skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From one of the reviews of the mobile app: "now, wifi sync is no longer available. The developer has seen fit to force you to sync your personal, financial information over the Internet via Dropbox."
yeah i lamented the lack of the actual letter

i recognise the strengths in being able to determine if the kid 'had it coming' but still isaac was in the position of power here, and to me it reads like he was embarrassed to be called out by someone he feels unworthy of correcting him
It really depends.

You may go with a Thinkpad or a Dell XPS if you need a well built machine or you could go with a less flashy, cheaper expendable machine that's slightly slower, slightly heavier and less durable. More memory is good, a good screen is good. I'd suggest avoiding any hardware with less than stellar Linux support.
Dat levenshtein distance.
Ars Magica, Shadowrun, and Call of Cthulhu would be my picks to look at for magic different than D&D and its cohorts.
afarrell-- in the early days of the 1992 campaign I felt exactly the way you do, about Bill Clinton. I was a Paul Tsongas supporter then. We all know how that turned out.

After losing twice in a row, the Republicans know they have to change.

It's still early and the old style christian-conservative out-dated positions on foreign policy, "law and order" etc people are still around, but it's clear they are on the out.

The question is, how fast will the republican party change?

And a lot of that kind of change happens during these big elections.

So, early broad support for Rand Paul is exactly what could prompt the shift.

After all, when a party can count on a constituency (And at this point where are christian conservatives going to go?) they can take them for granted and seek out the constituency that is at risk.

That should be the Gay constituency for democrats who have taken them for granted and abused them for decades. (I'm not heterosexual, so that includes me, and that's why I haven't voted for a democrat for 20+ years.)
>Academia disagrees with you

No it doesn't, a few studies do. I believe this is exactly the kind of pretentious language the individual was talking about.
The world is not overpopulated by a long shot. There may be a lot of overconsumption in certain regions, but that's a different issue.
No, it's because, honestly, educated people who understand how governments work know that economies of scale are necessary to implement effective policies that help the poor.

Charity is nice and all, but most charity is tremendously inefficient, and cannot, sustainably, work on the sorts of multi-decade efforts that are needed by people with real issues to create effective change.

It's great that people volunteer on home building and feeding, but again: if you want to end child malnutrition, have effective school lunches in poor areas. There's not enough volunteers in the planet to do that effectively.
FAO Schwarz closing shows video game dominance?
Perhaps things are different in Italy, but here in the US I can absolutely pronounce someone dead. 'EMT' is a lower level of training, and do require the 'injuries incompatible with life' criteria, but as a paramedic, I have far more leeway. patient has an unknown downtime, is cool centrally, has visible lividity, or early stages of rigor, then I'm just going to hook up an EKG to confirm asystole, call my dispatcher for an official timestamp, and hand the scene over to the police.
I find Eric Raymond's example for Conway's Law quite funny: If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler.
A couple productivity apps I use:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pomodoro-time-focus-timer/id...

https://selfcontrolapp.com/
Good question. I don't know the answer, but Ari Ne'eman and the gang over at ASAN (the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network -- a non-profit run by and for Autistics) would probably be the best people to ask: http://autisticadvocacy.org
"This would have a larger effect on the speed of the internet than increasing a users bandwidth from 3.9Mbps to 10Mbps or even 1Gbps"

I'm sold. What would be the easiest way to makes this happen for someone like me with a pretty vanilla LAMP server?
First, yes, I had lots of problems navigating the social sphere, it was like there was some minor detail I just didn't understand, but which was crucial, it felt like it made me look and feel like a idiot. MDMA took all that away, it showed me that no, no one cares, just do your thing and don't bother. I did MDMA a few times during a year period.

Second, NO, psychedelics absolutely do NOT cause schizophrenia in my opinion, BUT people who have underlying symptoms or are prone to it, for them it can very much act like a trigger.
Yes, it's different when you have kids. I don't give 1 shit about any photo my kid isn't in, but all photos he is in, regardless of quality, must be preserved FOR ALL ETERNITY!! I suspect that feeling is common among parents. That's why your parents have those 40 other pictures :)
sorry.. its how i write

i've developed the style over time, i think it somehow informed from growing up behind a glowing screen

myself, i find i read single sentences quicker than walls of text and just prefer the equanimity of lowercase

again, i apologise.. i suppose some may call it 'crabbed penmanship'
If your goal is to live in comfort after you're too old to work, then having lots of children is often the best way to accomplish that in a crappy country. Odds are good at least one of them will survive and do well enough to support you when you're old.

