skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from India, which is second most populated country in the world. A generation ago, it was common for a couple having 3 to 4 kids. But now, even here most couples (in urban areas atleast) plan for atmost 1 kid. The sheer pace with which life moves has increased compared to one generation back. Couples (especially when both are working) simply do not have money, energy & time.

India is not a developed country and still in last decade or so the birth rate is stabilising, but not decreasing.
From what I could find online, there are no plans to include websockets as part of HTTP/2 (according to this: https://webtide.com/http2-last-call/ ). HTTP/2 is meant to supersede all websocket use cases.
Combine that with a bureaucratic nightmare and not much gets done to fix issues or improve obvious areas. I remember recently reading about the amount of trash on the tracks and it was because antiquated equipment and horrid procurement processes topped off by some really annoying work rules.

http://www.amny.com/transit/nyc-subway-stations-garbage-dump...
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> Incumbents rarely lose, and it was a very close election.

But Romney wasn't a hardcore Christian Conservative either.

> If anything the Republicans would want to avoid a split caused by alienating their base.

The religious right may not love Rand Paul but they hate Hillary Clinton. Most of them would show up to vote against her regardless of who the Republican candidate was. Meanwhile Rand Paul has more appeal with swing voters and libertarian-leaning Democrats than any of the other Republican candidates. If he won the nomination he would have a solid position in the general election.
Resources on earth started depleting as soon as the planet was formed. Was the earth overpopulated before there was any life on it?

Resources are finite. They are finite no matter how many humans there are on the earth. You are referring to consumption which is a large problem, but also a fixable one (edit: to a certain point, of course). It is not overpopulation.
I'm sure that you encountered it.

Information silos are the de facto example of Conway's Law. For example, maybe the sales team for a regional office wants to run reports, but doesn't have access to corporate HQ's MIS. The sales team's SYSTEM is constrained by the ORGANIZATION COMMUNICATION STRUCTURE. If the regional sales team can lobby successfully for access, they'll be able to hook in to corporate. If not, the sales team will roll their own MIS as a workaround and create a mini-empire. The result provides inferences about the org's communication structure.

I typically think of what the ideal solution is, then compare that to the actual systems architecture. From that systems footprint, you can usually tell which dept.'s communicate well and which departments have disproportionate power.
A minor point: I found the references to "Ada 1.0", "Ada 2.0", "Ada 3.0", and "Ada 4.0" distracting. I worked with Ada for a long time, and I've never heard of those terms. The successive language standards are almost universally referred to by the years they were published (1983, 1995, 2005, and 2012).
Did SR actively promote these specific categories of goods you are talking about or just freely allow sellers to sell whatever they wanted?
>Suicide bombers see a different purpose to their lives than (presumably) you and I do. By their own measure they are not doing badly, they are doing quite well.

And objectively, suicide bombers are dead, which puts them far behind those of us who remain alive -- at least, by any sensible measure. Of course, when you unravel the story behind the average suicide bomber, you usually find that they were shamed or pressured into the deed, and in fact, have not accomplished, in committing a suicide bombing, all their own noble goals in life.

They are actually sad, pathetic people exploited by powerful clerics to be turned into little more than explosive puppets.
Game using sensors to connect the natural world to a digital universe
> Despite what HN believes, the NSA isn't a criminal enterprise

Just curious, how much of the constitution would the NSA have to violate for you to consider its actions illegal? Maybe if its employees engaged in intimidation of journalists, or lying under oath? Or would they need to burn a flag and strangle a bald eagle?
It's sad when you have to backup things from the cloud and not to the cloud, it's sad when the cloud isn't straight forward about your files.
It's not revisionist, I'm 40 years old and have been consuming and participating in OSS since before SF existed. It was painful to use, even in the context of the times. Granted, there wasn't really any alternatives in the first few years of its existence.
I'd like to see it translated to LFE - lisp flavored erlang to compare with Elixir. I started with Elixir, but I have since switched to LFE, since I prefer Lisp languages to Ruby/Python. I think LFE would be more powerful in the IOT application.
Yeah, in a kids game you'll probably get an awful lot of complaints from parents when they find out that their child is suddenly only capable of entering games with dongs as the primary focus.
I don't see any reason to get offended by the accusation, regardless of whether you agree or disagree.

