skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's their licensing strategy? Are you talking about the fundraising (Angelshares/Protoshares)? If you are, it sounds fair to me that the people who funded the development and project early on, before a final product was ever released, should be rewarded. Besides, the "licensing" is just a social consensus, not a legal one. The project is all open source.

Agree with the Delegated Proof of Stake paper. It's well written and well implemented as well. Going forward, I am sure quite a few other projects in this space will adopt the idea.
That's misrepresenting FORTH considerably I think. The data available to a forth primitive is typically on the top of the stack. That's just the same in every other language, it's just a parameter passing convention that most languages share. The problems with trying to write image processing code with FORTH is that pushing an image on the stack or modifying it in place somewhere in memory is a bad match with the language primitives. So you then have to do a whole pile of plumbing to abstract out that little detail.

FORTH excels at control jobs and other embedded tasks.
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> (...) he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles – including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea

How come a judge can do stuff like this, without anyone else noticing/care? One would think a punishment so serious as prison would involve more than one pair of eyes.
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"state where the state guarantees a certain numberof inmates."

That does not sound true at all. Source?
If they are great at something, and develop talents that make them world famous, that would be cool.

Except that's not how it works. Every child who is great at something was great because the environment was conducive to that development.
Humility, inquisitiveness and tolerance
Reminds me of https://github.com/tildeio/oasis.js but not sure if it solves the same type of problem.
This iceberg is still there, and it is right in our faces. The drug war has made a lot of people very, very wealthy at the expense of millions of first-time drug offenders who have been slapped with punishments far outweighing their crimes.
Transit is alright in Vancouver, but not sufficient for a small family. I live in North Delta and work downtown Vancouver. I have a 7 year old daughter that needs to be dropped off at school, and picked up from her Grandma's in Surrey. I also coach her soccer team and play myself. For the individual transit alone is typically sufficient, but as soon as you have certain responsibilities a car quickly moves into the 'necessity' column.
The American view of prison tends to be one of retribution and punishment. The European view tends to be one of rehabilitation. An American will typically see this case and hope this judge suffers immeasurably for his crimes.

You can count me in this group though I realize this feeling I have for this particular criminal is at odds with my desire for a less brutal prison system than the one we currently have in the U.S. We tend to like long prison sentences. I'm generally astonished with the leniency, from my point of view, given to people convicted of serious crimes in Europe.
as an American, I find 28 years to be appropriate for a crime of this magnitude. I only hope he isn't released early on parole.
Well, ultimately they're trying to help out Boeing and other major contractors, right? It's not about big government versus private industry, it's about private industry defended by lobbying and pork-barrel concessions versus private industry that doesn't have those things.

Not that that's better.
Photographers shouldn't be expected to WORK FOR FREE
Python static type safety – Guido chimes in
It's awesome. If you're doing Rails or Java, get in touch, I may be able to make you a nice offer :-) ariejan at ariejan.net
> I really think people should take steps to archive stuff that is important to them

I understand why you didn't post a "self promoting" link, but I want others to know about this option:

https://pinboard.in/tour/#archive

Currently $10 for a lifetime bookmarking account, plus $25/year to archive every bookmarked page:

"Pinboard offers a bookmark archiving service for an annual fee of $25. The site will crawl and store a copy of every bookmark in your account, and display a special icon you can click to see the cached copy. If the page you bookmarked goes offline, you'll still be able to see the archived copy indefinitely."
I think that focusing on the illusory party division is exactly the wrong approach to this. Both Democrats and Republicans are the problem, and both parties have essentially the same agenda.

What needs to happen is the elimination of government interference, not calling out some perceived hypocrisy.
http://bitshares.org/delegated-proof-of-stake/

...a link for anyone wanting more information about DPOS.
The Open University here in the UK has been doing something like this remotely for 30 years or so: http://www.open.ac.uk/

I'm doing a BSc through them and while there are certain groups of modules I have to pick from, perhaps half of my course could be done on modules that other BSc grads in my subject didn't do.

In undergrad, you can also take an "open" BA or BSc (depending on what modules you take) on almost any configuration of modules. You get the degree of BA/BSc (Hons) Open assuming you did the right mixture of module levels and got the right marks: http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/qualifications/qd
What caused one of the worst Visual Studio Online outages ever
"QuakeFinder" is crowdsourcing earthquake warning system. It uses accelerometers in laptops, tablets, smartphones and special PC boards. The hypothesis is that tens of thousands of networked accelerometers with so-so signals may be useful for seismology, compared to few hundred professional seismometers drilled into bedrock. I saw some promising early studies, but lost track of the project.
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/15/america_on_lockdown_why_the_...

