skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats interesting. How do you think they rank them then?
He wrote:

> you do not deserve the threats, and I truly do feel bad that you received them

And anyway I think people are making a lot out of these so-called death threats. I mean there's plenty of idiots on the internet, and I'm sure famous people receive plenty of idiotic emails including, why not, "death threats", except that they ignore them and move on.
Uh, police detectives?
I believe izacus was referring to the first reply/comment to the linked post, not the linked post itself.
Wow, this is still not automated in DC and NYC? I don't remember a time when it was not automated in Vienna.
Yes, he makes sure to condemn all such threats, but then he goes on to put the blame with them on Poettering. He doesn't say "Nobody deserves such threats, I condemn all such threats, and I stand with Poettering against them even tho i profesionally disagree with the guy", he basically says "maybe don't piss people off if you can't handle the abuse".
I heard that both cops and taxi drivers aren't suited for creative and theoretical thinkers. Mainly because it's a lot of waiting. They will get bored and quit.
I believe the gp is saying that BI won't cause a redistribution of consumption from the high-end to the low-end, but instead of redistribution of investment on the high-end (since consumption doesn't scale linearly with income - probably something logrithmic looking), and this loss of investment will have a much greater negative effect on productivity than any minor increase due to consumption on the low end.
I've tried this over the past few months with a number of different microwaves because we wanted to know if the microwave would function as a Faraday cage... we tried it with every cell phone in the house, we also tried it with the cordless land phone. It didn't work. My conclusion is that a modern microwave will not function as a Faraday cage [Edit for clarity: for communications equipment (WiFi, Cellular, Home Phone etc.)] - I realize that may be painting with a broad brush, perhaps some of them will, but those I tried did not.

If someone has tried this successfully with a modern microwave, it would be useful to know what cellular/radio devices they tested and what make/model/year of microwave they used for their tests.
One question: Does it cut in 'payment processors' or other financial institutions for a percentage of every transaction?

If so, then it has absolutely no place in this century. Transferring numbers does not get more difficult when the numbers are larger, and any percentage-based system is unjustifiable. Transferring numbers is also terribly easy now, so such a service does not even warrant a significant flat fee.

We are rapidly moving toward a situation where virtually every single transaction in our economy gets skimmed by banks for 5% or so. This is giving a ridiculous amount of economic control to banks for absolutely no reason.
This.

Puts me right off the community hearing this to and fro all the time.
ye this is a pretty common practice, in fact, this is mainly the reason of why we have such high inflacion (because there is people, who, of course are gov related but also anti-gov, who only care to make free money from exchange corruption and they have alot of intentions to keep this going on).. also there is a 3000$ allowance to expend in travels wich you pay at 11 Bsf per USD, wich made a huge business for your average joe people since you pay the gov 33k Bsf but once you "cheat" the system, you get a return of 270k BsF after paying the gov. This is the major reason of all those flights problems in our country, because in order to get this 3000$ quota, you need to buy a plane ticket, airlines also want their cut on the huge bussiness so they sell overpriced tickets that people who will "cheat" will still buy, also note that the "big debt" that the gov has with the airlines is because when airlines sell a plane ticket in BsF they take the 100 Bsf Per USD rate, but then they expect the gov turns all those BsF into USD at official 6,3 rate, thus the gov "owes" the airlines billions of billions.

Anyways this is just a resume to see how everything is related, anyways as alot of people says here, bitcoin wont help at all.
Sorry for mistakes in english . :)
Edit: BsF = Bolivar
Your viewpoint is similarly "undemonstrated".

Weev's public identity is known. That didn't stop him from trolling or harassing the subject of the article.

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EDIT: also, the Penny Arcade comic you linked was from 2004, literally 2 or 3 years before the invention of youtube and long before Twitter and Facebook existed.

The opinion contained in the said comic does not, and cannot apply to the modern internet, where Anonymity is beginning to be stripped away and yet the trolling / harassing problems are clearly remaining.

Indeed, it has only gotten easier to get doxxed online and humiliated by the trolls, now that we communicate through Facebook and our names are attached to us in Google / Youtube / everything.
In France, detectives and police officers have to go the university to study the law and other subjects. I thought it was the same in most countries, isn't it?
Carl Icahn Says Apple Is Massively Undervalued
Yeah I think Snowden said that himself. It was about microphones mostly.
C.Y.A. - Cover your ass
> The point of JSON is to have a lighter and simpler way of data interchange, where the data is arrays and maps of strings and numbers. It also works well with Javascript.

I contend there's no "point" to JSON at all. JSON is simply JavaScript (in fact, you can eval it) that was discovered could be used to send data from servers to browsers. It became a standard out of sheer convenience.

