skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"I characterize it as you being an asshole"

Because you cannot argue to the point, and in doing so, you prove my point.

But by admitting it, you lost the debate. You are the problem. There is no excuse for this.

I know if I returned this in kind, that I would be hellbanned.

This is why abusive people like you feel free to call others "asshole" or "douche". Because the moderators have your back.

So, not only are you the problem, but the moderators who censor those who think differently and let people who have nothing but name calling slide, are the problem.

>"Right now that post has 32 points"

Which proves my conclusion- a purely ad hominem post, that argues to the person, and includes calling me names, is well upvoted.

You're incapable of making a rational argument, so you egnage in name calling. Other people like to see me attacked for the "crime" of thinking differently, so they up vote you. Now this thread has you calling me names twice, at length, and derailing the possibility of productive discussion.

Frankly, I think its sad that your mind is so overrun by ideology that you're unable to think sufficiently to construct acounter argument, or your integrity is so low that you think "smearing the queer" and getting applauded for it is some sort of a victory.

And of course, blame the queer. He had it coming. For daring to be different. You are nothing more than a bigot. Unable to make an argument, so you call people names.

And you are what is ruining this site.
Cool! Introduced me to a neat environment I'd not previously known about. Though that .gif seems a bit...in the wrong decade :)
By your terms, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is a story about blaming the victim.
A lot of this sounds like typical congested city problems, and I don't know how much reporting it would do. I would hope the cops have better things to do than watch videos of people tailgating or changing lanes without signalling, frankly (as much as these may annoy me).

That said, you could get a dashcam and send whatever particularly egregious incidents you run across to the cops by mail, probably.
Benefits of Resveratrol Supplementation
Voting is important. (Taking that as a given, I'm not actually sure anymore.)

For a one-off like this, unplanned, I think it's fine to risk a reduction in anonymity, compared to not being able to vote at all. They are where they are, and they have to deal with it today.
Excellent hack!
First off I am in Brooklyn and I am experiencing the daily realities of a post Sandy city in recovery.

The genius of Elon Musk is that he is not choosing between being a multi-millionaire and focusing on bettering humanity (focusing on the rest of us, as you said). He is not motivated by being a millionaire or billionaire (as it seems like you are). His wealth is a direct result of providing value to society, that is how capitalism works, the more value you create for humanity the more wealth you create for yourself and others.

Musk was on the verge of loosing everything, his wife, his 3rd rocket and Tesla due to accounting errors. But his desire to do great things for humanity pushed him past all of these hurdles that would stop most which now make him look like a hero.

I think you are going about it the wrong way, it seems like you think that by selling your company for "hundres of millions" will make you happy. It seems like only when you are on your high horse of being a multi-millionaire that you will look down upon and help the rest of us.

Bullshit!

Why can't you crate value for humanity in a meaningful way through building software that is solving a big problem and creating wealth for you and society? I think you are selling yourself way short by only focusing on trying to sell your software company that is not solving a big enough problem. If it was solving a big problem you wouldn't have written this blog post! You are torn because it is not solving a big enough problem.

This is the problem with the startup culture today, you are the epitome of it! Your last statement is what is wrong with Silicon Vally today:

"...but if anyone wants to buy my company for a few hundred million (it’s worth it!) then I promise I’ll follow in Elon Musk’s footsteps and focus on the rest of you."

That is the worst IF THEN statement!

IF millionaire, THEN rest of you...

How about, IF I help solve huge problems for humanity THEN I will both be fulfilled in life and as a bonus could be a multi-millionaire or billionaire.
It's funny, but I most often feel the urge to do this when I see police doing similar things. Because that's even less cool, but also more noticeable. I know others who feel a similar sense of outrage.
They do look weirdly similar.

How big are the dust fines in the Sahara compared to those on Mars? NASA says the dust on Mars can be "as fine as cigarette smoke" which surprised me. (http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/09...)

