skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been happy with http://zerigo.com for the past couple years.
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What is "individual sovereignty"?

Rights are granted not by God, not by some internal edict. They come from the society you inhabit.

The world of sovereign individuals is wonderful in objectivist fantasies. In reality, it results in anarchy, for a brief moment before one strongman clubs another over the head, and two other people decide to team up against their neighbors.

Even casting aside the concept of civilization as we know it, you cannot reproduce in a vacuum, nor live in one. You are beholden to others for your existence, and you repay this debt by helping to ensure the continuation of the species. A morality that prizes collective rights over the rights of the individual is fundamental to our biology. Sovereignty, therefore is not a function of individuals.

Lest I be decried as an opposite but equal ideologue, I do see a necessary role for the individualists. The forces of society and government are powerful, and must be resisted: what is bad for one individual is just as likely to be bad for the whole of society. Neither side should ever presume an absolute right: in this battle there is no victory.

You also err in your definition of government. You were nearly correct: government is a natural monopoly on the use of force. The 'competitive market' for government is commonly called warfare. Government is a necessary evil as long as men are capable of violence.
Nice usage for an online compiler (Minecraft coordinates' calculator)
I understand what the post is trying to convey, yet it is easy for someone to cast the election & football in an equivalent framework: increasing the number of polls one of the statistician uses in order to narrow the confidence interval is equivalent to increasing the number of measurements you make on the football players & their environment before the game in order to narrow the confidence interval on the match outcome..

in other words you can interpret the confidence in the case of the election just as in the case of the football game, by stating that:

1. if your mathematical model of the population is accurate (eg. for instance your population really is voting using a binomial law of a certain probability p_democrat of voting for the democrat candidate)
2. and if the measurements (polls or player states) you have made give you that at least k voters out of N polled would have voted democrat

then you can consider all the (hypothetical) instances of a population which would have resulted in a same or higher number of democrat voters for this poll, and you can compute the confidence interval that gives you the probability that such a population would indeed elect a democrat president

So you don't necessarily have to view it in terms of "not changing the population vote, but changing the precision of the data", you can also cast it in just the framework of the football prediction
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I understand that. But not everything the government funds fails. I am instead disproving the case presented to me—the failure of Solyndra is not evidence of a failing government effort.
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Well, you could read it as "America is going to the Latinos" therefore 'Americia' is the Latin-ification of "America" (really the US, as Central/South America are also 'America'). There is also the tinfoil hat interpretation:

AmeriCIA... They're watching you...
I'm curious to see how smooth the interaction is with this product. It seems it could be awkward to ask a stranger who doesn't speak your language to look at your iPhone and click buttons to communicate with you.

On the other hand, if they can make it feel "magical", it will be an impressive achievement.
The first time I tried to write this comment, I was a little flip, because I'm not sure if you're trolling.

Purging the container is very easy and requires nothing more than fire (which I think Africans have), water (I am sure they have this), a vessel for boiling the water (ditto), and a moment's thought (the linked article seems to suggest this is locally available too). It does not require any vacuum pumps.

Step 1: Fill the vessel with water and start a fire
Step 2: Fill the hydrogen container with water and invert (so the open side is down)
Step 3: Hold the hydrogen container so that the opening is just below the surface of the water-to-be-boiled
Step 4: Wait for water vapor to fill the hydrogen container.

You now have a hydrogen container filled with water vapor and trace amount of atmospheric gases (the ones dissolved in the water and the ones adsorbed to the surface of the container). Since the urea electrolysis process produces only "dryish" hydrogen gas (the borax stage is used to remove water vapor from the as-produced hydrogen), it does not matter that the hydrogen container initially contains water vapor.

At this point, the user can either cap the hydrogen container (which will produce a poor vacuum as the water condenses) or immediately start filling it with hydrogen.

If conservation of borax is important (probably not, since I suspect that it can be dried fairly easily) one could prime the system by purging the hydrogen container with as-produced hydrogen to reduce the water content to an acceptable level before connecting it to the borax stage.
So, "I disagree but can't be bothered to actually justify myself". Cool, that's the kind of community participation you should be proud of.

How is that drivel? He's the ONLY one here saying that it's a farce that we should have to dress this up as "Save the kids from evil pot" and "Tax evil pot to make money" when it ought to be an issue of personal liberty.

Fortunately, you can't just downvote me because you disagree or can't be bothered to explain yourself. Maybe you'll choose to offer some actual thought yourself.
We're trying to get this message out while we resolve this, please help us spread it!

