skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird that nobody realizes that the constitution does say that the government not only has the right to violate any (other) law to violate the constitution, but actually has the duty to do so.

To protect the constitution (and it's application within it's jurisdiction), the president (ie. the government) has the right AND the duty to violate ANY American law except clause 1 and 2 of the constitution. To put it plainly : the ONLY thing the president cannot do to defend the constitution is to mess with elections. That's it. It also states that the president is the person making the assessment if an action is necessary (and thus, not the courts, though of course, the president can be removed from office for making a decision that either congress or the courts think was not reasonable. That does not change the fact that the president cannot be punished for implementing that action. The maximum penalty for any crime for the president is impeachment, unless this is specifically extended by congress).

This is because article 2 of the constitution overrides every other law in the US, except article 1, including all following articles and amendments.

If you think this sequence is by accident, you should talk to a lawyer about things like this. Sequence in laws, and the principle that earlier rules override later ones is extremely well established technique of law.

What everybody seems to think these laws state, that you have extensive rights without any qualifications whatsoever, is just plainly not true. If you are a danger to the application of the US constitution within US borders, the president is not bound to any standard, nor does he have to respect any form of human rights in his attempts to stop you from doing so.

If you think it is better in European states, think again. Specifically, read what the Dutch monarch is allowed to do (e.g. she can have someone killed - both her and the actual murderer go free, she can confiscate any amount of property - with no legal recourse for anyone, etc.). Similar things are true for other Euro countries.
http://www.hillmap.com

A google maps mash up for backcountry travelers that does things like find avalanche prone slopes by analyzing image maps of elevation in canvas/javascript.

Started it mostly for my own use but it has been getting some traction.
Have you seen http://skillbet.com ?
Mitsubishi seals the fate of rear-projection TVs, discontinues its last line
Gujarat CM appeared in full detail at 26 different locations simultaneously
Concurrency, Performance, Threads, And Locking Brain Dump
Thanks! You should add Product Managers to the survey.
I never used to, but I recently got a 1080p 13-inch screen. I don't like the OS-level scaling in Windows, or turning down the virtual resolution, because it makes the chrome take up more space. Chrome (the browser) doesn't respect Windows' OS-level scaling anyway. The combination of this and Sublime Text 2, which has word-wrapping good enough to use in code and makes it extremely easy to change the font size, has led to me zooming in a ton lately. I've found I actually enjoy reading text that's larger than what I was reading before the high-dpi screen anyway.
The title says different, but it looks fun judging by the pictures in the website. Currently downloading it! :)

Edit: Tried it! OMG. Nudifying your friend is so easy! I love its simplicity. And I'm laughing because of what I did. Can't wait to share it with my friends.
Haha, 1080p on a 13" here.
Stripe hosts quasi-regular hack days during weekends
Interviewing @thegdb about the @stripe Hack to the Future event this weekend in San Francisco.
Uber's behavior during Sandy was a colossally boneheaded move. Of course they're able to rationalize the 2x "surge pricing" by talking about increase in supply, etc. To a certain subset of the public, it made sense, and they had their defenders in quite a few places.

What it really did, though, was generate massive amounts of bad publicity as journalists took the opportunity to dash off quick "Price Gouging" stories, inflaming the public and giving ammunition to those who would like to take Uber down.

Uber had a golden opportunity during Sandy. They could have dug into their own pockets and paid their drivers the 2x pricing, while keeping the rates as-is, or even giving a Sandy discount. The monetary cost would have been absorbable, and the benefit to their image would have been immense. Instead of regulators pointing to their "price-gouging" during the storm, there would be journalists and riders coming to their defense, talking about what a good thing it was that we had a company like Uber in New York City.

If they failed that simple test of PR101, it's not surprising that Kalanick and his company are having a hard time navigating the insular and heavily political waters of municipal regulatory boards. There's more to succeeding in business than having a great product. You've got to learn to play the game.
UPS sends brokerage fees bill to wrong customer
It is not so much a meltdown. Those meltdowns are rare. And most people don't die at the point of the meltdown but from the long term consequences of the meltdown. But many Nuclear supporters doesn't accept those death as consequences of the nuclear meltdown. BTW, not knowing data is accurate but assuming it is, is like finding a gun and assuming it is not loaded.

What I'm really concerned about nuclear power is the problem of waste. The dream of fuel recycling has been dreamt for 40 years now and those existing plants are everything but clean. Currently the idea of a closed fuel circle for nuclear power is just a dream.

