skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reading was different. There are two brothers. The older was arrested for possessing a gun, pled out and got probation, and then years later was arrested for conspiracy charges based on appearing in pictures with "known gang members". He pled out again, got jail time, and got more jail time for being linked to a gun while in jail.

The younger brother was arrested on suspicion based on his Facebook activity, held for a couple of years at Rikers Island, and never charged.

IMO the outrages are (1) the older brother received a harsh sentence for appearing in pictures (his gun charge for owning an illegal, non-functional gun resulting in probation) and (2) the younger brother was held for two years with no trial.
Sorry, I let out the words "from me" because I thought it was implied. I don't share this open source software. I sell it.

freshhawk listed two categories: 1) a "dump of useful stuff" with "no responsibility to maintain it" by people who are "nice enough to share." I don't fit in that because a) I include a year of support in the sale, and b) I don't share it, I sell it.

2) "Then there are actual projects. A person or group saying 'Here is a problem we all share. ... I will do some management work on this in return for your contributions and my name being prominent'". I don't expect trade in kind, I expect money. Just like proprietary software vendors (especially those who distribute sources).

Thus I consider myself as a member of group #3.
You shall read this first: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1331150

There was a rather significant change to the kernel ARP caching behavior introduced in early 2013: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2724680bceee94eac39...

It seems to work fine everywhere, except in EC2 VPC, where the arp cache can sometime becomes stale. We too reported this issue to AWS support, but have no idea if they are doing anything about it.

The workaround is to apply a sysctl change to revert to the old behavior prior to the commit. Or to use a subnet larger than /24 to reduce the chance of getting the same IP.
The POODLE flaw returns, this time hitting TLS security protocol
I think only two of those pictures were actual photographs of the city; the rest were artists' depictions of the new city. Of the two photos, the first is from a great distance, in winter, and could portray a pretty nasty-looking place covered in snow; the second is of wilderness on the outskirts (?) of town, again covered in snow.

No idea if Kiruna is actually a nasty-looking place or not, but it's possible.
It doesn't appear to be a result for which the landing was necessary? Also it seems it was something already achieved before ("measuring D/H"). The text mentions that the D/H ratio was already measured in 11 comets, I believe by just flying through their "tail" (1)?

1) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1987A%26A...187..435E

How was it done this time?
Yeah that one always throws me and I always forget to look up what it's supposed to be and then when I hear it again I forget, repeat.

By the way I will forget this comment too.
The so-called "inverted pyramid". I'm finding it applied less and less frequently.

I've also noted that it's become pretty much standard practice for news bureaus to write single-sentence paragraphs. Literally, every sentence of a story is its own paragraph. I don't know when that became standard practice, but sometime in the later 1990s or 2000s, particularly as stories moved online.
Ex-Madoff computer programmer gets 2-1/2 years prison for fraud
I guess I misread the example, sorry. I thought we were talking in the context of inconsistent behavior of Perl as a language and therefore its syntax, but not in the context of an undefined behavior of glob().
A complaint is just a pleading before any trial of the facts has occurred. The statements about what may have happened (or may not have happened) are under the heading "FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS" in the document you kindly linked. So to describe the same issues you describe, I would write, "The actual complaint alleges some pretty nasty behavior." We have yet to see how many of those allegations will be believed by a trier of fact at trial.

The plausible evidence of persistent research misconduct in this case seems to be a reasonable basis for someone not to get a new job with more research responsibilities, so there may not be any actual harm to the plaintiff here. The defense of truth is strong in a defamation case.
It feels like there's been a weird lukewarm warm war going on, mostly via economic malice.
Hemmingway does some of what your talking about like identifying adverbs, use of passive voice and rating the reading level needed to understand what has been written: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
With cheap oil, Americans buy gas guzzling SUVs again
'Mark' is really John Heffron

https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Heffron
Live demo from github instructions : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcCtRpkq53M

ps: not my work, see : http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2ow1g0/firefoxh...
While I can understand the arguments for this, in practice the approach frustrates me to no end.

Worse are authors whose writing has no excerptable lede. Gina Kolata and mumber Morgenstern (health / Well articles in the NY Times) especially do this.

I find some old-school journos -- Dan Gilmore particularly comes to mind, I've called out a few others in G+ posts -- still practice strong ledes and heads. Many newer ones start with "My latest at <some website somewhere> read more".

Which ... tells me fucking nothing.

Lede with your lede. Trail with your link or call-to-action.
What Only Artists Can Teach Us About Technology, Data, and Surveillance
It would be great if edits like this could be displayed at the top of the thread rather than as the bottom-most comment.
Bank analyst compares US regulations to Eric Garner's choking: I Can't Breathe
It escapes me why anyone would voluntarily move to the US to work.
"Meanwhile, the imminent move offers people little incentive to refurbish their properties and as an inevitable result, the city has become rundown."

