opting-out of smoking.

What are the solutions to these public health problems that aren't heavy-handed? I'm all for freedom and voluntarism but the libertarian solution of identifying the perpetrator and bringing them to civil court falls apart when the vector from perpetrator to victim is so diffuse that you can't trace it back.

Similar problem with people engorging themselves on unhealthy junk. I have no problem when it only affects themselves, but once their obesity-related maladies start costing other people via subsidized healthcare or extra-wide ambulances and whatnot, it's no longer just an individual choice.
I might not object to paying 50 bucks a year, but I read articles shared by dozens of people on different websites so it would be more like ten times that, to different publications.

I very rarely actually go to any one publications website.
Tables for one – the rise of solo dining
You pay money, Dalton becomes a partner at YC.
Roald Dahl: Vaccines, Measles and His Daughter
Or into mechanical stackers of some kind
It's uninformative to conflate monetary policy with the underlying material/technology used for currency. The two are totally and entirely unrelated. It's like claiming that changing from paper to (still fiat) coins is good because this would cause a fundamental shift in the nation's purportedly destructive monetary policy and also paper rips which is a bummer. So coins > paper, clearly.

Which is to say, you are really making two totally independent claims. One is at least plausible and the other isn't.

The first is that bitcoin provides a viable alternative to current methods for exchanging fiat currency. This is probably the most sensible argument for cryptographic currency, and I think is worth discussing. The discussion below delves into some specific arguments on this issue.

Your second claim is that decentralized cryptographic currency will or ever could/should replace state-backed fiat currency. I don't think this is a particularly useful point to discuss, since informed prediction is impossible and the prescription mostly amounts to political persuasion.

edit: but also, the US could switch to a cryptographic currency with all of the practical benefits of bitcoin, and still retain basically the same amount of control over its currency. Technology can never solve big political problems.
Roald Dahl: Vaccines, Measles and his Daughter

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=8080516
> At school: "Sacha your kids are not vaccinated and we do not admit any students not vaccinated."

I thought this would perpetuate social stratification. But my hypothesis, that poor families are less likely to vaccinate their children than rich families, was incorrect. The National Network for Immunisation Information finds that "compared to fully immunized children, unvaccinated children were more likely to be non-Hispanic white and live in larger households. Educational levels, family income and other factors did not differ" [1].

Removing the philosophical exemption, at the federal level, seems a prudent first step. "States that allowed philosophical exemptions to immunization laws in schools had many more unvaccinated children than states that do not have philosophical exemptions."

[1] http://www.immunizationinfo.org/science/demographics-unvacci...
What's a "point and click IDE"? Eclipse and Visual Studio are "shortcut based". I've never seen a "point and click IDE" except maybe SQL Windows/Gupta/Centura.
I would love it if schools and nurseries started to disallow children who were not vaccinated.

Unfortunately there are enough parents to make "no vaccinated children allowed" (you are not allowed in if you've been vaccinated) schools viable. See "Measles parties" and the sending of items infected with chicken pox through the post for examples.
It's fine to feel exasperated. It's not fine to treat people in such a condescending manner.
People are rational, and want to understand, but unless you make the information properly accessible in the UX sense, your exasperation is due to your own fault.

The doctor did not try to educate the mother. He tried to lecture her. He offered her a bad user experience, which she naturally rejected. People are not machines. You don't just feed the same information format in and expect the same result from everyone.
> Funny how the AWS status page still has a green tick (and a small discrete (i)) even though there's a confirmed problem.

This really irritates me to no end. I imagine it's done to keep their numbers looking good, or because some manager is incentivized to not properly flag it as an outage.

It's pathetic that I have to do this, but I follow @ylastic on Twitter and hear about outages much faster that way.
Flight AH5017 updates: Missing Algeria plane
At no point in this very long parable did the patient actually get information about the nature of risk, the odds of bad reactions, the nature and severity of bad reactions, treatments for reactions, etc. If an MD is actually going to talk that much to a patient, the information content could be a lot higher.
The mother in the narrative is not asking to be informed, she is asking for a specific guarantee that the doctor cannot give. It would be like a client saying, "give me a guarantee of 100% uptime or I'm going with someone else," and refusing to read your literature about how many "9s" you can provide.
How would you suggest the New Yorker obtain money to finance the creation of new high quality content?
You could hook GitHub up to Trello pretty deeply with Zapier (https://zapier.com/zapbook/github/trello/).
How exactly is this "paying it forward"?
Anyone who runs on Heroku should subscribe to status notifications.

