skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The drug war is not even closed to being strictly enforced - it's actually a good example of what I was describing.

There's plenty of evidence that poor minorities are punished way more harshly than others (e.g. "A 2013 study by the American Civil Liberties Union determined that a black person in the United States was 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white person, even though both races have similar rates of marijuana use.").

Start enforcing the law with the same strictness on the kids of the rich and powerful, and you'd see the laws change must faster.
> As he strode to the podium, a small boy yelled out from the audience: “The dragon is bad!” ... "The dragon is bad and it eats people"

Sometimes I wonder if the only thing between us and widespread support for ending mortality is someone standing up and stating the obvious for everyone to hear: "Death is bad!"

We see high-profile people acting as spokespeople for various health-related causes. Where are the high-profile people calling for an end to death? Not just the people that scientists and engineers will listen to, but the people that everyone will listen to?
Slack in your terminal
> Is "very slow depsolving" even relevant?

Try upgrading from major versions and seeing what happens.

It's absolutely relevant
Game on: what happens to video startups that make millions on Kickstarter
Another thread mentions it was done at the transistor-level. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/169434-6502-fully-simulated...
That he is cranky and hates he Slate interviewer?
Strange.

Allegro CL appeared long AFTER Stallman decided to form the FSF...
Ask HN: What are your favorite JavaScript charting libraries?
Requirements:

* Line plots with time-based x-axis
* Free to use
* Mobile friendly
escape the shackles of godep with wgo
I've been called as asked to take a survey about my interactions with an employee at a company I do business with. I could tell that the survey as constructed would not capture my actual concerns with the business processes and would instead reflect poorly on the employee that I did business with. The failure of the system would end up being used to mark the employee down even though he did a good job with the constrains he had.

It's unfortunate that these sorts of automated processes are ending up targeting edge cases, like things that should be covered by the ADA.
So if there are so many people in England keen to see Scotland go, and I know that there are a lot of people who feel that way, why was so much effort put into the effort by UK organisations to keep Scotland in the Union?

Was it just a loss of face or pride thing?
Rust has two types called Rc and Arc that have this behavior. When you clone an Rc pointer, the internal reference count increments, and as each clone disappears, the reference count decrements. (Arc works like Rc, but it uses atomic increment and decrement operators, so you can share it across threads.)

Rc: http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/rc/struct.Rc.html

Arc: http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/sync/struct.Arc.html
You should. If you don't see it, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll help you out.

One thing, though, is that you can't flag a direct reply to your own comment. Same rule as for downvotes.
I definitely _have_ gone "wtf" when dealing with some long functions. A 380 line switch/case comes to mind.
I have also had to deal with the 5 level deep inheritance that was equally difficult in its own way.
Figuring out where to balance between length and depth is one of the more difficult parts of programming in my opinion.

After many years maintaining my and other people's code, I do tend toward shorter methods. On the other hand, splitting up a method into several methods just to keep under a hard line limit causes more problems than it solves.
And yet practical experience shows the complete opposite: the average user prefers something simple from an aesthetic and functional perspective, and does not believe that there should be a trade-off between features and privacy (which is, in fact, correct).
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_number
its not. MDMA is molly. methylone is MDMC
Be careful out there...

http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/thank-you-seth-vidal

http://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-durham-hit-and-run-that-k...
No: If what you want is the L-infinity
norm, then go for it. A standard place
for that is numerical approximations of
special functions -- want guarantees on
the worst case error. And there is some
math to help achieve that. It's
sometimes called Chebyshev approximation.

But, in practice, the usual situation,
e.g., signal processing, multi-variate
statistics, there's no good reason
not to use L2 and many biggie reasons
to use it. E.g., for a given box
of data, commonly the better tools in
L2 just let you do better.

Or
to the customer: "If you will go for
a good L2 approximation, then we
are in good shape. If you insist
on L1 or L-infinity, then we will
need a lot more data and still
won't do as well.".

Again, a biggie example is just
classic Fourier series. Sure,
if you are really concerned about
the Gibbs phenomenon, then maybe
work on that. Otherwise, L2 is the
place to be.

E.g., L1 and L-infinity can commonly
take you into linear programming.

Generally you will be much happier
with the tools available to you
in L2.
Author here. Was hoping to get a discussion going, but I'll just repost when the time comes.
So they're financing it out of the money they earn in their regular job?

It sounds like they have a startup hobby rather than taking it seriously.

It sounds like a dead-end to me. They're going to blow through 3-12 months worth of expenses, realize they have nothing to show for it, decide to stop wasting their money, and shut it down.
The issue with this is that gpg doesnt check these keys when you sign them (presumably because speed)

So even if you verify the persons identity correctly when you sign their key you can't tell if the key is garbage easily.

