skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of those pets owned by povs may perform multiple duties as the alarm portion of the home security system.

For others, that pet may be the only creature on Earth that ever acts happy to see them. It may also be entirely dependent on them for survival. That has an important--and possibly even necessary--psychological benefit.

If you're single, and don't have a pet, I certainly don't begrudge you the expense in acquiring one. It is certainly cheaper than dates or typical group entertainment activities with your friends.

And if I may pat nerd culture on the back for a moment, tabletop board games, role playing games, and certain card games are very often cheaper than bowling, professional sports tickets, dance clubs, movies, concerts, amusement parks, or even pay-per-view television events.

But I'm still not going to fault anyone for attending a pro baseball game for $30 per attendee for nosebleed seats, rather than play a tabletop RPG at $5 for some PDF downloads, paper, and a communal bag of pretzels. In the same way, I don't fault anyone for living in a tiny studio apartment rather than in a van down by the river.

The theoretical possibility that I could survive entirely on dandelions and fresh roadkill does not establish the lower bound for anyone's standard of living. Everyone at that income level has already made more economic substitutions than most people realize. And in a lot of cases, novel substitutions are criminalized or otherwise prohibited by people for whom such substitutions are violations of social norms.

For instance, if you substitute a grass lawn for food-bearing plants in your front yard, some HOA busybody may fine you for it, then convince the cops to force you to destroy it and replant grass seed. And good luck trying to raise rabbits or chickens in your back yard. Or maybe you don't even have a yard in which to make the attempt, and your landlord won't allow windowboxes.

So that "social norm" sword swings both ways. If you find the unaesthetic economic substitutions made by povs to be unacceptable, you cannot reasonably also complain about the expenses incurred in not making those substitutions. I see owning pets as a substitution for more expensive human relationships, and smoking as a substitution for having any sort of hope for a better life in the future or having pride in a lasting accomplishment. If those things were less costly and more widely available, the inferior substitute goods would be less prevalent.
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Depends on the slides really - you're right though some of them need their context to be meaningful. Doesn't have to be audio a scrollable transcript could suffice.
True, or get a spouse that's not also down for living the student lifestyle. So often this screws things up.
I'm really not trying to talk down to you. I think this stuff is fascinating, and I want you to keep an open mind so you can share in my fascination.
The IRS seized a businessman’s life savings without charging him with a crime
Dangerously misleading title.

It does not establish that no helmet is better, but only that helmets might be improved by technology into a form that is more like an airbag (there when you need it) and less like a traditional helmet.
"I believe one of the things most women want, is to find a man to marry and have kids"

go on! i dare you!
As a Houston resident, we don't have any competition from Lyft anyway: they exited the market last year.

What's interesting is whether Icahn is for or against autonomous cars supplying the service. Obviously Uber/Google have one opinion, but Carl may disagree since lyft has no autonomous car technology.
N=~10, my friends are about 70/30 Uber/Lyft usage. Sometimes one will have lower surge pricing. Some have Lyft for Work and that drives a lot of usage. UberPool for longer rides with no time urgency that would otherwise be much more expensive than $7.
Nothing, it's responsive by default if it's just text and links. Mobile browsers will reflow it. Once you start bringing in divs, widths is when it becomes not responsive.
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Some other place names based on translations: Moose Jaw, Battle River

Some other place names based on anglicization: Athabasca, Waskatenau, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
After legal claim filed against GCHQ hacking, UK rewrites law to permit hacking
What problems have you ran into managing software projects? Seems like what you're doing is good enough. You described your workflow already.

I've never managed to get agile/scrum/waterfall working when followed to the letter.
I'm really curious to read this, but after crashing mobile safari more than 20 times, I've given up.

Edit: It seems to be Safari's fault, as Chrome handled it nicely.
That's a pretty unfair criticism. Fatalities per 100,000 vehicles, the US ranks #24 best (lowest) in the world among nations not the size of Maldives.

To put it into perspective, Russia and Mexico are four times worse; Brazil is five times worse; Colombia is six times worse; the Philippines and China are ten times worse; India is 15 times worse; Venezuela is 20 times worse; Nigeria is 30 times worse.

Adjusting for miles driven per capita, the US comes out ahead of about 18 European nations, and is comparable to France and Spain.
This reminds of the game Kudos http://www.positech.co.uk/kudos/

It's a game where each game day you get to make 4-6 choices what to do with your time. Like relax and watch TV from 7 to 10pm or take a class. Based on your choices new opportunities open up or don't. It was so in my face to see my life presented like that. Sure it's obvious but more though provking in a compressed time span.

