skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the blindness aura thing just before I have a migraine (which doesn't happen much anymore since I stopped accidentally suffocating myself with my pillow..).

The experience for me is absolutely identical to that of a blind spot optical illusion, except bigger and in a different area (just a bit off from the center). It's not generally obvious that there's an issue, the brain fills it in, but if I put text in that part of my vision I'll notice I can't actually read it.
Black people. And I don't mean that sarcastically.

But I don't believe they're afraid of them as much as it's a power play.

A police officer on video said "Bring it. All you f*cking animals." [1] Based on everything I've seen this sentiment feels more like the rule than the exception.

[1] http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/266242/speedreads-white-...
Owning guns to fight an oppressive govt is all good until the govt rolls in with tanks into your cul-de-sac.
During YCHacks he and Jessica came by the YC office with little kids. I was too busy finishing up our app to pay attention, but the two times I looked up, he was carrying a little one around the office on his shoulders.
Exactly this. Is there any real reason for anything more than batons, tear gas and riot shields?
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This is the reason why the right to bear arms is so critical. These police officers are not going up against an armed mob.
I'm mostly blind in one eye. --The center of the pupil was destroyed by a parasite when I was very young, and I have no memories of normal sight. I do have some peripheral vision in that eye, but not enough to read or perform normal activities, especially because I have to turn my head to see, such as it is - I can make out certain objects and get a sense of colors, but nothing is clear - reading would be out of the question, for example.

Describing my lack of sight is difficult, because few people have the necessary frame of reference to understand. The best way I've found to describe it is to say that I can only see one side of my nose. Now, I know the other side is there, obviously, because I can look in a mirror and see it with my good eye. But without a mirror, that side of my nose doesn't exist to my vision. --There's not a dark blob or anything like that - it simply does not exist.

It also means I have no real depth perception. I have to try and estimate the distance of an object based on what I know of it's true size - when it's moving towards me, I don't get a real sense that it's actually coming at me, just that it's getting larger at some rate. Needless to say, that makes playing games like baseball very diffciult as there is not necessarily other objects around that make it easier for me to recognize the rate at which the ball is flying towards me.
dude its simple. you received an email you don't like or you simply don't like the website. just click on the unsubscribe link down below. done.
trust levels used during signing represent quality of identity check. in simple terms: if you checked ID of the person that is "sig3", if guy just claims the name on internet than it's "sig1"

on the other hand, "owner trust" is a local concept which is not exported and used solely for trust-path verification
Looks like I will be your customer in a few days for this: http://ownmycopy.com/
Two rounds of negotiation means two points of failure. TLS already has a version/cipher negotiation step; it's built into the protocol, and your library code will contain an implementation, where it can be audited. Duplicating that functionality per-protocol is dumb.
Are they actually case-sensitive, though? Randomly capitalizing words seems to have no effect to me (unless iOS is sneakily autocorrecting it), so it's something of a moot point.
Switch to what? We send a seven figure number every year to Oracle but we currently see no alternative.

SQLServer only runs Windows, their licensing model gets more and more Oracle like every year (for us currently "buying" SQLServer from internal IT isn't much cheaper than Oracle anymore). And you have to maintain you own JDBC driver.

DB2 is just the same thing as Oracle.

PostgreS does not compare.

Then there's the migration itself. Firstly your application will be "tuned for Oracle" over several years. So you'll use every proprietary Oracle feature that gives you additional performance (subpartitions, parallel query execution, optimizer hints, manual column statistics, connect by, listagg, …). Which makes porting fun. You can't assess the performance of your application on the new database until you're done porting. Likely the most performance critical parts will have the most Oracle dependencies. You won't have any experience performance tuning the new database. And you won't have any experience operating the new database (monitoring, trouble shooting, backups, HA, failover, maintenance, …).

Take all this together and we're pretty much locked into Oracle. So I see us go with Oracle hardware rather than switch to some other database. Which has the additional benefit of getting rid of the "engineered" SAN by the internal IT which is slower than a single SSD.
As a 'computer Person' my response is much the same.

You can however get them to consider what they put in there by explaining "email is like a postcard; everyone who touches it can read it".
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I'd try this, but if I could sign up without entering credit card details.
"Picture of preparing to control demonstrators with $FIREARM"... (e.g. automatic weapons... a sniper rifle?!)

Could someone explain to me how the hell you "control" a large gathering of citizens by using guns without mowing down X number of them?
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As a user of both Reddit and HN, I have much more fulfilling conversations on Reddit in some areas, more fulfilling conversations on HN in some areas. In general, however, Reddit is typically a far more positive experience. The proof is in the pudding, right here: you've haughtily stated that HN is more intelligent, and come now, how is that even remotely an intelligent thing to say? I contribute to Reddit on a daily basis and generally it's an improvement to my day, such as organizing something worthwhile, learning something, or sharing knowledge with an eager listener. Whenever I contribute here, I generally end up in a bad mood because it's just a quest to be more right than someone else. My comments are far more spaced out here.

