skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pick up a gun, of almost any kind and in minutes you will be able to kill a similarly armed opponent. Now try the same thing with a bow and arrow or a sword (or more commonly a spear).

I guess I understand this sentiment, but as someone who has shot many rounds, many arrows, and also played kendo for years, it just seems wrong. Guns are more powerful than the other weapons, but that extra power doesn't mean one can't shoot and miss. (It also doesn't mean one can't intend not to harm oneself or others, and then fail in that intention, but if you don't own or use firearms you don't need to worry about that.)

If you have a gun, you can kill on a whim. If you're skilled with a gun, you can kill on a whim, reliably. It is just like a bow and arrows, in that respect.

If you have a melee weapon, you can kill if you really mean to do so. If you're skilled with a melee weapon, you can kill if you really mean to do so, reliably.
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I think, once we have singularity we will have this problem. But lets face it, trying to predict or plan for post singularity is kind of pointless.
I think it depends on how much of "a lesser cost."
Check out Apache Cordova http://cordova.apache.org/
Ubuntu 9.04 onwards no big issues with suspend to ram. Hibernate to disk can be problematic if someone uses 'guided partitioning' as the swap space is sometimes a little small.

Hardware: Thinkpads (T41, X60, X200) and Dell Latitude (E5420), currently Debian Sid.
Thanks for the heads up! Everything is back up now.
Take a look at Phonegap or Titanium.
I'm not in the US, will torrent for sure just to make a statement. I support online releases but this is not an online release, there are no borders on the internet.
You should read up on it more.

In his evidence, the former Downing Street communications director rejected suggestions that he had been asked to "beef up" the dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and said its purpose had not been "to make a case for war".

But Major General Michael Laurie, who was the Ministry of Defence’s director general, intelligence collection, from 2002 to 2003, told the inquiry that making a case for war was “exactly its purpose”.

Maj Gen Laurie added that he and his colleagues were told that a previous intelligence dossier “did not make a strong enough case” and for months he was “under pressure to find intelligence that could reinforce the case” for war.

His evidence, which is the first time such a senior intelligence officer has directly contradicted the Blair government’s official line on the dossier, will restart the row over whether Downing Street “sexed up” the September 2002 document to persuade the public and MPs that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was necessary.

Maj Gen Laurie’s comments were made in private last year and have only now been published by the inquiry chairman, Sir John Chilcot, along with newly-declassified government memos and other evidence heard behind closed doors.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/85...

edit - also note that this is from The Telegraph. Whatever else they are, they are definitely not conspiracy minded anti-establishment types.
Phonegap,Apache Cordova? I mean it's no different from a webview inside a native app.

> Is the common approach to create a native app with embedded browser or is there some other way?

Obviously to use clientside webtechs you need a browser of some kind.

Ironically Windows supported this html apps through hta apps since 1999,and still does.

Simply rename an .html file .hta,and you have an app...
It's perhaps not so simple. I'm a pathology resident. My only interest in cars is to move my family around for the lowest cost (in time and money) per mile. My time costs a fair bit, and experience has taught me a new Honda every 200,000 miles is cheaper overall (in time and money) than used cars. Try finding a used Honda Accord without a salvage title.

My work is dictated by the needs of various hospitals and clinics. Some days I work from 5 am to 11 pm and come in on the weekend to finish. Some days, like today, I'm on Hacker News at 9:30 am because I'm waiting for:

* techs to pull some cases for my research project,

* my batch of surgical cases to come out, and

* tumor board at 11, which I prep'd for yesterday.

I suppose I could be working on a rosalind.info problem right now, but I crushed one on the first attempt yesterday, so I'll delay that until this afternoon, probably after a 5 mile run through the San Diego zoo. I could be working with the videographer for my lab video (requested by some grants) but ... I don't want to. Although, I have 40 minutes, so maybe I could review the script.

We save a fair bit but we also spend on lessons for the kids and an annual vacation.

I'm always busy, because I want to wring every ounce of awesome I can out of life.

There are a number of life lessons that go into this. Find work that you enjoy. Live within your means. Exercise. Get plenty of sunshine. Eat less. Set low expectations, you'll succeed more often and ultimately get further. Give employees specific, actionable tasks ("specific" may vary depending on who you're talking to, and learning where to draw that line is a life-long exercise).

Learn how to modify your own behavior by modifying your environment. For example: throw away your TV. This will significantly reduce your exposure to advertising. Similarly, subscribe to a good music service: you'll avoid the ads and your taste will drift away from the mainstream toward whatever you genuinely enjoy. Avoid the news. There's so much news that someone else will know whatever's going on and you're ignorance will give them an opportunity to tell you. All of a sudden, you're having a valuable conversation. I have adopted Knuth's position: other people make it their job to stay on top of things. My job is to get to the bottom.
Most often you get more bang for your buck if you do not need to limit yourself to Apple hardware. So, if you use Linux you - very likely - have already more hardware to your disposal for lesser cost.