That is not in anyway to imply that everyone has the same opportunities or that people born into poverty don't have serious hurdles that the rich don't. But, there's also a huge middle ground of people in the middle class who choose not to take advantage of the choices they have. I've done the same. I've wasted years playing games or watching TV or reading HN. I'm not judging that to be a bad choice of my life and certainly there's a balance of entertainment, relaxation and other. At the same time, at least for me, someone that grew up middle class, I can clearly look back and see all that time I could have done something that would have made me rich or at least far better off by now that I didn't do.
Ah, yes, I agree the economic system is broken and unfair.

Unfortunately the way to fix this is not by giving you the wealth of the Waltons.

It's by bringing everyone else up to the level of personal security that you already have.
>I wish JavaScript "committed a teenager suicide" and we finally got a more sane language for the web

You got it. ES6, ES7 are making JS look better and better.
I wonder whether `let` should be used everywhere now making `var` effectively obsolete? Mixing both declaration styles looks bad.
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> In a free democracy there should be no surveillance of innocents

I agree with the sentiment, although I might rephrase it as "There should be no surveillance without a warrant," since in some cases you can't know who is innocent or not without doing surveillance. A warrant is a good implementation of due process for people you want to investigate, but who are still (in theory) presumed innocent.
Not 3D printed, but lock pick guns are the device you want:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_gun

With fine enough resolution and strong enough materials, something that reaches in and precisely manipulates each pin to hold them at the correct height would be really cool, but it's probably beyond our current materials.
"Haters gonna hate." Anyone claiming that JS is the "worst thing to happen to the web" and/or that some other language would miraculously solve all of the problems present in JS should do the following, "Go create it." Don't whine about the barriers and how a new language would never be adopted because "JS is already everywhere." There are plenty of people already trying to solve this problem by actively doing something. I've worked with enough engineers that love to criticize every design choice made but when it comes to asking them what the better alternative is they have nothing to say. They just "know" there's a better way. Well, stop using your intuition based rationalizing that there's a problem and start using your creative and logical faculties to actually solve the "perceived" problem before presenting a criticism. Or at a minimum present a well thought out and actionable direction towards the solution.
This is superb. I've been trying to talk people out if getting MS degrees in CS as a way to learn to program for a while and have always recommended self-study like this if they have the stomach for the whole autodidactic thing. Going to add this list to my arsenal of resources. Really well done!
I agree with you: the costs of a homeless person are reduced when we house them. There's a glut of evidence to support this.

What I haven't yet seen is evidence of the impact on society at large.

What is the impact on society, and those who have worked hard for their housing, financially and psychologically? While it may make financial sense, humans are emotional creatures very sensitive to perceived fairness. In the ultimatum game, people refuse 'unfair' offers to their own detriment. [0]

Do the number of people on these services grow or shrink over time? Free housing enhances the welfare trap[1], where people may be better off not working. It is not a silver bullet and needs to be paired with appropriate policy to be effective.

Britain reduced their welfare trap by raising the first tax bracket, fired half a million government employees, and now has their highest employment rate in history.[2]

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game#Experimental_res...
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap
[2]http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9475222/the-coalitions-j...
I assume you mean Paul Phillips, the co-founder of typesafe? It's true that he admits scala is too complicated; but it's also true he keeps working in it and himself admits he hasn't found a suitable replacement.
here is a tribute to BB king from the internet itself: http://bandhub.us/s/5495e38a4ab7e9bb28734ce2
No, I understand what he is saying. My claim is that he is wrong. They should be different. There's a significant and useful difference between data and metadata, and hence there's a significant and useful difference between tags and attributes, and if you throw out that distinction you lose useful functionality, and specifically you lose the ability to distinguish between, e.g.:

<input type=button/>

and

<input><type>button</type></input>

Tags compose in different ways than attributes, that difference reflects a real aspect of the structure of the problem, and hence it's useful.
"Always bet on JS" is short for "There have been dozens of challengers to JavaScript over the last 20 years, and they have all failed to gain traction". What part of that statement is incorrect?
There is no way back to fiat from cryptoCurrencies. They work 24/7 with minimal overheads. Technology has disintermediated a lot of other industries, why do you think it wont do so for banking (other than your cultural beliefs)?
juliangregorian I can't reply to your comment so I reply here: I didn't even read the name, I'm not interested gender when I talk to someone online I just defaulted into "his". Was just a curiosity or are you implying I'm being sexist?
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You really aren't. I have never made it through more than about 10 or 15 slides in a deck, and this was no exception.

The text version of a talk, however, can be a wondrous thing, and here's a great example: http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm
I'm having trouble seeing the difference between this and the "government mandate" against drunk driving. In both cases, the government is preventing you from recklessly endangering the lives of others (in addition to your own).