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kiruna,+Sweden/@67.8553152...

Looking around the place, while it's not exactly Paris it does seem the author has a different definition of "rundown" than most people.
Almost everything you said is blatantly incorrect with the possible exception of better weather (some of us actually like having seasons... But it is obviously much colder in winter).
Synaptics builds a fingerprint reader right into its trackpads
For sure ! http://i.imgur.com/hArj2Ul.png
Here's a distillation of their results

I see what you did there. :)
"Presumably though the effects of aliasing will also also produce distortions at a smaller scale, which might not be as obvious"

Why? What do you mean? What scale? What do you mean by distortion? The only only only thing sampling does is move frequencies beyond the nyquest frequency into the sampled signal by taking the signal at f, and sending it to f mod f_n where f_n is the nyquist frequency.
Rathergood mined this ground well. I particularly like Destiny's Child meat dependency - http://www.rathergood.com/alf and Pavarotti's deep love of elephants - http://www.rathergood.com/elephants
Also according to Wikipedia, it is going to put the city centre here [1]. While big parts of the town will be torn down there are at least some areas that will remain.

[1] https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=67.848757,20.2993544&z=15&ci...
Many companies do provide maternity leave, many (but fewer) also provide paternity leave, but companies below a certain size are not federally required to provide either (though I believe there are some arrangements where you can take unpaid maternity leave but legally can't be fired during your maternity leave).
Here's a skit from an old Canadian comedy show about this song (apologies for the quality, but the original aired sometime in the early 90's I believe).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_3nQFNy-w

Mark McKinney's (from Kids in the Hall) younger brother was part of this group. Every time I hear that song, I remember this skit.
google.com: no e-mail adress found
OP isn't asking for a data type that can hold more than a billion records.

OP needs a way to generate a random ID without checking that the ID has already been used -- s/he wants a UUID. Bigint is FAR too small to do that a billion times without a collision.
a) Its true that it doesn't involve JS but not doing the ping itself would save the battery life even further.

b) Don't put words in other peoples mouths. How incredibly rude of you. I have not demanded that they change anything. My post makes no mention of any "business model".

My computer as of today allows me some control over the code that runs on the CPU and the data that gets transferred over the network. I'd like to exercise that option if and when I wish to. You're free to do whatever you want.
Union-find's big-Oh is the inverse of the Ackermann function, which isn't quite the same as iterated logs...
как заработать в интернете чайнику и не быть обманутым?
Definitely like the idea of a WPF designed with modern features in mind. Observables instead of events. Making use of generics to reduce the huge list of event args and delegate types. Async baked in.
I've lived in Cambridge for 4 years and take serious issue with your beer comment.

I will concede to you on every other point :)
I mostly work from home, and travel to the Bay Area about 4-6 times a year.

There's definitely a lot of meetups around here, I used to go to a lot more of them than I do now. Unfortunately, it can be hard to get people to come from Cambridge into Boston and vice-versa.

I'm talking about stuff in January at Akamai's office in Kendall -- http://www.meetup.com/desktop-linux-users-group/events/21749...
If you worked at a start up in Detroit, you were defacto a part of the Gilbert Mafia. I don't say that disparagingly, Dan Gilbert crew have done great things for the city, but its a one shop town.

A2 lacks a Dan Gilbert to make all the things happen, but it has a much more vibrant, Bay-like share-and-share alike, encouraging, open start-up culture.

Plug for A2-NewTech, a start-up meetup I'm a huge fan of (I'm not affiliated, just a fan)
Hey tinkerrr, I believe the value to someone like you is in connecting with others on the same boat to be better informed. I'm with you in the sense that I don't always care what my friends are holding... unless my friends are really smart.

For example, I see LVS dropping and am considering starting a position. I ping the people who hold LVS right now (nvestly.com/ticker/lvs) and ask them what they think and if they know what's driving the selloff. Reality is that people on Nvestly are generally well-informed about what they hold, so new information surfaces and the entire group benefits. The fact that people's identities are tied to real portfolios tends to generate higher quality discussions vs. a Stocktwits, Yahoo! group or even SeekingAlpha comments.

If you don't ever trade and don't have to discuss anything, it's most helpful just to track your portfolios in one place without multiple logins and to see your returns. The annualized return (IRR) figure for example is something you can't generally get without paying an analyst (or investing hours into a spreadsheet). The IRR is important because it's an annual return that all funds in the world look at (like angels looking at traction).

Newbies do like to follow 'top investors'. I actually didn't think this would be super relevant but people loved it so we made it the homepage upon login and are adding a few things to protect people against blindly following.

