skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I envy this guy for living in a country where you can say things like that:

The reason I bring this up is because our taxes are very high, but I get something for that money. It might not be the perfect system and there are lots of things about it that make me furious, but I do not see a reason why I would want to stop paying taxes.

That must be one heck of a feeling. Gives me hope for the future.
Write your talk first, then decide what graphics need to accompany it. PowerPoint tempts you to do it the other way around. Also, give the audience a short handout (eg. single page double-sided) that has a summary in prose rather than bullets and includes key graphics as needed. Never print a slide deck as a handout.

It's okay to make an outline in the early stages of preparing your talk, but you can't just paginate and decorate that outline and call it a presentation. The audience should never see that outline, since it's supposed to just be an organizational tool for you to prepare the real presentation.

Once you've got your presentation actually planned and you've collected the materials you want to project onto the big screen, then PowerPoint might be a reasonable choice for displaying them, but actually using the PowerPoint program should be one of the last and shortest steps. Or you might find that everything that needs to be explained visually can fit on your handout.
> I really hate to see blind hatred for the police

> I have no explanation or excuse why the cops refused to investigate the caller's lead -- and maybe there is no reasonable explanation -- but I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt

Why do you espouse blind trust and question 'blind' hatred? How can you be blind to what you've seen with your own eyes?

I understand the danger to personal quests for justice. I understand political pressure. But 'pressure' doesn't stop the officers from responding. They could respond to the call, but they choose not to. For political reasons, understandably, but the facts remain.
We'll do integrations with other services soon. Netflix is unfortunately shutting down their API in 10 days so... yeah.
I think you misunderstand the intent and extent of "citizens arrest." Trying to retrieve property by force looks a lot like armed robbery.

An individuals CPL status is nearly orthogonal to any armed confrontation. The police will arrest of you brandishing a weapon, CPL or not. Conversely if you use a firearm for self defense a CPL is irrelevant to the appropriate use of force. And in any offensive use of a weapon you will go to jail. Just the other week a homeless man down the street was arrested as he continued to shoot at two criminals after they were no longer a threat: http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2014/10/18/police-arrest-man-f...
It's all about me, me, me!

This is the dark side of the second tier of what's left of the literary movement - articles which begin with a long section of blithering about the author's background, family, or cats. At least on blogs, one has the option of skipping the "About" page.

The New Yorker would not have published this in its heyday.

By the same author: "How to Spend Money".
It is rather naive for this writer to assume that things like online reviews will work or continue to work for these illegal sites. Why do they believe that illegal drug sites will have honest reviews when even yelp, which is supposed to be completely legal and reviews completely legal businesses has obviously manipulated reviews. Of course people will eventually start padding their ratings, and the websites themselves will start manipulating ratings.

So this is not some panacea for getting higher quality drugs. It is not even something that will ensure your safety from the police. As I have mentioned before, the police can get you online the way they usually get you -- by having an undercover police agent pretend to be the seller. In fact it would be much cheaper and more effective for the police to collect addresses from an illegal drugs site than the dangerous and tricky business of using undercover agents on the street.

I think the economist is being very disingenuous by cheerleading for these online sites. These are not safer from police or drug purity standpoint.
In addition to tax issues, I'd also worry at least a bit about whether or not accepting money for your software might affect warranty disclaimers. I would not be surprised if in some jurisdictions it is harder for a commercial project to disclaim warranties, and for accepting money to cause a project to be classified as commercial.
Sorry Armin/Mr Ronacher/Mitsuhiko but your "Bitcoin is Wild West" rant is unwarranted.

Your problem has little to do with Bitcoin and all to do with the fact that a bunch of guys signed you up to their payment service without your consent.
Well, actually you can ignore Bitcoin.
We pulled data into our own database from both TMDB and OMDB API's.
This idea is the basis for mafia and similar organizations the world over.
Is a footnote needed for everything? From the author's perspective, I think it was assumed that it is well enough known to not need a citation.

And if someone didn't know it, googling "first ecommerce transaction" brings up multiple hits on the first page confirming it.
Well there were DATs for a while, they never really caught on with the public.
Duh! Thanks for pointing this out!
Missing feature: Sort by language. This is especially important for massively multilingual countries like India. Choosing 'India' lists hundreds of movies, but I would like to sort it by language (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, etc.)
A sticky trackpad could be a sign of ... let's just say hygiene issues.
That quote makes it clear he really doesn't understand where his tax money goes.
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"Hardly. Locking up families and neighbors is the exact opposite of crime prevention. It's treating the aftermath. Crime prevention should be analogous to preventative medicine: minimizing the possibility of it occurring to begin with. Police by definition are reactionary agents. They don't have the competence or the will to do anything other than handle aftermaths and create intimidation in a dubiously effective attempt to scare off bad guys."