By breaking Javascript's ability to execute the code, you're eliminating an important feature of JSON. (I'll admit that nobody should be eval'ing JSON, but the fact that you can makes its existence better understood.)
>entire websites in Flash before the iPhone's lack of flash player finally made them stop

I have a setting flipped in Chrome such that I have to click to enable each plugin on a page. This made me realize that the iPhone sadly didn't stop all such website builders (rare as it is to encounter one now.)
We do what we must

Because

We can
Of course 'smart' means a lot of things. But thinking outside the box is probably not going to make a great cop - there's process and policy to observe scrupulously.
I think 27 is first one without any of these issues. That's what "pkg audit" on my freebsd box is telling me at least. Currently on 27 and it doesn't show any issues. They could just be out of date though.
13 upvotes in 9 minutes?

Vote-rigging is against HN rules, even for YC startups. More importantly, it doesn't work.
Not only can you omit the commas, you can even omit the braces.

JSON:

{ 'one': 1, 'two': 2 }

YAML:

one: 1
two: 2
Gas is apparently 0.06 cents (USD) a gallon. A gallon of gas provides roughly 30 kW/hr. How much is a kW/hr of electricity in Venezuela? If it is more than 0.002 (USD) a kW/hr you might be better of w/ electric generator. Anyone have any more recent numbers? I see an article from 2013 that says prices in Venezuela are roughly 0.03 cents per kW/hr. Maybe someone can check these calculations. Could have made an error.
Six Characteristics That Make a Highly Effective Team
The Biggest Blown Opportunity in Higher Ed History
They need to get the raw MP4 file eventually so the browser can display it, it can not always redirect.
Show HN: Ios8 app showing your current location's Address and ZIP in the Today View
It looks like the servers are getting brought down by the HN traffic.
Could you "zune" stuff around?
MOVE Guides Raises US$8.2M Series A Funding
There's a huge gulf between tasting ok, and tasting great. Eating raw/hardly cooked vegetables is not the recognized route to fine food.
Two of your issues go away:

{
"configOption": {
"c": "This option is configurable.",
"val": 42
}
}

And now, the comment is round-trip-safe and exists!
I completely agree. I commute by running, and it's unsafe to look at a screen. So I frequently issue commands into my headphone mic like "read my texts" and "text <name> I'll be there in five" or "shuffle playlist 180 BPM". Many people dismiss Siri on account of mediocre answers to open ended questions, but it's quite effective at carrying out precise instructions.
When lending money, you are under a moral obligation to bear the consequences of the risk you assumed.
Hmmmmm neither Windows nor Mac OS allow for this, mostly because neither system can ensure a complete destruction of the partition its located on. However, there are plenty of laptops on the market(high-end Dells, Lenovos, HPs) which have built in GSM modems which can be issued a command remotely to wipe the hard drive.
Boredom. There is perception that police work is exciting and fast-paced, presumably from television, movies, and books.

I've heard more than once that police spend a huge fraction of their time waiting, filling out paperwork, and sitting in court.
It seems like he is trying to separate the issues. Perhaps he believes that whatever criticism Lennart received from Linus is justified but that the abuse from anonymous trolls is not.
That is an interesting hypothesis. One that early pioneers thought would have been reached a long time ago. Various platforms have (prematurely) announced that they have achieved it!

For references start here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_l...
"Forty-eight were treated in the hospital and 18 survived."

That's an interesting point on the actual lethality of the disease under more modern treatment conditions. Still, 60% is only slightly less scary than 90%.
Under Pressure: Bringing WeatherSignal to the iPhone
Maybe the controversy here is the notion that it is possible to move fast without breaking anything.
How would things change if Schmidt held political office? What if all big time VCs we're politicians too. Basically, what I am wondering is whether this is a policy problem or a technology problem.
Not just the development API. Production has been in Maintenance Mode (meaning you cannot push code or enable/disable any dynos) for the past 4 hours.

Quite frustrating, however I guess I brought it on myself by not having a fallback option.
>Working on something important enough. Getting stuff done. Having fun. If I have these, not much else really matters. If I don't, I move on.

Most of the things listed are specifically things which prevent you from getting stuff done. Like open office plans (or having an office at all for that matter) and the like.
Schmidt did NOT say that surveillance fears are going to "end up breaking the internet." That is the Washington Post's misleading headline. He spoke more about the erosion of international trust because of American surveillance activities.

To hear what Schmidt did say, watch the actual video.