In a nicer place with better finance and social security systems, you can pull it off without having a lot of children.
> Lover birth rate is a good thing in the long term

It most definitely is NOT a good thing to have a birth rate below replacement in a developed country, especially one with European-style social programs. Eventually you run out of workers to support the people who aren't doing so.
So you're drawing distinguishment between birth rate and fertility rate?
But aren't the poorest those who get most of the children?
You haven't travelled to India, China or Bangladesh have you ? The world is already heavily overpopulated. If we estimate the amount of people the world can support and that's higher than the current number, it does not mean we should have that higher number.

If we keep going higher, we will not be able to stop the destruction of flora and fauna that is currently underway. The world may be able to "support" more people, but it is unlikely to be a world worth living in.
The new robots were 3 laws compliant, but VIKI (also 3 laws compliant) invented law 0 (protect humanity) and imposed it upon the newer robots remotely. They were able to ignore law 1-3 if doing so conflicted with the current plan to save humanity.

It was demonstrated (via flashback) that the older robots were capable of allowing a human to die, while ignoring a direct order from a human, and might have been able to rationalize law 0. They weren't remotely linked to VIKI, making them harder to coordinate, so it was easier to remove them from the equation so they didn't get in the way.
Actually, std::shared_ptr is more like Rusts Arc type, because std::shared_ptr is atomic, and Rusts Rc is not.
Here's something you didn't mention in your excellent list of motivations: Money

When you're a politician you raise campaign chests, and when you retire, you get to keep those contributions.

So, running for president puts you on the national stage, allows you to raise a lot more money.

For someone like Ron Paul this was a win-win. He secured a nice retirement while getting out there and invigorating a grassroots Libertarian movement and also getting his message-- which I think nobody can dispute he's genuinely passionate about-- out there.

For someone like Rick Santorum, though, it's either to help secure his seat against his next challenger, or just greed...
"Of course, this sends shivers up the spines of people who feel the need to exert control in the workplace."

I'm not sure who you mean here. As an employee, I would dislike moving around a lot as I like to, for example, have a picture of my wife on my desk, or have a pair of headphones I leave at the desk so I don't have to lug them back and forth between home and work. I also have some useful physical references I keep around and have physical (paper) files I need to keep track of for my job. Having to move all of those things or having them in a place other than within arm's reach at my desk would make me less productive. If trying to remain productive means "feeling the need to exert control in the workplace," then yeah, guilty as charged.

Other than that, I like the idea of mixing up who sits where, so long as it's for relatively long periods of time. Weeks at least, preferably months. It would be annoying to have to move every few days.
As a German who lives in the US since 8 years I am not surprised by this at all. By the time you finish university in Germany you are about 25 years old. They introduced the Bachelor/Master system, but at least when I studied, getting a Bachelor was more of a way to drop out gracefully. In addition there was a culture that expected you to stay at home until your child is at least 1 year old. Therefore there was very little support to take care of very young children.
For well educated couples this leaves an extremely small window in which you can have children. That doesn't even account yet for people with other goals. Having a child means having time to try to bootstrap a startup parallel to your day job or doing extensive travel becomes extremely hard if not downright impossible.
An additional factor is that most Germans aren't religious and even the ones who are are only on paper, but don't actually care very much. Religion often times plays a large role in people's desire to have children. That rarely happens in Germany.
Indeed. The water would be even colder.

After 80 minutes, though, how much difference is there? Still some, I'm sure, but water is really good at conducting heat.
If you assume a developed country, you have an attractive place to live for many people from other badly developed countries. So you can simply import them.
Yes, typically they are, even in Germany. That being said, very rich people who don't have to compromise and have others raise their children also tend to have more than average children I believe.
Artiq: Next-generation control system for quantum information experiments
Over a year out, he only trails Clinton by a few points:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...

Consider that Clinton has been on the national stage for 30+ years, while Rand has only been on it for months.

That's way more than just "a shot", that's damn good.
I think he means there's a difference between births arising from couples in love, as opposed to births arising either by accident or from couples bound by other arrangments forced out of motives of survival, hence the qualifier being a "lover's birth rate."

As for quantifying which births are "lover's" births, and which are not, well... good luck with that.
Salesforce acquires “smart” calendar app Tempo, which is shutting down
I'm skeptical of the Hans Rosling talk that many people will bring up. For one, there is no indication that the poorer countries with higher birthrates will be educated in time. Secondly, just because we can calculate the world can support more people doesn't mean that's a good thing to have. We're already losing our flora and fauna at an alarming rate. This is going to get worse with a higher population.

