skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the subway system predates the Standards Manual by about 70 to 100 years (depends if you count the system from the first trains or its first underground section)...so it's wrong to infer that too many resources were devoted to the visual design rather than logistics and construction of the system over the decades. The system is complicated and convoluted because of both its age and its coverage. Certainly, the signage could be better in some places...is there a better way to sort out the mess in the midtown stations (Times Square, Herald Square, etc)? Sure...but those stations connect so many routes and other systems that some confusion will be inherent.
Atom Editor's runtime is also called Electron.
Here Comes the Airplane
Ubuntu is clearly taking the lead in this race. However, I am not sure this is the right approach to mobile/ubiquitous computing b/c phones brake, discharge or are lost/stolen. The best approach in my personal experience is to have terminals that connect to cloud computing services. The phone too can connect to the cloud in case a quick on the go edit/reply/action is needed. In this regard, current services already fill such need, Android and Google web apps for example. In other words, if you need to add all peripherals (screen, mouse, kb) and you most likely will also use the local LAN/WiFi (lower cost+ higher speed), then might as well add another CPU to that mix and don't depend on the phone.
He was also supposed to protect whistleblowers. I had the same thought as you when I read the title...
He is stating intent to do a specific thing on a specific day in the very near future (tomorrow) without precondition or contingency on outcome of any other events. This is not even remotely the same thing as "if I am elected I will..."
Yeah, the "SJW-inspired" phrase made me cringe too. As for majority or not, this is totally anecdotal, but all I can say is that every Autistic adult's blog I come across seems to have Strong Feelings about the matter, whereas blogs written by (presumably) neurotypical parents about their Autistic children either don't even notice the linguistic difference or explicitly use the "with autism" construction. It's enough to give you whiplash.

Also, one can distinguish between "he is a person with autism" (not so great phrasing, implies autism is a severable condition) and "he has mild-moderate autism" (better, more specific/accurate meaning). The latter does not seem to be such a big deal, and I do use it myself.
The MTA has multiple tracks and express trains, that alone makes it a world apart from the DC Metro.
> After losing twice in a row, the Republicans know they have to change.

Are you sure? Incumbents rarely lose, and it was a very close election. Couple that with the wave the Republicans had in the midterm elections (especially in a few states that typically go blue), I could see the Republican party just thinking it's their turn now. If anything the Republicans would want to avoid a split caused by alienating their base.

I should note that I am not a Christian conservative, just doing some backseat political analysis.
Accident Explorer: Machine learning with traffic accident data
Hiring for "cultural fit" means "let our bias roam free".

It makes me wonder why I bothered learning how to write software, if employers are going to reject me for being a "bad cultural fit". If you're different in any way, that means you don't get a job?
I love the idea of BugsEverywhere but the project has languished since I started using it (August of 2013). I've got a faithful reproduction in Java (with the goal of creating an Eclipse plugin) but I've given up on BE ever really taking off.

In any case, I love the idea that I'm committing my issues changes with my code changes!
SPDY and HTTP/2 are pure wins without any real effort. Slap the spdy directive into nginx, a 5 character change, and presto, site goes faster. On sites I've worked on, getting a 10-30% advantage is common. That's an awesome ROI for 5 chars. I'm very happy that Google and others had the need and capability to replace HTTP/1.1. They did the hard work, now we all won.
How Much do you Need to Earn to Afford a Modest Apartment in Your State?
No, specifically when you want a full-duplex link, you will still use websockets.
This has been discussed as the first step for wide acceptance of driverless cars. As a personal valet at a mall for instance, large public lots could be prepared in a way that makes navigation for driverless cars easier. There could be a driverless car parking lot away from main entrances, and therefore leave most parking open for regular drivers. I believe it was Mercedes that had an interesting demo a year or two ago in Las Vegas that demonstrated this sort of idea.
Install nginx as a reverse proxy, add spdy to the server directive. Enjoy.
I find it odd you have to mail bugs to the developers
So how does a user submit a bug? Through a merge request or something? Maybe I'm just overlooking something, but I couldn't find this on the page.
> OK, but do you have any numbers to back up the economic side of the argument?

There is research which shows that DRM always reduces potential for sales. So crowdfunding isn't any different in this aspect. Remember, they profit from sales post release too, and not only from crowdfunding investors.

> I mean, maybe you and other anti-DRM people should set up a fund and disburse grants or something, but only to people who commit to DRM-free movie and game releasing. That's how other people promote their causes. Money talks, as they say.

