skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intresting note:

Nordic countries (Finland, Norway) and Swizerland rank very high in gun ownership among OECD countries. http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Gun-own...
What's your point? You just wrote a 9 paragraph comment to say "US law supports gun ownership". We know. That's the whole issue.

The question is whether U.S. law (including the constitution) should support gun ownership, which is something completely different.
As far as I know every one of those prices in USD and then uses an exchange to immediately convert bitcoin to USD. I don't count that as taking bitcoin.
I have to second Bad Voltage. Well worth your time if you're into the open source community.
Here is how it works in France:

http://www.cnil.fr/english/data-protection/rights-and-obliga...

Practically, if you operate a service in France, you need to have 2 checkboxes at user creation:

* I accept to receive commercial informations and advertising from the service

* I accept to receive commercial informations and advertising from third parties

If you don't have the checkboxes or the user unchecked, no sharing.
Google "flamewar". This is not one.

Or is it that you disagree with something I've said? If that's the case your comment would be disingenuous.
I'm not usually happy to see somebody hacked, but in this case I'll make an exception :-)

But their software is a risk now, I agree.
Good for you. I am sure that made you feel a lot better.

For starters, delusional may imply mental illness but its primary definition is to hold false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions. That clearly describes the Syriza government.

Trained monkeys is a figure of speech to imply that economists have little place at the negotiation table until they are called upon to produce a fact or table that is required, often to create such a fact or table even if it is not supported by the data. Whether or not they have the capacity for reasoning is completely superfluous to their role in the discussion, they are window-dressing and nothing more.

It is my _opinion_ that Varoufakis has been primarily interested in making sure that he emerges from this sorid affair as he went in, a 'rebellious rock-star' who can assure himself of at least a decade of speaking gigs and punditry while the rest of his country crumbles. Nice work for a mid-grade academic. I am sure the book describing how none of this is his fault and if only they had listened to him everything would have worked out just fine (and the 'elites' would have gotten what they deserve, etc.) is due to be published any day now.
Oh noes, pissing off abusive regimes to make a few bucks more, I'd say they deserve all they get and should have been part of their business risk assessment.
Eeeww getting things to hard as a non profit, did you ICANN boys started to have to do some work? Looking up registration data for law enforcement making you too tired?

Do something for your fees, and keep those registrations private. Banks and a like will demand a public whois registration for your domains if you want a merchant account for cc processing already, why you bother ICANN? Why you bother...
"Won't say we got it from you" is not protecting you.

Many users have a different email for each service, for example username+yourservice@gmail.com (gmail will ignore the '+' and whatever is between it and the @) so you get busted.
> If you start treating one member differently, right after other members went through difficult reforms, why should other members then play ball?

Yep.

We are talking iterated games and rational expectations here. Something you'd expect an expert in game theory to understand -- which he of course does, leading to the conclusion that he has been very dishonest the whole way through.

(I agree with the rest as well.)
The Techie's Dilemma
> using them means a lot of self discipline regarding code style.

That's bad. Few developers have self-discipline. The ones who do still have different rules than you do. That makes reading, understanding, and modifying their code harder. Sounds bad, doesn't it?

There's a reason the most experienced devs rage against extremely flexible languages like PHP and JavaScript and are excited about new, ultra-rigid languages.
The point was that until enough of the US supports gun control for the Constitution to be amended, there's not really any changing whether or not the US law supports gun ownership, and that majority support does not currently exist.

Congress could not simply pass a law to ban speech because it is protected by the Constitution. To ban free speech, you would have to modify the Constitution. To modify the Constitution, you would have to have much more support for it than currently exists.
> One of us suggested that the film include the full array of emotions now studied in science, but Mr. Docter rejected this idea for the simple reason that the story could handle only five or six characters.

What is the full array of emotions? Having seen "Lie to Me" I know about the emotions expressed by microexpressions, but I do not know if there are more. "Joy" is not on that list. Either it is no emotion in the scientific world or expressed differently. Any good links?
The rental markets seem to have solved a similar problem of "bad actors" through deposits. Similar techniques could be used here. e.g. Each MB of content uploaded requires an additional .1 bitcoin deposit.
I did lol, HN doesn't allow texts above 2000 characters I had 3500 and skimmed it down and had to remove paragraphs.
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I (the author) agree. I'm mainly trying to point out all the issues with floating point rather than give a full solution. I believe the problem stems from people just not realizing a lot of these problems. Certainly I'm not offering the complete solution here, and for any one of those points could spawn off several articles just to give ideas.

