skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One also has to remember that the direct election of senators happened because virtually every state was selling Senate seat, ala Blagojevich style.

16th amendment passed because people wanted Congress to tax rent, interest and property income the same way as their work wages were taxed.

State governments would never need money and interference from Federal Government if they were to build there own highway, maintain their own airwaves, launched their own Moon mission, agree not to prosecute minorities, have their governor not stands in way of kids attending schools, etc etc. Over period of 200 years, both technology and working of States has led to more power getting concentrated in hand of Federal government, because people wished so.

Perhaps the framers thought states would act more sensibly, but that is not what seems to have happened. This also leads to side effects like Federal government regulating what crops I can grow in my home, even if I have no intend of participating in any commerce at all.
Life is a journey.

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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...

10 i = i + 15

15 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

20 IF i > 99999 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10

30 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10

40 PRINT "Line:", i

http://www.losethos.com/text/BIBLE.TXT

God says Line 30450

toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city
which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
dwelling place, and maintain their cause, 8:50 And forgive thy people
that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein
they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before
them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
8:51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
8:52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant,
and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them
in all that they call for unto thee.

8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the
earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses
thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD
God.
That's why you have to "consider" it.
Congrats on launching!

One small UI suggestion: put thumbs-up on the right and thumbs-down on the left. About 90% of the population is right handed and the word "sinister" originates from the Latin word for "left" [1]. Generally speaking, people associate the right side with good and the left side with bad. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handedness
Wickard v. Filburn is at the very edge of Commerce Clause jurisprudence, and is probably a high watermark. There was a lot of scaling back of the doctrine under the Rehnquist and Roberts courts.
It works! Here's a demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hILm9oojA48
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Did you read the linked post? For than just skimming the top?

I mentioned specifically what I was doing, and how much RAM it took.
I happen to think the options are much closer to zero value then you seem to think they are, so there is no cognitive dissonance to me. I would never trust any start up not to fire me to save money on options if I wasn't at least arguably worth more than it.

If the cost of the options > value of employee + cost of bad PR / other employees then I expect it to always have this outcome, and I am fairly certain it happens routinely just on a smaller scale. The only reason why this is news is that it is on a massive scale, on a well known and vilified tech company that is nearing IPO, and they aren't hiding the fact that they are doing this by just firing everyone.

A random 15 person company that quietly fires their employee a month before their stock vests doesn't get to the front page of HN.

It completely blows my mind that you think this exact situation isn't completely normal and something that you should take into account when you weigh the value of the stock.

> But then, if that were common (or even somewhat likely), options would have literally near-zero value. See the problem?

Yes, I completely agree that there is a problem that the people aren't on the same page. The problem that I see is that an absurdly high number of people are apparently overvaluing their unvested stock in startups.

I still cannot comprehend that you think this is some backdoor unexpected usage of this. If you work at a tech startup and your stock is going to vest within a year before your company is going to be acquired or go to IPO, I would recommend you drastically reduce the expected value of your units based on what you are emoting here.
I think many people want the second-cheapest (psychologically: good value, but not the worst), or the second most expensive (high quality, but not extravagant).
I have found it handy to make a 'frozendict' type in Python, though my implementation scales horribly -- I'm not usually worrying about efficiency. I wish a good one were built in, too.

Re functional sequences, there's tuples.
There are no links to any reputable journals or anything here. How can we tell if this is legit?
Speak for yourself. I use other computers in my household that don't have AdBlock installed, and every time I do, I am reminded why I use AdBlock on my main work computer (this one).
Hey, Tom here, co-founder of Bindle (http://bindle.me)..

I'm based in Melbourne---the other founder is in SF. Happy to catch up whenever/however. tom _at_ percolatestudio.com
Sure.

(Although most articles discuss it on a country-by-country basis)

..nearly every survey of antisemitism taken after 1946 showed a rapid reduction.[39] It is impossible to determine precisely to what extent knowledge of the murder of six million Jews contributed to this change.
In the aftermath of the war, non-Jews tried to avoid expressing prejudicial remarks. To the question “Have you heard any criticism or talk against the Jews in the last six months,” the answers showed a decline, with the most significant changes occurring from 1946 to 1951. In 1946, 64 percent responded positively whereas in 1950 only 24 percent did so.

http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2003-4/ouzan.htm

..the new president Harry Truman viewed the question of the million European refugees who had survived the war and who opposed repatriation to their country of origin as a "world tragedy".[42] Thus, he slowly encouraged the United States to take the lead in seeking a solution. Among the Displaced Persons, about 20 percent were Jews who languished in displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria or Italy, waiting for emigration visas.[43] However, no country was willing to admit them in large numbers.[44]
Antisemitism in the United States began to decline in the late 1940s. As they became aware of the Holocaust, many Americans found themselves ardently opposed to views which had been used to justify such genocide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_...

