skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the 10th amendment says is that anything that hasn't been delegated or prohibited hasn't been delegated or prohibited. Which is tautological.

The States battled over the wording of each amendment. Many of the debate texts and the notes from the Founders are still available. How an attorney with the Internet at his fingertips could maintain a contrary delusion is really disturbing to me.

There were no throwaway/meaningless amendments in the Bill of Rights.

The Tenth Amendment means exactly what it says it means. The States barely allowed the Federal Government to have any power under the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution was an effort to allow more power to the Federal Government, but certainly not limitless arbitrary powers... thus the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
According to hypermedia lore, you will be able to willy nilly change your URLs without needing to update any clients. But that’s based on the huge assumption that every API call is going to go through the front door every time and navigate to the page they need. That’s just not how things work.

This is missing forest for the trees. The point is not that you, the API implementor, will be able to change URLs willy nilly. It's that I, the client, can support a different API implementation by just changing the entry point URL, without changing the application.

So, if my application supports the API that Flickr implements, and tomorrow someone creates Blinkr, which implements the same API, the user could just copy-paste the entry point URL and use it, just like I use my RSS reader for all the blogs and news sites out there.

Of course, this depends on using standard document formats and a restricted, standard set of methods. Rings any bells?

Thinking that we can meaningfully derive all that by just telling people to GET / and then fumble around to discover all the options on their own just doesn’t gel with me.

Well, am I glad that straw-man was burned to the ground!
Ob. xkcd http://xkcd.com/1145/

See ALT text.
Not at all. Among other things this shows politicians how much people care about fixing this problem. With any luck it will be another "if the people lead, the leaders will follow" moment like with SOPA.
For vetting somebody, yeah, but that's not what LinkedIn is used for by a vast majority of people. It's used to get introductions into businesses as a lead-generation method for B2B firms, and finding people to recruit. You get them into the recruiting bucket, and then filter it out as you vet them. You're misunderstanding the purpose of LinkedIn: It's not there to be a resume, it's there to be a discoverable and up-to-date contact list.
Haha, the point isn't to spend all day watching videos, but to use a funny clip to get yourself into a good mood before tackling something that requires willpower.
Gender Roles: When women dare to outearn men
Tricks to better public speaking
It seems this mirror is especially shaped to project the ordinarily reflected image in a reversed way, thus putting an object near it surface will break the illusion and show skewed but normally reflected image.
You can swap out the "metrics system" described in the post with any downstream system.

I have a lot of experience with NSQ but have not used NewRelic. I can answer any specific questions you might have...
gain broadening and 2 photon scattering :-)
What are the best options to implement that for an API backend with Rails <-> a javascript library/framework for the interface?
This is an example of an excellent website for a developer tool. Even the blogpost contains a hello world example in the header. The front page contains everything you need to know in just a couple of sections.
When I saw the picture and it was totally zoom out , I thought it was a small road between some small hills.
That's totally a fractal!
Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn shell scripting?
What are the best resources, courses, tutorial to learn shell script.
Link header parsers are far less ubiquitous than json, and Link headers aren't very good for use cases like representing links that come from items in a collection, there are also issues relating to the maximum feasible size for HTTP headers and/or the header block as a whole.

Link relations are useful for adding links to media types that can't support links (e.g. images, etc), and for layering protocols (e.g. Linked Cache Invalidation), but for normal APIs it makes your clients life much easier if you just put them in the body.
False positive in wiki editing is much, much worse than false negative. Just as with spam - if your spam filter deletes one email from your CEO, it is much worse than letting in 20 spam emails. Here, also, letting one uninformed, but active Wikipedia bureaucrat to prevail over a more informed scientist is much worse than letting 10 crappy articles to stay on the site and quietly rot while nobody visits them. The latter just wastes tiny bit of resources, the former actually has high potential to spread false information. And given lazy journalists frequently limit their research to looking up stuff in wikipedia, soon the falsity becomes "common knowledge" and then becomes its own source as publications quote Wikipedia which quotes publications.
If only there were a framework for keeping track of all these frameworks!
Top Five Cloud Predictions
Gangnam Style Virality: 3 Steps to a Billion YouTube Views
Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending corruption
Is this not just a reflective lens? I.e. a quadratic surface? If it is, I just assumed people didn't use them because non-reversing mirrors are actually rubbish. There's a reason cameras reverse the image in software but transmit/store the non-reversed image.
Two reasons why PaaS is so much more than automation
A. You are right. Of course you can complain, you can do whatever you want. It is not the complaining that I am talking about, it is the way in which people act when they do. "They can't do this, bla bla bla, omg our privacy, bla bla bla". Instead of going at it like "Hey Facebook, that is bullshit, I won't use your site anymore if you do bla bla bla, privacy issue, bla bla."