In fact i guess it doesn't matter much if the other person communicating with you is fooling you amd forwarding all the things he receives to the nsa/whay not regardless ;)
more proof users aren't dummies. they're saying they want to move more quickly through the OS. mechanical keys and accompanying sw animations are too slow.
Makes for an interesting metadata privacy case. Presumably you keep click'n ship data forever, you find a 'bad' package, and back track the IP that was checking on it, and then every other package that IP tracked. It looks like they covered their bases with the possibility of a dynamic IP issue.

The weird thing is the temporal 'big data' thing. like keeping face id fingerprints over time at various places, and when a person's face is identified as one of interest then going back in time to see where their face appeared. Or their license plate, or their cell phone IMEI, or any number of random bread crumbs which are now dirt cheap to store for ever and ever.
Inspired by Paul Graham's "Hackers And Painters" : Family Photo Hack Idea
After reading Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters" I decided to work on an idea to create a website to let you post your family , relatives and babies' photos on a website where you can easily edit them and superimpose funny images on their virtual faces and bodies and then create short little funny videos based on these images. This could work on IPhone and iPad too ... just something funny and family friendly.
It remains to be seen whether 'These keys don't really do any harm.'

And good job repeating my research without any acknowledgment. Does your sponsor know about Phuctor? What if he were to read this thread?
I recently went 60 days without coffee and had only one cup of tea or chai a day. Basically my productivity went down. Then one day, out of desperation to get work done, drank a single cup of strong coffee and subsequently had mild insomnia that night, but, my productivity levels went up. I really enjoyed the coffee so I went out and bought some very light trader joe's beans and some decaf. I mix the two. I don't have sleep problems and enjoy my coffee in the morning. I try to not drink coffee on Sunday but I find I have a cup right now while getting some client work done.
I like Dygraphs.

The documentation could be better but the library is very feature-rich and customizable.

http://dygraphs.com/
Kore mapped to JavaScript (NodeJS):

var kore = require("kore");

kore.on("request", http_request);

function http_request(req, resp) {
var statusCode = 200;
resp.write("Hello world", statusCode);
}
Here's my answer:

* no plugs near the toilet in American homes

* too f'ing expensive

Combined, these two turn getting a Japanese style toilet into a multi-thousand dollar investment. To compare, even reasonably nice toilets cost <$200 at your local hardware store.

There are U.S. homes with Bidets in them. My sister had one in the master bath of her 1940s era home. But they're again another $200-400 prices plus plumbing costs.

If somebody made a Japanese style toilet, and it and install were <$500 Toto brand toilets would be everywhere.
I don't think aptitude is built around apt, but even so, I haven't noticed performance issues.
Linux is a horrible mess. The more I try to do with it, the more the mess reveals itself. Wayland vs X11, Python 2 vs Python 3, init vs systemd, ifconfig vs ip addr, these are all examples where as a new user you have to learn the new and the old system just to be on a level playing field and it's is far, far too much.
Stallman is a leech. He lives off the productivity of others. His lifestyle and brand is a luxury afforded to him by being employed by academic institutions. His free software is only possible because other people sell software and hardware. He is arrogant and naive, not revolutionary.
The title should accurately represent the article, even if it turns out the article is wrong; anything else would be editorializing. So even if it turns out the factored subkeys are phony, this article doesn't say that, so neither should the title. The top two comments provide a useful correction.

So, the current title seems fine. If anything, the question mark is a bit of editorialism.
Thanks.

I agree the BENCHMARK build option is a bit confusing. I might end up renaming it altogether.
Poe's law. Can't tell the difference between something and it's perfect parody.
Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP protocol?
Given the huge, almost unending number of vulnerabilities we've been finding in software, how long do you think it'd be until we find a vulnerability in TCP/IP itself?
RMS doesn't say that work is worthless, or that you have to give your labor away to all mankind. It's purely an issue of what people can do with the fruits of said labor.

I've been programming professionally for 15 years, and I've gotten well paid for it. But I never worked for a company that sold its software without handing out the code right with it. Many times it has not met RMS' standards, because some of the code used proprietary libraries, but using said libraries was always the customer choice.

Most of the time, the customer that uses the code keeps it to themselves, just like they keep the actual executables they compile to themselves. A few times, however, my code was just released with an open license. Either way, I'd have still gotten paid, every single time, if copyrights or patents did not cover software at all.

Remember that the original complaints that made this movement happen had little to do with software being for pay, but with the chains that come along with not allowing modification: Printer driver has a bug? Tough. Game doesn't work in a newer computer? Buy a remake. Bought a new computer because the old one broke? Call MS and see if they will let you transfer the OS from machine to machine. It's issues like that free software wanted to change. Making it hard to, say, sell videogames in that kind of model, is not the real objective, but collateral damage.
Yum is "as dead" as one might think Fedora 22 is "production ready!" The reality is RHEL 6, RHEL 7 and many other distributions use Yum and they are not going to go away anytime soon.
Super Pixel Quest Animated Storytelling
It's a "read later" service.

