skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how the website looks on my machine: http://i.imgur.com/j2bavtp.png. Horizontal scrolling only reveals more of the search results.
Ehh, it's an interesting Idea, not a big fan though to be honest. It's too striking and the cursors are huge. It will probably be like the next scroll tag, a way people can make shit appear in your face and it will just get abused.
I wonder why the graduate students went to Zeelenberg first, instead of straight to Eijlander.
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Is that the new "smooth scrolling"? It's equally annoying.
One handy use of it is inviting Googlebot to find your site search, like so: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/richsnippets/siteli...
> I get that that is the idea. The reality is that most utilities pass along their expenses, whatever they are, into a "rate case" with a percentage tacked on top.

Again, that's by design. The public authority sets rates at some fixed cost plus reasonable rate of return on capital. The idea is to encourage potentially very expensive capital investment without the perceived danger of subjecting a critical utility to the ups and downs of market pricing.

And utilities act to squash competitors because lack of competition is the whole quid-pro-quo of being a utility. Utilities don't make Twitter-like 30% margins with double-digit growth. The reason private capital is willing to sink money into them is that they get their consistent 10-15% return on a regular basis. Competitors not only upset the arrangement, they can quickly jeopardize that margin.

I'm not defending regulated utilities. I think they're mostly a bad idea, but judging by the discussions around here where people talk about the wonderfulness of water utilities, lots of people are on board with sanctioned monopolies with guaranteed rates of return. But the flaws you're pointing to aren't "abuses of regulation"--they're a conscious bargain between municipalities and utilities.
For what it is worth, my understanding is that andralex et al are re-engineering the dlang GC: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2g03af/ds_garba...
Do you have engine block heaters in cars in Yukon? In Scandinavia we have electric heaters installed to engine blocks for people who keep their cars outside. The heaters are typically in the 500 W range and keeping it on for an hour before starting up the car in the morning makes the starting a lot easier.

We also have cabin heaters for cars (typically in the 1000 W range) but they are more for the convenience (but also safety, car windows are clear when you drive off, and vapor from breath doesn't condense and freeze to the insides of the windows).
They did manage to get a hold of data though, not just '#twitter'. They had docs for download up on pastebin (/Y2spP7y9) that contained rosters, budget powerpoints, and other briefings:
How do they know members of the control group weren't being prayed for?

Even assuming the study were perfect, the conclusion is not that retroactive prayer works, but that retroactive prayer in the context of conducting a scientific study works, since if you believe the deity being prayed to exists, you also have to believe that the deity knows it's part of a scientific study and not genuine spontaneous prayer.
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Where we disagree is about the meaning of method in a form tag. Since it's called method and since the options are a subset of HTTPs methods, it seems natural to assume that they are related. Missing http methods does seem limiting with regards to a restful interface.
Is there anything to suggest this actually improves user experience rather than just making it different?

This was an annoying javascript trick back in the 2000s, it still makes me ask "WTF" when I go to a Gawker blog, the only place I know that still trys this trick.

Do you have use cases (such as the contextual pointer/text cursor change) where it productive to change the cursor?
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To a non-expert, it looks like studies on prayer are a mixed bag. This meta-analysis found no effect: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1207/s15324796abm3201_3#...

But this one did: http://rsw.sagepub.com/content/17/2/174.short

Another interesting study: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/107555304132380...

("No direct intervention effect on the primary outcomes was found. A marginally significant reduction in the amount of pain was observed in the intervention group compared to controls. The amount of concern for baseline problems at follow-up was significantly lower in the intervention group when stratified by subject's baseline degree of belief that their problem could be resolved. Prayer intervention appeared to effectively reduce the subject's level of concern only if the subject initially believed that the problem could be resolved. Those in the intervention group who did not believe in a possible resolution to their problem did not differ from controls. Better physical functioning was observed in the intervention group among those with a higher belief in prayer and surprisingly, better mental health scores were observed in the control group with lower belief in prayer scores.")
Yeah... no. What about users that use high visibility cursors? Think accessibility, people.
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A little meta-observation: across HN discussions of topics like these, I notice over and over, the same commenters posting abundantly, vociferously, and stridently in support of what I might loosely term the pro-social-engineering side of the debate. I worry that this might falsely create an impression of consensus when there is in fact none, especially considering the potential social penalties for voicing dissent.