Yesterday on Reddit we had a nice, enriched conversation about BGP with loads of young people learning things due to the routing table issue[1], including a comment on which $20 was spent to say "thank you." When's the last time a bunch of teenagers developed an interest in network engineering based upon a comment thread on Hacker News? Exactly. They're more likely to get better at arguing about minutiae here.

The real difference between HN and Reddit is that on Hacker News, you are not discouraged from downvoting opinions with which you disagree. I recall pg saying he considered that fine. Combined with graying out of comments almost immediately, with the first downvote, this means groupthink is basically encouraged. Even though most folks disregard Reddiquette, it is clearly stated that you shouldn't downvote opinions simply because you don't like them, and should instead take contributing to the discussion into account. I've found in some of the smaller, tighter-knit communities, discussion is extremely healthy, respectful, and accommodating to all sides. I don't even bother on gender in tech threads here, but I've soaked days into them on Reddit, learning from my peers and comparing notes.

This has been going on for ages, "oh, no, HN is turning into Reddit," you should be so lucky to be as positive as several of those communities. It's a tired meme. I come to HN to read valley opinions without Reddit slapping, so can I get my wish if you get yours? Just forget Reddit exists if it bothers you so much.

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Now, then, that off my chest:

As for your point, at this point, Snowden has no motivation to lie. The article says he was told by an intelligence officer. This could have been a briefing and he might have further knowledge of the operation, or it might have been watercooler, we don't know, but the context of the revelation was indeed disclosed by the article's author.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2dcol3/the_interne...
Now I wait for github repo with open source library or app that will create this videos.
Thanks kenshi for your comment, we're trying our bests!
I meant in reference to the current situation in Ferguson.
I remember when Gnome and KDE were first emerging. They were both too slow and wonky for me. Somebody suggested WindowMaker and I really liked it. At this time, I had no knowledge of NeXT or GNUStep. It was some years later after OS X emerged and I started learning Cocoa that I learned of all this history and discovered that WindowMaker was also connected to this universe and it really sunk in just how advanced they were for the time.

I'm still saddened that GNUStep never went anywhere. I still find GTK/Gnome/Qt/KDE wonky for a lot of basic things like copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop.

My wildest dreams hope to see a re-emergence of something like GNUStep, but this time be driven by all the new interest in Swift.
Just one shot in the air usually does the trick. This ain't a video game.
I clicked "resport as spam".

Because it was.
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Shoot one of them, or even just fire a warning shot, and observe that the less armed party tends to submit to the more armed party.
While I can see your point you have to really see this in context.

Imagine a black community that largely feels (and by data proven to be) oppressed. Now that community has one of its children murdered by the police. When they want to take a stand they are confronted by a wall of heavily armed police that look like they could be fighting a war in Iraq (but as many have said they're even better armed).

What possible reaction do you envision the black community having? I applaud them for keeping their composure as well as they have. I could not do that.
I wonder is the decline in overseas sales is partly due to fears that Cisco's routers might be NSA compromised from the factory? (Not that Cisco would have had any choice in the matter.)
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I meant when the blade goes into the eye. There were a few seconds after that before vision came back.
People who oppose both this police campaign in Ferguson and civilian gun rights need to remember the former the next time the latter is in the news.
Capitalizing random letters in the URL didn't have any effect for me either. So I'm a little confused as to why they show the capitalization they do, but I withdraw the idea that there's a usability problem.
Ask HN: Recommend good mobile game wrapper for Android and Java?
Which can enable

"pay per play”,
“rent a game”
“subscription” (user can play as long he pays e.g. a monthly fee) or
“buy to own”
Examples of the actual errors found would be far more interesting.
Here's a reference, you downvoting HN twits:

http://www.realself.com/blog/terrible-lasik-surgery-complica...

"you have to pump the pressure up in the eye to about 6x normal in order to cut a good flap, as you can't cut an accurate flap in a floppy eye. The pressure is actually higher than your blood pressure, so the eye stops perfusing with blood, and you go temporarily blind."
On the contrary, I suspect history shows a strong positive correlation between civilian-government power disparity and the brazenness of government.
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People who would see the absurdity of this would not find themselves (and probably would not aspire to be) in charge.
Sounds like a 'monetization platform' rather than a "wrapper".
"let them hate, so long as they fear"
Ask HN: PG: What is happening with the Washington Post story about Ferguson?
The story, as I'm submitting this, is number 19. It has 172 points (67 comments) and was submitted 2h ago.