In my experience, most crowdfunded projects shun DRM (at least all that actually caught my attention), which is an indication for me that voting with your money works. They clearly see that DRM-free releases gives them more backers.
sorry! This was a tricky title because I know the HN moderators like it to match the title in the link. However, the Forum title only makes sense in the context of the forum (where Particle is implied).
I have no interest in conversations with dishonest people.
What is the ethical answer for a human in the same situation?
I was thinking it had to do with Sprint's Spark network and was also very confused!
> As for the claim that matter is close to being continuous, I am not a physicist, but I was under the impression that this was false.

We only know this because we have precise enough measurements to detect atoms and their internal structure. Atoms are about a billion times smaller than ordinary macroscopic objects, so it's a very good approximation to treat a cup of water, for example, as a continuous fluid, rather than a bunch of atoms.

> speaking naively, there is far more "empty space" than there is "stuff".

Only on a very naive definition of "empty space". Pop science books and articles often say that "atoms are mostly empty space", but that's because they are thinking of the electrons as little pointlike objects, which they're not. So "atoms are mostly empty space" is wrong, by the definition you've been trying to use, just like "matter is continuous" is wrong.

And before you object that I'm saying "electrons are little pointlike objects" is flat out wrong, electrons are close to being little pointlike objects; you have to make very precise measurements (like the ones that have mapped out the structure of atomic orbitals) to see the quantum "smearing out" of electrons. But in many other contexts, electrons do behave like little pointlike objects.

> I can't really answer speculation.

It isn't just my speculation; it's a serious theoretical proposal in cosmology. Google "eternal inflation".

> your only reason for making this speculation, so far as I can see, is your desire to deny that any scientific theory has ever been flat out wrong.

Quite the contrary; cosmologists consider such proposals seriously because neither simplistic model--"the universe had a beginning in time" or "the universe did not have a beginning in time" as flat statements with no wiggle room--works well.

The problem you are having here is that you continue to think that we humans can get something absolutely right. But every single one of your "absolutely right" statements turns out to have hidden qualifications when we dig deeper. And your "flat out wrong" statements turn out to be workable approximations in many contexts.
Improve Your World by Listening to What It Wants
And now I realize I wrote "Maid Mario", but I'm past the edit time limit. My mistake shall be enshrined in eternity.
Ah right. I thought she was boiled in water
That's a long way of saying they were being careful with language to avoid making incorrect statements.
Currently it takes 1.2 earths' worth of resources to support the earth's population, which means the earth cannot support all of us without starting to deplete resources. So yes, the planet IS overpopulated.
He was never charged with that. I think the JD held those charges back so they had something else to their at him if this first trial didn't go their way. As such, the sentencing should only be about what he is charged and found guilty of committing.
I guess it takes some considerable imagination to create possibility ratings for impossible or unprecedented events.

If something like a hypothetical transparent force field invoked by thought, words or gestures, that can stop bullets, blades and fire in mid-air isn't actually known to be possible and might warp reality, would it warp reality more than time travel, which might be possible on paper, in certain ways, although not readily understood?
Oh, yes. I had also tried that, but found some convenient features missing, e.g. line breaks treated as `<br>` (not two consecutive blank lines), GitHub-flavored tables, and the strikethrough syntax. I'll have to wait until the official CommonMark spec includes them.

Also the third-party CommonMark libraries are usually easier to extend, with your own syntax addition.
That is such an interesting idea, especially because so many of those "obeisances" mimic OCD symptoms.
Yes ... the BE system creates a .be folder in your Git (or other DVCS) project and you commit changes to your local copy to the server. Issues are text files and binary attachments, so merges behave the same way they would for your code.
Ask HN: How do I get started building phone menus programmatically?
I want to build a web application that one can control using a phone menu. I have built a web player where one can create playlists. Now, I want users to be able to dial a phone number and be presented with a list of their playlists. For example:

"Press 1, for Playlist 1"
"Press 2, for Playlist 2"
etc

Then after that selection and when a playlist is playing, buttons "3" and "5" would be "Back" and "Next".

I have never built these kinds of menus before, but I would like to start. I am targeting emerging markets, and I have contacted Twilio (numbers, toll free numbers etc) and they told me they do not offer their services in those countries. I would appreciate being pointed to any helpful resources.
I had to leave in haste. It's not like there isn't a plethora of well documented scientific sources describing the ecological problems our earth is facing.
good. less nazis, lol.
Well, to be honest I thought you meant "lower" birth rate. I've never heard of the concept of "lover birth" rate before.
So how does it work? Does it put files in the repo? a parallel branch structure? something else?
Is the shader code available anywhere?

If every particle affects every other, wouldn't 2 million particles require 2,000,000^2 calculations per frame? 30*4 trillion interactions per sec seems a lot... or is there an efficient trick to it (in the shader)?
Gay Marriage Advocates tend to be skittish of embracing poly marriage because that would make them look more extreme. If they can show that their position is not the most extreme one out there, then they have a better chance of seeing their agenda actually become reality. The funny thing is that while poly marriage advocates might not like that right now, in the long run it might actually help them because it will probably speed up the necessary changes.
> "Who are we going to forcibly sterilize to maintain that level?"