There also seems to be, for males, a certain prestige to espousing this type of ideology, and it seems to increasingly be being used as a form of social signalling (not in the least because it is oppressive to males not occupying the very highest social strata, incurring a real cost for them, hence being a somewhat honest signal).

Not sure how these two phenomena interact.
This article was submitted to BMJ as part of their ironic Christmas edition. However the gullible still routinely cite it. You can see a response here (http://www.bmj.com/content/324/7344/1037) from the Papers author as well as others. And a piece from RetractionWatch.com about the article http://retractionwatch.com/2014/12/23/irony-place-science/
Well as for simply supporting Lua in browsers, aside from the obvious Emscripten/ASM.js way, which would work for practically all browsers which support JavaScript, Lua can run as a PNaCl app in Chrome/Chromium, see: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lua/nkcnhkobblkmia...

Of course this is only a proof-of-concept which just runs a Lua REPL in the browser. I wonder if it is possible (and if so, how hard it is) to make the browser run <script language="lua"></script> code.
Which part requires everyone agreeing? Building a working framework or having a dialogue?
The New Yorker doesn't shy away from profanity. If you search the magazine archives you'll find many instances of fuck, bitch, asshole, etc.

A simple google search also shows this to be true (fuck site:newyorker.com).
In general, "best" is not an absolute, and we can't really tell you what to learn, especially if you don't have a business case that you're trying to accomplish.

Since you seem to be rooted in the web/OO world, taking a free Haskell course might be pretty interesting and mind-expanding for you. It'd also help you become a better web/OO developer.

Take a look at Elixir, Rust, Go, and Scala, and see if any of those pique your interest. If it's just for fun, it doesn't matter what you choose.

(IMHO Node sucks. JavaScript is widely known and popular because browsers don't support anything else. Unfortunately, it's an absolute mess, and the Node ecosystem is incredibly confusing and crowded. Things like Typescript are improving JS a bit, but it's far from the "best" language for something large. It's still good for prototyping, though.)
I've been using last.fm for a long time and I've spent a lot of time looking at the data. I would argue that the average person on last.fm is much, much more likely to have heard of Opeth than the average YouTube or Spotify user. I'd also argue that straight up listener count isn't a very useful number, since Kanye West (the most listened to artist on last.fm last week by about 33%) only has about 4M listeners. I don't think Kanye is only 5x as popular/successful/listened to as Opeth.
>> 2. cadr is relatively easy, if you know your assembly (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_and_cdr#Etymology) :-)

If you know IBM 704 assembly...
I use it on my Linux boxes and it works great. There is a command line client, and a separate optional gui for control.

Android folks should check out Twilight https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid... - note that it works by putting a colour filtered overlay on top of the existing display content. Google does block some actions while this happens - eg accepting terms/permissions for installation of an app. Consequently you have to disable twilight when doing things like app installation/updates. (flux and redshift tweak the gamma tables directly - something that isn't available on Android.)
"The Mind of a Pathological Liar" might be a better title.

This is the "science" Feynman warned about.
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"First truly crowd sourced novel"?
What about Naked Came The Stranger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger)? and the other, earlier efforts, cited by the article.

Crowd sourced narrative always reminds me of the telephone game we played as kids (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers) because the story line always seems to diverge and disappear. That's a problem when there is a single author but it is worse when there are multiple independent contributors.
He's done a number of (in)famous things.

E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_%28computer_worm%29
1. They are small 2. They are loosely coupled 3. Shared-nothing state 4. They enforce standards for consuming and emitting data 5. They enforce a single standard for piping data from one process to another.

This can all be done via libraries with clear APIs, with none of the deployment headache of a microservice.
Firstly, don't do this.

Secondly, if you insist on doing it, don't pay 5 bucks for it. It's just cursor: url(...);

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
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Reimagined an old idea for practical usecases
Oh god. Time is a flat circle, 90s are having a comeback, now this, tomorrow under construction gifs and faux 3D buttons in framesets.

The cringiest part is I do believe their usecase (huge annoying CLICK cursors over “buy now” buttons) just _might_ increase conversions enough to be worthwile.
Also (very slightly) laggy on my 2014 MBP, even when forcing it to use the discrete gpu.
And they always upload usage data, how many times you opened which app, how long it stayed in background and how often you used it in foreground, overall use time, etc.