> Because the martian atmosphere is thin--about 1% as dense as Earth's at sea level--only the smallest dust grains hang in the air. "Airborne dust on Mars is about as fine as cigarette smoke," says Bell. These fine grains reflect 20% to 25% of the sunlight that hits them; that's why the clouds look bright. (For comparison, the reflectivity of typical martian terrain is 10% to 15%.)

I'm not sure about Saharan dust sizes. (http://home.shirazu.ac.ir/~kompani/geomorphology/papers-87-8...)

Mars has no rain. The Sahara has maybe 3 inches (lol inches) per year.

This youth website has some interesting snippets - (http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/africa/exhibit/sahara/mor...)

>Sand dunes make up only about 15 percent of the Sahara, but the desert is so huge (about three and a half million square miles or 5.63 million sq km) that even a single dune may be enormous. The sand dune known as the Libyan Erg is as big as France.

NASA really needs some more recognition for the amazing work they do. "Soft power" and all that; they should be designated a wonder of the world or a UN heritage thing.
10 bucks to the next guy who videos himself trying it
Good thing NJ isn't a swing state or the lawsuits would already have been filed by now.

* First thing that comes to mind: how ready is NJ.gov for a denial of service attack?
Or, crucially, desire.
For all of the slagging Pulseaudio gets, built in network transparency is very cool. The client does all of the resampling and rate conversion, so you can ramp up the conversion quality to max on your relatively powerful laptop and the Pi just shunts the bits onto the sound card.
hmm.. the article says: "If we encoded our secret with a cubic function and distributed coordinate sub-passwords it would require any combination of four points to determine the intercept and the secret."

Maybe I'm missing something here, but, taking any of the cubic function diagrams as example, what if all four coordinates have their "x" between -10 and 0? Those four coordinates will not be enough to generate the whole curve, no?
I think this is a good trend. The more criminals understand that they will be caught, the sooner they will be off the street and/or learn to behave.

I see this trend going even further though. A lot of people have suspicions about crime before it even takes place. A person standing in front of a car and looking around to see who's watching, for example.

What if they could report suspicion and have that alert property owners and police before a crime occurs?

Such suspicion should not be used to hassle people. That person waiting by the car may be meeting the owner and looking for his approach. But knowing that people have suspicions can allow property owners to turn on lights and do other things to communicate that the chances of being caught are not low.

Cops could also use suspicion data to decide where cops should be when there is no crime. Better to hang out on a block where suspicions are high than where there is no crime.

Over time, I can see them discerning between suspicion that precedes actual crime and false suspicion and get even better at predicting where they should be.
>I would hope the cops have better things to do than watch videos of people tailgating or changing lanes without signalling, frankly (as much as these may annoy me).

Agreed, but I'd imagine you could hire people who had that as their primary job, and then make serious bank on the resulting fines.

I can't imagine a single driver who hasn't seen some twit driving like a maniac and thinking "where's a cop when you need one"?
Oh, an insult! How original! And blame the victim for pointing out that you're blaming the victim. What a clever retort!

My argument that the site was overrun with this kind of stuff is only supported by you continuing to produce it.

So, please do.
I hope you're joking...
What makes you think you have anonymous voting now? You must identify yourself when entering a polling station and each vote is tracked, in the event of a recount.

The same type of anonymity can be provided by an automated program parsing emails that I can write in about an hour.

I'm proud that my state will be among the first to move in this obvious direction. Unfortunate that it had to be under such circumstances.
Personally, I find Stephan Kinsella's argument on how intellectual property is fundamentally different from physical property to be convincing. That may be just because it reinforces my biases, though.

