skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I long ago gave up on waiting for the next version of anything. That being said, I love power savings and if I stick with this setup (SPro with a mechanical keyboard) I will eventually switch to a Broadwell Core M model when it comes out.

I can get about 6-7 hours of battery on the SP3 under Arch, maybe more if I worked at it. I'm happy enough with it for now. Coming from a MBP15" (circa 2011) that had fans like a jet engine, even the loudest fan noise from the SP3 doesn't really phase me.

What does bother me a bit is the outstanding bug on the hardware button support.

If you are on the fence, you could reasonably wait for broadwell and this button driver issue to get worked out. I'm comfortable with the setup as is, but it's certainly bleeding edge :)
Perhaps it would be helpful if someone from the Civilian team point out the motivation for building this full-stack framework and its particular value prop in contrast to DropWizard/Spring?
Wow , just wow.
Nice... but how could this be free? The only free cheese is in the mouse trap!
I have a friend who works in the records department of the San Mateo shariff's office. She's on the graveyard shift, which is slow, and they're constantly getting crazy calls about all manner of things.

It wouldn't surprise me if there were policies or protocols around when reported information is considered actionable considering all the silly stories I've heard about loonies calling the local PD.
5 Years of Metrics and Monitoring
According to the guidelines, content is relevant if it is:

> Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
Doesn't work on Chrome 38 on Win7 x64 desktop either with the window squished up.
+1. I can't believe that still doesn't exist on the web. I have Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime accounts, but nothing will answer for me "Can I watch this movie for free somewhere?".

Filtering by streaming service is a killer feature.
Bonus points for the quote This befuddling complexity is not confined to the vagina.
Already there. It's the play button in the lower left when you're in grid view, or the giant trailer button in list view :)
Actually it could have been a 2400 - It's hard to remember the timing of upgrading from 1200, to 2400, to 33.6K to a blazingly fast 56K where I recall stalling for years until broadband finally came into our neighborhood. But regardless of the speed, downloading an entire SLS Linux floppy set over a modem was a painful process.
I assume coroutines could be trivially implemented with sync_channel(0), which blocks the sender until the receiver takes the message. (And the receiver blocks until there is a message available.)

The 'generator' use of coroutines could be implemented with Receiver::iter, which is an iterator over a channel.

(As I understand it, coroutines are just a special case of channels.)

[Edit: see <http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/comm/> for channel docs]
I'm not sure it is. I'm not a huge fan of tip4commit either, I agree that it's opt-out model is bogus, but the fact that it uses Bitcoin seems irrelevant.

The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn't point out what specifically would cause problems here. Obviously people make and accept tips using euros all the time, this is not illegal, so why it would be different using Bitcoin isn't obvious. You can declare tips as income, no problem.

The real cause of his discomfort is revealed later in the post:

Personally I believe that Bitcoin is a terrible currency ... If you have a completely broken piece of country then I can imagine that you are suspicious of regulation and this sort of thing, but for me regulation is what keeps my world running and working.

Also,

Bitcoin for me feels like a cult. The vocal people in the community seem like they don't actually care about Bitcoin, but they want to see it succeed so that their "investment" makes a profit

So he has a generalised feeling that Bitcoin is bad because it's popular and has vocal fans, and that regulation is good yet also complicated, so anything which seems simple must be unregulated and therefore bad.

I do not consider myself particularly libertarian, though I do use and work on Bitcoin. Regardless, this doesn't seem like a great set of arguments. Rather, the author has decided that because a lot of Bitcoin users don't seem to like government, and he likes government, he should not like Bitcoin.
Axiomatic is one of my favourite short sci-fi stories books.
I tell them to buy a Chromebook.

(But I do talk with them back and forth to make sure a Chromebook will do everything they need.)
You can try to forward links to this article to all the current + future politicians that is running in that area - anyone that is running for City, County, State, Congress - CC a few the reporters in the area and asked for statements from them on see what their responses, CC the head of police in the mailing list also and CC dispatcher's name / email if possible.

From time to time, post their responses on some public forums.

My mom has accident in Sacramento downtown uneven sidewalk once, bruise pretty badly. Her doctor take care of her. I just email the city manager + couple elective officials 's public email addresses. I got 10+ follow up emails from various folks in couple day and the issue was fixed in a few days.
Do we consider a story fiction unless explicitly stated otherwise?
Movies by Dan Gilroy is showing a random selection of films by other directors: http://www.movieo.me/director/57113-dan-gilroy?grid=grid_mov...
That was a really interesting read, but on the creepy/terrifying side of things. One line especially stood out to me:

> When we announced my wife’s pregnancy, Grandma freaked out about how there’d be another mouth to feed and we couldn’t afford it.