For all installed apps, all the time.
Agreed, placing all the blame on Google is not fair. Besides Google, carriers, and manufactures, there's one more party involved that no one seems to talk about, users. Google only promises to update their software for 18 months. If you're going to milk years and years out of your smartphone, don't you have some responsibly to update outdated apps with updated ones from the Google Play store?

I have an old Galaxy S3 that Samsung no longer updates, yet these bugs don't effect me because I've replaced the built in browser with Chrome, which still receives regular security updates. What's stopping users of old phones from installing Chrome or Firefox?
By the definition you espoused in the other thread (which is different from the dictionary and common usage), the claim that "racism in the US is the primary cause of segregation" is a near tautology. I have literally no idea why you would believe I deny a tautology, particularly given that I haven't even discussed it in this thread.

Why do you deny my claim that water is wet?

Seriously dude - get a grip. Read the post before dropping a gigantic wall of text on an unrelated tangent. And please read an article by uncited experts showing that disputing definitions is pointless.

Just kidding, here it is: http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/
> I've never heard of it being sold outside of pill form.

Powder is not unheard of: Air Sealed use to sell modafinil powder sourced from Sun, which was apparently legitimate and quite competitive on a per mg basis.

But as far as I know, they were the only powder source and they shut down quite a while ago (maybe 2011? I'd have to check my price-tables to see when I dropped them), and only in the past few months have any new powder vendors showed up (on the blackmarkets). So unless one of us is considerably off on dates or my knowledge of modafinil sellers is less complete than I thought, I'm not sure where noname123 could've gotten modafinil powder.
this is not consistently supported across browsers. plus no rocket-like rotation :-)
The "Pay With Card" and "Pay With Paypal" buttons simply don't work for me. Chrome 39.
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What is the connection between that paper and your claim?
The linked study is a gag study, and didn't actually take place.

Think about it -- retroactive prayer? As in, the people got sick, either died or got better, and were then prayed for?

I mean, being an omnipotent deity is one thing, but effective retroactive prayer? Now that's a neat trick.
"Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years. Further, excessive drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20-64 years." from http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

"5,000 people under age 21 die each year from alcohol-related car crashes, homicides, suicides, alcohol poisoning, and other injuries such as falls, burns, and drowning. [...] More than 190,000 people under age 21 visited an emergency room for alcohol-related injuries in 2008 alone." from http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/special-populations-...

If somebody invented it today, it would be thoroughly illegal. My point here is that teddyh's conflation of "legal to buy without a prescription" and "safe" is incorrect.
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This article[0] (available with free registration) is a very interesting read on the history of jitney services in the US, and the fall of this massively popular form of ride-sharing.

It is a useful case study in regulation used anti-competitively, and the misaligned interests between consumers (those wanting cheap convenient transport) and the incumbent services backed by municipalities (those wanting monopoly rents and the tax income from it). These arguments hold parallels to many infrastructure and service provider debates we see today (heck we even come across the term common carrier in the article).

There were, of course, valid objections at the time, and there are today. Many of the same ones are repeated in the article.

The most interesting part to me, though, is the several page exposition (295-303) on the characteristics of jitney transportation. It is clear that in its natural form, ride-sharing does not lend itself to long-term full time employment. Some anecdotes from the article are a doctor who keeps a car for house calls allowing his son to use the car (sunk cost) as a jitney; the commuters who post their destination and only pick up passengers on their way to/from work; and those individuals who supplement their income with several hours a week of jitney work.

This article supports my original comment (the grandparent) and the parent here that Uber/Lyft should not be viewed as traditional employers.

I would alter the quote below to indicate that taxi driver as an occupation was never an occupation until regulation in the interest of a more lucrative (for the incumbent firms and for the municipalities they operated in) business forced an artificial constriction in the market for public transport.

>But with so many cars on the road, maybe it's an outdated occupation

[0]http://www.jstor.org/discover/724795?sid=21105612783593&uid=...
The sci-fi book Blingsight by Peter Watts explores humanity's 1st encounter with an alien object that contains extremely powerful magnetic fields. Has all sorts of interesting consequences.
> Obama to beef up laws on privacy and data breaches

I hate headlines like this. The President is a figurehead. He can't really do anything (shy of directing federal agencies not to enforce certain laws) without Congressional action.
IE 6+, webkit 1.0+, firefox 1.5+. It's been supported for a loooooong time.
Hmm, I always wonder about these kinds of polls for non-proportional representation systems.