He starts talking at around the 21-minute point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-P4Q-M1tW8

The actual quote is at around 24:00: "I think the simplest outcome is that we're going to end up breaking the internet. Because what's going to happen is that governments will do bad, bad laws of one kind or another and they're eventually going to say 'we want our own internet in our country because we want it to work our way and we don't want these NSA and other people in it.'"
the good ol SF engineer bubble.

it must be nice to live such a sheltered life.

hint: if you only care about chrome users on every feature, and keep looking at you site access log to justify, you may find that there is a reason why your access log mostly have chrome user in the first place...
Record linkage on AWS
If the 'problems' are lag and failure to multitask (as listed) then they are only problems of patience, as I mentioned. This does not frustrate anyone; it frustrates folks who feel entitled to the best.
I'm really not happy with how eager people are to go "well, that's just the internet, it's a wider problem, not our problem". Yes it is their problem, because it affects their community and the people they work with, and even if the problem did not originate within them personally, it's up to them to take a stance against it instead of using it as cover for their own criticism of Poettering.
why is it weird ?
A side-angled fighting stance presents less of a target to your opponent and puts both limbs on that side in position to shield the torso and head from blows.

http://chinesemartialstudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/bru...

https://www.balazsboxing.com/thegym/boxingbasics_stance.htm

If you want to move in that posture, you either have to shuffle sideways, or alternate sides as you move.
Perhaps he's not, but he certainly can't escape any blame if he writes things such as:

'...should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?'

or stating he hoped ARM system-on-chip (SoC) developers would "all die in some incredibly painful accident."

A good rule when communicating online is not to write anything you wouldn't say to someone's face.
Our of curiosity, which Android devices have a barometer? I've seen the API, but never had a device capable of using it.
> That's an awful lot of ad hominem. I made some other points too, you know

Given the content of both your comments here, this response is ludicrous.

Without engaging with any of the content of the article you say the author's behavior of objecting to harassment was itself a necessary cause for that harassment, you attack those calling for less anonymity without actually arguing why that would be a bad thing, you appeal to your own standing in the HN community as if that number means something without being willing to back that up, you claim to be unable to refute any attacks because those attacks are only based on hysterical feelings, and then you name the nerds "selling their mothers and friends" as the new bullies because a single person rightly pointed out why your original comment was shit.

I'd say take your own advice: drop the hysteria and try to make an actual argument next time.
The purpose of downvotes is ill-defined; some people use it as a spam-control button, some people use it as a "this post doesn't contribute to the discussion" (which is itself subjective, and is a subset of:), some people use it as a "your opinion is wrong" button. All are valid use cases, IMO.

The third case is the most controversial one, but...we use the upvote arrow to say "your opinion is right", and nobody complains about it. In a scenario where it's invalid to say "your opinion is wrong", it's also invalid to say "your opinion is right", at which point we might as well just remove the up/downvotes and replace them with a single "flag" button, which will still get abused to minimize opinions people disagree with.

Really, what I think you're experiencing is just the growth of the readership, your own aging and the perspective that comes with it, and the natural tendency of online communities to trend towards middle-of-the-road, safe discussion. That can't really be fixed democratically, IMO, because it is the democratic nature of the system which enables those problems in the first place.

Unless you can figure out how to make the upvote button always mean "this post empirically contributes new thoughts or ideas to the discussion", and nothing else, then attempts to fix the downvote button will be half-measures at best.

Out of idle curiosity: Is anyone aware of a zero-sum karma system, where the total sum of karma in the system is roughly a function of the active userbase, and granting reputation to someone else costs you some of your own? That might make for a fun little economy-in-a-bubble.
because it worked for youtube
Do you read lkml or just the media reports of Linus' cursing?
The only Murakami novel that has the author lose a cat, his wife and encounter "something magical that is somehow related to the Manchuria war" is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I can only assume you read it twice by mistake.

Several of his novels do feature a man with a cat, and several novels feature distant women. But if I remember correctly, the only other married narrator is the protagonist in South of the Border, West of the Sun, and there is a character in 1Q84 who is married and divorced.

To say that the plots of any of his books have exactly the same plot would be a huge mischaracterization, though. The only two books that are even vaguely similar are Wind-Up and the earlier Dance Dance Dance (the last part of a quadrilogy about the "Sheep Man"); the latter feels a lot like a preliminary sketch for the vastly superior Wind-Up, in particular the fascination about hotel rooms and shared dreams. But the plots are completely different.
It's an odd term, but I think what they mean is contracting non-romantic marriages in order to immigrate into the UK.
No you can't, JSON is not JavaScript and eval is not capable of working on all correct JSON documents. JSON requires a JSON specific parser. So this breaks nothing, eval doesn't work now and JSON has never been JavaScript.
Microwave ovens most definitely function as faraday cages, however they are specifically designed to attenuate 2.4GHz signals. Anything higher or lower which isn't a harmonic (integer multiple) of 2.4GHz is going to experience much less attenuation.
"However, the courts sided with the lower police department. In its ruling, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the city did not discriminate against Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. In other words, no one who was deemed “too smart” for the job after taking the intelligence test was hired."