So yes, links are appreciated so readers can get more into the details.
isn't that HN ?
> I expected that after six months of daily practice (about 20 minutes per day) I would have stored at least some characters in my long term memory.

Yeah, it doesn't work that way with SRS. If you're not actively using what you learned with your SRS (like say using Chinese on a daily basis) of course you're going to forget it! It's the same with bodybuilding: You have to constantly train your muscles and eat enough calories or they will shrink back to what they were before. It's not like you can gym, get as big as you want and then think if you stop you'll retain whatever you built :)
I guess you are right, but the thing is. It's not about becoming an expert. You have these geniuses doing things that blow my mind. And horrible coders that hit it big with things like snapchat, which grow to the point you hire other people to rewrite and maintain it.
i think its the best music streaming service
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Have you heard the phrase "don't feed the trolls?" Generally, if someone is saying hurtful things because they didn't know better, raising awareness is likely to help. If they're saying hurtful things to get attention, saying that they're hurting people and should stop is likely to be counterproductive.

I don't know enough to be positive in this case, but I'm guessing this is a case of "trolls", not a case of "ignorant people" (at least not ignorant in the sense of not knowing that they're causing someone distress).
... and borders can change (Louisiana, US Virgin Islands) and land can be long-term leased (Hong Kong).
Isn't outbound evil?
What Siberian Burials Reveal about the Relationship Between Humans and Dogs
Having permanent depression is always unpleasant. Anyway Euro is not a big deal. Membership in EU is. They have access to Schengen, EU markets and borders.
Of course it's consistent: it actually exists.

There is no paradox. It's clearly obvious that you can choose either box to put the treasure in. It's also clearly obvious that sticking labels on the boxes doesn't alter that, no matter what they say.

You just got fooled by the puzzle. It's not a big deal.
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Rancher – easily manage containers
I don't understand why everyone considers classes controversial. If you look at code in the wild, it already does what classes desugar to: everyone already writes constructor function and attaches properties to their prototypes.

At least now with classes, users coming from other languages wont be as tempted to make their own completely incompatible object systems.
Despite having tried to google it a few times, I have never found a table of deaths by birth year over WWI or WWII for any country. You'd think it would be on Wikipedia. Even rough estimates would make for a nice blog post.
"The number of deaths attributable to automatic firearms is effectively nil, as they've been highly controlled since the days of Al Capone and his ilk."

Well, since we're going to be pedantic, this should really say "the number of deaths attributable to legally owned automatic firearms", since there is quite a bit of criminal violence (as in, violence to support criminal activities, like drive bys, rip deals resulting in shootings etc) and deaths involving automatic weapons (although it's quite hard to find statistics on this, to my surprise). MAC 10's and Mini Uzis are rather popular for that sort of shenanigans, because of their small size (thus easily concealable). An AR15 style weapon (which is usually the type of weapon people talk about when the discussion is about 'assault rifles') is very impractical for such a thing, as per your point.
They are sparsely populated and wildlife is dangerous. Might simply be that and/or historical reasons.
The reason we care about mass shootings is because people die. Petzold drops the one variable we care about and calls it de-obfuscation? Neat.
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Quite. This is a pointless exercise - there are assumed rules in most or all logic puzzles of this sort. The assumption that statements made in the puzzle are true or false, but not gibberish, is a fair one.
Yeah, I know all this. What's your point?

I'm sure Petzold and everyone in this thread knows that gun control laws are hard to change -- what you're talking about has nothing to do with the actual question at hand, which is whether they should be changed.
I don't entirely agree with the concept that it's a failed state, but the fact that it doesn't look like other "failed states" doesn't mean much. If two companies go out of business and one had a crazy employee go on a killing spree you wouldn't say the other company hadn't failed because all it's former employees were still alive.
Abstract

An increasing number of animal studies have shown altered markers for health in subjects exposed to intermittent fasting, i.e. regularly and repeatedly abstaining from eating during 12-36 hours per period. It has been hypothesized that the reported beneficial health effects from caloric restriction on excess body weight, cardiovascular risk factors, glucose metabolism, tumor physiology, neurodegenerative pathology and life span can be mimicked by alternating periods of short term fasting with periods of refeeding, without deliberately altering the total caloric intake. Therefore, a systematic review of available intervention studies on intermittent fasting and animal and human health was performed. In rodents, intermittent fasting exhibits beneficial effects including decreased body weight, improved cardiovascular health and glucose regulation, enhanced neuronal health, decreased cancer risk and increased life span – some of the effects independent of the effects attributed to calorie restriction alone. The human studies performed to date are generally of low-quality design. Beneficial effects such as weight loss, reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and improved insulin sensitivity have been observed, but conflicting data exists. The potential health promoting effects of intermittent fasting in humans and applicability to modern lifestyle are discussed.
- See more at: http://www.lift-heavy.com/intermittent-fasting/#sthash.HPQDE...
Not necessarily. It has a lot of room for useful and even positive applications. For example, I have worked on a non-profit project to track class attendance around Cape Town and it proved being quite effective.
Sinch launches Verification SDK for developers to verify user phone numbers
Switzerland is biased because of the militan army approach. Every able-bodied Swiss male has an assault rifle at home, without any bullets, however.
You can find cherry picked data here: http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/2013/12/murder-and-...