And to pick a choice quote from the text:

Arizona is one of four states (along with Virginia, Oklahoma and Louisiana) in which state governments are bound to contracts guaranteeing a 95%-100% occupancy in facilities leased by private prisons.

EDIT: typofix
Don't forget genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (perhaps surprisingly, you can commit genocide without killing a single person).

Easily overlooked because it's not in the Strafgesetzbuch (Penal Code) anymore. Probably the only felonies that carry a life sentence that are not found in the Strafgesetzbuch.
Maybe place all the marks in the town center?
Sage Math Cloud
Startup Experiments: How we grew our startup to an early revenue stage
That's the joke /wolfcastle.
Dots and Boxes: Android Multiplayer and Single Player Game
Yeah, I thought the post you replied to was confusing profit guarantees, but apparently not.

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/prison-populations...

http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/sites/default/files/Crimi...
I sense a great amount of negativity in most of the comments here, with some lamenting the demise of the 3 month production cycle, denouncing "cheap immigrant labor" etc. Personally, I think this is a VERY positive change. Not only does a fast production cycle mean lots of different designs, but lots of different designs in limited numbers. So, we don't have the whole country wearing the same shirt/jeans.

One thing I am concerned about is that the predominance of Koreans in the market will keep other nationalities/races out. But I think the article addresses this as well: the children of the immigrants, future leaders of that industry, are pretty 'Americanized' and perhaps won't be so cliquey.
This is a decent sentence. I hope it sticks. I suspect there is more of this kind of the thing in the courts. The entire police, prison, and court systems needs to be disinfected. Reorganize the whole thing.
Obviously saying that it "works fine" is subjective. For instance, I posted this and got caught up at work and then on a plane and completely forgot about it until today. Some sort of notification would have been cool if it would have gave me a visual cue that people are responding to my post.

From what people have posted, I would argue that the "threads" link is a failed attempt at something nearing notifications. I literally never clicked it until today after years of using HN. At some point, someone thought it was a good idea to implement the tracking of all the conversations you participate in. Why not try to make it more useful? I think the suggestion for "threads (12)" is great. You can't possibly think that makes things too complex?
People lose and misplace AWS credentials all the time. To wit:

http://www.techspot.com/news/56127-10000-aws-secret-access-k...

So getting somebody's AWS credential is a lot easier than it sounds.

The obstacles you mentioned are generally granted to any IAM User which has ec2 RunInstances privilege:

* Can associate an instance with a security group

* Can put an instance in a VPC

* Can reach the internet from an instance

The security group and VPC settings don't need to be modified, the box just needs to be placed appropriately. EC2 Security Groups in a VPC can restrict outbound traffic, but EC2 "classic" Security Groups only restrict inbound traffic.

To me this seems like a lot of holes to have to close in order to gain the convenience of using tags for DNS.
The original accelerometers were supposed to save laptop disks before a laptop hit the ground. But then Apple put them into smartphones to measure orientation and location. Their cost has fallen to a few dimes.
FORTh seems to have MUCH more than its share of failures. Also, zealots, who are (in my experience) unreasoning and deaf to counter-arguments. FORTH also does not seem to scale to large projects very well (I'm guessing that the number of large, long-lived projects in FORTH is very, very small compared to contemporary languages like Pascal and C).
Teach them how to learn fast.
Decentralizing the Internet needs to be in-browser
Looks interesting, congrats on getting it shipped!

A couple of things:

1) At any kind of scale, with smaller data-sets, the blue and red are overlapping in places to form purple and the user has to work out from the hue which is doing better. E.g. Edinburgh looks like it has a high blue content but I need to zoom in to see that really it's dominated by a massive blue blob on Grassmarket.

2) (Wonkish) The YES and NO buttons are stacked vertically with no margin. If the order isn't randomised already I'd consider doing that and separating the buttons.

3) I'm not from Scotland, but I did vote. If you're collecting that data also, why not show it? It'd be interesting for sure. We can often see Scotland across the water from our town, there are plenty of people here who consider themselves Scottish and others besides who have a dog in the fight.