Assuming the miscarriage happened intentionally, as a consequence of Grandma's food, then I am taken aback by how this woman acted autonomously and intrusively, attempting to covertly control the lives of others, for their "benefit," because she "loved them."

I suppose that's a remarkable example of the danger of not understanding boundaries: where social responsibilities end, and where dangerous overreach begins.
The top podcasts are professional, but everyone's voice should be heard
I'm more concerned about fan noise. I'm using a MBA 11'' 2012 which is completely silent 100% of the time, as I run everything in servers.

Is the SP3 silent under light loads, video chatting, driving an external panel, etc?
There is plenty of extortion attempts, not for narcotics but for weapons sales many of those listings are criminals who will threaten you once they get an address according to their market forums. Buying a gun online isn't really necessary, here gangsters pop down to Arizona and buy any gun they want on craigslist or local classifieds for cash in a parking lot, then mail the gun(s) in pieces camoflauged with spare bicycle parts back to themselves.

Most buyers on these sites are using some kind of drop, like a virtual office that accepts the package then forwards it or they go pick it up.
I'm sure they do, but is "my iPhone was stolen, and the GPS tracker says it's at X" still a crazy call by a loonie in 2014?
The VsVim plugin for Visual Studio gives you the best of both worlds! https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/
http://www.canistream.it
> The "30 minute introduction" starts by introducing the package manager, manifests, crates, and lock files. But it's easy. It says so, twice! "You should feel right at home if you've used tools like Bundler, npm, or pip."

Presumably you're implying something is not easy... But I don't understand why? That is, why does introducing the package manager (I.e. allowing people to jump straight in with nicer tooling) make the language not easy?
Car prowl reports are generated by social networks in Seattle. Everything from Facebook groups to community based Twitter accounts and blogs. Most everyone here knows that the Police will do nothing so they have turned to a method that basically tells people when prowl rates are up in their neighborhood. I guess at least then they might have a chance to look up their insurance policy info ahead of potential breakin activity.
Sort of... But not the same, especially when the training is glorified or nonexistent in the case of the body shops. In the go ernment case, there's a formula to calculate balance owed which is for a recognized form of education that is marketable and tangible.
The tags at the bottom read "personal history" and "personal essays", and there's no explicit indication that this is a piece of fiction.

This might actually be (based on?) a real story.
In my experience, people who work on Wall Street. And there are many groups in the US which are much more liberal and likely to hold unscientific views about IQ.
All I get is "Attempt to issue media playback commands, while no media url is set."
It's occurred to me how similar this conversation is to this

http://xkcd.com/538/

The real criminals will have the stuff delivered to some poor unfortunate who they've scared witless and not worry about the minutiae.
Features I didn't want; features I wanted it didn't have.
I disagree, and I don't think hyperbole furthers the discussion. I've been helped by police in many cities (in America and elsewhere) on several occasions. I've also witnessed harassment, abuse of power, and indifference- fortunately less so than the former.
http://hola.org/faq#in_cost

They use you as a peer
While a sad and interesting story, why is this on HN?
AWS Activate helps ignite cloud startup fire
> The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation

That's not what he said. He said that he doesn't want to deal with a system for accepting tips if the cost to him of the system (not just in money but in time and effort) is greater than the benefit. He mentioned two tipping systems (gratipay and bountysource) that, to him, don't have this problem.
Love a lot of your posts here you're very vocal and well explain. I'm an ADHDer, software developer, avid researcher, fascinated with neuroscience and cognitive science and studied modules of it in university. But I sense you've been reading a lot from Barkley? And Barkley unfortunately can be closed minded(his brother had ADHD and died in a car crash so it's understandable he's negative towards it).
We've seen in neuroscience that certain characteristics in ADHD, i.e lack of inhibition can lead to positives. The brain compensates.
Honestly, I feel in the next decade ADHD will be looked upon as a subset of personality/neurological traits, more in line with how as Aspergers is been seen nowadays.
Daly also alledged that there were “fundamental design flaws” in the rocket system. “The delivery system is solid, the motor is bolted to the fuel tanks. There is no flexibility in the tank and motor, any vibration can result in the fracture and failure of the engine system.”

Erk. New fuel, new vibration patterns some of which you can only determine in true flight....
I don't think there's much risk of legal trouble from accessing markets for research purposes, as long as you don't actually buy or sell anything illicit. Also, the level of tradecraft required to securely browse a website with Tor is pretty low - just boot to a Tails LiveCD.
Long ago, living with my brother in an Atlanta suburb, his car was broken into and the stereo was stolen overnight.

Before we even woke up in the morning, the police were knocking at our door.

They'd caught the thieves, sitting in some office park parking lot at night with all their loot. The cops didn't know what they were up to, just that they were where no one was supposed to be, so they pulled up to talk to them. They arrested them and made them ride in the police car showing where they'd stolen everything from. All before my brother even knew it was stolen.