Guys,

As you may know, today the Hacker News Cologne Meetup.com group got
hijacked. That doesn't mean it's not business as usual, though: The
next meetup is scheduled for 1900 hrs CET @ Solution Space on Nov 28th
and
we have a new exciting special guest from the US on Skype and a
YCombinator alum who will be joining us IRL to share from his
experiences with us.

We're resolving the meetup.com hijacking farce in a civilized manner,
so it would be cool if:

1) We all refrain from personal attacks on the hijacker

2) We all help spread this message far & wide. We personally can’t
reach everyone directly, but hey, this is the intarwebs and you know
better than us how to get the word out to the right people.

We will discuss and decide on an alternative to Meetup.com during our
next IRL meetup.

Cheers, The Crew (Francis, Vidar & Maik … the original HN Meetup
Cologne Organizers)
Thanks for the response. That's nice to hear.
They should add themselves to the link bank too...
The feds have said that they aren't going to target individuals who follow state law.

That's what they've said, but as far as I can tell that isn't how they've behaved. That is, they continue to prosecute individuals who follow state law. They continue to give money to police departments in proportion to the drugs they seize, regardless of whether those drugs were legal under state law. And they continue to launder money for local law enforcement in those states when state law would otherwise prohibit police from keeping assets they seize for their own benefit.
It makes more sense in the context of the top post referencing how narrow design patents are. It also makes more sense to think of them as being more about branding/trademark than patent.

So it's novel in the sense that nothing previously looked literally like an iPad. That narrow level of novelty also defines the narrow scope of the protection.
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You are definitely confusing prediction confidence with winning margin.

Nate Silver's model gave Obama a 79% chance to win Virginia, and predicted that the vote share would be Obama 50.7% - 48.7% Romney. He predicted that the election would be close, but with high confidence would favor Obama.

The actual vote share was Obama 50.8% - 47.8% Romney, so if anything Silver's model predicted a narrower outcome than actually happened. Given the available evidence, the model might have underestimated Obama's probability of winning.
In my case, no one signed up. I actually doubt they even visited the website at all. My video got less than 30 views and I'm pretty sure my wife watched 25+ times just to laugh: I actually look abnormal in my application video, I tried several times but I always came up looking like a psychopath.

I thought that applying to YC wouldn't change anything, we would just keep working, talking to users, et al. But that was not what happened. It changed my state of mind, it made me start to 'plan' what would my steps be once accepted, it made me less productive, I'm anxious.

Can't wait for 13th.
I've started several small businesses, dating back to 2001, and have never done more than filling out my state corporate commission's articles of organization.

This is not the safest route, but definitely the easiest and cheapest way to get started. Doing this will let you open a business bank account, get merchant services setup, get an EIN (tax id) from the federal government, etc.

In Arizona it takes about 3 minutes and costs $50: http://www.azcc.gov/Divisions/Corporations/forms/starpas/for...
Being the only person to say something does not actually make what you have to say substantial.

I downvoted him because he didn't say anything, not because I disagree with him. He didn't say anything worth disagreeing with.
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Its just easier for people to go "Apple got a design patent for a ROUNDED RECT?!" rather than understand the actual situation. Design patents aren't all that bad compared to some of the more ridiculous ones that get thrown out, and if you're making hardware or something with a unique design they're useful.
Tool use is very rare. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_animals
Searching "count coup" pops up this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_coup

University professors are expected to advise, and see through graduation, their share of M.S. and Ph.D. students.
My interpretation is that early-stage start-ups need employees motivated primarily by something other than money (at least in the short term).

Accepting a position at a higher pay than your current one is a low-risk proposition, and start-ups are not an ideal environment for people who prefer to play it safe. Working to make their equity valuable in the long term should be a higher priority for early employees than extracting short-term financial gains.
Why do maximum security sites always disable auto-complete for username and password?

That seems less secure to me. If I always have to type in my password, chances are that I'll choose a password that can be easily remembered or I'll be forced to write it down somewhere.

(Personally, I use plugins to get around this anyway. My computer, my rules.)
That doesn't mean the tax is low. Cabbage is grown like cabbage, and it doesn't have 25% tax on it.

And what is 500% tax? You pay 4x your revenue for the right to grow marijuana? It's not a tax then, it's prohibitive fine.
OLinuXino, a good alternative to the Raspberry Pi?
No, Facebook Didn’t Decrease Page Feed Reach To Sell More Promoted Posts
Or Robert Loggia. I hope they never remake that movie.
Yeah, it's happened before too. In fact, I think all the members of the group get an email asking if they'd like to pay and take over. At least they used to.