Could anyone make more effective use of tax dollars than Elon Musk? If anything, allocate more public funds to him.
There is a directory that gets stored in the repository which has all the bug information. There are also email and HTTP server integrations you can set up to have issues be automatically created in a central repository.
>Ten years ago, I used to make fun of people for believing the Earth revolves around the Sun - I have yet to find a single one who could do better than "that's what scientists say".

Wait... what? If the Earth didn't go around the Sun, why would we have seasons based on the angle of the Sun to the ground? Why would that angle continually cycle throughout the year? And what about the movements of the planets in the night sky, relative to Earth?

Sure, you could have a god who designed perversely complex features into the world for no causally sensible reason, but really, the simplest explanation for our available geological and astronomical data is that the Earth orbits the Sun.
are you aware that rand paul compared public health care to slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXwDMqjC-A ?
I do consider its actions illegal, but I don't consider the agency illegal. I'm also not a member of the US government, though, so even if I wanted to see the NSA burned to the ground, it wouldn't really be relevant.

For a senator, much less a theoretical president, not having a close relationship with intelligence agencies really isn't an option, especially if he intends to change or reform them.
There is also an Web interface which can be used to file bugs. However, but reporting by email is still relatively popular for a lot of projects.
How do you give your partner full access? I've got 20k photos going back 17 years. My wife (another account in my Google Apps account) should have full access for searching, etc. Is that on the roadmap (just sharing isn't really a solution)?
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I think that's probably true for most of Europe.
Hard loss, my uncle has/had a brain tumor and even though he's gone through chemo and surgery he's definitely a different person. I can't even imagine even thinking of running for governor after something like that. For example, after my uncle's most recent surgery he was asked to push on the doctor's hand but started pulling it, the signals were crossed. Even at a most basic level things become significantly more complicated after something like that.
The space is entirely decided by interaction. Not how it looks when you decide to turn it into a grid and put it on a screen.

For example, if your neighbor function returned edge+vertice neighbors, if you wanted to accurately show the space as homogenous sized cells, on a 2d screen, you would no longer be able to show a grid of squares, a different tesselation or complex surface would be necessary.

Literally the only thing that defines space, which is primitively defined by the derivative of neighborment, is what interacts with what. Food for thought if you do like to ponder about this universe :-)
Hey - glad you like the service! Yes, eventually we'll have to define a business model. Still working on that part.
You can see people trying to do that just to rise across the stage. It may be similar, but I'm pretty sure the mechanics are just different enough.
I don't get why his comment was downvoted.
Coffee addiction and heroin addiction are, all rhetorical games aside, not actually comparable.
In any head-to-head poll, any Republican will poll within a few points of any Democrat.
What are they doing to stop kids from making Lego dongs in real life?

But on a serious note:

I've always wanted a "minecraft" legitimate Lego game. It's just something I would play even if it were only Single Player, but had several modes like a story mode, and then obviously a creative mode. I enjoyed Lego City Undercover, still haven't beaten it, it's quite fun to run around exploring the depths of the game.
Even if population growth rate is negative, that only means that birth rate minus death rate is negative, not that birth rate itself is negative. If immortality makes the death rate zero, the growth rate can't be negative, and the birth rate would have to also be zero or growth rate would become positive again.
Hi! It is incorrect -- thank you for pointing that out. I'll get that fixed on our website later tonight. That was a sample from one of the very first emails we edited when we launched a few months ago. We now have controls in place to prevent minor errors like that.
Amen. Whenever I see old photos of early coders in dress shirts and ties, I smile.
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings. [0]

In fact, the Rio's operation is entirely consistent with the Act's main purpose – the facilitation of personal use. As the Senate Report explains, "[t]he purpose of [the Act] is to ensure the right of consumers to make analog or digital audio recordings of copyrighted music for their private, noncommercial use." S. Rep. 102-294, at 86 (emphasis added). The Act does so through its home taping exemption, see 17 U.S.C. S 1008, which "protects all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings, " H.R. Rep. 102-873(I), at 59. The Rio merely makes copies in order to render portable, or "space-shift", those files that already reside on a user's hard drive. Cf. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417, 455 (1984) (holding that "time-shifting" of copyrighted television shows with VCR's constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act, and thus is not an infringement). Such copying is paradigmatic non-commercial personal use entirely consistent with the purposes of the Act. [1]

[0] 17 U.S. Code § 1008 Prohibition on certain infringement actions

[1] 180 F.3d 1072. 1078-1079. 51 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1115 (9th Cir. 1999)

So the law does specifically say that making digital copies of music for non-commercial use is ok and it has been reviewed by the judiciary (to some extent).