So... in your opinion, there's no value in removing criminals from the streets because locking them up "is the exact opposite of crime prevention." There is no such thing as a repeat criminal, and the fact that a small number of criminals commit a disproportionate number of crimes is false.

In fact, black and Latino neighborhoods are enriched by the activities of violent felons. Their presence inspires children to study and ensures the safety of women young and old.

I would be very interested to visit your city and see this wonderland.
We are using data provided by existing API's, and it's far from perfect in case of countries. Many hollywood blockbusters have numerous country tags. For example if one scene was shot in france, or they partnered with french production or something, it will include the tag "fr".

We have some ideas on how to make this more accurate. We'll be improving it in the next couple of days.
The problem with anecdotes like in [3] is that they don't really tell us much. I visited Seattle for the first time this fall and my experience was nothing like that. I did smell Marijuana once in public, but, otherwise, the streets were quite clean and I never felt unsafe downtown at night. The homeless were prevalent, but not on the scale you see in, say, San Francisco. I certainly wouldn't use the word "shocking" to describe anything I saw.
Depends on what you mean. If you're referencing that law enforcement does not have a duty to protect citizens heres a citation for others http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html.

If you're saying that law enforcement will never render aid, thats prima facie incorrect.
I had the same problem when I read The Selfish Gene, it was littered with weird line breaks, OCR errors and general layout strangeness. So much so that I went through it myself and fixed most of it because it annoyed me too much.
Is there an option to forward all of my mail to my gmail (preferably deleting the copy on pawnmail too)?

This is an interesting idea. I was going to set up an email server on my VPS with just SMTP that auto-forwarded everything to my gmail. But this might be simpler.
There are lots of tutorials; if you want to dive straight into the code look at 'rust by example'. You dont even have to install rust to use it.

Also, REPL is a cute toy, but absolutely not important and hard to do for compiled languages. If you want one, you can run your own copy of play.rust-lang.org; its actually pretty good.
Thanks for reporting this sneaky bug (logins working fine for most people).

We're looking into this. If you could provide any additional info about the error, it would be very helpful for us! Thanks
This is why I've moved over to Fastmail. They allow up to 100 custom domains and provide SPF. It's only $40 a year.
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Are you sure about that? They said they return it to "the project", but that in no way guarantees that the money will go to any developer.

The tip4commit people are clearly putting growth of their product above everything else, and that's generously assuming honorable intentions on their part. I couldn't see any clear strategy for getting money back to the original donors if a developer or project does not end up claiming the donation.
When this happened to my friend in Berkeley CA we called the police and after waiting almost an hour the officer that came didn't even get out of his car, he told us to file a report online. There was a security camera pointed at the lot which he said was "pointless" to try to access.
Cool work. I also liked the UI theme. Did you guys skin it yourself or used some theme? I really suck at front-end that's why I ask.
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Sure, the problem fundamentally boils down to this: what the police think their jobs are seems to be diverging from what the public at large think on many, many issues.
How to not recruit someone
Honest question -- is FreeBSD as easy to administer as Debian? I love apt-get.
Just out of interest which data sources are you using?
Neovim will have Lua (and LuaJIT) baked-in too, so Lua will always be there.

In my opinion initially there might be many different languages used by developers as they try out the new versatile plugin infrastructure. But after a while only a few languages should emerge as the dominant ones, because developers have the desire to help as many people as they can by making their plugins easy to be deployed and configured. I would guess Vimscript and Lua(both baked in), Python(nowadays it's practically ubiquitous) are the more popular choices. Personally I like Go (fast, easy concurrency, and single executable deployment).
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>Washington is a conceal carry friendly state, I wonder how reporting an attempt at a citizens arrest would have changed the situation.

This is a terrible idea. I'm about as pro 2nd amendment as you can get, but when you carry a concealed weapon your goal should always be to avoid a confrontation, not seek one out.

Getting your back iPhone isn't a life or death situation and you shouldn't use a firearm to resolve it. Also it's very likely you're going to jail if you shoot a guy while trying to make a citizens arrest.
The light color difference in Berlin is awesome, didn't know that.

Another difference: the Ampelmann
West: http://tinyurl.com/krew59f
East: http://tinyurl.com/k6nk8dx
Not yet, but this is a planned feature for the near future, along with a more detailed account management interface.

For the time being, you may take advantage of Gmail's POP3/IMAP support to download emails hosted on Pawnmail from Gmail. (See Google's article https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en) The emailed is pulled from Pawnmail rather than pushed, but it achieves the same effect.
I was wondering what he was up to, he was working on Z80 support for pcc[1]. Which is maturing quite well; it can build a lot of the NetBSD kernel for example.

[1] http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/
> coroutines

Would not be part of the core language. Quite feasible as a package or plugin, and I think under development.