They don't mention Australia, because the murder rate gradually decreased (though it was on a trend down anyway).

Or you can find cherry picked data about how gun related crime falls if you ban guns.

The only reason this debate keeps going is that there's bugger all hard evidence on either side. Sometimes overall crime rates drop. Sometimes they rise. So both sides just cherry pick stats, and call the other side idiots.

If the occasional mass shooting is acceptable, there's no reason to either ban guns or keep them. "Guns cause crime" and "guns stop crime" are both red herrings.

Whether the freedom to have a gun (which won't make you statistically more or less safe) is more important than stopping mass shootings is a value judgement. The statistics are a wash.

I'd say something similar to Australia is a good compromise - allow single-shot long guns (for sport), and ban semis / handguns (unless you have a really good reason). There's also laws about gun safes, safety tests, etc.

The most well-known mass shooting in Australia since guns were banned left three people dead - a shooter with a double-barreled shotgun, and two victims. Australian style laws do a good job keeping mass shootings from causing too much damage.
The Basque Country, a territory across borders
I know it is a little déclassé or something to talk about downvotes, but that above post seems to be racking up about 1 every 5 min for that past 40 minutes.

So as I think I pretty civilly and clearly laid out my reasoning for why I think it is an important topic to discuss, and so many of you feel strongly enough about it to downvote, maybe one or two of you wouldn't mind to put your thoughts into words?

edit: Also, I should maybe note, in my original, now dead, post I did position myself pretty far to one side of an interpretive spectrum, as I find that is often a good way to elicit a response I had not considered and whittle down my view to a more thoroughly thought through viewpoint.
You really do like fake examples. Can you point to a syntactician making the argument that the "beef" of "beef stew", or the "laptop" of "laptop bag", is an adjective? In any context I'm familiar with, that person would be laughed out of the room.
Occasionally Raymond Chen's Old New Thing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/

I would follow EEVblog if it were a proper text blog, but I don't have time for video or audio blogs.
Indeed, a true hero who wrecked his country and resigned.
Catching up a bit with C#, I see.
Damn, this hack is massive.

This seems to include all their deals/financial data, the full source code to everything (including some novel things like EFI malware and possibly some Office/Flash 0days), all their mail, badges of every employee, personal screenshots/porn habits etc etc.

It's not possible to get hacked harder than this.
English draws this distinction for gold, with gold (n) and golden (adj).
I wonder if a 12-36 hour period is consistent with the frequency in which predators hunt. I can't imagine a lion eating every few hours. Anyone knowledgable on things like that?
Spyware Provider ‘Hacking Team’ Hacked
You don't need resolve or reject. Just return the promise:

.then(val => doSomeStuff())

Thats it. The resulting promise will get resolved/rejected based on the return result of doSomeStuff()

You can also use throw to reject a promise manually, or return Promise.reject()

.then(val => {
if (something) return successVal;
else throw new Error("Failure");
});

For more complex scenarios where I need the values from previous actions, I like the forgoing the chaining and using a join helper to unwrap any set of promises as needed:

let url = getUrl(resource);
let data = url.then(url => fetch(url))
let updateData = d => _.assign(d, {field: 'newVal'}
let update = join(url, data, (url, data) => sendUpdate(url, updateData(data))
Karma is intention.

You can donate money to monks who are studying, with the intent to benefit all beings. Even just engendering those thoughts has great benefit.
In terms of rampage shootings, the way to reduce the number of shootings is to reduce the number of guns. That's what the data shows.

A per capita analysis starts discussions about how the US is different in multiple ways. Oh, well, in the US a person is 5x more likely to go on a shooting rampage than in other OCED countries. Maybe it's US media coverage? Maybe we don't have the background checks or psychological evaluations other countries have. Maybe it's our action movies?

No.

It's simply that we have more guns. In fact, on a per gun basis, other OCED countries combined have a 50% higher rate of spree shootings. We just have a LOT more guns than other countries.