There is also 17 U.S. Code § 117 which allows backup copies or computer programs "that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful".

You can still get yourself in trouble related to the DMCA depending on what you are doing, but all of your assertions are false.
> I do consider its actions illegal, but I don't consider the agency illegal

So it's like a waste management company that's a front for Mafia activity like extortion and racketeering. The company isn't illegal, just the activities of a tiny fraction of its employees.
China’s New Silk Road: Implications for the US
The broadest possible reading of the essence of marriage is a single relationship entered into exclusively, voluntarily and with full awareness.

An arranged marriage fails the voluntary test.

A union involving a young child fails the awareness test.

A unions that includes a non-human entity fails the voluntary and awareness tests.

A union of three or more entities fails the exclusivity test. (Between two people there is just one relationship. Between three people there are three relationships.) I have no problem with the idea in theory, but it will require a lot of structural change of law to implement and is therefore sufficiently different to warrant a different technical term in law.
Just imagine how cool it is going to be if this product is combined together with Oculus VR. It will be a (video) game-changer.
What evidence is there that it can even be a trigger?
"Powerful" is a pretty vague term. Care to elaborate on why?
I like the idea of decentralized, but I'm not sure we need p2p as well.

It'd be interesting to see something like gitlab to have some sort of federation support; where multiple instances can talk to one another (a la xmpp/smtp), so as to clone/send pull-requests, etc across different instances.
I used the same solution until I found Audio Switcher - https://github.com/davkean/audio-switcher. I prefer it because it sits in the tray where it's more accessible.
Yes, probably. Which implies Rand Paul is running for Godfather.
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microsoft probably just put a "online interation not rated, mature only" and everyone clicks "agree"
COPPA is the real deal. A friend ran a ticketing company that was fined in the 7 figures over an issue regarding email collection and a tween pop star's ticket sales.
poor kid makes a rocket ship ends up in dong world.
> Now, On to the The South Bronx!!!

...and he was never heard from again.
Maybe they'd do a better job if they knew what asps you have installed? /s
string.sub does this. I usually set __index in the string metatable to a function that lets you index strings and get the right thing.
FWIW, the information is encrypted in dropbox -- you need to profile an "Encryption key". http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/iphone-ipod-touch-i...
That seems silly to me. If the rules are just "do whatever you feel like, I guess, with the GM deciding what works", why even have rules?

Compare to, for example, Nobilis, which allows assorted flexible impossibilities but is crafted to encourage certain effects on both theme and the actual flow of gameplay.
A mojito!? How dare that kid. Next thing we know, teenagers who return to life after death will be asking for a line of coke and a couple strippers. What is wrong with the world??
> This is a roundabout way of saying "never build an online game for kids / I have no idea how Minecraft hasn't been sued over this yet"

Exclusively player-operated servers. This let Minecraft's online scene take off while saving Mojang from most of the overhead.
Government spending distorts the market towards 'things that are good for citizens' and away from 'things that are good for the owning class', you mean. And your second phrase is exactly backwards; the government funds research no corporation would ever be able to fund because it isn't profit-maximizing, and when all that public funding inevitably reaches a breakthrough that's good for businesses and people alike the profits are subsequently privatized giving the public sector no credit.
Feature request for coreutils: b2sum
Because it would group all the kids who obviously don't have parental supervision into one place where people are already talking about and/or showing fake dongs.

And then some sicko comes in and wants to talk about and/or show their own.
The real story of the how the Internet became so vulnerable: NSA.
Functional languages support this view, with powerful features like Haskell's typeclasses and Clojure's protocols and multimethods.

It really boils down to the expression problem. If you imagine a grid of implementations where rows are datatypes and columns are functions, you want to be able to extend the grid with new rows and columns easily (and if you're working in a static language, without recompiling the code representing the other grid cells). OOP languages make it easy to add new rows (types) but more difficult to add new columns (functions) that work on existing types. Functional languages are the other way around. But Haskell's typeclasses and Clojure's protocols (basically forms of function implementation inheritance) make it easy to add rows and columns to your expression grid.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-clojure-protoco...

http://paulkoerbitz.de/posts/Solving-the-Expression-Problem-...
Are they worried about being killed by famine (after having eaten their own cats and dogs), war or pandemic soon? If not, then they are not "struggling to live", which in turn means there is no need to reproduce that much.

