skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh that's right, I can't flag because I don't have enough Karma.

> Someday there will be someone who launches a replacement for HN that shows less Elitism.
That is plausible, e.g. we would not extradite a person for one offence if it was likely the offender would then be charged with a capital offence. However, you need quite a lot more than the accused's assertion that this might happen. Under what Swedish statute might Assange be unjustly extradited to the US (and indeed, for breaking which US law? They haven't actually charged him with anything because I don't think he's done anything illegal there).
> And for Americans the future of American youth is ABSOLUTELY unquestionably more important the future of the youth elsewhere in the world

Unquestionably? That's pretty strong. I live in Italy, and frankly, I'm more inclined to care about my friends' kids here than about some kid in, say, Alabama, although of course I wish all of them the best.

50 years ago, there were people who unquestionably thought the future of kids they shared a "race" with trumped that of other children.

> Different times.

So your relatives got what they wanted, and fuck everyone after them? Can you point to a year and month when 'things changed' and after which immigrants should keep out?

> Americans pay taxes in America

Uh, the other people in the US pay taxes too, and don't even get to vote.
better them, who already have most of my info, than some random coffee house with who-knows-what for security.
I guess that depends on everyone's personal case. But I for one like my commute: 10min by bicycle or 15min by foot, with a nice parc with lots of birds on the way. So in my case, the pros of working from home are almost void compared to the pros of a workplace.
Google isn't holding a gun to anyone's head and making them use their services.
If you feel that Google potentially having access to your data is worse than some other potential threat that can exist then by all means use that open wifi.
1) Binary Floating Point Standard
2) Pass by Value and Pass by Reference
3) More than 1 argument problem
4) Closure

Not that hard..didn't go thgh the bigger ones BTW...
How This Battery Sliced Microsoft's Datacenter Costs by 25%
And this means that soon, many of us will be eating food grown with 20,000 year old water.
You're talking about OSS - you didn't buy it. OSS does not entitle you to anything. Tenderlove and the Rubygems maintainers spend their time so you don't have to. If it doesn't fit your needs - okay. But don't act as if somebody owes you anything.
> It's all well and good to say that we should use less oil. The trick is to make the alternatives cheaper. That's what a lot of people don't understand. A middle class Californian can afford to spend a little extra to be "green". The majority of the developing world, and even a significant portion of people in the most developed parts of the world, cannot.

Yes, but the average middle class Californian uses a lot more energy that an average person in the developing world. If an average Californian can cut their energy use and green house gas output by 20%, that has a lot more environmental impact than say 75% cut of the average person in the third world.
The people who have to get their environmental impact down the most are people in the 1st world.
Great idea except for the battery life. He presumably wanted more than a few hours of activity.
Or a ceiling fan?
"They solicited him to buy a murder for hire."

They absolutely did not. It was his idea. You need to go learn what entrapment is. Hint: It's not simply when you do something and the cops happen to be involved.
See also the NYT magazine article "Building a Better Teacher" from 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html...
Encyclopedia Britannica is good, and reliable:
http://www.britannica.com/
Ask HN: Publicize.co vs. Pressfriendly.com?
They both cost ~$400/month. Would you pay Pressfriendly to learn the ropes of PR through them (more work involved)? Or just have Publicize help you get it over with?
Not quite the same concept, but I setup Little Snitch to work differently on my home/work networks versus tethered phone or untrusted wireless. I originally did this because I didn't want updates running while tethered at a coffee shop. This article got me started: http://www.practicallyefficient.com/home/2014/7/8/little-sni...
All water subsidies should be terminated and the cost of food should reflect the amount of water used to grow the food.

Too bad our special interest controlled government prevents this.
Learn JavaScript Data – Manipulating Data with JavaScript
This implies that these things must throw false alarms with some regularity, otherwise this would have been a huge red flag and they wouldn't have hesitated to follow up immediately.
Okay, I understand better your point. (I have also misunderstood SRFI49 so it didn't help!). The things you described are features, right?