Number 18 has (Startup School 2014 applications are open) has 86 points (29 comments) and was submitted 13 hours ago.
Given Oracle's history in marketing vs technical competence, that's probably why they're adding it: people like how it sounds. And we'll probably never see any credible evaluation since they NDA all their customers.

From a real computer architecture standpoint the idea sounds pretty far fetched.
(People in academia have been looking at FPGA and GPU acceleration in this domain for years. It's really a problem for which a CPU is a pretty good fit, with lots of branchy control flow etc.)
very well done... tested on a large image, and it worked flawlessly
Hey

I am still studying computer engineering.
My dream job has two branches: travelling and coding, I want to have a job which let me travel to countries, and I want to have enough time for creating something with my codes which are useful for me or for others.
I dont know how to get this job, it is the next episode, I learn now how to program.
The idea is that police want to have a risk-free lifestyle. "Every cop deserves to go home at the end of his shift"

I completely agree with the sentiment, but in reality the police are paid to take risks to ensure public safety. You can't automate your way out of getting to know the corner grocer.

There's also a strong paramilitary nature to police in the U.S. Always has been. Local police departments are full of either former soldiers or guys who wanted to be soldiers but never could pull it off.

Finally, a lot of pundits, politicians, and security folks have been going on and on about how the future is going to be full of poor, angry folks raising hell. This might be true, but it's also a self-fulfilling narrative. The more you escalate the law enforcement side, the more the civilian side will counter-escalate. The trick for LE is to be just bad-ass enough to have Angry Joe Sixpack demonstrating, but not violent (or a victim). Very tough thing to pull off.

Personally? I'm not afraid of escalating police brutality or demonstrations. This tension is natural in a free society. What I'm afraid of is that one side finally figures out how to totally dominate the other side (which I believe has already happened). If the townsfolk get really angry and hit the streets -- only to have the cops flip a switch and make them all go back inside again? Then we're truly hosed.
I'm really surprised that I don't see anyone already providing this information. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of time right now, so won't provide links to back up these statement, but others please do:

I don't believe the issue you are seeing with regards to the militarization of police stems to anything so terribly insidious. Instead, I think it is just another sign of corruption in politics & business as usual.

There is a terrible amount of money being tagged for "Homeland Security". Police departments are _still_ strapped for cash, but are given the option of buying expensive toys with funds that can only be used to buy these toys from the companies of successful lobbyists. In other words, "sorry, no money to hire more officers this year. however, we can give you a grant for $20,000 to spend on an armored carrier - but nothing else"

The money won't go away, because if a congressman _does_ stand up to this sort of abuse, they just give a big donation to his opponent to runs TV ads saying he's "soft on terrorism"

So what's a police chief to say? it's free

After that, we enter the simple world of psychology - it's a well-known fact that when you give people pads and helmets, they will act in a riskier and more aggressive manner. If you give them a mask, they will become more belligerent. Toss in an "us vs. them" situation, stand by your team, etc.

So, these men are simply doing what psychiatrists say we would all do, if you strapped us into a Robocop getup and told us to go protect the city.

That said - the Chief of Police should be experienced and responsible enough to judge the situation and tell his officers "No riot gear". This is their normal riot gear, but someone should have used some common sense to tell them to leave it at the station. That is the fault at the local level.
Hi rurounijones, you're right in pointing out the important difference between imperative vs. descriptive form. In our application we intend to accommodate both - hence the inline syntax within the free text.

So you could write in a very succinct way "@John please !phone client" like when you drop over a quick note on Post-It to your colleague-friend sitting next table. But you could also send as a more polite request, something like "@john, can you be so kind to !phone the client". Or what you just wrote "@John said he would !phone client and discuss requirements". These all refer to the same action: John should phone the client.

P.S. In the video we were of course limited by keeping the text as short as possible so it remains legible.
Since I oppose this campaign and am in favor of various civilian gun control measures I thought I should ask you to clarify. Do you mean to suggest that Americans should carry guns so that they can fight back against the police when they get out of hand?
It may be terrible in a lot of other ways, but the mediawiki API does chaining of one api function into another. It's one of the features that I noticed that really should be more prevalent in other API's. An API call should be kind of like a mini-job submitted to the server that does some work and gets back some results.
They both seem like very bad things to me, and I don't see how one helps with the other. Actually, they're probably two self-reinforcing parts of the same problem…
Having reviews next to your shop would only be worse for your shop if you aren't a good shop to begin with.

That doesn't necessarily follow.

How about totally unfair, if not abusive reviews (http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-toxic-ab...)?