Also citing new reactor designs is pointless. Old designs are still running. Old Russian designs are still running, and I don't speak about Chernobyl like reactors. And it would take decades to replace those reactors and you still have to deal with the old ones. E.g. Germany shut down all Russian WWER reactors in the East after the reunification, those reactors are still there, the deconstruction of those reactors has just started a few years ago.

In that time frame you might just as good replace nuclear power with a decentralized system of renewable energy. I really wonder, why people who love the internet, love freedom, love markets don't root for that. Decentralized renewable energy are much less likely to create a monopoly for electricity. It is much more likely that you could have an autonomous energy supply.
You know you're winning when your competition knows that the only way they'll win is by changing the law.
Ahh. That sucks. Didn't realise it was his second time on Kickstarter. Sure he asked a few friends to help back it to improve the social proof throughout too. Where there's a will, there's a way. Hopefully he finds a not too difficult solution to this one.
I don't doubt you. In fact, I agree with you in the usefulness of having a dynamic home screen. That being said ... I disagree that each of those little things should be interactive to the level that they are on Sailfish. Not only that, but it appears to be one of their main selling points. I'm not sold.

For the record, I like Windows Phone and prefer it to Android.
Channeling Rand: Why Authenticity And Perseverance Wins The Race
Pessimal Algorithms
I got an idea how and why dft works from prof.Wilf(RIP) http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AlgoComp.pdf see from page 50 on. He approaches it from the algebraical side
The "Page Per Change" Model For Change Transition Documents
It obviously does discriminate against people by marital status, because if you're not married, you're not liable to be rejected based on the spouse-dinner filter.

It's a little like suggesting that you're not filtering based on religion if you ban yarmulkes.
I'm just going to quote this early part of the document as it summarizes the goal of pessimal algorithms - to design a program to always get closer, but as slowly as possible.

"Of course, we can get very slow algorithms by adding spurious loops before the ﬁrst test of X against
the Ai
. However, such easy solutions are unacceptable because any fool can see that the algorithm is just
wasting time. Therefore, we must look for an algorithm that does indeed progress steadily towards its
stated goal even though it may have very little enthusiasm for (or even a manifest aversion to) actually
getting there."

Zeno would be pleased.
I agree, today my facebook feed is a collection of bad jokes, pictures containing bad jokes written in comic sans and stupid polls and question in desperate need for likes and comments ("like of you remember this guy!").
Wasn't it Steve Jobs himself who said to President Obama at a dinner that "those jobs aren't coming back" when talking about high-tech manufacturing?

I've been reading about other technology companies besides Apple doing this as well. Element and Vizio, two value-tier (think Wal-Mart and Target) flat-screen TV manufacturers have major assembly plants here in the states. They cited a combo of labor, shipping and duty being cost-ineffective at their price levels to make and ship from China.
First five comments looks like a voting ring...
Very interesting idea and it seems like a reasonably plausible issue. However, If you skin your Firefox browser [1], your skin also shows up in the search bar. It'd definitely be a very subtle sign of something being wrong though.

[1]: https://www.getpersonas.com/
If you are on Android, try Hovernote to address the unselectable phone number case. Type the number into the hovering note, then copy/paste from the note.
None of your first three points are really a problem. No, you won't be able to do a simple regex based solution, but the rules for where whitespace matters in HTML are rigorously standardized. Obey them, and your minifier will work just fine.

>1) GZIP if used will make the impact of scrubbing out whitespace almost nonexistent

Maybe if you were just removing whitespace (although you still will see a difference). Removing comments and omitting optional closing tags will take you further. Minified JS compresses smaller than un-minified JS, so it's reasonable to think the same would be true of HTML.

>Most HTML served is dynamic, meaning that the HTML compression will need to be run on every HTML response - this could have some performance negatives. (If your just compressing static HTML once it should be fine.)

For templated HTML, the minification should be done on the template itself, not on the final output. You really do have to weigh the pros and cons of GZIPping dynamically generated HTML, so pre-minified HTML templates could be a pretty big win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lya292wdpo
They DID dig into their own pockets to pay drivers the 2x price. Their "surge" pricing was in effect for a very short time. It's been reported that they paid over 100k out of pocket to help boost supply. They're a young, inexperienced company, and went with the tool they usually do when they are supply constrained and need more drivers (increase prices to incentivize drivers). They quickly changed course and did the right thing.
I'm often impressed by how some people can command sheer levels of effort without being passionate about what they're doing. Not saying it's particularly the case. When you have that obstination coupled with fiery passion, you get an unstoppable force--like those who can trod on for a decade.
Those are actually not contradictory.