I've also been told that it's tricky to remove a group, which means if you want to disband it, you have to manually remove all your members one by one unless you want to potentially subject them to a spammy takeover like has happened here. Removing members from your groups is also a pretty painfully slow process.
Regarding website authentication, I've been looking for some feedback on a new auth scheme.

Instead of using a standard password (all characters are allowed, min 5 characters, common passwords not allowed), you're able to login with a 4 digit passcode. I know someone just cringed at that thought, but the idea centralizes around improving user experience on the website.

First, all normal precautions would be taken (no common digit patterns - 1234, 1111, 2222, etc). There would also be a limit of two attempts before the passcode is reset. The reset procedure would be them receiving a new passcode via SMS, and them having to reply "yes" before the account is unblocked. The passcode is also reset every month, and a new one is sent via SMS to your phone (you can reply to change the passcode to something else).

Now for the issues I would need to address before this is even a possibility:

1) Users on the website login with their phone number, so one obvious attack would be someone cycling through all possible phone numbers with the same passcode (for example 8237). One suggestion in the article was detecting average error rates and comparing them to see if the entire website login should be throttled.

2) If someone somehow gets a hold of the database, all passcodes would be easily crackable. Now usually this would be a huge issue, but this is because normally people could use the email/password combination to login to other websites the user might use. Since they're using 4 digit passcodes, this wouldn't apply.

3) Someone could write a script to try phone number/passcode combinations until the entire website has their passcode reset, but this would fall under 1) where the error rates would exceed the normal limits and the logins would be throttled.

4) What would be an appropriate way to throttle? I mentioned it twice above, and in the article it was referring to a timeout, but the user experience of this would negate all benefits of a 4 digit passcode. Someone could keep trying combinations, and keep throttling the site every day. I could block the ip's, but what if those ip's were also sources of legitimate traffic and stopping users from logging in/signing up.

Thoughts?
This. I'm very familiar with stop orders. They're useless once the market goes to hell (the exact conditions you need them in).
Yes, I saw that but it does not help me understand why someone would want to do something like this. That being said, the best approach right now is to consider the Meetup.com null & void for the purpose of "Hacker News Cologne Meetup". We'll discuss alternatives IRL during the next meetup. (see post above)
A quick Google search turns up several interesting studies. Here's a link to a good APA overview of a few of them: http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/willpower-poverty-financial.pd...
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They don't come from the society - otherwise there's nothing wrong with slavery, if only society condones it. If you want to claim the society is wrong and slavery is bad, you need to find some reason why. If the reason of "I don't like it" does not sound convincing to you, you'd have to find some principles that lie beyond the customs of the society. It doesn't have to be God's will, but it has to be something. Society can only follow these principles or violate them, and according to that be a good society or bad society. But it can not be the source of it - unless you are willing to concede slavery was perfectly fine, while society accepted it.
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Probably to prevent people accidentally saving a login on a shared/public computer.
The Supreme Court ruled on this a few years ago. They said that Congress can regulate home-grown marijuana (even though they are only constitutionally allowed to regulate interstate commerce) because the presence of homegrown marijuana affects supply/demand in the interstate market for it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

Baffling logic, but I wouldn't be optimistic for the federal authorities to be too foregiving here.
You are certainly right about the "its".
I have an annoying habit of incorrectly correcting people.
Hey, can you guys provide a list of your clients so I know which blogs to avoid?
Great list of entrepreneurs.
> Cannabis does not have a physical addiction characteristic

The evidence for a link between Cannabis and increased risk of psychosis is increasing [1]. A patient with psychosis rarely recovers and is extremely costly to society over his lifetime (as well as a personal tragedy, of course). I'm in favour of legalisation but it is something to take into account.

[1] http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/schizophrenia/content/articl...
Definitely recommend, I've been with nReduce for about 16 weeks now, and I've found it really useful publicly setting yourself weekly targets that you actually need to deliver for.

Plus the guys who run it are great.
"In a recent survey taken by Wikipedia on operating system statistics, approximately 1.58% of all users use Linux, just losing out to next popular operating system, Other, at 5.41%."

LOL, I didn't know that "Other" was an OS... Seems like a copy-paste problem...
2. WebGL works fine, HTML5 works fine. This is Firefox's Gecko. Everything that works on Desktop works on Firefox OS.

For 1. and 3., here's the Web API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI

Should answer all your questions, I hope
We didn't get concepts, but I think that in the long term it is a good thing. Instead of that we will probably get a more D like static if which basically does everything concepts did but it much easier to implement and understand.
There's a difference between 'not expressing interest' and 'actively pursuing the opposing agenda' that I hope is apparent.