It'll let you remember later that you wanted to read something (like a bookmark) but will also store the text offline. I use it to have something to read when I'm not able to reach the internet.

And it also converts the content to a more readable version, by identifying what is actually the article and stripping out the rest.
We need the left to balance the right.
And apparently is still a commercial (non-free) implementation.
Being at war with Islam is not the same as being at war for Christ. A vocals segment of athiest thought leaders are also at war aIslam.
The whole point of the Visual6502 effort was to reverse engineer older processors by slicing up the die little by little and taking pictures of the die and using image recognition to convert them into transistor circuits. Then they simulate it accurate enough to be operational.

http://www.visual6502.org/
They allow you to accomplish the same things, but having to wrap every statement in a function is a bit more awkward and carries a higher syntactic and conceptual cost. (It also doesn't let you manage effects through the type system, but that's another story altogether.)

It's the same as the difference between having lambdas and having Java's anonymous inner classes with a .run() method. Yes, it allows you to do the same sorts of things, but it adds some extra unneeded complexity and is significantly more awkward. As a result, people simply don't use them as much and Java, on the whole, becomes effectively less expressive and readable.

You can see this particularly in languages with unwieldy lambda syntax like JavaScript: people are much less likely to make custom control structures that accept functions because wrapping every statement in function () { ... return x ... } is so unappealing. And when they do (for useful things like executing a bunch of things concurrently or pattern matching), the code is much more awkward than it has to be.

This could be partially mitigated with a sane lambda syntax, but it still wouldn't be ideal. You'd also need some low-profile way of composing functions like this—like, say, an operator that takes two functions and gives you one that does both of them. And then, all of a sudden, you've reinvented like 60% of the relevant Haskell feature!

It's also worth noting that, in Haskell particularly, functions for this simply don't make sense. They would be foreign to Haskell's model. Haskell is non-strict so functions do not control evaluation order; they are simply abstractions over terms.
Even when the law has a mandatory minimum, the prosecutor still has discretion for charging.

"If you go to trial and lose, we'll convict you for a Felony II, but if you take the plea bargain we'll only charge you with a Misdemeanor I."
Apparently this is one of the [Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558505) projects.
> If I risked my savings now and failed it would have a much more significant impact on my life.

Is that really true? I guess I've never been that rich, so I don't have any personal experience, but it seems to me like the lifestyle impact of going from $10M to $1M would be a lot less significant than going from $10k to $1,000.

I agree with your analysis of "total capital", but I think you're neglecting the real lifestyle factors.
I find hard to comprehend how some people don't see those really obtrusive ads (flashing, overlay etc.) same as spam or other unsolicited product information like flyers being put to your mailbox. And for former ones this is in many countries treated as felony or either way forbidden by law.

Frequent contra argument to "I'm not influenced by ads so I'm not going to buy this stuff either way" is that it works on subliminal level, yada yada. And that's what's immoral, mildly brainwashing people.
I've always wondered about this.

Wikipedia says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem) ): "When m is not relatively prime to n, the argument just given is invalid. This is highly improbable (only a proportion of 1/p + 1/q − 1/(pq) numbers have this property), but even in this case the desired congruence is still true. Either m ≡ 0 (mod p) or m ≡ 0 (mod q), and these cases can be treated using the previous proof.".

I'm not sure I follow 100% - perhaps someone smarter can explain.
Rule of most surprise?
Meteor Is the Best/Easiest Reactive Back End for React
"Interesting" here means intellectually interesting. There are other kinds of interesting, and those aren't in scope.

This rule isn't technically precise, of course, but it's far from completely subjective.
Yes tea is a good option, I've done a bit of reading on L-Theanine and tried some caffeine pills paired with L-Theanine with fairly good results. Supposedly it negates the negative effects of caffeine and you don't build a tolerance to it, but I'm not entirely convinced.

I really like your water and exercise idea though, that would certainly be a nice substitute!
https://github.com/gregjames/Sim2600/blob/master/nmosFet.py , https://github.com/gregjames/Sim2600/blob/master/circuitSimu...