But what is OP? Opening paragraph?

> compared to learning the model of computation and the runtime environment

There is indeed more important things to learn than syntax. The thing is, for Lisp, chainable action perimeters not only covers the syntax, it also covers the model of computation itself. The basic one at least, without macros and any object system. Still, that basic one is quite broad.

On that question you actually anticipate another article I wanted to share: shortcomings of instructions. It's only logical. If in Lisp dialects the atom is the chainable action perimeter, what other languages have? The answer is the instruction and well, I will keep that for next week but you can read it if you want. The URL is http://www.vagrant-coder.com/articles/english/Shortcomings-o...
Doesn't roomba charge itself and then go for another run?
Learning Haxe is a great way of understanding how certain PL concepts map to different language implementations. You can write up a simple "hello world" example for the feature you're interested in, and see what it gets turned into in the output.

Another interesting thing to look at is the OCaml source for the Haxe compiler itself. https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe

At first, I was hesitant to do much with the compiler since I don't know OCaml. But, I recently forked the source and am making an attempt at a lua target:
https://github.com/jdonaldson/haxe/tree/haxe_lua_rb1

It's been a great way to learn OCaml, and Lua. If you're interested in creating your own Haxe target, I'm hoping my commit log will be helpful.
This is great! I was just thinking about something similar, perhaps you'd like to work it in.

basically, it would automatically assign meeting times, based on who's meeting, for how long, except that it would be scheduling several meetings, and take those into account.

I.e. throughout the week various employees in an office would simple set meetings for "friday"

The system would compile all the meetings that take place, and schedule them, to the best of their ability, so that no two meetings would conflict. On thursday night, the times are finalized and the meetings are placed on attendees calendars.

You'd need some sort of conflict resolution, but if you ran it each time for each meeting request came in, you could alert the involved parties immediately.
> Other convenient sources of information are typically no less riddled with propaganda

Which sources are you talking about?
EmberJS still has good traction and I would not discount it
There are thousands of VPN providers, some better some worse, but if you pick well your data can be safe from US government. By picking Google VPN, you are essentially giving away all your privacy to inspect to NSA. Kind of funny when you think about it :)
I've known Haxe for almost 7 years and have been using it extensively in the past 4.

In my experience, inconsistencies between targets and undefined behaviour were common, but most cases have since been removed or documented.

Also, I find it's usually trivial to see how a given Haxe API (be it one in the standard Haxe library or from a third-party lib) maps to native calls.

Personally, the fact everything in the Haxe ecosystem is open-source and has reasonable scale (for instance, the std API by design isn't as big as Java's) is one of the reasons I like it so much. Even though I can't code in Ocaml and modify the compiler itself, I feel that can I solve most time-sensitive issues that might arise (bugs, unexpected behaviour, extending APIs, etc.).

Other reasons I code a lot in Haxe are: code reuse; powerful type system (ADTs, abstracts...); macros; reasonably pleasant syntax (although a bit verbose for my taste).
Well, where I stand is that I happy to see reporting on the other side of the spectrum, even if its really far from it.
Also I would continue to watch if I were you. I thought the worst part of the program was when they confronted the deniers. The rest is about science and scientists, its good. I think you will find your answer on the sea level rise as well. Check out Bangladesh.
Still not relevant. There are several studies on the impact of music and the role of familiarity, structure, anticipation and such. There's even one decicated to the use of such musical notions in the music of the Beatles ( http://www.amazon.com/Songwriting-Secrets-Beatles-Dominic-Pe... ).

For one, sticky songs (hooks) can also be unpredictable/unexpected. E.g. you're not able to predict what will follow from the first part you hear, but it sticks to your mind after you do hear it in full.