Or a bunch of people ganging up to destroy a restaurant. Even if virtually none of the reviewers has ever set foot into the place? (http://evgrieve.com/2014/05/a-google-glass-feast.html)

A couple of bad reviews can destroy a business. No matter if they are true or not.
so clever for opting a larger spam box
I figured the last sentence of the post, specifically "there are a few interesting cases," would mean he will post some specific examples next time.

Crossing my fingers.
There are plenty more hard-working, tax-paying Chinese engineers and high skilled workers making up for the occasional spying incident. And the high-earning engineers pay much more in taxes to help fund the American counterespionage programs. It seems a worthy trade for US businesses.
We recently started using Coverity Scan for coreboot. So far I mostly took on the low hanging fruits, relevant commits can be found through http://review.coreboot.org/#/q/message:%22Coverity+Scan%22

We'll soon start using clang's scan-build systematically, too.
What? Have you had a stroke?
If it's anything like the Neovim coverity report, it's probably not particularly interesting. But it is extremely helpful, and it's impressive what static analysis can find in a legacy C codebase. Here's the Neovim clang analysis:

http://neovim.org/doc/build-reports/clang/

Click on any of the "View Report" links to see a line-by-line step-through of each suspected bug.

(Coverity doesn't allow public access to reports AFAIK, so can't link to it.)
Seems like the survey is closed.
Right, thanks for those additional details.

Today, no one would use MMX instructions (since SSE is vastly superior). I expect Intel will continue to add TSX capabilities which will eventually produce some nice results for parallel code.
Until one nutcase or agent-provocateur in the crowd returns fire, then we have a nice little fire-fight in the midst of a load of innocents with automatic weapons and sniper rifles.
"Cause: Involuntary context switch from what I am doing. Reasons could be an email that came in, a colleague who asked me a question, I started writing a new blog article etc."

To me, your description sounds like you don't want to have zillions of tabs open, but it just happens to you.

"An email that came in": configure your mail program to not interrupt you, or interrupt you less often, or close it altogether.

Worse, if starting a new blog article is an involuntary context switch, shouldn't you seek counseling for that?
Just curious if you'll forego updating your BIOS so you don't lose the TSX instructions, despite the errata?

Hopefully you can upgrade to a Broadwell or later once Intel starts shipping fixed silicon. Haswells will be updated to the new microcode once a replacement is available. (At least, that's our plan.)
Mostly for developers to start testing their code.
Hi Humpt, thanks for the comment. We will definitely iterate on the design including typography, colours in the mockup, color/whitespace balance etc. For now, most important to us is that people get the concept of the product.
Brilliant! Now instead of a large demonstration of people we have a panicking large demonstration of people, hope no one gets crushed!

I don't think that counts as "controlling" a crowd in the USA.

(Plus other comment I made regarding unfortunate scenario where someone returns fire)
without $open-source project donated by some company, $whatever wouldn't exist right now.. as i like to say to my friends..apache is probably the world's largest software vendor..
All those words surely do sound impressive when you list them all together just like that. But you can remove at least pattern matching and records, as they are coming to C#. At least some of them is a matter of taste (e.g. nested functions , global inference and custom operators - the latter two can reduce readability IMHO) etc. For me however the killer feature of C# is ReSharper and other tooling. There is no point to argue, F# is a great language, but C# is a great one as well, no need to write code samples to misuse the language and make it look bad. I considered using F# for physics computations (to leverage the units of measure) but unfortunately it provides no solution for marking external types with them (which means I cannot integrate it with e.g. MonoGame). I still have a hope for finding a good use case for F#.
There are a number of ways around NAT [1]. I don't know of a 100% guaranteed solution but NAT is not impenetrable.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal
Nope - they are pretty raw, we leave that up to the person installing the kit - Tyk isn't a service, it's a piece of software to run on your own infrastructure so that your sysops can lock it down however they see fit, like NGinX. You could go meta and put Tyk in front of the Tyk API's, and lock that layer down. though I'm not sure what that would achieve...
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> Sensory substitution, aka how to replace input from one sense with input from another is a quite interesting topic.

Indeed! Have you ever tried something like the vOICe http://www.seeingwithsound.com/ ?
Is there any need for batons, tear gas and riot shields?

Well, unless your objective is to start a riot of course.
“Decompression can be driven at memory bandwidth rates, so there is now downside to using compression,” says Fowler. The on-chip compression leaves the S4 cores leftover capacity to do useful work.

I assume he meant to say that there is "no downside to using compression" ?
Hi mbesto, I have to admit you are right. I was simply too excited to share the landing page.

Actually you can try it out http://opp.io/app but there is no direct link to it from the front page. (It is less functional than in the demo video.)
This all seems very juvenile.