Experienced investors have been using Nvestly as an investment resume of sorts. The system pulls up to 10 years of historical track record info and this is unprecedented afaik.

So these are 3 use cases. Let me know if it doesn't answer your question.
I am a part of the young tech startups in SA and I would also suggest for anyone to come back or give it a look see. I transplanted from SF and find the playing field wide open for new opportunities.
Hey - I'm the reporter who wrote this story. Feel free to ask me any questions.
Adblock is the first extension I install and have done so for the last few years, even back before Chrome was on the market and everyone was using Firefox. I would like to point out that I DO disable Adblock for domains I want to support like blogs and sites I don't mind seeing advertisements on. However, I keep it on by default.

The problem for me is that I don't take too kindly to being tracked and targeted by advertisements. Even though Adblock isn't a completely mitigation of tracking, it does go a long way to try and make you less traceable by advertisers. I also am not a fan of distasteful advertisements either. Case in point: on The Pirate Bay I make sure I have Adblock installed before I go there so I don't get bombarded with Russian bride or pornography advertisements and popups.

Blocking advertisements is our right, this is ridiculous in my opinion. If users want to block advertisements, then, they can either detect Adblock (which can be easily done) and restrict access or find other ways to make money that doesn't involve spamming banner and sidebar advertisements. I don't install Adblock to deliberately take away money from websites that need ads for support, I install it because there is a lot of bad advertising out there.

I don't think such a case would go very far, but it will be interesting either way to see how far this goes and if the tactic of forcing the creator of Adblock to settle or go bankrupt is employed like it is elsewhere to eliminate threats like the copyright industry like to use.
Thanks for the info. On a standard e-mail parse, there actually is no e-mail on their pages, but I'll add a field to bring up contact info.
Thanks for providing clarity.
Chicago is built over an old onion swamp.
There's a lot of great data here, and the author obviously tried to cover all of the bases. Unfortunately I'm still bothered by a couple of aspects.

Firstly, the question of "can you hear a difference" is completely orthogonal to the question of "which do you think is 24 bit". By using the answer to the second question to infer an answer to the first, you're entangling them. If someone could reliably hear the difference but on half the songs they preferred 16 bit and on the other half preferred 24 bit, their own answers would cancel each other out.

Secondly, all it takes is ONE PERSON who can reliably tell the difference [1] to prove that the difference is audible, even if it's only to a very small subset of the population. The test was structured to detect the abilities of a group, not a single person. I'm perfectly willing to believe that as a group, people on average can't tell a difference, but that doesn't tell me whether I can tell a difference.

[1] Reliably telling the difference would mean being consistent on double-blind A/B testing, repeated enough times to achieve statistical significance.
Indeed, I have as many phone numbers as emails if not more.

Further, I'd be very wary to subscribe to a service using a phone number given the total lack of anonymity with them.

On the other hand, having several email for the various facets of our lives can match perfectly with the various uses we may have of a service.

It is a PITA when a service tries to unify all the accounts used by a single person. Notably for example, Apple, makes it difficult to separate our faces as professional developer employed in a company, amateur or free-lance developer at home, and iDevice user. And using the same computer, you may have to connect to the service using all those facets at different times!

This is the reason why Google policy of using real names and unifying accounts is bad. I mean, it's good for slave owners dealing with their cattle to have a unique identifier, but it is not how humans' lifes work.
Defect identified in SPECjbb2013 affects comparability of results
Right, so now you've completely dropped the Facebook hypothetical that you thought was relevant, and bring the topic to something where I have access to zero information, so you can make the topic be all about you.

Just go ahead and contact the EEOC. Stop boasting about some mythical power you wield, and go ahead and use it. Bring Amazon to their knees. Make them weep.
Haha I was confused at first. Yes, the testimonials are not from actual clients and the images are just pulled off of Google images.

I do have some real testimonials to add but I haven't done that yet. There are still a couple of things I need to add/change e.g. fixing the headers links on mobile phones/tablets.
I plowed through the 66 hour audiobook version of this after failing to get through the paper copy. It's a completely fascinating book about all the ways Robert Moses contrived to leverage power to gain more power and ultimately to reshape the entire New York City area to his will. Thankfully Jane Jacobs and many others pushed back before he could destroy Manhattan completely, but his legacy in terms of automobile-dependence, racially segregated neighborhoods, inadequate mass-transit and to be fair, some nice parks, will live on for decades.
Fashion e-retailer uses Apple’s iBeacons to reach shoppers in Brazil
Hmm I see what you mean about taking into consideration the short attention span. In your opinion, what do you think I should remove?
Most programmers are barely capable Stack Overflow copy'n'paste merchants.

Programmers value the hacky over the elegant, and work hard to tight release cycles.