From the biological perspective, excessive population growth can be dangerous to the species [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
SL is still a thing. I was once paid to write a robot that wandered around SL classifying the goings-on into perversions/other. If you've ever seen SL you know that ratio.
Birth rate and fertility rate are not the same, so of course I distinguish. Though to be fair I think the correct term is total fertility rate, as sometimes fertility rate is defined as birth rate.

Birth rate (technically, births/population rate) is the total number of live births per 1,000 of a population in a year. It is abysmal in Japan because the population is very old, so not many people are in age of making children.

Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates. This rate is going up as Japan is slowly making it easier for couples to have children: more day-care facilities, and most importantly Japanese society is (slowly) becoming more tolerant to mothers going back to work.
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One of the biggest reasons why we have scientific magic in RPGs is that it gives agency to the player. When magic is a relatively mundane tool, it becomes an option that a player can rely on, and that is really important. If magic is unknowable, then it forces the GM to use the magic rather than the players. This takes agency away from the players and makes it more of a movie (zero-player game) than a game.

Personally, I find the "scientific for mundane things, but mythical for greater things" model to be the most desirable, because it's directly applicable to how we view magic in the real world - any sufficiently advanced technology is viewed as magic. If you show an 18th-century machinist a laser-etched piece, he'll be mystified. And as you gain wisdom, knowledge, and experience, the current mystery slowly unravels, to reveal still more mysteries beyond.

So, the mechanism to cast a small fireball should be mundane and understandable. In contrast, the fact that 500 years ago, a great sage burned an entire forest to ash should be mystical and unknowable... for now. Maybe it will always be a mystery. Maybe the method will become known but shown to be impossible with current abilities. Maybe the magician of the group will attain that power, but at some great cost. It's up to the GM.

This way, we get the best of both worlds - the delight and intrigue of mysterious things, and the agency of being able to manipulate known rules to solve problems.
Interesting typo of "defamation" as "defamatio" in there. Accident, or subconscious influence from all the dong talk?
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Recordings reveal how informant ring operated in Orange County jails
it's not that far away in the sense that one started as functional language and was made c-like, and the other started c-like and was made functional :)
It's an interesting service. I wish you all the best with it.

I fear that I wouldn't use it sufficiently to warrant paying for it. I write more HN and Reddit posts in a week than I've sent emails in the last year.

That said, I'd be tempted to use it as a good proof-reading service for important emails if it weren't too expensive to use ad-hoc.

However there are at least two people I would hope would sign up. Their emails (and my sanity) could do with it!

Likewise if you did Facebook updates too, I'd be tempted to pay for some friends on my feed to use your service.

I trust you'd have no issues with using British English for spelling, if requested?
Saving small amounts of bandwidth are more about getting requests to fit in a single MTU. This improves latency by reducing the number of round-trips.
Exactly. Even now that they offer official paid servers hosted by Mojang, you're still paying for your own server, and you control who's invited to it.

Parent can rest easy knowing that all the penises on their server were definitely created by their own kid and his friends.
At the protocol level or at the JavaScript level?
The nice thing about JavaScript is that you have first-class functions that are closures, so you don't have to do OOP at all if you don't want to. And your objects don't have to define methods because you can just define functions outside of methods.

And although JavaScript's prototypes don't solve the fragile base class problem, they do offer a handy solution to the expression problem: http://www.jayway.com/2013/06/21/15201/
Ask HN: Is there any startup works on global Internet payment system
it uses both bank account and credit card

by the way, i living in Indonesia. I cant do transaction to overseas. Because my country has low internet penetration

I can only afford bank account credit card is quite expensive. I'm born christian and homless help me please.

I'm not asking for your money

paypal can transfers money directly into one's linked bank account i need such feature

paypal not support in my country
The transition into Mercator is pretty jarring at high latitudes (try zooming into Greenland). I wonder if there's a good way to smoothly interpolate between projections as you zoom.
Adding SPDY is really nothing much in nginx (and that one of the thing that makes it awesome).

In practice, if you already have an SSL server, just add the "spdy" to the listen line like "listen 443 ssl spdy;", restart and you are done[1].

Then making it proxy request is just one location definition with "proxy_pass"[2].

[1]: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_spdy_module.html

[2]: http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/reverse-proxy/
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Hah, never considered it would be considered as "impressive" :)