> pure functional programming (enforcing it in an isolated subset of the code)

I don't believe Rust has a way to enforce purity of a function, but the type system could certainly help you out. Rust's type system doesn't have HKTs, so you can't do generic monads, but you could probably do an IO-specific monad.

>laziness

Already implemented in the loose sense with e.g. lazy iterators. Thunk-based evaluation could be implemented using operator overloading, lazy data structures, etc.

>(clean) meta-programming

I haven't used it a whole lot, but Rust's macro system seems clean and powerful.

>introspection

Could you expand a bit on what you mean by this? The kind of introspection I'm thinking of seems to run counter to the strict correctness and isolation principles espoused by Rust.

>garbage collection

This would be implemented using a custom wrapper type. I think it's in the works. However, the need for GC is mostly obviated by the statically checked lifetime system.

>Also, how does Rust compare to other modern languages, like Scala?

Rust, obviously, does not run on the JVM.

The type system is similarly rich, although (being HM-based) does not support subtyping (instead opting for the interface/typeclass/trait-only approach used by e.g. Haskell). The most obvious improvement over Scala is substantially improved type inference.

Scala absolutely requires heavy heap usage and GC. Rust requires no heap usage and absolutely no GC. All that stuff is determined at compile time, which is great for determinism and performance. The downside is that it requires some more effort from the programmer to think about lifetimes and such.

Rust has a substantially lower-level focus than languages like Scala or Haskell. It aims to be a C(++) replacement, not a Java replacement.
Pleasantly surprised (the title made me think this was going to crash my browser...)
Not every use case involves a system that can play FLAC files, but just about everything can play a WAV file. For instance, one of my desktops is Irix on MIPS which I can play WAV files on, but not fancy things like FLAC.

Again, having the WAV file means I never have to touch that music again. Ever.
Sleep Cycle only works if you sleep alone though.
I'm waiting for the Lichtgrenze installation (licht=light, grenze=border) which visualizes the Berlin wall next week. http://vimeo.com/105754237, https://fallofthewall25.com/
You can do this on the fan tv ipad app.
The BSDs show up in a lot of "appliances" as well. Up until a few years ago many load balancers were BSD based. IIRC Juniper is still a FreeBSD shop. Does yahoo still run with ybsd?
You can manually retain / release using Unmanaged, but that seems like a lot of work when you can mix C/C++ and Swift in the same target.
So police kept showing up. Did any of that policing actually solve anything? Sounds like a ridiculously high amount of crime for one person in two years.
Agree. If you have a domain, you presumably have web hosting, and it seems to be usual for this to come with mail. My hosting provider will host email for any domain (presumably works like pawnmail...) and it doesn't cost any extra. Now, if hosting were $50+/mo then I could see the value of a free service, but you can get it for $10/mo, where the tradeoff makes (to my mind) a lot less sense. After all, you want to pay for services like these, if only to ensure they don't suddenly stop in 226 days' time :)

My ex business partner would argue with me about this sometimes. "You always take the piss out of my daily coffee [which cost £2, mostly to pay for coffee shop overheads]", he'd say. "You're so tight. But you make us pay for hosting and email, like it's a good idea. We could use Google for free." I'd just shrug noncommittaly as I supped my tea [total cost about £0.03, mostly to pay for electricity]. How could he not see? Over time these free services always get rolled back, sometimes without any warning.

(Obviously that happened to Google Apps, or whatever. Maybe that was while we were working together... I don't remember. I wasn't really paying attention, because I didn't have to worry about it. That's what you pay for.)
Yes, sadly you are correct. I will do my best to monitor outbound SMTP frequency and blatant spam abuse, although so far it has been surprisingly pleasant. Thank you for the announcing this concern.
I prefer yours. Nice work!
It is, however I find that sometimes I get a sore and after a couple hours of use and I have to switch to a mouse.
I have given up on Windows laptops myself. As a developer the Macbook Air is the best laptop I've ever owned. I sold it recently and am waiting to receive a 13" Macbook Pro because I needed more RAM and space.

The biggest issues I've had with Windows laptops are:
a) Trackpad is usually horrible. Some of the laptops use a rubber like texture that feels like I'm scraping my finger along a really rough surface.
b) Battery life is never as good as the manufacturer claims. It is usually much much worse.
c) Updating to a new version of Windows is a gamble. Sometimes you can find all the drivers, other times you get old ones which kind of work (or not at all). Either way it is frustrating to have to hunt them down.
d) Support from manufacturers is AWFUL. The only exception I can think of is Dell. They have been pretty good but I'm not sure if they have worldwide warranty. I can take my Macbook to an Apple store basically anywhere and have it fixed.