https://status.heroku.com/
Montana Sen. Walsh Says PTSD May Have Played A Role In His Master's Plagiarism
The team will be here to answer any questions :)
How can you be guilty of murder if you did not, in fact, kill the victim? Absolute certainty is an illusion. The word "fact" is never meant literally by people who've thought about the subject for a while.
I point you back to my 1st example: this overheard (offices, employees) is what Bitcoin makes unnecessary if users can spend the coins directly, or exchange them directly for cash with friends/family/people in their community, or use a Bitcoin ATM (ATMs cost less to operate than a full blown WU-type office so they would lead to lower fees - anything below the average worldwide remittance costs of 8.5% is better.)

You say Bitcoin WOULD (conditional tense) not make things cheaper, but if adoption continues (the condition we are talking about) it WOULD. Perhaps you do not communicate clearly and meant to say WILL instead of WOULD. In other words you don't believe in its adoption? But then your statement becomes obvious ("if Bitcoin's adoption fail it will not make things cheaper", duh).
A bad religion?
I had a conversation along these very lines today. The hard question is how to fund such a thing. A lot of funding seems to be for the individual researcher to start a group, or for large consortia to work on a project, with precious little middle ground. My ideal lab would in fact be medical biologist, mass spectrometrist and bioinformatician working together. I'm not sure how to do that when each individual has a good, but not insane track record. This is to say nothing of the difficulties in putting such a team together.
OS X 10.10 Yosemite Public Beta
Germany is also home to enormously gigantic machines like the Bagger 288 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288) that are so enormous you can see them from space.

The scale of this thing is staggering. In one incident it accidentally scooped up a bulldozer: http://imgur.com/gallery/rU3XU

Also shown there is what it looks like when it's on the move along a carefully planned and prepared route: http://i.imgur.com/51x5NIR.jpg?1

I'm sure the budget for moving a scientific device isn't as huge as something involved in mineral extraction where time equals money.
The blog post linked to by parent leads to this page

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-fo...

As OA mentions, this changeover will take some time. I think they are serious about it though.
Things like this makes me ashamed to have my name on papers in Nature.

First, lets set aside the hypocrisy of a non open access journal publishing this[1]. (What happens if Sacha wants to inform her self by reading a few old nature papers?)

I am pro vaccine but far too many doctors have this fantasy that they should have unlimited control and articles like this just serve to validate that view point.

Medicine is an inexact and continually evolving science and a good doctor should always be willing to talk over the options with you and engage with you on a level beyond just parroting the current recommendations. As someone who is one of the people contributing to the body of often-vague statistics we call medicine it is continuously annoying to have to get doctors to explain their (often subjective) judgment calls they are making and actually present their reasoning analytically.

Additionally, many doctors choose to forgo recommended treatments themselves due to side effects [2].

[1] In fact you can pay extra to make your nature paper open access but it is by no means fully open access.
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/how-doctors-die...
I like a consensus of experts as much as the next guy, but let's not get carried away.

Today's airtight methodology is tomorrow's tragic myopia.
Nope, only one! I definitely clicked "get address" on a wallet which had significantly more bitcoin.
He calls himself "an independent artist and programmer." If he's been paid for the latter under the futurestack name...
Download files more safely with Firefox 31
Innovation – What's New? (Innovation in context of humanitarianism))
There are really measels parties? I've heard of chicken pox parties, which makes sense because there's no vaccine and the adult form is vastly worse than the infant form. But measels parties, that's just medieval.

EDIT: apparently there is a chicken pox vaccine, but it isn't administered to the general population in the UK, only NHS workers. Interesting.
Interview with a DESIGNATION Alum, now a UX Apprentice at Manifest Digital
How Startups Can Do Retail Right from the Inventor of the Apple Store
The only thing that went wrong with App.net is that it felt like you had to be part of some inner circle to understand what they were actually doing. Their communication and marketing was, and still is, diabolical. I still have no idea what they are selling.
in fact, i'd bet your child has a better chance of dying by catching the flu from a vaccinated child than some other child not vaccinated by MMR.

Oh good, argument based on conjecture.
Do you want people to read up on the science, or to accept what's "settled"?

As a professional scientist, there are few things more anathema than the idea that a scientific theory is "settled". Experiments can only falsify theories; they can never be proven to be correct. The best a theory can hope for is to remain consistent with observation.