Apparently, it's cost effective to assemble products in the US that incorporate large LCD screens. Apple was already assembling BTO iMacs in the US, and now some standard iMacs as well.

iPhones, iPods, and iPads are a different story, as they're a lot smaller. An airplane can fit a lot more boxed 9.7" iPads than it can fit boxed 21.5" iMacs – 28 times, to be exact (I just did the math.)

As for Steve Jobs' remarks, it seems he wasn't talking about iMacs but about iPads, iPhones and iPods:

"As Steve Jobs of Apple spoke, Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: What would it take to make iPhones in the United States? Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas. Why can't that work come home? Obama asked. Jobs' reply was unambiguous. "Those jobs aren't coming back," he said, according to another dinner guest."

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120123/ARTICLE/301239...
Anything written by Peter Norvig or D Richard Hipp.
It has to be infinite for the analogy to work.

The restaurants have to pay to replace food the homeless would pick up during the day (or even put in work to prepare it for a restaurant). Food that's leftover at the end of the day and can't be sold the next day could certainly be given to the homeless for free (and I know of at least a few restaurants in my city that do this).

The homeless person sleeping in the spare room creates cleanup work, and prevents you from using that room at a moment's notice. If a homeless person could sleep in my spare room without using the shared spaces and leaving the room instantly, in perfect order, the moment I wanted to use the room, I don't think I can morally justify not letting them.

So while the situations you mention may or may not be moral, it's shifting the debate back into a worldview centred around scarcity.
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Oh please, this is such a basic feature, Facebook should be embarassed it took them this long. My Android phone came with this built in with Google+, and it also prompts me to sync with Dropbox if I choose. No "tapping" either, it does it automatically after a photo/video is taken.
This is a very poorly written survey; you post on Hacker News and you make it very difficult for someone who does 100% technical hires (not unusual for this board) to fill out your survey. I just left one abandoned.

If you're looking for information on non-technical position hiring, this is probably not the place to gather it.
Meet The Bill Gates of Ghana
"They wouldn't be paying $2.50 each. They would, to a first approximation, be paying $5 each, because built-in to CNN's pricing to the cable companies was the fact that only half their customers watched it, and it doesn't cost the cable company any extra to provide it to those people who don't want it."

And why should this concern me?
Bell-Labs-Style Research Center Aims to Cut Battery Costs by 80 Percent
Before I interviewed at Google, I read the book "Effective Java" Never before have I read something and had an epiphany that not only is someone else is way, way smarter than me, but the advice incredibly powerful and useable. I regularly consult that book, even for non Java stuff.
judging by the email reply, they're fishing for ideas.
It's interesting that there's more improvement from JDK 6 to 7 in Scala 2.9.2 than 2.10. Does that mean that the JVM's performance on all of these benchmark is not improved that much?

I mean, Scala's improvement from 2.9.2 to 2.10 is better than JVM 6 to 7's improvement. Is my assumption right?
I think you didn't understand the parent post. TazeTSchnitzel is saying that when the template is initially compiled, it can be minified. Then you'd get that minification for free forever after.
Very interesting hiring approach. The space has seemed ripe for innovation for years and years.

Highly motivated job seekers willing to jump through a lot of hoops seem to be on the bottom side of talent. How do you solve this issue?
Having inmates stitch up designer undergarments seems like a bad idea. Male inmates or female inmates, either way it seems like it could bring up some emotions that prison guards won't be happy with.
GZIP + minify is better than GZIP alone.
This is a pretty bad survey. It asks if I have hired any non-technical people or technical people, then 100% of the deeper questions are about non-technical hires. Yet, there was no way to enter "n/a" for MOST of those questions, so instead, I polluted your data, unfortunately.

(I have zero desire to hire non-technical hires for as long as possible. I pray I can put that off for well over another year. Even sales can be replaced with Sales Engineer or Sales Analyst, Palantir-style. We outsource the useless non-differentiated parts of the business -- hr, accounting, compliance.)
Very nice! I sent this to Abelson and Sussman and they both loved it. I know the idea of an "intelligent book" has long been a dream of theirs.

If you find yourself in Boston, you can certainly visit CSAIL and chat with them if you want.
Google also had a strong interest in stopping SOPA. I don't think that fact diminished the effectiveness of their campaign.
"Which is much, much safer than driving drunk."

I support legalization, but these fabrications do not help anyone. DWI should remain illegal.
Founders often do have to hire non-tech people. The first non-tech hires are some of the most difficult for tech founders. HN is a pretty decent place to find technical founders of companies.

It's just a badly written survey, not a bad idea to post the survey. They should fix the survey and re-ask, or just make it entirely and explicitly about "hiring early non-technical hires", which is what I think they care about.
Almost certainly an urban legend.