That's unnecessarily inflammatory. We could substantially reduce the birth rate by providing everyone with free birth control and promoting its usage. If that isn't sufficient we could pay money to anyone who has a vasectomy.

There are still ethical questions there, but it's a far cry from rounding up poor people and sterilizing them against their will.
"You may also send merge requests via the mailing list or using Gitorious."

Since issues are tracked in your local copy, adding an issue to the list and then sending a merge request will add your new bug to the list maintained on the server. If you check out the project, you'll find a .be folder next to the .git folder - this is where the magic happens.
By the way, you can replace the trackpad assembly on your T440s with the T450s version that has clickpad buttons.
Tesla needs to raise money to make the affordable EV in high volume. Many of the companies we discuss here are in the same situation.
> only regex looks hard.

I'm working on improving the regex engine now. Hopefully I can submit some improvements soon. :-) It will be hard to get near the top, but I think there's some low hanging fruit I can tackle first.
I'm surprised that there isn't a parental agreement requirement possible to absolve lawsuits against player created content. This is similar to the Call of Duty dong and offensive content problem in user created emblems.
The thing about big companies is that the person responding to the inbound communcation is usually in a totally separate department from the person who wrote the policy, and often doesn't know the policy exists. It's really hard to get a group of 50,000 people to act consistently with each other.

Of course, I hope for Starbucks' sake that it quickly backtracks and thanks this guy with at a minimum a bunch of free Starbucks and a phone call or email from the CIO or CEO. It's not in Starbucks' interest to dissuade white hat hacking, since black hat hackers don't care about Starbucks' policies.
Lower is what I meant, it was a typo. And that is not what I'm referring to in my parent comment, which is still valid.
There's at least a couple of AmberCons (like AmberConNW: http://www.amberconnw.org/), entire weekends where a bunch of people get together to run games in this system.
Doesn't that depend on how much they charge for a commercial license? After all you're already paying for OS X and other tools?
Right after I was hired by a large portal part of a much larger telco, we were decommissioning one of our data centers. In one of the planning meetings there was a discussion about an undocumented class C range that nobody knew what was, yet had some significant traffic. I never knew what that network was or what was running there. As far as I know, someone may have lost their spam relays or their phishing hosts.

Another fun story happened years before. There was a large power outage at the data center of another large Brazilian portal. Three days later, someone calls our office, asking if we remember what kind of hardware the server was running on. The machine didn't boot and they needed to get to its console. Unfortunately, nobody knew where the machine was physically located or what did it look like. In the end, it was found inside a Cubix chassis, an early blade-like machine.
I didn't find that simple at all >_<. Your example works, though, I fear you're getting way to granular for the application of Conway's Law, which talks more to how applications map to departments/power structures.

edit: Thinking further, I think that for Conway's Law to apply, it isn't so much about time/cost/complexity tradeoffs, but more about constraints due to your org structure and communication. Conway's Law would be more acute if due to some communication constraint in your company (e.g. regulatory, politics, incompetence), you were forced to go with choice A or choice B (e.g. information silo).
Ha ha! Right you are, oh well...
Situation B is often a very clean solution to an irrelevant problem, with layers of extra overengineered complexity .
Wouldn't fix the problem, which is damage to the brand. If word got around to parents that their new lego game isn't kid friendly cuz of dongs, that's far worse than any number of lawsuits. Lots of them would never buy another lego game again.
It just goes to show you that no matter the capabilities of the medium of the day, people will do anything to expose their genitalia.

From Pompeii[1] to LEGO Universe. Gosh.

Although I have to admit that I've been puzzling about this kind of problem in my spare time because it is a very difficult problem to solve with plain algorithms.

Which makes me ask, why don't they just separate the kids who draw dongs into a separate pile and only let them interact with each other? Or something like that. Something like GTA V's "cheater pool" [2] or HN's hellbanning.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herc...

[2]: http://www.gta5tv.com/gta-v-cheaters-pool-details/
There are people who argue that this is not the case.
https://overpopulationisamyth.com/

https://youtu.be/eA5BM7CE5-8
It takes a special kind of person to look at all the environmental damage we are currently doing to the world (destruction of rainforests, overfishing, rising sea levels, disappearance of coral reefs, desertification, air pollution, soil erosion), and say "more please!"
The API is great and very useful for Python coders. The Scala version uses strings to identify fields. Haven't run the example code, but it seems to essentially encode a form of run time type checks instead of compile time type checks. Which is an odd API choice for Scala.
i thought of Apache Spark :o
Remember Second Life? http://m.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/20/sadville_flyers/
Space filler operations stuck in infinite loops trigger out of memory crashes.
And, of course, you can provide links to credible studies supporting such extraordinary claims, right?
I'm not so sure I understand the point of view that labor shortages will be such a bad thing for the economy. If you are a worker, "high labor costs" is a very GOOD thing. For decades we've seen the value of labor fall behind the value of capital, and a more constrained labor supply might help change this.
If you use WebSockets mainly because you want to multiplex many requests/responses over a single TCP channel, then HTTP/2 may be a preferable substitute for WebSockets.