I think sometimes people are blinded by TED talks and fail to question them.
Because the number of people who are both capable and willing to buy this stuff is very small. Consequently, if you want to turn these into liquid money in a short timeframe (months), once you sell what you can to your handful of billionaire buddies you don't really have a choice but to deal with some people you don't actually know personally.
I never took the time to try WebSockets, so please forgive me if this question doesn't make sense, but, does HTTP/2 supersedes WebSockets? I'm under the impression that HTTP/2 covers all the WebSockets' use cases, is this a correct observation?
Does anyone know if the horse sculptures are related to the question of Asva in the Aryan theory ?
Your replies make me assume you like PT and dislike PSDB and assume I like PSDB...

that is not my point, and I has always been against the electronic ballots, I don't trust election results of any election since the electronic pooling stations, I am only more distrustful at these elections, because of the other things I mentioned (several friends of PT winning with 51%, the same company working on all those elections, some cities where people proved there was outright fraud, for example in one city people found memory cards and voter lists in the trash) and because of the popularity pools (before, and after the elections Dilma was unpopular, only DURING the elections her popularity suddenly rose... I don't believe people are THAT stupid)
Some of the patriot act was made permanent by Obama.
Closure Syntax in Swift
I would appreciate an explanation for why you say that.
European Union anger at Russian travel blacklist
Just because people downvote you doesn't mean they disagree with you, or what you said is not factual. Hyper-political comments tend to get downvoted on HN in general because of the type of toxic comment threads they breed. Having libertarianism vs democrats categorization, gay rights, and abortion in one thread fits that category quite well.
Waiting for artificial intelligence to surpass humanity, particularly as if it were a desirable inevitability, and then letting it happen sounds precisely like pain and inaction to me.
That brings with it its own problems, as many European countries are discovering.
>I like the part where you have the gall to lecture people about what they themselves want to be called, using appeals to authority figures who are not themselves Autistic.

I was trying to come to the defense of those who dislike being called "an autistic person". People should absolutely be referred to as they please (just as you are saying).

The last study I provided support of my use of "majority" (not in the abstract, unfortunately), though I am open. Your links are compelling and entirely worthy. This is a debate that is highly nuanced and I agree that my comment doesn't tell the whole story. My experience comes mostly from a clinical setting, so that's what I commented on.

I was mostly upset with OP's use of "pretentious" and "SJW-inspired" to describe a preference to which a significant number of people on the spectrum subscribe. I tried to be particularly understanding with my "to be clear" addendum, but probably overstated my confidence with "majority". With that said, I think that you're making the same mistake with claiming the "majority".
I'm thinking typo. "Lover" birth rate doesn't really make sense in the context of the discussion.
I would love to buy this, as a polished product.
I like the OP's view on "shaping the space of Game of Life universe" by just defining the getNeighboursOf function. I think that would be a core idea if one wanted to see Game Of Life as some abstract mathematical object.

However, it seems like the title might be a bit too much for what the text really is.
I simply can't order them.

Every time, the person who is on the last place seem to be undeserving of it.
Far more troubling is how "autistic" is approaching "retarded" in the popular consciousness, where it has become synonymous with "overweight, fedora-wearing, scraggly-neckbeard-having, My-Little-Pony-loving buffoon".
Community interest in Verizon support for the Electron?
semi-relevant also:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/27/5755158/massimo-vignelli-n...
> You haven't travelled to India, China or Bangladesh have you ?

I have traveled all over the place, so your lousy ad hominem is unnecessary. "Crowded" is not the same as "overpopulated."

> If we estimate the amount of people the world can support and that's higher than the current number, it does not mean we should have that higher number.

Ah, so now we've moved from a factual question ("Is the world overpopulated?") to a subjective one ("At what level below the carrying capacity should human population be maintained?") which comes with a number of ethical questions ("Who are we going to forcibly sterilize to maintain that level?" for one).

> If we keep going higher, we will not be able to stop the destruction of flora and fauna that is currently underway.

Undoubtedly. That is not the same thing as overpopulation, by the way, because we humans have been driving other species to extinction throughout our entire history.

> The world may be able to "support" more people, but it is unlikely to be a world worth living in.

This is nice and subjective, and also not the same thing as overpopulation. In the future, please try to avoid slinging around buzzwords.
I live in China, which is not nearly as populated as Bangladesh or India.

We have to decide if we are to move forward or back. Technology can help us boost population while limiting impact, we can also branch out into new ecological niches (even those off planet) as any successful animal would. Biologically speaking, we should increase in number if we are doing well, to do otherwise isn't very natural (and ya, flora and fauna are out competed all the time, it's part of the system).

It might not be the moral thing to do, but it is definitely the natural thing to do.
I see that I was dismissive with those words; I should have phrased that citation carefully.
>> 1dollarscan is rumored to be watermarking/encoding the customer name in their scans.

I rather appreciate that as a means against piracy of the scanned books.
Generalized second-price auction
I agree with you - I can count the number of times I've seen it in my life on one hand - but ever since the Apple bug, lots of people use it as a club to hit people over the head with, to enforce braces everywhere.