Second, there are hooks where you DO hear "what comes next before" (e.g. they are based on repeatition of notes in the core hook) and that doesn't stop them being sticky.
Same thing as with any SaaS offering: The plugins are usually multipurpose, and so a lot of users, especially those who enjoy playing games, likely already have them. And I can make updates to the game without the user having to download a patch, so I can ensure that all users are playing the same version of the game.
I can't tell from the article, is this an Epic installation? I don't know the detailed breakdowns but as I understand it, the bulk of the costs have to do with consultants, reengineering process and training than software licenses.

My solution involves a system which allows you to create clinical data entry forms to document your encounters. All the information goes in as well modeled data with standard terms applied. It is not a complete EMR. I doubt it would require 100s million euros but it would do all the stuff a proper EMR does either. The problem is convincing people who spent so much on an all in one solution to do best of breed for one component
I think it's the latter, but without an understanding of copyright law. He can complain as much as he likes, but his desires are totally unenforceable.
This is a curious phenomenon, then. If someone said, "max. 40 years but you probably won't get that", my mind is probably going to be stuck on the number "40 years". That's probably sufficient to terrify somebody into doing really stupid things to avoid it, like we see here.

40 years in jail means that someone is such a tyrranical menace to society that they cannot be trusted to be around other people for the rest of their life.
No nvm though, bizarrely.
OP here. I actually agree, and that seems to be Google#s stance right now, from what I've heard (I work for Google but wasn't involved in the technical work on this feature so far). We might need an API that is slightly more low level but achieves the same. My point was that we need this functionality, and no other API offers it, so I took anything I could get :)
I'm a biased vegan but...

802.7 gallons of water for one pound of beef

187.969 gallons of water for one pound of vegetables

Agriculture consumes 2/3rds of California's water, most of which goes to growing and feeding farmed animals.

Source:
http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=cal/WaterFootprintCalcul...
(Used United States for country)
Likelihood Google is collecting your info: High to Certain.

Likelihood Bob the Tomato's Coffee Shop is collecting your info: Low.
I would advise you to talk to a lawyer and go over the contract with him and ask the questions you have to him.

Employment contracts should not be taken lightly and 3 years is a lot to ask for; the Lawyer can help you make suggestions to amend/change so if you want to leave it's not such a burden.
Searched Youtube for a demo. This was what I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-Qjaa2vjQ

"Unlike the web, we're centralized so we control how much value we capture, much like twitter"

I shuddered.

Truth is I don't really like being in the seat of pair-programming anyway. I like to be free to make incredibly stupid mistakes while I feel my way to an answer and someone shoulder-surfing me inhibits my thought process as I wonder what they'll think of it rather than just the "it" itself.

It's okay as the shoulder-surfer though, especially when training someone.
David Heinemeier Hansson[1] for anybody else that was confused about what "DHH" referred to.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson
How about leaving a 1-star review yourself to explain the spamming? Anyone considering to buy the book will not just look at the rating but also see what complaints people have (at least I do, to see if they mention something I would have a problem with).

I haven't really thought this through, so I'm open for arguments here.
> articles on technical subjects tend to be useful, aside from the plagiarism problem

Except when they contain serious errors and omissions, and which articles are those? Nobody knows, except someone already expert in that area.

For example, I would have no idea there were problems in these mathematics articles:

http://wikipediocracy.com/2013/10/20/elementary-mathematics-...
Yeah. Even arrests with no conviction can make someone's life much harder. Imagine 5 years - which is considered a very low sentence by US standars - during a person's prime productive years (let's say, at 22).

There will be a 5 year gap in the applicant's resumé, where he not only was unemployed, but in jail. Good luck landing a job if you are of a Kevin Mitnick caliber.
The underlying assumption here is that there's some better source of truth. That, say, the news media or what-have-you are less prone to the same sorts of corruptions and errors. That belief is a myth based on our need to feel trust in those institutions, it has little basis in reality. The fact is that these sorts of issues are just as prevalent with the media, with the educational establishment, and so on, we just generally haven't been as cognizant of them.
/r/ShitRedditSays at #1 - no surprise there
Bruce Schneier: Fall Seminar on Catastrophic Risk
From the screenshots, this seems more like something built into a future version of Android that might automatically engage when joining unsecured networks.