Also, it is a bit ignorant and misplaced to suggest that slavery existed because people were just 'taking what they were given' and then link this to something as futile as a website.
So this lasts for... how long? One minute? How many users will see it, and how many of them will not appreciate it? I understand the SOPA blackout, that directly impacts the web and it brought attention to a major issue. The shooting at Sandy Hook already has massive media attention and doesn't directly impact the web. There are memorials set up, there is an address you can send cards, there is probably a donation form somewhere.

The shooting was tragic and I support memorial services for the victims, but the only sites I see blacking out are ones where no one is going to see it anyway. I would be somewhat disappointed if any site I visited was observing this moment of silence. There are appropriate places to mourn.
1) I completely agree that it's an extremely impressive feature.

2) Tremendous amounts of bad data is far less desirable than "only a lot" of good data. The data as they're collecting it now is simply untrustworthy;. It essentially is a measure of "are these people connected at all?", which is completely redundant to other information they already have.

3) The page you link to is pretty cool. It seems like they are doing that. Why is it hidden on a "skills" page, which probably receives orders of magnitude less visibility than the individual pages?

More broadly, though, you suggest that the goal is to create user profile depth:

> They are trying to increase the depth and value of your LinkedIn profile by strengthening the graph of data connections, and encouraging users to enter more skills data into your own profile. They are also trying to increase engagement amongst their user base.

I would counter that this is only a partially correct view. LinkedIn is trying to increase the value of their site, both to the individual looking to connect and the company looking to hire. What I suggest would make this feature significantly more useful for companies looking to hire. LinkedIn should always be pursuing a number of goals in parallel, and saying that "this feature doesn't need to satisfy X because it's intended for Y" gives them way more slack than they should have.
Apple's "pinch and zoom" patent rejected
Facebook Tries Letting You Pay To Guarantee Message Delivery
> and tomorrow someone creates Blinkr, which implements the same API,

So the benefit of hypermedia apis is predicated on something happens that almost never ever happens?
I really wouldn't use the Federalist Papers to justify Constitutional intent, or even Madison's true opinion on any subject he wrote within. He wrote them because though he thought the Constitution as written would fail, it was the best they could do at the time and would hold the Union together until it could be changed, which it was.

More importantly, Judicial Review was created and filled the gap Madison saw between the powers enumerated in the Constitution and their implementation.
Hypermedia doesn't claim that you don't have to read the docs, that's a misconception. You do have to read and know how to parse the file formats.

The main advantage is that know that your application supports Twitter, it also supports every other service that uses the same file formats, since they can be shared, re-used and standardized. Obviously, two services can't use the same URLs, so if you hardcode them, you're locked in.
Seen iTunes on a Mac?
I can't tell if you're serious or joking, but without a call to action (for gun control, mental health services, whatever you support) there's nothing to be done here. If there was a call to action, I would support it a bit more.
How has nobody pointed out how awesome that girl is? 3D printing? Algorithms? The Pixies? <3
I've been gradually pulling away from LinkedIn. Right now, I have for my profile:

"I don't reveal history without a reason, so my past jobs summary is blank.

I'm a New York-based software engineer who specializes in functional programming, machine learning, and language design."

I really don't think it's a good idea for people in their 20s to reveal their career histories to the public. A lot can go wrong, and there's questionable upside. All kinds of shit can happen, and who's to say that a person won't need creative repair years down the road (e.g. one's worst enemy takes over a prior employer, years later, and gives a bad reference, and the only way to overcome it is to depart from the truth)? I don't think most people are age will get burned by a need to lie overtly (because that's rare) but more by accidental consistency risk and benign forgetting of details.