They were convicted, my brother got his stereo back, and restitution checks that totaled more than the damage to his car.

Life in suburbia does have benefits.
I would never buy a mouse without a back button. It's a wonder they still make those.
I really hate to see blind hatred for the police on HN. It's a tough goddamn job, people, made all the more so by political pressure to improve statistics. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, police are forced to focus on serious crimes and solvable crimes and avoid minor and unsolvable crimes. Nobody wants it to work that way, but departments are hammered when they bring down crime stats.

This story is pretty outrageous, but I understand why cops are leery of having citizens pursue and enforce vigilante justice. This could EASILY have led to a shootout. 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 than insist "police are never there to help you."
That's typically the experience I got with all Asus product I owned: Disappointment !
Before websockets, some hackers used gifs as an one-way raw socket. Very impressive stuff.

Example project: https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
> author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn't point out what specifically would cause problems here.

JFTR: "accepting tips" for software is something that is not at all straightforward. The way bountysource and others get around that is through invoices once a large enough amount has accumulated. I have no idea how that works in other countries. Gratipay/bountysource solve this problem, no bitcoin service I have seen does.

> Rather, the author has decided that because a lot of Bitcoin users don't seem to like government, and he likes government, he should not like Bitcoin.

I think you misunderstand something there: I am pointing out why Bitcoin is something that does not solve problems for me and I doubt I am the only one. The premise of tip4commit is that it helps Open Source projects. It's not just not helping me, it's making my life more complicated. In fact, right now, pretty much anything that has bitcoin involved makes it harder for me.
I use "sudo purge" from time to time. I wonder how this app is different/better.
Really interesting and I've had some eye opening experiences with this.

May I ask, do you still play with ideas/how the universe works etc? Do you miss that at all?

Also, have you read "The power of now"?
The Razer Blade 14 is a very nice machine, if you can get over the Matrix-esque green backlit keyboard. Sane keyboard layout (but missing the pgup/dn/home/end column). Beautiful screen and 14 inches, which is my ideal screen size. Amazing gaming performance for the size, if you care about that. Surprisingly good (but not perfect) Linux compatibility too. The three big problems with it are:

1) The choice of Wifi card, the Intel 7260AC, wasn't a good one--it constantly drops wifi connections that work fine on other devices, and sometimes isn't even recognized on boot in both Windows and Linux. Tried this over several Blades so it's a chip issue, not a bad unit. I'd rather have Intel than Broadcom considering Linux compatibility, but the 7260AC is just a nearly unusably buggy card.

2) The screen, while stunning if you can get a perfect unit, is apparently susceptible to dead pixels during manufacture. I ultimately returned all of the Blades I bought--something like 3--because the screens arrived with dead pixels. I even sent a unit back to get a new screen put on, and the replacement screen also came back with dead pixels, and worse, a horrible color shift. It was my dealbreaker. Dead pixels might be acceptable in a $700 laptop, but not in a ~$2,800 laptop. I suspect Apple bought out all of Sharp's grade A screens and Razer got stuck with the B screens.

3) The parts are all proprietary so if and when you need a repair, you have to mail your unit in and it ain't gonna be cheap out of warranty. Razer quoted me $200 when I asked for the cost to get an old battery replaced (as you have to do for aging laptops). Plus, since the unit gets very hot during gaming, I expect Blades will need frequent repair as they age.

If you can deal with these issues, the Blade is a genuinely good machine. Really the only serious competition the MBP has. Razer just has to sort out their screen supplier's QA process, and maybe make replacement parts available for home repair, and they'd be golden.
What do you use right click drag for on OS X?

I have double tap set to right click and never really have issues. Then again I normally run a browser/terminal/emacs as my main apps so I don't really need/use right click at all that often.
A foodie repents
Because they would be sued by the huge companies that already run CAs.
That would be less secure than if we just went with DANE + DNSSEC, which you could start using today without permission from anyone.
I've never lived in a house which didn't regularly receive letters for at least 5+ people who previously lived there. I'm sure your mailman nor any intelligence agencies keep notes on mail arriving with a different name.
Its a stereotypical urban vs suburban vs rural thing. Its only new in the sense of it being hip to live in urban areas. Always been this way.

There has always been a different social contract between the cops and each social class. The cops have no idea why an urban person is calling them because if they're upper class they are rich so they don't care and a normal personal assistant isn't going to go all batman and hunt down thieves, and if they're poor then they have their own ethnic / gang type of ways to fix this in addition to deep seated victim shaming (she was asking for it, what kind of idiot leaves her purse in a car in an urban area, etc). The urban cops just don't know what to think about middle class people, or middle class outlooks on policing.

In the burbs they'd do exactly what the author was expecting, dispatch a squad, take care of business. In a rural area they wouldn't have a crime like this, but something similar would be handled like the burb example. There's a social contract and developed protocols and expectations and it would all be OK.