There are many other small things that add up over time. It's just not even worth it to save a bit of money. I'm not even a massive OS X fan. It works well enough and the hardware is top notch.
I prefer to pre-download (automatically of course) podcasts as I listen while travelling, meaning sometimes the network drops out. Having said that however the podcast app I use (instacast) does indeed stream if I hit play on an episode that isn't already downloaded
How do you think ubiome.com compares with these efforts? I did an analysis with them and feel like I got some insights, but I also felt that the way the data Is currently presented could lead to a lot of false conclusions, especially for people without a microbiology or statistical background.

I'm also curious about your statement about how many strains are unsewurnced and unstudied. I've read this elsewhere, and it makes me wonder if the species % data presented by ubiome is presented with false precision.
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It's working fine for me in FF 32.0.3 and Chrome 37.0.2062.120 (64-bit)
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How about crowdsourcing?
I don't think it is legal to use deadly force to retrieve stolen goods, yours or anyone else's. You'd have to staff your firm with off duty cops or something to skirt that law.
The trackpad would still be crap, while I have injury issues with the trackpoint. But ya, it would be nice otherwise (I have an X1 Carbon Touch from work, personally use a rMBP).
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Plenty of other cities have this problem http://www.straight.com/news/714781/mental-health-arrests-va...

Severely mentally ill and violent people wandering the streets, committing rampant property crime to feed drug habits which make them even more unstable.
Is it also shocking and a less human conditions if somebody works in a supermarket or petrol station and the shift is early mornings or late evenings? I'd say it absolutely common in a lot of professions, maybe less with software engineering.
I used to commute between Manhattan to Stamford. A 5AM train would take me up and an 8, 9 or 10PM would haul me back. Staying awake for the duration of the return journey was rare. This led to curiosities: going to sleep in Stamford and waking up, four hours later, in Stamford again (Sartre had nothing on this fate) because you slept through arriving and then re-departing from Grand Central. Or waking up phoneless.

I lost my phone a few times. I have a habit of lolling over when dozing on trains. This encourages my polished iPhone to slip out. The Metro-North line tours a wide socioeconomic spectrum. I understand the temptation I was taunting some of my fellow passengers with.

Most of the time the opportunists were savvy enough to turn off the radio. Not always. Once I saw my phone blinking in from Rye. I stopped at their police station and showed the officer my iPad. Without question, we were on our way. The address I pinpointed resulted in a mother subjecting her son to an Inquisition. Nothing came of it. We apologised. Copper suggested we try the house across the street. Embarrassed from the last encounter, I demurred. He walked up to the door.

A young man answered and yes: he had an iPhone. A few minutes later, I was (mentally) $650 richer. (I went back to the lady at the first house with a bottle of wine and the local bookstore's encyclopaedia of steamships—he had boat models in his room).

New York City and State get a lot of shit for our police forces. And yes, we have a high frequency of idiocy. But swinging the other way, towards ineffectual policing—as Seattle appears to have—doesn't create strong societies. +1 New York.
Only netflix, but http://whatisonnetflix.com/ (sorts them by imdb or rottentomatoes ratings)

edit: I didn't realize they were shutting down their api to 3rd parties very soon. I'm assuming this won't work after that
No. And even if it had led to conviction every time I personally dont believe it would have solved anything either. However the main story is explicitly about our police departments lack of "appropriate" reaction. And so my own anecdote is explicitly about response and reaction, not results.

With regards to the high crime rate maybe Im just lucky. Some of those incidents had overlap, like both my car and the neighbors. It's totaled about 5 calls in the past two years. The city of Seattle does a good job on publishing crime & emergency services data in a timely manner. You're welcome to browse from the original source or a number of third parties. For reference my neighborhood is "Beacon Hill" bordering "Rainier Valley", south of I90. http://www.seattle.gov/police/crime/onlinecrimemaps.htm
The broken windows theory is not accurate and is extremely controversial in its implementations. Moreover, the kinds of things broken windows fallacy argues against are not petty theft, but things involving infrastructure and the status of neighborhoods.
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Ok, thanks for the clarification. Take this advice with some healthy skepticism: the one action that will benefit you most in life is to become part of a community, to be part of something bigger than yourself. I was once quite like you - a real efficient developer who could "outcode" and "outlast" the weaker coders. Ultimately, however it felt empty. Developing relationships and friendships with people who care not what you do but share something is important. You are still young - travel the world outside University, endeavor to learn a skill that takes time to become better at. Do not make the mistake of assigning emotional value to how hard you work unless it is for something you own.

Good luck!
There is this trade-off between making it fast to do big mouse movements and making fine mouse movements possible. Typical high-friction PC touchpads are awful for fine movements. Trackpoints are good for fine movements, but they don't have enough travel to also make it easy to throw the cursor to the other side of the screen quickly. In my experience with both, the high-sensitivity, low-friction glass touchpad on the mac enables as much fine control as the trackpoint while also allowing sweeping large mouse movements.
I'd say it's easier. You don't have to worry about backports to get packages of newer date or expired PGP keys when updating an old machine or anything like that.