And yet there are programmers who care, and who seek out and use better ways of doing things, including the tools to help them. Just as there are journalists who care about getting things right, digging up and exposing the truth.

In fact, a great way to lift the general standard is to make the right way of doing something also the easy way of doing it: better tools can counteract short deadlines and occasional lapses of discipline.
Copy this into firefox's URL bar for a fun treat:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
The question I have, is it better for all of us than one of the old-fashioned guns-n-bombs style wars? If so, I am more than in favor of moving to a world where all warfare is just rich, powerful entities fucking with each other monetarily.
You can outsource hardware development, prototyping and anything else involving hardware on Elance and even other sites like Freelancer.com already. Unless you can compete on price, I think you will struggle to compete with the bigger players in the outsource/freelancing market.
Nordstrom tests web-connected digital mirrors in store dressing rooms
Even cooler: there's articles that claim the interiors of neutron stars are superconducting -- the current carried by proton pairs, rather than electron pairs. Maybe this is the source of magnetar dynamos.

http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/neutronstar.cfm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar#Origins_of_magnetic_f...
It was the whole town in 1901, which is about the eastern third of the island, but not the whole island. The seawall goes to about 7 Mile Rd; past that it's the natural height of the barrier island--which is not much. The end of this video has some photos of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beGT8OkWwBE

Since the wall was built, development has happened west to the unprotected parts, where structures are built elevated over the much lower grade. Mostly they survived Ike, though the beach receded significantly, leaving the closest houses to the beach on the beach.

Over on Bolivar Peninsula, the 10' and 12' were mostly swept away. Only the highest (and luckiest) survived. Even 14' stilts weren't proof against the storm. The famous "last house standing" was 15' above grade on land 8-9' above sea level.

See http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/18/ike.last.house.standing/ind... and http://www.chron.com/news/hurricanes/article/Owners-return-t...

The new houses are being built higher, to 14'-22', with much larger pilings, based on the example of the few structures that did survive.
Thanks for making this. A really awesome and minimal way to build sites. This will be perfect for my next project.
It causes cancer in rats.
I understand why they did this... but they really shouldn't have. It will only prolong the lifespan of 2.7.x...
What's the difference between MA and CA? How about that CA has banned non-compete agreements, but MA has not. There was a proposal to ban them earlier this year, but it fizzled.

AIM (entrenched industry lobbying firm) seems happy about it, anyway: http://blog.aimnet.org/aim-issueconnect/topic/non-compete-ag...

http://www.aimnet.org/employer-issues-center/Non_Compete_Agr...

"Proponents often cite California as a warmer, magical place because it bans non-compete agreements. We note however that;
 California allows non-competes in certain business circumstances and many California-based companies use non-competes in those circumstances.
 Many California based companies use non-compete agreements in other states where they operate, including Massachusetts." Nice...

Let's see who's represented on their board: Intel, IBM, EMC, GE, Raytheon, Microsoft, Harpoon Brewery?
http://www.aimnet.org/about-aim/board.cfm
>> It turns out, though, even when you create a UI that lets reporters and editors easily plug in this metadata without having to understand XML, they are not apt to fill it in, because they are just so overworked as it is.

Nailed it. I'm a developer in a newsroom, and I'm dealing with flack just asking them to write a non-automated teaser text for their blog posts. They can't be bothered.
heh, not only that, but my fingers accidentally made my test massively concurrent! Such are the perils of erlang. When I defeat the optimizer and also force message passing to be serialized both inside and outside a trial, I get an average of 525000 microseconds, which is more in line with the other results.
Coming next, Unilever sue makers of televisions that you can switch off / mute during ad breaks.

Mothers sued for giving birth to babies that can close their eyes or even leave the room.

Microsoft should sue itself for having a windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file.

And what about Privoxy ? That's the one I use.

And Facebook purity.

When I go onto other people's computers I am still always shocked by the reminder that the user experience without these products is just so incredibly eroded.

Still, I'm a guy that thinks billboards should be taken down. What an abomination we have allowed to happen to our habitat. If the school put a billboard in every classroom, there would be an outcry; yet I have sat through many a 5 second ad during class with the teacher waiting to press "skip" on youtube.
Thanks. That's a very readable summary.
Better, yes. Good no.

It does seem like this war will at least be paid for with tax dollars and wasted time rather than conscription and wasted life.
If you've had a colonoscopy[0], there's a good chance you've already had ketamine, just not in the same doses that you would have taken at a club!

Maybe it's different outside the US, but they don't use ketamine for colonoscopies. Or if they do, it's quite rare. Ketamine can produce quite unpleasant effects in patients.

Sedation for colonoscopies is usually a sedative like midazolam and an opioid like fentanyl.
The New Republic's Race Problem