If you are anti-DUI laws, then I have questions about your value system, but I will admit that you're at least consistent.
On a sidenote, why do they have a cheaper licence for black-and-white tv (£49 vs £145.50 for colour)? Does anyone use that?
> That's what I'm asking, why are talented developers allowing themselves to be subservient?

Answer: trying to get a real product to market successfully requires a lot more than small scripts that automate processes.

It's not that automation and the like doesn't have value, but ask the average developer to get on the phone and sell something, or to have a meaningful conversation with a customer, and you might start to understand why other people in an organization (salespeople, product managers, etc.) have some sway too.

If you simply put a bunch of talented developers in a room, chances are you're not going to end up with a successful business.
There are safety issues with mailing explosives, in particular on planes. Firearms are just metal, so no issues there.
> It isn't, because there is no ideal language.

There are certainly really bad languages (say, brainfuck). Once you admit that some languages are worse than others, you admit that there can be a hierachy. Of course, it's possible for the hierarchy to have a 256-way tie for first place.
I agree. Transcript without the slides, almost as good as both. Just slides withouyt transcript or audio, shit sandwich.
Don't know about all of Europe but basically every serious cyclist in Italy wears a helmet. It's very rare to see a road bike or a MTB cyclist without one. The opposite is true for short range cyclists inside cities. Basically nobody wears a helmet. Small children sometimes do, less frequently their parents. Given the number of cyclists using sidewalks in cities (tolerated but not allowed) I think cyclists are quite worried by drivers. Given I always ride in the road (better surface, no obstacles, faster) I think they are a little too fearful (crossing fingers).

By the way, because of our climate that collar airbag won't sell well here. It could be handy replacement for a scarf in winter but nobody's going to wear it in summer. About the north of Italy: it's NYC's weather with less extremes (0-35C / 30-95F.)
Well that sucks. How long ago was this?
FYI, it looks like this was released ~3 months ago on Feb 17th of this year: https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-14...
You could even argue that lobbying is democracy's way of having "corruption" built-in.

When there's a dictatorship, no one is surprised when the dictator is bribed. In a democracy, you can't just walk into the president's office and drop a bag of money on his desk, but you can lobby the shit out of him.

Either way, you get to bribe someone who's in a position to hand out favours. That's just how political power works.
An "ideal" language is so much more than just the type system or safety or expressibility. This is true of natural languages just as much as computer languages.

It has just as much to do with the tooling, community, support and adoption - again, just like natural languages.

I think the ubiquitous languages ARE the best languages because the purpose of any language, natural, computer or otherwise is to transmit information and meaning. And the ubiquitous ones are, by definition, best suited for that.
I'm not a JS programmer so I was confused with using "let" and the arrow function to create a function versus using "function funcname {}".
Seoulite rhyming slang?
I see the submission title has been edited so that it's no longer the title the BBC used. I get what the social pressures are around here, but c'mon son.
I don't see how this can't be a satire.
Maybe it should also be scaled by number or percentage of cyclists in this case.
Some advice from someone who thought languages were impossible in school and then learnt a second language in adulthood:

Input is much better than output. Reading and listening actually give you new words, new phrases, new connections and new ways of saying things. Speaking and writing only reinforces the things you already know. If you have never heard the word "spatula" once you won't be able to say it.

Also, in a real conversation you only have to be able to say something one way: "Where is the station?" or "How do I get to the station?" are just as good, but you have to understand many different possible answers.

When you are looking for learning materials try to only use things aimed at native speakers. Lots of resources for adults over-simplify to fit their pedagogical idea, whereas even books for very young will children give you a full range of grammatical forms and vocabulary.

Never learn vocabulary as single words. Doing a flashcard that says "dog"=="hund" is just not that useful. Instead, make flashcards of sentences, fragments and phrases. This way you learn which verbs combine together with which nouns and all the unwritten rules.

Don't just blast through x000 flashcards. You will get bored and quit. As you have noticed already, just dumbly repeating words takes a lot of effort to get them to stick. When you are having fun with the language (whether that is watching TV, reading books, playing games or speaking to people) words tend to stick much better. That said, you should still use spaced repetition for these words you find "in the wild".

Be realistic with the amount of time you put in. If you compare yourself to a native speaker you're comparing yourself to someone who has had 24/7 practice in the language for many many years.

Don't get tricked by the vague word 'fluency'. A 6 year old can hold a conversation and knows a great deal of words. He is also easily confused by simple words like "tax" and has very little spelling ability.
Read your own link? "This was somewhat of a marketing move at the time, with Java being very popular around then."
> we would set aside tax money to pay researchers in the field grants solely to study and advise

Just because someone works for the government does not make them free from political influence. [0]

I'm not happy with our current system, but I'm also dismayed by all the people who think it has a simple solution.

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-08/florid...
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So, do I understand you correctly: relative to the "static observer", the rods are both moving "sideways", as if the x-axis of a graph were moving toward +y and the y-axis were moving toward +x?