By the way, if you want an honest opinion of someone who has upvoted your posts in the past -to correct "disagree" downvotes-, I frankly find your posts aggressive, to the point that you lose me as an audience. It's often not about the content - I think we can agree that e.g. Russ Roberts is not a leftist, yet I enjoy what he has to say - but the form.
Why are all of the wires on the Curiosity Rover wrapped in bundles and tied to the exterior? Wouldn't the wires be better protected inside of a casing of some sort? Is it just to save weight?
Absolutely, you're right. And that's what I'm doing. I'm using a machine curation service that is in beta. Unfortunately it's little more than a "subscribe to several RSS feeds at once by expressing an interest in a general topic"... but I think that's the direction to go.
The Times derives much more benefit from the association than he does.
The author has this page hosted from a micro EC2 instance, but they could just as easily serve it from S3, avoiding needing to run any servers / pay for anything except for the bandwidth fees (12c/gb).

Either way, it's a really neat hack.
you might want to take a look at MenuetOS, its written in x86 assembly, and expressly created for clarity and learning.

http://www.menuetos.net/
Interesting. Thanks for the clarification!
Ask HN: how to teach voice apps Congenital mesoblastic nephroma
I am very frustrated with the medical dictation abilities of these voice recognition applications. How can I make them more useful for medical professionals? I have tried using the word, speaking the word, searching for the word and speaking the word again. No joy.
You're welcome! :) Ah I see, then you're in much better shape than I thought. But still, one can never be that sure about a startup, you have to be really careful with that. Put some fake screenshots together and tell your potential customers your product is ready and ask them to buy it. If they reply "ok send me your bank account" you're good.
I say this because I've experienced it firsthand: you may find out that your assumptions are not that well-validated.
But that's just a quick tip, now back to the topic.

I don't think learning how to code is a must if you have a technical co-founder, someone that you can trust and will handle all the coding while you handle other business related issues. That usually works well.

That's what I would do in your place, since you're finding it too hard to code it yourself. In my opinion, why is it bad to "just hire" some programmers (instead of giving them/him equity and thus having a co-founder):

- Since you don't know how to code, you can't really tell if they're giving you what you paid for (is this shitty code or not?);

- Your runway will be a lot shorter since you have to spend money paying them. Also, if you're willing to invest your money in your startup, think about the fact that, for example, with $1000/month you can only hire a lesser programmer but you could pay for a badass server with huge bandwidth, etc;

- Startups are also about passion. Hired programmers wouldn't come close to the dedication needed at the early stages of a startup. Unless you were willing to spend a serious amount of cash and hire some seriously good hackers with +- $100k/year;

- And theoretically, there's nothing to stop them from "stealing" your idea;

There you go, my thoughts on the subject.
Good or bad practice to send a user password in an email?
Toms.com just sent my original password in an email after signing up. This just seems a bit old-fashioned. Does this probably mean that their password security is sub-standard?
Our industry is young again, and it’s all about UI
Try doing your walking first thing in the morning before breakfast. Lot's of bodybuilders use this technique when they are cutting for a contest. It's also a popular method because unlike cardio, walking has almost no detrimental effect on weight-training later in the day. I'd love to hear your results after keeping track of this.
My thought was that even though it was the Norco hardware that was blowing out, it could be the 3T drives are the thing that are somehow exceptional. Their rated current is 0.75A, but what do they draw and for how long in the initial power on surge?
From what I can tell about this, it seems to work like:

1.) Overseas / abroad resident has to apply for the email ballot. This should go through some sort of human approval process, making sure that the names for those particular voters voting in this method are recorded - to compare against in-person voting locations and ensure no double-voting. Hopefully should any double+ voting occur, this ballot will be invalidated.

2.) They are either faxed or sent, via email, an electronic PDF form based ballot. These PDF forms are true forms in that they allow for the voter to type in entries and save the new version (complete with entered information).

3.) The faxed form would be faxed back, with entries. The PDF version would be sent back, with entries, via email.

Unless Adobe has (once again) extended the PDF format to include encryption of PDF form entries, then yes, the emailed returned ballot will expose the voter's preferences via plaintext transmission.