So, I think the answer to "Does that appeal to me?" is yes. :-)
Well there are of course diffrent classes, some are just not usful in my opinion. There are lots of things governemnt does that I dont think they should do, stopping people from taking drugs for example.

Then there is just plain inefficeny, and I have seen that. I know people who work in govenremnt and have worked there myself. There are people that work there that basiclly kind of float. They do jobs that could be done in hours in days, I even did that. This is true in any large organisation but governement is usally much bigger then most cooperations and they have less insentive for efficeny.
I imagine Powertop is installed and that you have the cpufrequtils installed and set up. What areas does powertop highlight as taking a lot of power/triggering cpu higher states?
Yep, they're working to bring things back up. Stay tuned!
I wonder if HN has considered making the general information about downvotes available? I'd like to see metrics on how many of the downvoters downvote more than the average amount.
It works for the pirates, just sayin...
They were faster than browsers were at the time, that's for sure. Especially Flash. At one point no serious design-focussed website worth its salt bothered with HTML because Flash was so much better and easier to author. Heck it's probably still easier to author.

The "open and native web tech stack" is something that evolved messily over a long period of time in a piecemeal fashion with little overall design vision. It's hardly something to be proud of.
I hope Stripe developers didn't write this code. I got the movie for free, jesus ... http://imgur.com/a/hf8FZ - and I didn't get a job after my interview with Stripe earlier this year.
Haha 10.2, yeah in 10.2 you were lucky if you could get something working after 30 minutes in bash.
You cannot use straight email to communicate patient info. You have to send them a link to a site behind a login, which is a barrier to adoption. Even if that's OK, just sending an email to someone from, say, a psych clinic would expose them as a patient, which is not good either. You also cannot really indicate urgency. There is a difference between appointment reminders and "hey, your test came back positive". There are also some things that you prefer to discuss as you may have follow up questions. If your doctor calls you to tell you that you have HIV or cancer, you are going to ask questions. You don't want to get that news via SMS or email.

Basically, routine reminders and test results are fine over a secure site with email notifications, but for lots of other things email is less than appropriate.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_interview_2014/

Some of the selected quotes there:

"It's just stupid enough that some things are funny. Sadly, it isn't smart enough to realize that other things aren't terribly funny and that an opportunity was lost here."

"The remarkably dismal quality is emblematic of the mind-set that brought the movie, and its attendant crises, into being."
Hi patio,

So you think they are all genuinely bad for startup, correct? The connection we have is a person who has 300+ connections to marketing agencies. He thinks our product can help those reseller's clients. But in reality, those end users will be 3 layers away from us. Again, we have no power right now. What would you recommend? (p.s. I was about to email you, then saw your reply.)
I don't know what it is exactly, these things are very subjective, but the UI does seem to have lost some feeling of smoothness. Transitions are starker than they used to be, strange blinks as you see in this video, and more.

I am not sure what to think of our current era of Apple products. The software seems to be more slapdash now, as if they are trying to do too many things at once.

On the other hand, this was the first time I upgraded the OS and all my development tools worked without my wasting time on silly problems. They do seem to be more developer-friendly now, but I mean that purely in a technical sense. In terms of developer relations they are perhaps worse than ever.
Honest question, what problems do you think this would solve?

Is it that you don't want people to have children until they are financially capable of supporting them?

It is indeed a grave responsibility to provide for one's offspring while they are still in the brood. But the upside of the situation, even in the unfortunate circumstance where one cannot make such financial provision, is no less than the creation of a brand new, fully conscious member of the human species, capable of experiencing the full wonder and surprise of being, who otherwise would have no chance of ever existing at all.

Furthermore, and here I risk delving into platitudes, children are quite literally the future of society. The continued production of children at a healthy clip is absolutely essential to the continuation of all the things we, as humans, value highest.

Hence it seems deranged to me to be so afraid of any monetary hardship that one should seek to positively disincentivize childbearing with such a broad and punitive measure. You are tampering with processes of infinite value and you do so at infinite risk.

As a smaller, more concrete objection, what about those who are initially of sound bank account, but then fall into hardship sometime after they've commenced in their procreative endeavours? Are they to be punished as well? In light of this possibility, why not take the opposite tack, and instead reward every new human life with a large gift to help pay for the cost of the upbringing?
Freaky. It would be even stranger if they started planting trees.
Speaking of the midwest, can anyone comment on the tech culture in Kansas City? There seems to be a few large tech oriented companies and thriving job market (Sprint, Garmin, H+R Block, ...). Plus as the first metro to get Google fiber, I've heard there's a bit of a start up scene now.
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Yes, generally people want OSs to do more, not operate faster.

Therefore most of the time the performance benefits are eaten by additional software.