Obviously if party supporters were evenly spread throughout the country, the outcome of the election would be a whitewash. It's not the case, though -- "Scotland tends to vote Labour" and so on. Gross vote supremacy obviously helps to win seats, but the relationship isn't obvious -- certainly small parties will tend to be under-represented, for example.
Guys I love your search, but what I am missing is that you index the content behind the headlines. So I've build my own, for example:

http://search.nagrgtr.com/#/search?q=greater%20than%2030kmh%...
Having taken both, I don't think they're the same. (Modafinil is more pleasant.)
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Did they improved startup time of the editor? Last time I tested it (Windows 7 x64bit) it took good 3-5 seconds for it to start.
Last I heard, if there are two different implementations of a feature, the W3C considers it to be a de facto standard.

Nor are there any useful distinctions between "browsers" and "the web".

What I suggest is that CSS 4 have the necessary functionality to specify styling of tooltips. It's not that bizarre of an idea. You could set the font, for instance, or colors, or borders. Likely once it becomes a psuedo-element, you could do even fancier things with it.

It's a no-brainer.
Yes, SSH-ing to my drone and running scripts while doing low passes and tight turns is just what I need. Sarcasm aside, this looks really cool from a hacker perspective but I'm straining to find a practical use case. Both CC3D and Naze32 platforms are open (hardware and software), smaller in size, cost 5 times less -- but are, I guess, nowhere near as flexible as this thing.
Hmm interesting, they're working for me on Chrome 39. Are there any JS errors?
>The Prime Minister said today that he would stop the use of methods of communication that cannot be read by the security services even if they have a warrant.

So now the British wants to outlaw math.
You owned the video. Who owns his song? Spotify could be exactly as profitable as YouTube if he only owns one-sixhundredth of the song.
It's pretty common that in any given group, the subset of people who have good ideas and the subset of people who are comfortable dominating a group conversation are not entirely the same.

One strategy that I've found is sometimes helpful that recognizes this fact is to start group decision making by having everyone write ideas down independently on sticky notes for, say, 5 minutes. This means every person present ends up with a physical representation of the fact that they have ideas, sitting in front of them on the table.

Then, in a second phase, you can put them on a board and organize them, evaluate them, vote on them, etc. Since the ideas are now sticky notes on a board, they can be evaluated (more) independently of the person who articulated them.

The first time I participated in something like this, it felt like Kindergarten, and I didn't really appreciate it. But after some practice, I've come to appreciate that it gives every member of a group the chance to contribute ideas, without having to simultaneously finesse the holding-the-floor game.
I would want to see this experiment repeated trans females who (assuming the presented hypothesis) should see the inverse relationship.

I suspect a better (and likely cheaper/easier) test is to take the same papers and present them under a male and female author name.
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I'll have to check, because for me its an immediate shift. It even causes system slowdown for a few seconds as it transitions.
Making a class immutable doesn't mean that the implementation is fixed. If you need to change your implementation to store data differently, the consumers of your API shouldn't need to be modified. The following modification to your first class would still be immutable:

public class Article {
private final Author author;
...
public String getAuthor() {
return author.getName();
}
}

Also, your first class isn't fully immutable—getTags should be implemented as follows:

/**
* @return Unmodifiable list of tags
*/
public List<String> getTags() {
return Collections.unmodifiableList(tags);
}
I've seen this go down in a critical theory graduate seminar where all three of the women in the seminar would routinely be opposed/interrupted by their male peers to the point that they just had to call it out.
It isn't so easy. Oymyakon is on permafrost. The heat from the building melts the permafrost and destabilizes the building. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafrost#Construction_on_perm... for some pictures and info. Eg, "Modern buildings in permafrost zones may be built on piles to avoid permafrost-thaw foundation failure from the heat of the building." and shows the building above the ground.

That's what documents like http://www.uaf.edu/files/ces/publications-db/catalog/eeh/HCM... say:

> Make every attempt to keep the soil beneath the building frozen and the permafrost stable. The strategy for alleviating the engineering risks of building on permafrost sites is to build the structure on piles or an elevated foundation, taking special care to insulate the ground and prevent thawing.
The point was made by the comment taken together. But I did make that point explicitly in the last paragraph. That you took the first sentence as if it were a standalone argument is not something for which I feel responsible.

> that doesn’t mean that it does not exist, or that you are free to set it anywhere you feel like without worry or care

Speaking of arguing against something I didn't write...