Looking forward to the 18th anyways. Yes or No, it'll be a hell of a party!
Is there an aggregate source for sentencing data per state? I understand sentencing varies per judge and in accordance with state laws, but you would think this data exists at the state level and abnormalities (like this judges history?) might bubble up.
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But it wouldn't be export if you're not an American company. SpaceX could move south of the border and become SpaceMeX, problem solved :)
Debugging courses should be mandatory
Not necessarily due to each phone having its own unique identification number, the IMEI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Station_Eq...
You broke my browser (Safari). I said yes to giving location and it located me - then asked me again, and again and again. The only way out was to allow it to remember my decision for 24 hours. Then the site told me it couldn't locate me despite having a pin on my house.
Off the top of my head:

- prisons create high paying jobs in rural areas
- private prison companies like Vanguard are quite lucrative (and Vanguard just happens to have former Vice Pres. Cheney as a major investor)
- prison labor is drastically cheaper than minimum wage

There's more. Here's a decent article on the topic from Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/whos-getting-rich-off-the-prison-in...
"Fashion" is ironical in a geek blog. Nerds wear their uniforms of jeans and hoodies for years until they wear out. That may be ten generations of fast-fashion.
"But the professors on the MIT committee that drafted the report argue that the numbers show that larger percentages explored significant parts of courses, which may be all they wanted or needed."

For me the main reasons for quiting a MOOC were:

1. I wasn't sure whether the course is for me or not. So I did the first weeks, but then decided that I'm not so much interested in the topic/course. Note that this mostly concerns courses which I would otherwise probably never taken.

2. Lack of time. As a doctoral student in mathematics, even having the time for MOOCs is rather a luxury. Thus it can easily happen that suddenly something important is due (for my obvious main obligations). Because MOOCs have a schedule to follow, I mostly see no other option than quiting the course (and feeling sorry for it).
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Not sure if someone wrote a rebuttal. The author does get quite a few things wrong. I guess we'll find out soon enough. The markets for BitAssets are going to open this week, and a pure-prediction market will take over soon thereafter. There's a 'backup' strategy of centralized price-feeds instead of prediction markets that's published by a majority of the delegates if the market isn't able to maintain the peg or is easily manipulated.
All of the people who screened my flights in these situations were wearing TSA uniforms.
Can't attack the message, attack the messenger.
It's a mechanical transformation. "End a sentence with" <-> "with which to end a sentence". As I pointed out above, vacri's version turns into an obvious jumble after this equivalent transformation, which means the original is also a jumble. It's just a more difficult jumble to untangle, so you might not notice it's wrong.
Nobody is saying that the technology is creepy. It's the fact that it's not at all private that's creepy.

As Uncle Ben said, "With great power comes responsibility." It's an awesome thing to have the power of "big data" to analyze your life and make better decisions. But "big data" needs to be responsible in how they handle that data (and their users' trust).
They ended up where Jeff Atwood started though:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/discussions-flat-or-threaded/

http://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design/

(from 2006 and 2012)

I still don't agree with Feels great to use. It's fun.

from:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-constructio...

So maybe I'm a weirdo, but I think maybe Discourse embraces one set of people based on a certain way of interacting with information.
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How barbaric of you.
I am disgusted at how little time he got.

He knows the full extent of what he is doing, as he is a judge. As a person who has seen what prison can do to a person, I feel this is unjust.
>> "I also find it very hard to believe that reading to your young kids causes them to be high academic achievers"

My guess is that reading to them at a young age teaches them that reading can be fun. It probably means that as they get older they will look at reading as a fun activity - something they want to do - and not something boring. And I'd guess that someone who reads performs better academically than someone who doesn't.
Yes, language exposure in an of it's self is useful. Also, reading interesting books often leads to children continuing to read that same book to see how it ends. And thus reading for fun which provides a lot of useful practice.
> I have seen no data to backup this claim which would override my personal experience.

I think that there are two reasons why good data on this is not forthcoming.

The first is that for a long time the dominant statically typed languages have been C++, which forfeits most of the potential advantages of static typing by also being weakly typed, and Java, which handles types somewhat better (while by no means being state-of-the-art) but brings its own productivity challenges.

The second is, the kinds of enormous long-lived maintained-by-50-full-timers hoary old enterprise applications that I think most fans of static typing have in mind when they say, "I wouldn't want to maintain that in a dynamic language!" aren't often written in dynamic languages. This in and of itself could be seen as evidence that dynamic languages really are unsuited to the task.