It's most apparent on older hardware that was already running close to max capacity.
Because creating pictures of it makes it worse.
If we go down that line of thought let's skip waiting till they die and allow execution of people who serve no purpose to society. I know whole industries full of people who could be removed ... what a joy. Or not?!
I personally love HFR and have went out of my ways to watch the three The Hobbits in HFR (I traveled to Paris, the only place in France where they have it in HFR).

When people complain about 48fps being weird I just feel like they're just not used to it. It does look weird but after 20 minutes it looks amazing. I'm personally tired of not understanding anything in action movies that uses 24fps. It is kind of a luxury for the eyes to have 48 fps and I predict that in a few years we'll have the same debate we have with console now (60 fps is better than 30 fps).

We got used to 24 fps and so we're making justifications on why it looks better when it clearly doesn't if you take a step back.
No.

MacBook Pro 2009:

Aluminium Unibody deforms if dropped. Glass trackpad can shatter. Stupid fucking magsafe connector is too weak - a connector cable that fails even though it's only held on with magnets is severely sub-optimal. Only two USB connectors. chicet keyboard. Sharp edges. No trackpad buttons or trackpoint. Gloss screen.

Give me:-

* A great keyboard. See Apple Powerbook for an example great keyboard. (Obviously Thinkpads had great keyboards too).

* high impact ABS. This doesn't look as nice as aluminum. It probably doesn't feel as nice. But it survives knocks and falls better. My Asus EEE PC 701 was robust as hell, so whatever that was made out of.

* don't solder the drives to the board. Or have a very good quality SSD soldered to the board with one (better 2) drivebays.

* 4:3 monitor!!!

* take three popular Linux distributions (say Ubuntu; Arch and Fedora) and instLl them on your computer. Test them rigorously. Write clear detailed guides and how-tos and faqs on your site to cover the tweaking needed. Contribute any code back upstream. Make sure the following are working out of the box:-

- wifi

-acpi or similar (especially sleep on lid close; and make sure the system correctly wakes after)

-power management

* give it a huge battery and make sure the OS is set to give at least 8 hours use.

* allow a stupid large amount of ram to be installed. Offer very fast very good very large prefitted tested ram as a purchase option.

By mentioning Mac you've introduced a bunch of weird things that fistract from the conversation you actually want. Better would be "would you like a computer like Thinkpads used to be?" Or "imagine the best bits of all the laptops you've ever used, all together in one great machine, with Linux".
>I though it'd be interesting to talk about what the science says

There was a tiny bit of science in there and a whole lot of hyperbole. He didn't say how many wealthy people he studied for lack of empathy, how many did show empathy, or how many poor people he studied for to compare to. Also, his assertion that rich people give less to charity than poor people is provably false. It's a mix of hyperbole, blatantly wrong information, and politically influenced generalizations - all masquerading as science.

The point of my comment was that he mislabeled his video for the purpose of trying to cloak his political views in a shroud of legitimacy and impartiality. Had he called it "Rich people hate you" it would have been more closely related to his message, but people would see it for what it is: his opinion.
In the example from last night that I posted about, I left a very important voicemail about someone's health just before I walked into a hospital where I knew my phone wouldn't work very well. I know that the recipient of my voicemail appreciated my effort in communicating the situation. He would not have known the urgency of the situation had we gone into the phone tag dance.

I completely understand that voicemail can be annoying. I often prefer other means as well. I'm just surprised so many would refuse to use it at all.
> The faster things get, the stronger the case for copyright.

If that's an accurate summation, Breyer is describing an effect and asking us to assume it's desirable.

But if you compare it to the stated intention of the copyright clause: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" the opposite conclusion should be drawn. Zero-cost duplication and transmission raises the benefit of works entering the public domain. So that should happen sooner and with less friction.
When will this statement "your customer pays in bitcoin and you will receive dollars in your bank account" become "you the customer pay in bitcoin and you will accept a charge in dollars through your bank account"

Eta innovation on the consumer side?
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The reason they don't get implanted is you can't charge them under their skin. You also need more then a GPS receiver, but some form a transmitter I.E.: GSM, EDGE, etc. to push data back to the client looking for the animal.

Yes GSM/SMS+GPS transmitters can last for months, but normally your pet lasts longer then months.
No.