2012 Democratic Platform:

"We must help state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement work together to combat and prevent drug crime and drug and alcohol abuse, which are blights on our communities. We have increased funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program over the last four years, and we will continue to expand the use of drug courts. We support the rights of victims to be respected, heard, and compensated."

RTFM.
I think your point about rapid distribution and iteration is the most compelling reason.

Anecdotally, I've heard from a number of engineers and technical leads working on mobile-first startups that they started out by building HTML5 mobile apps and driving traffic to it (vs. native first) to better understand what users want before starting native application development from a test-learn-iterate standpoint.

Being able to make rapid changes based on user behavior and feedback significantly de-risks the chance of "missing the target" at the outset.
Actually its Android/Linux
A lot of parts are non-GNU. Specially the proprietary drivers.
You should put your email in your HN profile so people can email you directly (the email field isn't publicly visible). In the meantime, shoot me an email at scotty@appmonsta.com.

We help businesses better understand mobile apps and app markets through by aggregating tons of data - we have lots of thorny big data problems to solve, and you might be a good fit with your existing skill set for a new project we're about to start.
Your contention about AA policies is simply false. The boost given to minorities is typically quite large, +1.0 on GPA at U-Mich (i.e., black + 3.1 > asian + 4.0).

http://www.jbhe.com/features/53_SAT.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20080801022539/http://www.aamc.or...

And again, you still have yet to explain why I should give your preferred grouping of humans ({x : x.race == REFERENCE_RACE}) moral weight over my preferred grouping ({x : x.ssn % 104 == 7 || x.isPoor}). Why are you unwilling to help out people in my group, which is also statistically disadvantaged?
Ronald Reagan's electoral graph would like to disagree.
IANAL, and I'm not going to pretend (like yourself) that I can interpret Supreme Court opinions by "brushing up" on them.

Could you point me to an instance in which the cases you cited were used as precedence in support of federal jurisdiction over controlled substances within state lines? Or did you just want me to be impressed that you can cite Supreme Court cases involving the commerce clause?
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in the file properties field "Create time" changed to "Change time" (http://php.net/filectime).
Fixed a bug that caused not working mysql brute force if there was a port of the server .
Fixed a bug due to which one can not see the contents of a table called download in the database.
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As an X-Files fanboy, I was pleased to see "trustno1" on that list!
Woah, chill man. I was in science, I've seen the ugly side of academia. I'm glad your partner is a good PI...the world needs more of them.

That said, there are plenty of PIs who see grads and post-docs as nothing more than a revolving door of cheap labor. My comment may have been snarky and short, but I stand by the statement and don't apologize for it.

As a whole, academic science is a horribly backward place to work. In my field (biology), most grads stick around because of a misplaced sense of honor/duty/guilt.

"If you can't stay in science, you can't hack it! Now go finish that experiment over the weekend."
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PhD programs are by and large an utter scam at all levels and in many different ways.

Downvotes away.
YouTube has analytics for each vid that tells you where it was viewed (by State), when, how long, whether it was a unique viewer, etc.

Probably more useful in determining whether or not YC specifically viewed your vid if it's unlisted and you don't live in California.
Nice article, Jason.

With regards to this point:

The most common ... mistake people make ... is that they just don’t think about it.

... while that is true, I think the root problem is that people don't think about it for themselves.

In other words, people are apt to use analogies or proxies to simplify the decision process. This is useful short-hand for a lot of things in life (no need to think too much about uber), but leaves much to be desired for pivotal decisions. Silicon Valley is an echo chamber ... are you ideas really your own? or are you parroting someone else?

I think Elon Musk says it best in his interview with Kevin Rose: http://youtu.be/g92rP1Mi_oQ

His main point is to take time to think from first principals (e.g. the raw materials of rockets cost less than <1% of the finished product ... therefore, something is wrong!) and to try to come to your own conclusions.
HN I am buying a website. Show me what you have. 
Looking to buy a startup or established website (budget in the xx,xxx range).

- Looking for something providing a product, service, web app etc

- Revenue is not required

- Would like to see slight traction but not necessary if its GOOD

- Nothing illegal

Post here or contact me via the email in my profile. If interested I'll respond.
Does this really work with a 9 volt battery? That would be a cool thing to show my kids.
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This is the kind of crap I wish would disappear from the web. At least Google is trying to do it's part. I also think a company blog is not the place for this kind of arbitrage, I see it often on random companies websites and it shows: instead of engaging the audience, the post listing looks like a pyramid marketing scheme.
For Orbit we were working on some new features which allows you to hotswap code while you are typing / dragging and dropping things on the visual representation. See https://vimeo.com/53017149 for a little preview. Maybe that is something he/she wants :)
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