Federal law requires that products labeled as "Made in the USA" be "all or virtually all" made in the United States. The Federal Trade Commission's guidelines [0] make clear that sewing a "Made in the USA" tag on a foreign-made article of clothing would violate that requirement.

0. http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus03-complying-made-usa-s...
>abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD

Wow, I would not have expected such anti-science nonsense from WaPo. Just because you read the symptoms and thought "everybody has some of these!", that does not make you a scientist with the experience necessary to judge its validity as a disorder.

It's not a "scientific-sounding diagnosis". It's a scientific diagnosis.
Edited the title to reflect what the app actually does.
I use it to mean a clear distinction.
I assure you my comment is not part of a "voting ring". Just stated my desire to try the app out.
Why the superior weight distribution greatly improves handling of course. How else could Macs feel so snappy?
One could argue that the surge pricing was the more ethical decision as it increased supply, rather than giving a discount which would have constrained supply. Of course, if they were just coming from the self-serving PR angle, they would have said "all rides are free" but not increased driver payments -- it's hard for a lack of supply to be excoriated in the newspapers.
Having Trouble With Series A Funding?
Alternative BitTorrent Protocol
Hi guys,

I have an idea for a new BitTorrent-esque protocol that might have a chance of circumventing legal issues that commonly arise with file-sharing.

Essentially, where BitTorrent contains Seeders and Leechers, I would add another class called, I dunno, let's say "Feeders," that act as a proxy between the other two. When a Leecher requests a file from a known Seeder, the data is first sent through a (random) Feeder as a proxy, which records no data on either the file or the Leecher. Since, the Feeder is not actually storing the file and doesn't record the Leecher's IP, it shouldn't be illegal for the Feeder to act as a proxy. As of now, I use BTGuard as a proxy for my BitTorrent connections, which does essentially the same thing: proxies my BT data and keeps no records. This is how a "pirate" would be able to use BTGuard to anonymously share files.

One flaw in this scheme that may turn up is Copyright-Infringement Scouts could act as a Feeder, picking up IP addresses that turn up (only assuming they used a packet sniffer to detect IPs, because the Protocol itself would not do so), but this could potentially be fixed by using 2 Feeders per Seed, which further obfuscates the Leecher.

The legal burden might then fall on Seeder for having Copyrighted material on the open web, but as I understand it now, currently the legal burden falls on the Leechers when they download and are caught by CI-Scouts, which is what I am trying to fix.

Hopefully I'm not grasping at straws. I am really keen on starting this, assuming that such legal issues could be avoided. I am currently in my second semester of Networking classes and I am confident that, given a certain amount of time, I could complete such a protocol.

Before I look further into doing this, I wanted to run it by some other hackers, see what you guys think. Any input would be appreciated.
"Potentiation of latent mental illness"

Yes, among those who are previously disposed.
Headlines like this make my brain hurt. I mean, seriously, what would even be an alternative hypothesis? That aliens intentionally modified our genes to make us smarter? That is all I can come up with.
Do you mean like pirated avis and mp3s? I think the difficulty in finding DDLs is partly a feature. If they are easy to find, they get DMCAed immediately.
This might be slightly off-topic, but are DataFrames intended to be similar to R's data.frame, where the contents of the entire table are loaded into memory and operated on all at once, or more like SQL with the possibility of aggregate functions calculated incrementally? Since a lot of statistics can be calculated incrementally (OLS, obviously, but even something like MLE based on nonlinear optimization, if you allow for multiple passes through the dataset) R's approach really bugs me... even though providing the right tools for an aggregate function approach would be (I imagine) quite a bit more difficult.
Such a nice post i like it very much thanks
http://www.baysphere.net
My experience in Philadelphia with "universal service" is that cab companies will simply state an outrageously long wait to pick you up in an area that is even slightly out of their desired path. On the other hand, once you've boarded a cab in a cab-populated place, they'll take you where you want to go.
You should post this to http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan, too. That subreddit is very interested in ideas like this.
> There are many commentators online trying to split hairs and say that pirating is not the same as stealing. As such, it isn’t a crime.

Just to nitpick a little here (and I apologise if I misunderstood your post) but I don't think I've EVER heard anyone argue that piracy is not a crime just because it's not stealing. Copyright infringement ("piracy") is definitely a crime, and it's definitely not stealing. Whether it's morally defensible is a whole different debate and one I don't want to enter into right now.
Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures Project
well done, thank you
I got a $350k/year salary offer from a High Frequency Trading company based in Chicago. They use C, C++ and FPGA.
As far I know in 2-3 years you can go over 500k.

Not many developers get that much in the Valley...