The only way they'd be able to avoid that would be to have, for instance, an https accessible website that allows for PDF ballot upload. Somehow I doubt this is what they're doing.
What about "articles?"
I am well over 50. It has been a while since I took up a wholly new programming language, but I keep my hand in with quite a few. I tend to vote with radicalbyte's friend--being able to choose how much and when to work would be nice, but getting out of the house and working is definitely a good thing.
I'd just like the roads to be safer. People who break traffic laws are effectively risking your life. That's not cool.

If you want the roads to be safer, lobby your public officials for the implementation of 85th-percentile speed limits.

There is absolutely zero evidence that enforcement of artificially-low highway speed limits makes anyone safer.
Very cool, congrats. You may want to read this post-mortem of a company that did the same thing, but then shut down after 50 paying customers. (I used to be a customer, and we re-built it ourselves once the service went offline)

http://buzzer-o-matic.tumblr.com/
We are the aliens. That's the irony in all of this. Martians aren't invading earth. Earthlings are invading Mars ;)
You have elected to write a great deal about your perceived injustices but have not provided the link to the apparently well-remembered post you have described; searching for the alleged exact text[1] with or without your username returns only this thread.

Once more, if it is as straightforward as you claim I will be more than happy to agree that your point has some validity, but I'd like to see proof rather than unfounded assertions (whereas I would say that my assertions have been pretty well demonstrated by your behavior in this thread).

[1] - http://goo.gl/ubWZ7
Well, it worked that way in the Republican primaries, didn't it? There was never much doubt that Romney would be the nominee, but quite a cast got turns at playing the non-Romney option of the week.
The article states "the web". And yeah, Google re-invented it (I certainly agree that the whole post is overflowing with hyperbole... it reads like a very weak attempt at marketing - or maybe it's just trolling?), because it changed the way people use it (the web). If you remember how it was in times of altavista, lycos and yahoo you have to agree that introduction of searches that actually yield relevant, fresh results most of the time was something BIG.

The rest of this post is much less convincing (did I mention I suspect trolling?) - I find it telling that the author mentioned a few companies but not Amazon, for example. With a certain dose of goodwill it can be read as an appeal to companies to focus on "real" stuff more than frontends and marketing, but... I'm not sure if I have that much of good will.
The extra detail is awesome. Being able to see the individual bolts, the decals, and other reference points makes the image far more real than the low-res version. Without those details, it's just a cute publicity shot of tax dollars in action; with detail, it's a large machine grinding across a brutal landscape (complete with dents in the tires and dirt in the joints).
Putting the wires on the outside does save some weight, but the main reason is to make the connections accessible during assembly and test. If something needs to be fixed you want to be able to get to it with a minimum of disassembly.
Understanding OLAP
A brief explanation of what OLAP is and how it works.
It seems fairly likely to me. The phone lines that charge extra for long distance are exactly those cheap, low-functionality lines that a system like this is probably hooked up to.
Yeah I'm pretty new to the AWS stuff and am still running on my free usage tier. Originally I was running some php on the page, hence the server. Now it's all javascript based so the micro instance isn't needed but I just left it up as it's still free.
Linus Torvalds: Is Engadget really that stupid? Just corrupt? Trolling us all?
I don't see why they use civilians to look and screen videos. Hope they have a watchmen for watchmen and informed officers who know about taping police on work.

Isn't this bit off Hacker News 'thou?
Let me guess, it's only ever other people who are screwups.
Tell landlords they can offer the service to tenants for $10/mo. Split proceeds 50/50.

Call every landlord in town.

Landlords love upselling tenants (parking spaces, storage space, etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_cryptosystem
The city and the storm
Ask HN: Why not LegalZoom?
A lot of tech entrepreneurs are saying that you shouldn't use legalzoom to incorporate. What are the reasons for this? Is there room in the market for an alternative that can make both founders and investors happy? Or is this a problem that is inherent to any online incorporation service?
Maybe someone can correct me or give a little more details, but I'm under the impression many communities have tried to make recording police officers illegal.
I think whatever the relationship, it's clear he no longer comments on anything that isn't directly poll-related. Someone is telling him to "stay in his lane" and he's doing it. His pieces are all long, detailed poll analyses.