It looks like they're only working with logic levels, rather than "actual" device simulation. It's reasonably common in the digital IC crowd to call this "transistor-level", but indeed, it's not what most EEs usually call a transistor-level simulation (where one would actually expect the behaviour to be modelled down to the behaviour of a transistor). If we insist on jargon, this is actually a switch-level simulation.
Pain points by doing product development in a consulting business
How many children went to Syria? A few thousand at most and that's being generous. Hardly a cause for concern. It's statistically inconsequential beside I can think of a thousand and one ways to prevent this happening in a non-aggressive, inclusive and progressive way. All these policies are going to do is disillusion even more people.
Infact I have read lots of psychology books over the years. However I have found that I feel worse if I think too much about how I am and behave. I prefer to think about what I like to do since that feels less depressing and I have since become a much happier person. I posted my comment in a hope to find others with a similar feeling/experience about self-help vs well-being as opposites.
Great service! I'm really curious to see how the community will interact with it and if serious debate will be discussed.
Simply put: nonsense.
فيلم قدرات غير عادية
From what we can tell, yes. But, according to our Google contacts, we're among the top performers, most parties taking part in RTB perform a lot worse.
IMHO, having, and still confronting the darkness:

a) Yes, everything is indeed pointless / "pointless".

b) Think about what "pointless" means. It requires an agent to assign and remove importance. Who is this agent? Is it you, is it society, is it what you have been told since born? What's his goals / values / pov? Why exactly is something "important" or not?

c) Fck "saving the world". Fck "there is a point in this". See it, start, simpler: Do you enjoy eating some specific food? That's the meaning of life. Do you enjoy taking a dump? That's the meaning of life. Do you enjoy chewing gum? That's the meaning of life. Do you enjoy saying some arcane joke? To yourself or some random person you just met? Even if they dislike it or don't understand it? That's the meaning of life. Do you enjoy scratching your @@? That's the meaning of life.

The "purpose in life", is to eg scratch your @@, and for 2 seconds, say "I liked that, and I currently feel good".

It may sound ridiculous, but everything comes from that. If you eg say, "I was thirsty, it's hot, and I enjoyed this cold glass of water", you are on your way to be happy, and also on your way to save humanity. If you want to do that. ..Don't believe me that everything comes from that. But, pls, do enjoy the one second of today, that you felt well doing whatever.

That's the meaning of life. That's the purpose. And when you internalise that, you will find something that is nice for two seconds, and, eventually, you will find the "purpose".
I would thank you, my supercilious friend, to not fucking put words in my mouth, okay? What I am asserting is that it has not, "as a matter of fact", changed. You can point at Presidential elections as oh, hurr, shallow, and I'll even agree with you. And then I will point at Obama's convention speech in '04 or even Bill Clinton's in '12 as modern examples of long-form rhetoric. Because that stuff happens today, too. And people watched, and listened, and talked about those, too (but they had the temerity to talk about it on Twitter, so I'm sure it didn't count).

Lincoln-Douglas looms large in the retrospective eye because it was important (and was at the confluence of a number of factors, not the least of which that it was a geographically diverse set of venues but mass communication was still the newspaper and the telegraph). Perhaps it is worth reflecting that modern presidental elections may not be so important--I mean, the gap between a right-wing and a center-right party is, on balance, very small--and the level of discourse may reflect it. Consider also the consular elections of the Roman republic during times when very little of importance was happening. They're venal, they're often populist, they're regularly pandering and stupid. They look like--well--today's. Because nothing is as stupid as fights when there's nothing of meaning to gain.

I mean, shit, dude. You know what came most of a century before the Lincoln-Douglas debates? A little speech by a dude in a church in Richmond. It's about fourteen paragraphs long. I've read it. But there's one sentence from it that you actually know: "give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry laid the groundwork for that sentence. It's a good speech, if you care about that sort of thing. But nobody was reading it then (it wasn't published for forty years, and nobody's actually sure how much of it is the original speech). That sentence is what caught, because it is distilled sentiment and meaning and requires no attention span at all.

You are arguing against history as well as the tide, to heroify dead people and pretend they were other than how they were. I don't understand why.
To be clear: I also am an Arch user (albeit not exclusively). I'm not complaining about the bleeding edge part (from your answer I get the feeling you already had similar discussions, with people complaining "upgrade X broke my system").
What i was driving at is the fact that pacman, as it is, does not cover the whole use case of other distros.

Would you take debian, with its three branches, and move it to pacman?
No, because the lack of pinning and differentiation between security upgrates and normal upgrades would wreak havoc ("get a better upstream" is a nice suggestion, but an unpractical one). The same could be said for Fedora (actually, for Red Hat, but Fedora is Red Hat testbed after all).

I could set up my own repository, clearly, it may very well be a good solution, but to me that is not automation anymore. Similarly, there is nothing preventing one from setting up one's own repo of old packages, and reinstalling those. Still, I see the value in having the rollback features inside DNF (call it laziness, if you wish). I guess my comment came out as random pissing on Arch, when what I wanted to point out was that other distros simply have different needs.
Angular 1.x Interview Questions
WiPy – WiFi enabled Micro Python
This is what I'm afraid of, missing out on potential productivity. There may be a difference between people who stop drinking coffee regularly versus people who never started, but I agree that there is a good balance that can be attained with coffee.
Movies should get vim or emacs experts to type their code, it'd be a lot more impressive.