There seems to be a logical error to me. An indentation mistake - something that can be caught trivially by a linter - is not significantly different by nature than any other single-character mistake, like an incorrect constant or misspelled identifier (harder to find with a linter). But because it was at the root of a specific flaw, it's become larger than life.
Interesting talk and on a related note, Strange Loop has become one of my favourite conferences for producing interesting talks these days. They always seem to get talks no a variety of technologies with a mix of real world applications.
Surely this can be "open sourced". Release all data including texts, images etc and turn it into something like a software project. It may be a good experiment instead of shutting it down.
It doesn't matter how he polls against Clinton, if he has no chance of winning the Republican nomination. Gingrich, Santorum, and RuPaul were similarly "a few points" behind Obama in 2012, and they had just as little chance of ever becoming president.
Actually with css-hyphens[ch], I think html/css has finally taken a leap towards usable text -- something that has been sorely lacking (mostly due to a kind of regression across browsers, where everyone seem to have given up on making html work for text, without a ridiculous amount of css, and maybe even js/canvas/svg. This is related to the avoidance of user style-sheets, and the idea that a bare bones hypertext documents could actually be useful. There's not really anything preventing browsers from presenting an un-styled html-page like how A-list-apart styles their articles -- absent any css-reset/css-styles).

I don't really think calling TeX from js is a very good idea, nor do I really think canvas is a good idea either.

I do wish Adobe had gained more traction with css regions[cr] -- although I also understand some of the arguments against them[ch].

I still think the idea is good: css for style, semantic html for ... semantics -- and "layout html" for layout. I think pairing semantic markup with css columns is just a bad idea -- and it gives the kind of "half-power" that initially lead people to use tables for layout.

So Lie is right in that css regions aren't a great fit for html[ch] -- but I still think they're the best fit for html I've come across. I might be convinced that css regions are the kind of things that fit well with js/poly-fills[pf] -- although I'm sceptical. We know fonts are turing complete and have had security issues -- I don't see why we should need to implement core layout with js. At least I suppose "rogue" software vendors can choose to support css regions[cr] -- For eg an e-book reader based off of a subset of html+css, css regions might be a good fit, while avoiding the complexity of adding js support, and trying to make that secure (including proof against denial of service etc).

Thanks for the link to texjs, though -- I'll definitely have a closer look.

[ch] http://caniuse.com/css-hyphens

[ha] http://alistapart.com/blog/post/css-regions-considered-harmf...

[cr] http://caniuse.com/css-regions

[pf] http://webplatform.adobe.com/css-regions-polyfill/
>So let's ask you Senator: 'why are you in bed with the NSA?

Despite what HN believes, the NSA isn't a criminal enterprise, and being associated with it isn't a scandal which would tarnish a presidential candidate to any degree worth being concerned about - associating with the NSA is part of a senator's job. It would definitely be a president's job.

What he should be concerned about is giving the appearance of making principled stands based on willful ignorance. If he intends to run the country, he can't simply pretend the parts of the government he doesn't like don't exist.
same reason why busybox exists
A guy clicked a button by mistake. He is now ranking #1 for “Google” on Google
When I got the laptop (back in September), it was pretty awful. No browser on Linux had proper Hi-DPI support, and very few of the desktop environments/toolkits/apps did.

Nowadays, things are much better. Chrome has native Hi-DPI support on Linux, as does Opera (which was actually the first browser to gain really good Hi-DPI support on Linux, fwiw). GNOME has flawless Hi-DPI support throughout GNOME Shell and almost all (if not all) of their apps. i3 does as well for the most part, but some aspects are limited by XOrg. Other desktops (elementary's Pantheon, KDE, et al) have decent to good support and it's improving all the time. Additionally some major apps are gaining solid Hi-DPI support, such as GitHub's Atom. I don't think LibreOffice or the major XUL apps (Firefox, Thunderbird) do yet.
> What harm is there in hearing what they've got to say?

Having the justification for a program of this nature be a secret is not compatible with democracy. So if they have something to say they should tell it to The Washington Post.
No. It won't. "Neurodiverse" individuals do not self-harm or harm others with their outbursts, elope when stressed, and self-stimulate to the point of injury just to deal with the sensory overload.

Autism doesn't just mean whip-smart, or socially awkward. It can mean a hell-on-earth existence for the individual with the disorder, as well as those that live and care for them. Imagine living in fear that someone saying "happy birthday" to your son would cause him to scream and punch and run out into traffic.

"Neurodiversity" is the wrong cause to champion. Awareness that no label is sufficient because the disorder represents a spectrum - that's what needs to be made forefront of the autism dialog to those who don't understand what it means.
Joseph R. Biden III, Vice President’s Son, Dies at 46
You had me worried for a minute there. I thought Verizon had acquired Particle and renamed it to Electron.
I don't know what are you quoting me, and then talking about something I never wrote. ( rhetorical q. )