Nate could be pretty hilarious in print. I want the old short snarky articles back.
I was excited when I saw that something in hexadecimal was going on sale.

Only to be disappointed when I realized it wasn't 0x10c [1].

[1] http://0x10c.com/
Honest Q that I hope won't sound too partisan: I think it's pretty accurate that most members of the news media tilt to the Democratic side -- although I think they tend to be much more in the Clinton model rather than the Kucinich model, which is to say about what would have been considered moderate Republican in the 60s (socially fairly liberal but economically rather lassez-faire, save for a few fairly stock Democratic positions like being pro-union).

However, that doesn't necessarily mean the actual news stories are biased. There may be tilts in the sense that, say, a Keynesian and a Hayekian might sincerely intend to write the same story objectively but still reveal a bit of bias in the finished result -- but isn't that qualitatively different from the kind of editorializing we see on Fox (and, since they decided that counter-programming Fox was their ticket to success, MSNBC)?
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This is terrifying to me because I have the 3U version of that exact chassis and I was just thinking about upgrading from 2TB to 4TB drives.
There's nothing theoretical about what's he's suggesting.

You'd be referring to BIS.org, the central banker's bank, which was setup in 1930 for reparation payments to Germany. The bank was almost dissolved in 1944 after allegations it facilitated Nazi Germany's looting of other countries assets. Two of its directors were convicted at the Nuremberg trials and one owned the bank used by the Gestapo. But the modern father of economics, John Maynard Keynes, was a prominent voice against its dissolution.

I believe the very existence of the bank was denied publicly for years. Today they have assets around $400 billion and are immune from any jurisdiction (based in Basel, Switzerland). There is nothing American about the Federal Reserve system nor its international counterpart, the BIS. It's an oligarchy and extremely corrupt. The reports of the BIS have numbers like "$147 trillion" referring to currency swaps etc. It's a fascinating look at how international banking works, all of which is public now.

As for the Liberty Dollar, it existed for around 8-years and had letters from the Treasury, Secret Service and others attesting to its legality. As soon as Liberty Dollar made millions of dollars in Ron Paul coins, they were indicted and their customer's property was seized. However, the Liberty Dollar's marketing plans for the promotion of their alternative currency were deceptive and likely illegal.
They've done it in the UK. I'm not saying it's exactly how we should do it here but it's something that should be considered.

"The consequences, the judges made immediately clear, were serious. “Allegations of an illegal practice in elections,” they wrote in their full judgement, “have what are in effect penal consequences.” As such, the May election Woolas won by 103 votes was declared void, and he was barred from the House of Commons and any elective office for three years."

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ryan-gallagher/woola...
> I see this trend going even further though. A lot of people have suspicions about crime before it even takes place. A person standing in front of a car and looking around to see who's watching, for example.

> What if they could report suspicion and have that alert property owners and police before a crime occurs?

Neighbourhood watch schemes are not new.

They do, rarely, have problems.

> Dispatcher: Are you following him?

> Zimmerman: Yeah.

> Dispatcher: Okay, we don't need you to do that.

> Zimmerman: Okay.
um... the first thing I looked at:
http://www.bitcoinstore.com/hp-folio-13-b2a32ut-13-3-quot-le...

vs. the first google hit:
http://www.amazon.com/HP-Folio-B2A32UT-13-3-Inch-Ultrabook/d...

It would be nice if there were some concrete examples advertised of newegg/amazon etc. being undercut.
For more about avoiding noise on the web, see The Slow Web by Jack Cheng [1].

1: http://blog.jackcheng.com/post/25160553986/the-slow-web
I did the same thing using twilio here (http://www.ryanfaerman.com/notebook/2012/07/10/gate-insecuri...). The plus-side is it only costs me 3 cents per gate call.