It's hard not to see an offer of at least some form of security to be a net positive in that case.
I don't understand why you need options at all... If you point it at a file/directory it should automatically compress and if you point it at an archive it should automatically decompress. The options should be there for advanced tasks not 90% of the tasks you need the app for. It's really poor ui design.
2000 advance copies? Holy shit! I have the wrong publisher!

(To be fair, they were awesome with me and I had a blast, but damn, 2000 advance copies?)

What's the topic of the book?
I don't know about nausea but if that doesn't cause some kind of anger or disgust you've got problems.
Don't know about that, but backa is the swedish word for "to back up" something and also the action of reversing, say, a car... :)
I think you describe quite well the differences between the two. I think VR will be mainly used for entertainment, but also for more serious stuff (architecture, etc), while AR will have a more "functional" scope: as you said, checking calendar, checking online prices in a store - more routine stuff.
But I wrote "the prosecutor" and not "the prosecution".
Shouldn't it be really "her" then, if the prosecutor is a woman, like in this case? Now I'm confused?

Thanks for the correction.
I've been working from home for years, and my friends all think I'm super social, since I'm always planning dinners and things after work. But I'm really average social, and I just don't get my fill during the day like they do.

Also, the time I save on commuting is the only thing that makes being a mom and working work for me.
Wonder what it would be like 30 years from now with all the water problems.
> it's accurate enough that it shouldn't be dismissed as unreliable

Which articles, or which statements in which articles, are reliable and which are unreliable? Which have false statements and which significant ommissions?

The problems is, you don't know which articles or statements you can depend on unless you have expertise in that area.
360 degree video playback in YouTube
Thanks for the great comment! We put 'self-fueled' back in the title.
OP here. Thanks for the bug report! I'll fix. It's true, haven't used IE in the while, but that wasn't the point of the article. I care deeply about the web as a whole, and all of its evolution.
Once the video starts playing, drag the video to get a 360 degree view
http://www.britannica.com/search?query=eric%20garner

Best result is "The Militarization of the Police in the U.S.: Year In Review 2014", which mentions Eric Garner in passing.
Auctions are a good way of allocating scarce resources.

However, visas are arbitrarily scarce: you still have to pick a random number out of the air for "how many visas should there be".

What is the optimal number of immigrants? http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.it/2014/06/the-optimal-number-...
Per capita yes, but consider the sheer population size of countries like India and China. A small change made by billions can easily outweigh large changes made by millions.
Ugg, this is hard to read. Politics and startups don't mix. I know I can't really make any logical argument about it's negative qualities without being downvoted. I'll just say hopefully some people get a trip to DC to meet the prez.
I missed the number a bit. Its 2000 words/day. Here's the quote:

>[..] I don't think I write all that quickly. I do about 2000 words a day, most days. That's 250 words an hour working a normal schedule, and I often work more. 250 words an hour is NOTHING. Try typing a few emails, and you'll find out how fast 250 words goes by. I think for me, there are two secrets.

- [From his AMA earlier today](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_b...)

So, he writes around 8 hours per day, which is something you'd expect him to do at his level. You have to realize that he does writing for-a-living, full time. Most people doing NaNoWriMo aren't doing it full-time.

But yeah, he's definitely writing _consistently_, and that's what I find interesting.
I work for a 100% remote company (no office at all) and I remote pair program almost every day.

We use Google hangouts and tmux for most of it. If I'm working with certain people, we end up using ScreenHero.

You learn to say things like "you take over" or "I'm taking over" to make sure the other person doesn't try to type at the same time.

Remote pairing took me all of a few hours to get used to and it's been very productive.

As a lead for a team, I have to take meeting minutes and it's been a dream to just mute my mic and not have people get distracted by typing, coughing and other noise while they are speaking.