You can apply that logic to race too: "We tested ALL applicants for blackness, not ONLY the black applicants".

You are still sorting people out for something they cannot control...
Red Bull settlement: $15 worth of products or a $10 check
iPhone batteries are not easily removable.
imgur manages to be behind even 4chan on featureset and performance... and now its behind on standards compliance also.
One question...how do you turn it down.
Oh, there are definitely hard rules like that. For example a majority partition never accepts queries, and when there are no partitions at all Redis Cluster guarantees to converge on a single value for each key, and to a single view of the cluster configuration. I'll try to document better this things, but basically they arise from the simple algorithm that makes the configuration eventually consistent.
Exactly, police departments do want to hire smart people, just not too many and they have to be the right kind of smart.

My brother is a cop and an inspector (detective for you in the US). He's smart but not at all bookish. So he's got the right "cop" personality and the fact that he was smart was a good thing.

Now that he's hiring cops, he's careful to only hire "smart" cops if he has a sergeant position opening up in a few years or if he's ok with them moving on to a new department in 3-5 years.

My uncle was a "dumb" cop for 25 years. He was quite happy writing tickets and arresting people for the bulk of his career. He only took a sergeant's job when street work got to hard on him physically.
That seems relevant. I have a feeling that it's not that people hadn't noticed the pattern followed by the moon (people knew a lot about the sky back then, apparently, probably because people looked at it more and more carefully since there were no wristwatches, weather reports, or televisions). I have a feeling that the reason has more to do with the moon being a symbol of night. I know very little about art history, but I've made the observation that symbols and artistic precedent are extremely important, probably much more than naturalism.
It doesn't have to be. Parody and education are the situations where you can pretty much use the entire thing... but they're not using the entire thing.
I believe that vnd. mimetypes do need to be registered. If you don't want to register, I think it would be video/x-gifv+mp4. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045#page-13
this also used to apply for airlines miles, it used to be awesome :D
Well, it's fairly cheap to "invest" in politicians through campaign contributions, it's just that the tech VC industry doesn't use its money that way.
My unscientific poll says otherwise:

https://www.google.com/search?q=drawing+running&tbm=isch
I get that building a _new_ automated metro is easy. Converting an _older_ line to automatic and fully driverless is what's hard. AFAIK, there's only one conversion so far to full auto: Line 1 in Paris. It took 10 years and billions of euro to deliver (it's a total success though) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Métro_Line_1#Automation

Interestingly, it seems the main obstacle is software - contractors are few, code is highly specific, ISO certification and warranty issues are very unattractive.

Very interested how TfL will approach this. They're really good at what they do, even at communicating (responsive website!). Don't think anybody does it better.
Eric "if-you-nothing-to-hide" Schmidt slams NSA?
We don't currently have ebooks available for our Modiano titles unfortunately, though reprints are already being scheduled so it's possible ebooks might be a part of that. I can't personally make any promises. Edit: The office is very much aware of the interest in an ebook edition!
I mean this in a very honest way: How are you posting here? Dictation software or something similar?
TLDR. I think the "frameworks" associated with OOP are the expensive disaster. And MVC kind of pees in the face of OOP in my opinion....
>"The simplest outcome is we're going to end up breaking the Internet," said Google's Schmidt. Foreign governments, he said, are "eventually going to say, we want our own Internet in our country because we want it to work our way, and we don't want the NSA and these other people in it."

This age of Nation-States, and their private agents, attacking other countries companies through the internet reminds me of the age of piracy in which nations employed privateers acting under a letter of marque to harass and destroy enemy commercial shipping interests. How does any nation think this is an acceptable non-warlike behavior to do allies and friendly nations?
Carl Icahn's Letter to Apple
I think you are describing something similar to the US Military where there are to "paths" into it: officers and enlisted.

In the US, there is one for police: police academy and then work your way up the ranks to detective, etc.
Seems to be down. Reference: http://consumerist.com/2014/10/08/bought-a-red-bull-in-the-l...
Nothing new, it's been shown before by another website.

Plus what the f* with renaming a .mp4 to a .gifv ? Two extensions for the same format ?
I'm glad we both agree that you have demonstrated no evidence for your views.

As I already said, some people will be assholes under their own names, because they're just that awful. But that proves nothing about how many people would be assholes when they can evade accountability.
I've actually done an analysis on all Hacker News comments: http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/

The arguments in this submission are mostly anecdotal, and the plural of anecdote is not data. What the data shows is that the average comment karma is decreasing in 2014, but that could be from a combination of downvotes and people making new comments which aren't engaging enough to score an upvote, and therefore it would bring the average down.

In retrospect, I should have made a chart of "How has the proportion of downvoted comments changed over the years?"