But a lightweight (<1kg) passively cooled laptop with a great keyboard, an excellent e-ink screen with at least FullHD resolution, good battery life, and fully open source software and firmware would. Any arch (MIPS, ARM, SH4, whatever) is fine with me.
Honestly everytime I see a job posting saying it needs angular or some other similar framework they lose me. I've built some fairly complex applications using nothing more than jquery and handlebars. This level of abstraction leaves room and flexibility to build pretty much anything.
The etymology of the word "police" supports your British security forces notion (with the addition of the Marine aspect):

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?&search=police
police (n.) c.1530, at first essentially the same word as policy (n.1); from Middle French police (late 15c.), from Latin politia "civil administration," from Greek polis "city" (see polis). Until mid-19c. used in England for "civil administration;" application to "administration of public order" (1716) is from French (late 17c.), and originally in English referred to France or other foreign nations. The first force so-named in England was the Marine Police, set up 1798 to protect merchandise at the Port of London.
It could be a typo or other mistake. To be clear, "medium income" was the phrase used by Philip Longman in the cited PDF. I also wonder if he actually meant "median income." I googled on "define medium income", and it seems P.L. isn't alone in using that term, but it's not clear to me if it's taken the same as median, or if it's a unique term all its own.

In the book, "Children in America: National Indicator of Well-being", edited by Ryan H. Nobbins, in Appendix A (page 121), "medium income" is given a definition (see https://books.google.com/books?id=ALccZ2yFq9UC&pg=PA121&lpg=...), although I don't know if P.L. means it this way: Medium Income is between 200 and 399 percent of the poverty threshold (e.g. from $37620 thru $75239 for a family of 4 in 2003).
I liked the article, but, as a game developer who does not specialize in graphics, I really liked one of the comments:

Joe Kilner - One extra issue with games is that you are outputting an image sampled from a single point in time, whereas a frame of film / TV footage is typically an integration of a set of images over some non-infinitesimal time.

This is something that, once stated, is blatantly obvious to me, but it's something I simply never thought deeply about. What it's saying is that when you render a frame in a game, say the frame at t=1.0 in a game running at 60 FPS, what you're doing is capturing and displaying the visual state of the world at a discrete point in time (i.e. t=1.0). Doing the analogous operation with an analogous physical video camera means you are capturing and compositing the "set of images" between t=1.0 and t=1.016667, because the physical camera doesn't capture a discrete point in time, but rather opens its shutter for 1/60th of a second (0.16667 seconds) and captures for that entire interval. This is why physical cameras have motion blur, but virtual cameras do not (without additional processing, anyway).

This is obvious to anyone with knowledge of 3D graphics or real-world cameras, but it was a cool little revelation for me. In fact, it's sparked my interest enough to start getting more familiar with the subject. I love it when that happens!
Thanks! Happy holidays to you too!
The point of jury trials is that it makes us feel better about keeping and torturing prisoners. "We have a system for that" and the fact that it is a committee removes personal responsibility for the effects imposed on the convicted.
Thanks! Happy holidays!
https://www.seetheinterview.com/ : I just see a poster of the movie. Is it normal? (I'm in France)
I was on a reality TV show. It was really similar to running my startup
Those films in Italy are like Justin Bieber in the music world: almost everyone loves to hate them, I never perused neither of the two (nor I know anyone who does), and they evidently have captured a certain market segment.

Trading Places otoh is broadcasted every single year, so given how it's hard to grow up without a television at home I definitely agree how that's a staple for italian broadcast programming that's part of popculture
out of meaning 'from'...sorry about that.
North Korean defectors have also done this.
It just feels wrong. Better go with Qt/QML or JavaFX/Nashorn.
I am already using the Linux on laptop better than Mac. It is called Thinkpad (an older model).

Now the problem is that Lenovo is trying to be more like Apple and this does not go well with them. You can ask how much people are pleased with the new single button touchpads or how they like 16:9 screens instead of 16:10 screens or how they like the lack of Delete button.

So yes, I would buy a laptop (I would not buy a branded PC for obvious reasons) that has very good ergonomics and is made from quality components. This would be not a Mac'1, and unfortunately, if nothing changes in Lenovo, it would be also not a Thinkpad.

Based on my gut feeling based on the surfing around, I would bet that I am not alone. Therefore I could say that there may be a market opportunity.

'1 due eye strain and need to move hands away from keyboard.
I traveled around India for around 4 months last year and came across the same debilitating poverty that you mentioned. Men missing legs dragging themselves forward on dollies around Lajpat Nagar market, teenage mothers panhandling with multiple kids at chaotic intersections, rows and rows homeless people sleeping outside. My coping mechanisms improved, but I wouldn't say I became indifferent to it. Seeing the poor without being able to help feels to me like pain without purpose. So after a while I learned to look away from the poverty for my own sanity. Can this lead to indifference? Yes. Does it have to? I hope not. I hope that one day I will have the resources to turn my gaze towards poverty again and feel less helpless.
Darn, I must have an overly rosy memory of my short time in the NY subways & on light rails. It has been many years.
2 samples of a sine wave does not result in a sawtooth wave being reproduced by the DAC. A perfect sawtooth wave actually contains infinitely high frequency content and thus can't be perfectly represented digitally.

Check out this video http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml which was recently posted here. Also the wikipedia page on sawtooth waves has an animation showing additive synthesis of a sawtooth wave: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawtooth_wave