I can share more about my remote pairing experience if you'd like. But I think the above covers it.
Show HN: Coverr.me, discover music covers
The Kindle prompts to "Rate this book" when you reach the end of an e-book. It doesn't give you the option to enter a review, but only select the number of stars.
Welcome to the wonderful world of federal overcriminalization.

Aaron Swartz faced 13 federal felonies (the Feds upped it from 4 to 13 at some point) and a possible maximum of 50+ years in prison: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120917/17393320412/us-go...

Then there's the No Electronic Theft Act, which Clinton signed into law. It made not-for-profit copyright infringement -- think sharing on P2P networks -- a federal felony. Previously it was a civil matter.

Now <gvb> is correct that there are sentencing guidelines that will make the likely sentence less. But even the outside possibility of a young man or woman leaving prison when they're 70-80+ years old for a non-violent crime is remarkable. (Note I'm not defending Paul Ceglia, who may well have committed fraud and should pay the price if convicted; I'm merely saying that the punishment should correspond to the gravity of the offense.)

These are DOJ stats for the year 2000, but it gives you an idea of the range for violent felonies: "The mean prison sentence for murder and nonnegligent manslaughter was nearly 20 years and 8 months." http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/Fssc00.txt

Harvey Silverglate's book "Three Felonies a Day" is an excellent resource, and I separately wrote about the overcriminalization of federal law here: http://www.cnet.com/news/from-wargames-to-aaron-swartz-how-u...
I get an "over quota" error :(
Actually, under the federal sentencing guidelines, if found guilty he will be sentenced based upon "intended loss" [1] - which is this case is somewhere around $15 billion. That would easily qualify him for the maximum sentence. The loss table [2] actually maxes out at $400 million.

[1] "...loss is the greater of actual loss or intended loss" - see [2]

[2] http://www.ussc.gov/guidelines-manual/2013/2013-2b11
Farms work on thin margins, so jacking the price on them might not be the first step to take.

A few things we can do:

Increase rates to households.

Fix the delivery system to residences so that we don't lose approx 30% to leakage

Invest in desalination and make it a viable alternative

Incentivize drip irrigation where applicable (ie. almonds, but not rice)

Of course increased water conservation.
I saw this recently

http://www.theremin.info/-/viewpub/tid/10/pid/58

While looking for Theremin schematics, it purports to be the Moog Etherwave schematic
Reminds me of those little soap-chip powered toy boats we made as kids.
Didn't you know? In the 21st century, the word 'literally' means figuratively. If he meant to mean literally, he would have said... well, I honestly don't know how to indicate that something is to be interpreted literally rather than figuratively now. What a world.
Work and life purpose, not far from marriage and family in the hierarchy of things, depending on your beliefs.
Can you imagine how much growth there would be in this type of work if we had universal healthcare? That's probably the only thing keeping many people chained to a desk.
Sococo (I work there) does a good job. Share apps (not desktops); talk and video, pointers and web apps all work together to make pair programming pretty seamless.
Isn't the whole point of validated HTTPS that it protects you from MITM attacks? (barring shenanigans like Lenovo) And if somebody MITMs my regular-HTTP connection...well then, oh no I might see ads instead of the blog I wanted to read.
Think of it this way: this is worse than any other option, but still better than nothing. As such, it's great as an opt-out default: it steps in exactly where the users would otherwise be using "nothing", thus actually eliminating the "nothing" level as an option.
Not much. My point wasn't that it oughtn't be considered, but that it's insignificant in the overall scheme due to how little water (as a percentage) it uses.

What part about profiling this like code or a budget is so difficult? If you have one area that's costing 80% of your resources, then reducing usage there by even 1% is more effective than a 100% cut to something that only uses 0.5% of your total resources.
Also it discourages any new people from participating. I signed up, posted a few reviews of businesses I'd been going to for years, then noticed they got filtered out and stopped participating.

And frankly, I don't have seem to have a lot of tastes in common with the hardcore Yelp users.