My issue with LinkedIn is that, although it's 21st-century technology, and it has some stellar people working on it. it seems to me to be still a tool for evaluating technical people by 20th-century means: prestige of company, title, dates of employment. Then there is the game aspect of trolling other people for recommendations to build a more impressive profile, which seems like an enormous source of tension and pissed-off-ness ("you recommended him, why can't you recommend me?") I realize that it has to embrace the 20th-century mentality to get employers to take it seriously, but it's sad that it has to accept those kinds of compromises.
Is anyone over here using it? What is your impressions?
MediaFriends, Maker of HeyWire & Bandwagon Apps, Looks for Breakout in 2013
I am working through 'the Hello World book'with my kids and plan to teach an after school course on Python next year. I am very pleased with 'Hello World' but am curious on your thoughts on which one you prefer. 'Hello World' or 'Python for Kids'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhYOYs5JrA
Thank you. And my point was that mainstream organizations such as the NRA do not push for assault rifles and other military weapons to be re-legalized for civilians, nor is there any significant clamoring for this.
Yours is neither the first, nor will be the last comment I hear sharing this common theme, but I strongly feel that EAFP holds truer in the real world that contains people than our world that contains electrons and holes.
Oooo, I got a json reply! :) So what key features will distinguish this from safari's reading list, and other tools like that?
The 'buy' part of their site is still down. Sounds like a perfect use case for the cloud...
How about a very long link-list?
This is the desired follow-up on another post to HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4649332

from 67 days ago.
Google Updates Mod_Pagespeed With Smarter Caching, Progressive JPEGs
Product naming can be ridiculously hard. Even if you have something you personally think is clever, everyone else can think you're a dork.

Related anecdotes:

When trying to come up with a name for Firefox (after having two other names rejected due to trademark snafus), a friend of mine sarcastically rattled off a bunch of alternatives using the same prefix as the outgoing "Firebird" on IRC one night. I think it was "Firecrap, Fireturd, Firefox". I stopped him. The consonance was great, and the team loved the name. The rest is history.

At the beginning of Chrome, we had to come up with a project name. Inspired how Netscape did their project naming, we did a vote. The results were truly awful. I think "Goose" was the winner. At this point Linus came in and put us out of our misery, "How about Chrome... it's kind of ironic given the UI design." Everyone agreed that it was much better. That was before we'd written really any code, so it stuck for the entire project. Shortly before launch the marketing folk did a brief exploration, but we threw up all over their suggestions, and Chrome stuck.
"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villan" -- given the contribution wikipedia has made to the world, personally I am ok paying $100/yr to fund their beer.

As for the people editing wikipedia - its similar to facebook users adding their "data" and Mark profiting from it all. Why should this be an exception?
It's weird how often discussions about amendments get caught up on wording, precedents and people's intentions rather than what is good or bad. It's as if the founding fathers figured it all out and wrote it all down back in the day, and with only the right interpretation everything will be perfect. Sounds a lot like religion.
I used it for a bit, my first impression was very good, if buggy. The team is very responsive and extremely accommodating, and I'm hoping they make a very solid database. The featureset looks great, and the admin interface is fantastic.

I would definitely recommend giving it a try.
Continental gets automated vehicle approved for Nevada roads
> The thumper sends mondo-amp pulses into one end of the cable. The electromotive force tends to cause physical displacement of the conductors which you can hear from the street level.

That sounds amazing and terrifying, sort of like the engineering equivalent of the old soviet dentists' belief that they have to poke cavities and judge their location and severity by how badly the patient reacts.
Somewhat off topic, but I've heard people here asking what the point of selling the Raspberry Pi to hackers first was. When I loaded mine up and looked through the recently-released Pi App Store, I noticed how many resources for learning Python existed already and were ported/developed for the Pi. Getting this kind of background in place before the full release to schools will be great (if it pans out).
Design for a Sustainable 30% Conversion
Except that you can say it with a straight face. The fact that they had to explicitly call out exceptions for Indians and Blacks means that they felt that they would have otherwise fallen under the general classification of "men".
The current Rails Party Line is "Jbuilder + you don't need integration" https://twitter.com/dhh/status/281802247480958976 https://twitter.com/dhh/status/281802391316201472

Some members of the core team and I have started a "Rails API" project specifically to explore these possibilities, and to extract common patterns from the apps we build: http://github.com/rails-api

This will encompass hypermedia and non-hypermedia APIs, as well as SPAs with a Rails backend. Most of us are focusing on Rails 4 at the moment, and will start working hard on this post-Rails 4 release, but about 23,000 people have installed the main gem, and I know several running it in production already.

I personally feel the best option right now is "Rails API + ActiveModel::Serializers + Ember.js". But we want to encourage a multiplicity of options. Not all apps are identical.
On the contrary; REST, of which hypermedia is a constraint, is an architectural style derived from the observation of a very successful implementation of just that.