Perhaps the more interesting evidence, though, is the tendency of what few larger- and longer-lived dynamic projects there are to become famous for messy code. This hits at what I think fans of static typing are really talking about - that doing any sort of large-scale refactor in a dynamic language is a terrifyingly error-prone experience. You need to rely on ever-fallible humans to have written tests that exercise all relevant code paths in order to verify that the refactor was successful in even the most basic terms. For someone who's used to having the compiler quickly, reliably and exhaustively provide the same feedback, having to fall back on the source of all known bugs (programmers) to do the same job leaves one feeling a bit exposed.
Even worse: getting caught doing midnight reading by your 2 year old. Who absolutely isn't going to tell you off, but joins you. hashtagproudmomentsinparenting
Its not a feature, its an implementation artifact of the window frame being drawn by a separate process than the window contents. Its broken by design. OS X does it the right way, with the window contents and window frame being redrawn in lockstep and double-buffered so the user never sees partially drawn windows.
2 Women Who Were College Roommates Founded UBeam, and Promptly Sued Each Other
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8221896
I always wonder, if languages like Haskell are so good, why don't we see a lot of amazing open source projects built with these languages? If you can get things done faster with fewer bugs it should be reflected in real life code bases. Yet I haven't seen it.

"The only arguments that hold water, in terms of programming language suitability, are bold, finished projects." http://t.co/ahOBAnXZ18
No matter what I do, I never seem to come below -1 points for a comment. Isn't it un-hip enough to not be a git fan? What else do I have to do to really piss you off?
On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Infections  of iOS Devices [pdf]
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Didn't get the memo? Both sides are exactly the same.
And that only 3% of our prison population is in private prisons.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doxx
Preemptive apologies for potentially stepping in a land mine, but… "traditionally" under what tradition?

Typically in older literature "he" has been used as the neutral pronoun when gender is unknown or unimportant. I've seen a more recent movement towards use of "she", but I don't think I'd say it's "traditional". Am I missing something?
This hits the nail on the head - nobody at all wants to hear about other "slightly ahead" children and such, these things are not useful. People are looking for major deficits.

I know for a fact this is what I was looking for with my son, who is 4 years old with the speech/language skills of a 2 year old -- these things were absolutely important, especially when there were people in his life who were totally in denial. Thanks to these measures, my son can get the help he needs through a speech and language therapist. Impossible if there was nothing to tell everybody that something is wrong.

With my daughter, who is 5 months, I also regularly look up the same things. It's more of an assurance than anything.

It's important to stress that they are a rough measure. As I said earlier, looking out for major deficits, the big red flags. Slightly ahead in one area, a bit behind in another means nothing - each child develops at different paces and at different speeds and these little over-achievements or under-achievements. These things, bundled with a parent like me, is enough to make me fret and get worried but the more it happens the more you learn that if there's no big red flags, the little yellow/green ones are nothing to worry about. I've lost a few nights sleep before learning this one.
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Honestly, this article is a bad (also, old) summary of the story. You'll get better information from the Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ciavarella

Long story short: he was sentencing them to juvenile detention, not adult prison. The bar is lower for juvenile detention.
Lawl @ ERR 500
http://tldr.comprensio.co/summary/?news_url=https%3A%2F%2Fne...
It's not causative but it is definitely correlative.

Source: My girlfriend's startup is in this space and they have 15 year of studies backing it up.
Actually, yes, that's one of the things I'm teaching my first one. I'm also teaching logical fallacies, how to think about thinking among other thinking skills.

Obvious ones include financial, survival, social.
To be clear, what is the question -- is it "Do you want independence", or is it "Do you want unity"?
Well coincidentally I just saw this a few minutes after you replied ;) We both didn't look all weekend. Our lives went on, and we still made it back here anyway, and we can still have this conversation without urgency (or the distraction of karma, I might add). I save my comment trees for reddit...
Actually they are reasonable people.

When muggles ask for a domain name registrar I often do send them to Godaddy because they will get on your ass so often that you'll never forget to renew your domain.
Trust me, I've been doing this longer than you. Or maybe I'm just smarter, but you'll understand one day.

Why be so condescending? Why assume things you have no way of knowing?
These are really valuable - only cry when it's necessary. Cry because it hurts and you feel an emotional need to cry, don't do it because you think it gets you more attention, that'll wear out in a hurry. (Also: Don't make trouble or drama where there is none.)
- Definitely don't take the yourself too seriously. There's enough to be serious about in the world already, without polluting it further with too much of yours.
- Don't give up just because you make a mistake or failed once... or 999 times. We wouldn't have anything we know in this world if scientists and inventors gave up on every failure, most famously: The light bulb. If you think something can be done and the result is worth the effort, stick at it until you get the result you're looking for. That's how we make progress.
Hi there, thanks for the feedback!

1. I'm looking at the way google maps heatmaps lump results together at different zoom levels. If anyone has any experience with this, I'd love to hear about it.

2. This is exactly right. On the todo list now.

3. If you voted outside scotland (and the browser got a location), then it'll be displayed on the map in the place you voted from. Is this what you meant?

Really appreciate all the comments.