Specific to Australia:

Possibly as a belated compensation for the thoughtless mild anti-semitism in Catholic and labour movement circles in the pre-war period, Calwell (Labour party minister) became quite a determined and resourceful sponsor of Jewish immigration in the immediate postwar period. A very widely publicised incident was that Calwell and the government actually connived at the chartering of several ships specially to transport Jewish migrants, although some other migrants were brought on these ships as a kind of camouflage, in the face of the anti-Semitic hysteria being whipped up by reactionary Liberal politicians

http://members.optusnet.com.au/spainter/Racism.html
Balsamiq is a good piece of software but I wouldn't put an effort to ask for a free copy of especially when I'm broke. Instead, I would rather use pen and paper.

If you feel you really really need the software to aid you in building your product then be a good customer and pay the license.
chiseled spam... yes.
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Cheap Wizard Of Oz theatre tickets are now available from the Leicester Square Box Office. It's a great show, and definitely worth a watch.
Out of curiosity, I looked it up, and there are braille versions of many alphabets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille#Braille_for_other_scrip...

I wonder how many blind multilinguists exist (that can read braille in multiple languages) . I imagine there's a lot of character collisions between different braille alphabets, but I suppose it wouldn't be any more difficult than (visually) reading, say, English and Spanish, which have virtually identical alphabets.
I guess I'd be OK with the move to HTML5, if it worked on all of the browsers that my clients want me to support.

My last application that I rolled out using canvas and excanvas is still quirky. Unfortunately, IE6-8 still lives on. Until there is a feasible way to do custom control creation, and have it work properly, there will still be a purpose for Flash/Flash Builder.
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Perfect example of the type of bullshit belief structure that generation sell is built on.

A craftsman focuses on making things. He focuses on his craft. Period. He does not focus on presenting his product at all. The product does not need presentation or sales, its craftsmanship stands for itself.

The difference between salesman and craftsman is that they are completely different things.

OWS has NOTHING to do with the article, except for the very end where he mentions a new culture forming.

I'm sure you know that words have meaning. You just aren't very good at working out what those meanings are or how they are different from eachother.
I wish the authors of adapted metaphors were forced to map their altered versions to the original.

Example: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. The Four Horsemen of Technology include Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Which goes with which? I vote Amazon for Conquest (of the Internet), Google for Famine (of attention span, and possibly design sense), Facebook for War (over friends, likes and popularity), and Apple for Death (of freedom).

N.B. The preceding intended for humor only. Any attempt to interpret seriously will meet with swift rebuttal.
The quote that spoke to me in the article

> When you pay $199 for Fire, you’re not buying a gadget you’re filing citizen papers for the digital duchy of Amazonia.

I know many people don't mind living in walled garden, especially if it's very pretty, but it seems unhealthy to me. Has this stopped being a scary thing to people?
What's your definition of "smart"? The inventor of the most influential English-language IQ test acknowledged that his test did nothing to estimate a person's social skills:

"There are, however, certain characteristics of age scores with which the reader should be familiar. For one thing, it is necessary to bear in mind that the true mental age as we have used it refers to the mental age on a particular intelligence test. A subject's mental age in this sense may not coincide with the age score he would make in tests of musical ability, mechanical ability, social adjustment, etc. A subject has, strictly speaking, a number of mental ages; we are here concerned only with that which depends on the abilities tested by the new Stanford-Binet scales." (Terman & Merrill 1937, p. 25)
Can you tell us how? My condolences. I was watching a couple interviews with Ilya on Youtube and it's clear he was a very bright kid with a lot of potential.
Thank you for taking the time to go through those links, and thank you for your questions, but I'm too tired to answer them now. I'll get to them tomorrow. In the meantime, you might want to read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3232368 before it gets dragged deeper into Negative Points Land by the Karma Kommandos. Feel free to ask more questions based on that comment, and I'll answer them together with the others. Goodnight.
Peldi is a class act.