Now, whether this is a good or bad thing is a much broader discussion. But the ONLY data driven answer to "why does the US have more spree shootings than the rest of the world?" is: "Because the US has more guns".

TL;DR: A per-capita analysis leads to sociological problem solving as the base metric is people-based. A per-gun analysis cuts directly to the significant factor.
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I don't generally assume that people not in the United States have expert knowledge on the finer details of constitutional restraint.

Just because you know everything already doesn't mean that everybody else does. My apologies for trying to be informative.
I hope our IDEs get smart enough so that destructuring features result in pseudo named function parameters.
>they'll take your car from the car title loan, etc.

they'll take your pensions from the pension pot, etc.

This deal is about giving predatory lenders political power over nation-states.
> As it is, it looks like she's trying to enforce Europe's definition of free speech, which limits hate speech

You're still confusing the issue. Are you doing this deliberately or do you really not understand the difference between "we're censoring speech we don't like" versus "we're cracking down on people that are harassing other people"?

> I don't think it's great lengths. And why? Well, because you want your userbase to trust you and increased transparency helps that.

Ok, let me rephrase. Why preserve the content at all? The sub flagrantly violated the rules by harassing other people. Therefore it's banned. We all know what happens to a sub when it gets banned. I see no value whatsoever in trying to preserve the content of a sub like that.

> Moderators say they have inefficient tools to tackle doxxing, and Reddit says moderators aren't doing a good enough job. Whose burden is that? The banning of FPH clearly demonstrated that admins felt it is the moderators' burden.

The banning of FPH says absolutely nothing about whether the moderators' tools are sufficient to track doxxing. The issue was not that the moderators were incapable of doing their job with the tools provided. It's that the moderators refused to step in. The moderators of FPH and the other subs were willing participants in the harassment campaigns being waged by the subs. Hell, FPH put information about Imgur employees right in its sidebar as part of the harassment. And the only people that can do that are moderators.
Reference link to What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic :

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...
Stilr: Styling JavaScript (React-Like) Components
Most modern languages already have this feature, JavaScript's the strange one to not have a quick way of putting variables into a string and the first to have to name it though because it was missing it for so long. And by your comment have evidentally chosen a confusing name. This isn't to replace templating engines.

Admittedly you could trivially extend the string prototype to have something more akin to string.format or printf, which was something you couldn't do in other languages for a long time, making it less of a problem.
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Building a Community Around Your Startup
Whether you're writing 5 or 6, it's still worth looking at and getting familiar with the various Javascript build tools (Grunt, Gulp etc). They're an increasingly important part of a Javascript developer's toolset, and using them to transpile 6 to 5 will get you off to a good start.
Spaced repetition relies on reviewing items before you forget them, and works best with active recall, not simply reading answers. Reading the docs whenever you forget is much less effective.
There are some European Jewish communities that do this. Example: NW London has community funded Jewish ambulances.
Besides the proposed health benefits, it is worth also considering the effects on mental/emotional state. It is probably no coincidence that fasting is an element of practically every traditional religious and spiritual practice. As an example, in Islam the recommended practice is to fast two times a week (consistent with the regimen the OP discusses).

Things that work well for the physical body usually has a corollary beneficial effect on mental state, which is no less of an upside than the health benefits.
+1, very detailed discussion about topics like space, aeronautics, railroads, economics, race cars, biomedicine, genetics etc.

It really goes into detail, background and most importantly asks the questions that I, as a geek, would want to know.
> If Greece wants to put their sovereignty on the table and let their creditors structure their economy for them, that's a very different negotiation than what they've had.

Given that even the IMF have admitted that pretty much all their projections were flat out wrong for Greece, of course the Greek government would be total idiots if they did this.

> All this hypocrisy talk misses the point. Greece should go elsewhere to finance their debts if they don't like dealing with Germany.

This is missing the point: Sure, Greece can't demand whatever they like. But at the same time, it is irrational for Europe to treat Greece this way, because all it achieves is weakening the Greek economy further, which nobody benefits from.

If the EZ governments wants to lose all the debt, that's a good approach. If they want some of it repaid and would like Greece to remain a viable part of the common market, it's not.
This is nice, however I'm skeptical as to the virtues of video as a presentation format for this kind of content. I'd have vastly preferred a written document.
I think you're correct, but this is a disappointingly blatant straw man argument, because you were attempting to refute the claim "You can buy food, shelter, and clothing with bitcoin."

If we were arguing about the overall health of the bitcoin economy, then your point about conversion to USD would be relevant, but we're only discussing the utility of bitcoin for the consumer here. From the customer's point of view, it is irrelevant, what matters is that the company will accept their bitcoin.