In that case, the "static observer" would see the point of contact moving at very nearly sqrt(2) times the speed of light (along the x-y diagonal). But that's okay, because no physical object (or bit of information) is being carried along at that intersection point. (If you put some little spindle at the intersection to be carried along, you'd suddenly have Problems.)

On the other hand, from the reference frame of one moving bar, the intersection point appears to be moving almost infinitely fast! If the "static observer" measured speeds u and v for the two rods (as fractions of light speed, so u and v are both close to 1), then an observer moving with one rod will see the intersection point move at speed v/sqrt(1-u^2). If we write u = 1 - ε for some very small ε, then the intersection point's speed in this frame is roughly v/sqrt(2ε). (The intuitive reason for this result is interesting: an observer on one moving rod will consider the other rod to be almost parallel, at a very small angle (rather than perpendicular), and still rushing toward her at nearly the speed of light.)
Netflix and YouTube, but I'm strongly considering adding them to the block list.
I use Lyft exclusively. I've never touched Uber for probably the same reason as others - the brand/culture just feels... icky. I want a ride, not a chauffeur.

To be fair though, almost every Lyft driver I've had says they also drive for Uber, it just depends on demand. And consensus seems to be that out-of-towners use Uber while locals use Lyft.
And that it's fucked on mobile.
> They haven't been caught yet fucking over innocent people

Imagine you find out your roommate is running tcpdump -w log.pcap on the router. He hasn't been reading your conversations or anything though, yet. Would you consider this behavior acceptable?

That being said, I don't think NSA is going anywhere until USG falls apart, and even then it'll continue operating independently. Nor are they the only group doing such things. Fixing the glaring security bugs of IP and HTTPS is the only way forward.
I didnt even realize it was a slideshow. No arrows or icons you can click to go to the next/previous slide and nothing on the website saying its a slideshow.

Thanks for your comment. After I read it I went back and clicked an arrow key and the cubeshow started.
nope. Even worse are ones that don't indicate visually what they are and I stare at the screen for 20 seconds waiting for it to finish loading and wondering why my scroll wheel isn't working.
I see a lot of pro vax people here. (Wonder how many of you actually have children less than 2 years old). Anyway here are some things that concerned me:

1. "Vaccines are safe" - The U.S. has the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program [1]. In short it pays people who are hurt by vaccines. If vaccines are so safe why is this program needed?

2. "We had these vaccines as Kids" - The vaccine injury program made vaccine manufactures not be liable for injuries cause by their vaccine. This happened in 1988. "Since 1988, the U.S. childhood immunization schedule has rapidly expanded"[2]. In you are older than 28 you did NOT receive a lot of these vaccines as a kid.

There is a whole lot more but I don't feel like writing a book.

[1]http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html
[2]http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00038256.htm
If you see an inaccurate headline you can always email us (hn@ycombinator.com). We change those all the time, but there are too many comments posted here for us to see them all.
B33r?
The essence of his response:

"Whether bar is an attribute or a sub-element of foo is irrelevant to processing them."

I disagree. Elements and attributes compose in different ways, and I think this distinction is useful and hence relevant. I think it is self-evident that:

<input type=button/>

and

<input><type>button</type></input>

mean different things, and that it is legitimate to try to express either of these things, and so distinguishing between these two different things is useful.

In particular, the latter representation implies that:

<input>foo</input>
<type>bar</type>

might mean something. The former representation makes it explicit that the type attribute is intended to be inextricably bound to the input tag. I think that's useful information.
so... it would be a ploy by an early version of Winterm.. I mean IBM's Watson, who is using bitcoin-laundered money to bootstrap itself into a weird-art-making godlike IA?
It's not about the outcomes it's about the attitude. Which is only held (acted on) by I'd guess less than 1% of drivers, who think when they see a cyclist that they should "teach her a lesson." This attitude doesn't show up in the European countries I've cycled in.

It's the existence of that attitude that keeps parents from biking / walking their kids to schools merely blocks away. I've never cycled in countries without basic infrastructure, it would be interesting to see how closely cycle danger correlates to car danger.
Samuel is a brilliant guy.

He helped us have the Coinkite co-sign API talk
to Ledger hardware wallets in just a few days. https://github.com/BitMEX/btchip-signing-tools
>the country's telecoms regulator ordered monitoring applications be installed on the smartphones of Koreans aged 18 and below

This is disgusting to read, in all seriousness. Not allowed to have a blog without linking it to their SSN, not allowed to play games without linking it to their SSN, all communications monitored, chat logged.. holy shit. Getting a mobile phone also requires one.. (and that's not even counting the heavy internet censorship, porn illegality and free speech restrictions)