What's admirable here is not that he provided a free $79 license (that's relatively easy). What's admirable is that he responded personally, and irrationally selflessly.

Knowing Peldi, I know exactly why he does such things. In every software entrepreneur, he sees a peer and the potential for someone to build something great.
The Australian startup scene seems to have more 'startup hubs', startup accelerators, startup workshops, startup advisors, startup publications, would-be startup gurus, etc. as it has actual startups.

At times the mental image I have is of a tiny handful of miners surrounding by an enormous throng of hundreds of merchants eagerly promoting their particular brands of picks and shovels.
Sadly, the Japanese do not apply these principles to user interface design.
Q:What is your favorite fact about the Universe?

A:That is will never end. That it's on a one way trip of expansion. Something that many find to be philosophically unsettling. My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Priceless
Sounds good. She sent a beta inquiry about getting her school on board with it.

I think the school/district-wide system is going to be your best bet. As I'm sure you're aware, teachers don't exactly bring home the bank. So personally dropping $10/mo for something like this isn't likely going to happen for most teachers (most provide quite a bit of in-classroom supplies out of pocket as well).

Something to consider in promoting to schools/districts: lack of parent involvement is one of the biggest reasons kids aren't doing well in school. By keeping parents informed on a regular basis about what their kids should be doing, there's a better chance homework will get done, studying for tests will happen, and those damn standardized test scores will improve. Well, that's the hope at least.
Ask HN: Working on a site to find a cofounder
hey guys i wanted to get your thoughts on this i have been working on making a website for finding a co founder called operationcofounder.com i have been currently using it as website to host all the company names i have picked up for all the 100's of ideas i have. i created all the logos for them except for like 4 or 5.. i have created a ruff mockup of what i would be looking to do.. i want to create a video to spread the word of what i am looking to do and who i am looking for in a co founder. please if you could let me know what you think of the layout and if this the right direction to head.. here is the link to the mockup.. operationcofounder.com/layout.png .. thanks
"Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times."

That's pretty enlightening. This guy is brilliant because he constantly reminds himself of the fundamentals of business, and is keenly aware that he easily gets off track from those fundamentals.

It seems as humans, we're very prone to forgetting the most basic of lessons, and unless we constantly refresh on them, we can easily get off track. It puts things in perspective like the whole Qwikster/Netflix debacle, or the recent talk of bloat at Google. At a very basic level, these issues are signs that the people in charge may have gotten so caught up in the day to day that the lost their "firm grasp of the obvious". Since in both cases the mistakes are "obvious" to people on the outside.
Amazon Kindle Fire review
256 bits of Planck time units is 10^26 years. No rollover, for any reason, ever.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E256+units+of+planck...
I think the illusion that people are perfect is fundamentally flawed and have for a while now.
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We're an education aggregator and reseller out of Sydney http://coursesnow.com.au/

Also checkout http://wearehunted.com/ out of Brisbane.

BTW, we have an awesome shared office space at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast. Balcony, 100m from surf, cool tunes. Space for a couple extra people if anyone is interested.
The issue here isn't this particular problem. The insider trading problem is just a particularly egregious example of how modern American government holds many of the fundamental founding principles of the nation in contempt.

I respect the need for our representatives to be able to speak their mind and vote their conscience without fear of intimidation by some tyrant in the executive or judiciary. But according to the byzantine code of law enacted by Congress and based on statements made in the 60 Minutes report, every member of congress mentioned in this article likely committed one or more felonious acts.

Who watches the watchers? The rules of the House of Representatives and Senate need to address issues such as this. Widespread corruption of this nature, extending into the leadership of the Congress brings the integrity of the United States government into question.
Kindle Fire Review: The iPad Finally Has Serious Competition
2 versions then?
after doing some research, i'm not sure if this article is accurate. the price of cocaine plummeted in the late 1980's, but the drop off in homicide didn't start until mid 1990's.
No, it was total revenue that returned to previous levels after the initial spike, not volume. Approximately five times as many people were willing to pay $1 as were willing to pay $5.
The optimum point might lie outside. The curve might even dip in between the two price points.

Edit: The operative word here is 'might'.
MR damper rocks almost the same
Jailbreaking doesn't disable other aspects of the iPhone, it strictly enhances, as far as I've been able to tell.
you can always hide/delete comments..
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In practice, the direct appointment of Senators gave local political machinery complete and utter control.