Once upon a time, it was well-settled in large communities that the universe spun about the Earth.
Imagine a future where 3D depth-sensitive cameras are prevalent - this means that a 3D model of a person's head can be easily obtained.

Then futuristic analysis software that, from a picture, can determine all the light-sources in that image and 3D positions thereof.

So take a photo, analyze it for light-sources, then brute-force it by applying 3D models of every face in your database with the known light-sources and run it through the mosaic filter.

Futuristic technology could help here. Probably wouldn't work since I'm sure one person's mosaic would match too closely somebody with similar features and a similarly-shaped head.
Is IT ready for the security challenges of digital enterprises?
Thanks for the feedback! Some of the questions have quite long code snippets, while some have only one line. But there should be room at least on iPhone5 to make the buttons larger. I'll work on it for the next update.
IFTTT Blog – Introducing the Square Channel
You should talk with someone who will just listen. You might not even need advice. Just someone who will listen and let you walk through your thoughts. Go to http://www.7cupsoftea.com/ and reach out to someone. You'll feel better.

Then, take a sick day.

Then imagine just walking out middle fingers in the air (figuratively or really). Might be fun. Then imagine bumping into those people in a restaurant, future job interview, sales call, meetup, at the park, on the bus. Might not be so fun.

You're going to run into the people at your current gig again. It will come back to bite you.
GOP Congressman wants to investigate Google because
3000 year old goat butter, discovered in 1996 in Kildare
just one thing, tangentially related:

why is the "welcome to aerofs" image 5k x 1.5k pixels? surely that's a bit big no?
Target was not the power plant but fighters in adjoining buildings. The electricity problems have 3 causes :

1) they attacked the Egyptian state, which has mostly cut them off (Hamas and the muslim brotherhood are somewhere between one organisation and allies) [1]

2) they launch rockets into Israel, one fell on the power line that supplies Gaza [2]

3) Hamas decided to stage a battle right next to one remaining source of power. The power plant itself was not a target and is not that badly damaged.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26974463

[2] http://www.jta.org/2014/07/13/news-opinion/israel-middle-eas...

You want a distinction between civilians and armed forces ? That's cool, how are you going to make Hamas comply with that rule ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN9WzUc7iB0
THAT is a nice palette!
Gaza crisis: Israeli strike on compound housing UN school kills at least 15
Data URIs are Slow on Mobile
Despite the amount of similarly titled articles that appear on HN weekly, this one is really, really good.

Don't miss out on it.
Your Computer Will Feel Your Pain
Our Startup Would Probably Die If We Were In San Francisco
Well, keeping the trains running on time did work.

—

The nice thing about mentioning Mussolini is that there's no Godwin Police to immediately point at you.
I havent been told there was an incident

To be blunt, that's your own fault for not subscribing to one of the many ways you could receive updates on this.
This is so much better than sifting through the "Who's Hiring?" threads. Thanks
Your viewpoint is flawed and very anti-science.
This is good news for those who appreciate the New Yorker.

Not everyone thinks that a world full of advertising and clickbait "information" is a desirable thing. Think of The Atlantic -- at one time, it was on par with The New Yorker for quality content. Now, it contains one rare pearl of compelling and thought-provoking writing (e.g., Ta Nahesi Coates's "A Case For Reparations") for every thousand transitory blips clamoring to acquire page-views.

There is such a thing as information which cannot easily be supported by the info-economy of frictionless social media sharing. I find it disheartening that this is an unobvious idea to some who preach freedom of information.
I totally agree, a clear message can make it or break it for a service, especially one with such a strong competitor.
I miss the creepy King commercials. Those were the best.
This is only true in countries where almost every child is vaccinated. In the developing nations, where vaccinations are rare, it's the diseases which kill children, not the cars.
I've thought of other languages, but decided to focus on improving this Python version for now. This is a side project, so development time is limited.
Implied ownership claim is not a legal claim to copyright, and I don't see how the author alludes to it being so.

Aside from that - well, it was a pretty rude move, particularly in that they didn't bother to acknowledge him when he talked to them (albeit over twitter) before ranting about it.

I don't think there's a question that the conference can do this legally, but they're still being ass-hats by ignoring it (and getting his twitter account suspended).
It didn't solve the problem of centralized control.
Principles of Content Addressing
And when you colour in the picture always use a pen of 100% opacity or the colour can be removed from the image to reveal the data underneath!
Why Do IT Organizations Continue Using RFPs?
I want to have my hair cut by this girl
Agreed. I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim "pre-eminence"!