Not saying its right or wrong, just saying its a fact that pioneers skeletons always end up having arrows sticking outta their backs.
The police are motivated by being safe – actually dealing with criminals is dangerous, so the police are motivated to avoid them.

http://www.cracked.com/article_21830_cops-wont-help-you-7-th...
Probably the same reason it's making the rounds on Facebook at the moment. All else equal, this kind of website tends towards resharing/retweeting/upvoting identitiarian, political, and outrage type stories. The management does make an admirable effort to nudge it away from that, so a somewhat lower percentage of HN stories are in that category, but it's still quite a lot of them. (Also, it hits the "things of concern to affluent white American urbanites living in the U.S.'s somewhat dysfunctional cities" category, which is somewhat overrepresented here.)
I guess it comes down to how much you enjoy tearing your hair out fixing other peoples bugs or dealing with their crappy hardware.

I've used a 2010 MBA running OS X and Win 7 for the last 4 years. I max'ed out its specs back then and paid about $2k, including an Apple Care warranty which has since expired unused. I've had at least half a dozen Thinkpads before this, and none of them ever came close to surviving this long. My first Thinkpad was a 600, followed by a T20, etc. My last Thinkpad, a T410s, lasted less than 13 months before the LCD failed, same as a dozen others just like it around the office purchased around the same time. That's when I bought the MBA on my own dime.

Part of it is this MBA hit a sweet spot in the upgrade cycle where SSD/CPU/RAM has proven good enough to keep for 4 years, and really shows little signs of slowing for most workloads, and could keep going strong for several years longer.

But the physical hardware has held up astonishingly well. It's the most stable PC running Windows I've ever had. Thinking back on it... I don't think it has EVER blue screened, and I never reboot it except for critical updates.

The only gripe I have with the hardware is the Windows BootCamp driver for the combined mic/headphone jack doesn't switch the mic on when you plug in a proper headset, so it's stuck using the internal mic. But the built-in mic is so good, I've never bothered buying the $20 USB mic to workaround the issue.

It would be hard to tally the number of hours saved on NOT having to upgrade hardware, NOT having to replaced failed components, and NOT struggling with general driver instability and blue screens the last 4 years. This laptop has paid for itself many, many times over. Given the success I've had with the MBA, personally, when I do finally break down and buy another machine, it would be another MBA without a moments hesitation over Apple's 40% gross margin.
I'm on the 34" external right now running about 60 tabs in chrome, some vim sessions, and a paused google music tab, and it's silent (no fan noise at all).
If it were a celebrity or any other high-profile citizen, you know they would bring out the SWAT team and the criminals would be locked up for 20 years.

But, when it's a "nobody important" tax paying citizen, then go f-yourself.

Congrats goes out to everyone who voted in the current representatives.

Wonderful job.
In normal 3D modelling for animation this is called 'creating a reflection map'. A normal 3D package will just do it and in the environment you can have more than the one 2D flat shape (e.g. the floor/ceiling here). Plus you can accommodate a change in position of the light fixture.

In another discipline - maps - we are talking projections. Personally I would like a globe of the illuminated variety with a paper cylinder around it getting a Mercator projection on it.

Either way, the maths and software for this has been on the desktop for at least 25 years (render times were a while back then).
Aren't you stretching things a bit by stating that "the entire thing useless" just because of its license?

I live in a rural area with an incredibly wide spectrum of birdsong throughout the seasons. Strangely, as I've grown older, I'm come to appreciate the sounds of our local wildlife, especially birdsong. Hell I even wake up early enough to listen to "Tweet of the Day" on BBC Radio 4 [0].

I'd say this site is certainly not "useless" for aficionados of our feathered friends.

Also...must everything end up on Wikipedia?

[0]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s6xyk
The above commenter stated "The police are never there to help you". as in, that it is not their purpose. Although I have no doubt you have encountered some police that went above and beyond their job description to help you, this does not change the fact that helping you is not their job, or purpose.
"Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic at HN.

Also, it's posted as a work of non-fiction.
There's an extremely strong bias toward urban living here on HN, and this is a fairly stereotypical "middle class person tries to move into the big city" story.
Wow: "Although intelligence tests are often cited as psychology’s biggest success..."
Productivity web apps that I have used:

- Carbon Fin Outliner (Outliner) - https://cfoutliner.appspot.com/

- Writebox (Dropbox Text Editor) - https://write-box.appspot.com/

- Toodledo (Tasks, Notes, etc) - http://www.toodledo.com/

- Textdrop App (Dropbox Text Editor)- https://www.textdropapp.com
At this stage you've basically invented Illumiroom and you may as well just use a wide angle projector. You don't have full 360 coverage though so you'd need several projectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IllumiRoom