The result was an institution in the Senate the was regressive by nearly any measure by the 1890's and 1900's.
Where are their scanning centers? The link (http://www.archive.org/scanning) said they have lots of them, but doesn't describe where. I assume I can't just show up and expect to get my books scanned, so I'd be interested to understand the process better. Can an individual participate or are they only working with their partners?
It shouldn't be hard to hear. If it's not true then who cares what I think. Like I said, I probably just be cynical.
I came here to point out that the title must surely be misleading since cancer is not one but many different diseases and therefore any vaccine would only be targeting certain cancer types, however the article states that 'VaxHit' could be applied to 90 percent of all known cancers, which is huge! I sincerely hope there is some substance to this.
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> The issue really became one of scaling democracy

Scaling democracy is absolutely the issue.

It's pretty much a fundamental fact of systems that organizational overhead grows super-linearly. Why are Windows, OS X, and Linux so big? Why do Microsoft and IBM and even Google have so much bureaucracy? The US population in 1790 was 3.9 million. Today it's over 300 million. Of course government is going to be much larger than it was then!
I suspect most people still want the comfort of a stable job or career. Problem is that for the last ten years it has been hard to find good ones in the general economy, outside a few growth areas of questionable sustainability (housing, finance, health care). So the opportunity cost for 20-30 somethings to doing their own thing has fallen, even if people don't want to admit it.

The other difference is that startups and small businesses give people a more comfortable narrative of how their life is going. It is a lot more comforting to tell yourself, "I'm doing badly now so I will do better in the future," than "I'll never get a job that pays as well as my parents."

If this was not the case, there would be much less romanticization of venture capital and angel investment on these boards, more startups would be focused on revenue-generating than traction-generating products, and lifestyle businesses would not be perceived as failures of boldness for "not swinging for the fences".
I've never heard the sinister meaning! Truth be told, we originally had the buttons reversed, but our customer development group consistently said it should be on the left. I have two theories for why:

My far out theory: Microsoft's dialog boxes always had the OK button on the left and Cancel on the right.

My sane theory: People read left to right, and they think "Yes or No." You rarely hear people say, "No or Yes."
Oh, forgot one important thing: thank you for the kind words!
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My layman's understanding is that you cannot invoke the 5th amendment in many circumstances where you might want to. The Supreme Court has also ruled that an adverse inference may be taken if you assert your 5th amendment right.

The safest way to get more time to answer a question is to refer the questioner to counsel.
?? It wasn't your post I was replying to!
Mockups with PowerPoint are just not effective. Also, with apps that are more than just a couple pages, it quickly becomes cumbersome, even inside Photoshop or Illustrator.

With Balsamiq, you're able to think out loud and get more decisions made faster. Also, when you're working in a team and not 100% clear on what the solution you're building will end up becoming, it helps a lot with the communication.

Lastly, when you know what you're building, it takes a lot less time building it (at least for me it does.)

For example, we're about to build and launch a new product in the next couple weeks. By spending some time creating a wireframe prototype that the whole team can click around in (https://volcanic.mybalsamiq.com/projects/customerloyalty/gri...) we've been able to tweak what we want version 1 to be and narrow our scope quiet a bit to just the essentials.

I'd say wireframing, particularly with myBalsamiq, is very beneficial for web app development.
_You_ watch the watchers. The best reason for a simpler, smaller government is the ability to see what it's doing, and for whom.
Democracy is messy, and everyone has dirty laundry.
These are purely examples, and run off an affiliate basis. There's a bit of education needed in this particular marketplace as to why hosting your own coupons locally is a good idea :)
Isn't it possible that manned space flight could be considered "slipping backward"? Unmanned space flight is supposed to be an advance because it doesn't put human life at risk, IOW it's an efficiency.
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The code is on github: https://github.com/sreuter/node-kinect-fun/
:) He has a long-term vision, which is a trait that you don't see a ton of in a quarter-by-quarter society. I think that's changing, though.
Amazon Kindle Fire, iPad’s First True Competitor
Does there seem to be something wrong with the audio on this to anybody else? It sounds like it's peaking out, or maybe flash is choking on it or something?
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Ok. Got it working... See demo http://vidoss.github.com/
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just throwing this out there, the silk browser takes advantage of caching content. when you have only a dozen reviewers using it is not really indicative of how it will preform with a million users using it
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