If you use WebSockets for "realtime push", then HTTP/2's server push feature could potentially be used as an alternative (though I've not heard of anyone actually doing this yet).

If you use WebSockets because you actually want a bidirectional message-oriented transport protocol, well then you'll keep using WebSockets. :)
That is pretty clearly not the case here since the author published a lot of game system reviews, maintained a giant list of free RPGs, an encyclopedia of role playing games, and so on (if you look at the entire site, for example, the reviews here: http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/reviews/)
having played a great many fantasy games in my early years I was appreciative of the Hero systems take on fantasy. You created spells by choosing an effect then modifying it with advantages and disadvantages; a common disadvantage is a focus, think staff or similar.

When it comes to MMOs, Asheron's Call had the most unique system whereby as originally launched the uses of a particular spell by all players could reduce its effectiveness. Akin to a world mana pool. While it never went down severely it did suffer a reduction in effect. Combined with an early spell learning system that eventually was broken by players through group effort higher tier spells were initially rare. The best thing about their magic system was that projectile spells had the same rules as projectile weapons which means the target could dodge them!

Currently most MMOs have reduced magic spells to nearly auto attack format. As in, you never really run out of power, your health is your real resource.
A Surprising New Source of American Jobs: China
Why? You can have full-duplex streams in HTTP/2 too.
"He definitely goes where there is government money," said Dan Dolev, an analyst at Jefferies Equity Research. "That's a great strategy, but the government will cut you off one day."

As opposed to military spending, where persistent hundreds of billions are spent without anyone giving a damn.
> why don't they just separate the kids who draw dongs into a separate pile and only let them interact with each other?

Ha, I can't imagine any issues with that from a PR perspective at all.
According to who? I don't see how that makes sense. Many resources are not renewable, so having an extra .2 Earth's worth of them would not make it more sustainable.
Recent nipple detection post from reddit:http://m.imgur.com/a/6KUEu
> We could substantially reduce the birth rate by providing everyone with free birth control and promoting its usage.

The efforts to increase condom usage in sub-Saharan Africa show that this might not be very easy at all, and this assumes that the people who have children in those areas don't actually want to have children which probably isn't accurate.

> If that isn't sufficient we could pay money to anyone who has a vasectomy.

Economic coercion is still force, and still ethically shaky.
Go actually check the things pcwalton mentioned instead of complaining.
I think he/she might have meant that immortality isn't really sustainable because of overpopulation concerns unless population growth rate is negative.
having been in the water below a dam its amazing just how cold it can be. The best part is, watching a friend drop an expensive knife in less than four feet of water and unable to retrieve it cause of the cold. Fortunately a few young kids came wading down the same river in this water and when they asked my friend what was wrong he pointed to the knife and the one kid simply went under and got it.

and to my point, perhaps younger people have better ability to not suffer the ill effects of such temperatures? I am sure many can remember being in snow or sweltering hot weather where adults all went indoors or such. Is it ignorance or something physical?
_STARCODER: the first mmo game teaching kids how to code
It's pretty obvious that drugs being illegal isn't stopping people from OD'ing, so I don't understand how this can be used as an argument against legalizing drugs.
*NSFW
Startlingly, he's right. Corporate standards of behavior have no place in the real world. I suspect his motivation is all wrong, however.
>>> "Luckly for you its free!"

Typo on home page.
You, just one comment prior, suggested that the indictment had been changed in a manner relevant to this thread. I cited the most recent indictment --- and took the time to try to verify that it was the most recent indictment. Now the indictment doesn't matter?

No. It very much mattered. The indictment formally documents the charges Ulbricht faced. His lawyer, a relatively well-known defense attorney, was fully aware of his obligation to rebut the allegations in the indictment. Ulbricht is, of course, innocent of charges until proven guilty. The prosecution produced what appears to be very compelling evidence. The defense produced something much less compelling.

A variety of things that aren't findings of fact at criminal trials can, unfortunately, be material to the sentencing phase of a trial. The murder-for-hire scheme isn't one of those things: it was an explicit component of a criminal charge that Ulbricht was convicted of, supported by evidence, provided to the Ulbricht defense during the earliest phases of the trial.