It's called HTTP + HTML, and there are millions of services implementing it.
I feel like at least half the men I know would love to purchase ridiculously overpowered and expensive weapons. Most already do; they'd buy more if they could.
What's really interesting for me is how some companies are trying to offer similar solutions, but charge A LOT of money for that, while Google is doing everything better and for free.
A hint: when trying to convince, it's not a great idea to passive-aggressively insult the other party. Since they're human too, they will probably just get pissed off and write you off as an asshole. Like what I'm doing right now.
Correct, bolt-action weapons typically do not have magazines. That does not prevent them from being used on rampages.

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

The lunatic who attacked the school was not trained, but was also attacking cornered, defenseless children at short range. Practically any firearm would have been used in this attack to equivalent effect.

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that might have stopped this (once it started) would have been a police officer at the school or an armed teacher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting). We might have better been able to prevent the shooting from taking place at all with better mental health care. They weren't even his guns, so gun control that inspects the purchaser would not have worked.
It's great to see all these new ideas in the db arena. But one thing I
don't understand at all is why they diss the idea of having data integrity. Am I the only developer who actually likes working with relational data and do not think of a schema as a straight-jacket? Am I the only one getting burnt by MySQL and SQLite playing loose with types and silently coercing data almost randomly?

Check constraints are also great and has saved my ass so many times. It's so much easier to debug a problem when the crash occurs when you are inserting the data than in a wrong calculation much further down the line. Postgres for example, allows you to create regular expression constraints which you could use to ensure that a text column only contains a valid variable name. Exclusion constraints are even better, if you have a table with allocations (date ranges, integer ranges, etc) you can check so that none of the allocations overlap. Plus about a million other ways you can constrain your data.

That's the killer features for me. They have helped me debug problems so many times that I consider them almost essential to writing good web applications. So why does almost all new database projects seem to neglect them?
Its interesting to note that the results of early stage enabler technologies are worse than the previous generation technology its trying to mimic and surpass.

e.g

1. Digital cameras producing lower quality images than film cameras

2. Computer memory chips holding less memory than actual books.

3. Digital Printers producing low quality prints compared to the printing press.

4. 3-D printed records sounding awful compared to actual records.

5. ?
The rear-view mirror mentioned by the article in passing is not a reversing mirror -- it's just supposed to be another example of this guy's expertise at fabricating mirrors, in this case to improve the field of view and to remove blind spots.
That's another option, yes.
Excellent quote and that sums it up nicely for me.
Gack from a can. Yumbo.
I'm one of the biggest proponents of hypermedia (been speaking about it for the last 18~ months at conferences) and I think the semantic web is bullshit.
This would be great for giving myself a haircut, but not so much for shaving. Probably because it is more left to right than back to front. I also shave more often and have built up my muscle memory more.
So, mostly a "Well... that's interesting..." then? (Albeit a bit more of an informed confusion?)
A good intro is a talk given by Ryan Tomayko called the Shell Hater's Handbook[1]. His POSIX Shell and Utilities is also a great reference[2]. For a more comprehensive guide, I recommend the dash man pages[3]. Dash is shell, the good parts.

[1] http://shellhaters.heroku.com/
[2] http://shellhaters.heroku.com/posix
[3] http://linux.die.net/man/1/dash
Same thing here! Fractals geometry is very interesting!
Well, perhaps the framers didn't write a perfect document. I certainly think that they deserve the same rights I have.
For your #7, I urge you to look up the Parable of the Broken Window[1]. It's fundamental to understanding economics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I've not tried it. Best would be if you downloaded both trials of PyCharm and IntelliJ and tried it out yourself.
web devs dont give a "beep" about tags, if they did , they would have supported XHMLT... they give even less "beep" about validation... And they are so lazy they cant even take the time to write their own CSS files...
Silly article. This isn't about the backend, it's about whether your users are going to be interacting with their phones or their laptops. Words for the sake of words.
The first time I have seen the word "fellatious" in the wild - thank you for bringing this gem to my attention :)
I was mainly looking for draft legislation, and any group supporting it. So you're on track on both counts.
I was actually able to successfully purchase my upgrade. However, I have yet to receive my new license code and it's been about an hour.
Typical day at the office.
Smuggling, Corrupt Politicians, and Why You Should be Spontaneous
Narcolepsy.
This is really nice, both for showing a useful feature, and also for helping expand my mind on how useful functions which take functions and return another function can be!
Just a nit, but the syntax for query arguments would be:
"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21939/search.json{?q}"
A Long Interview with Path CEO Dave Morin
you can renew it beforehand with discount for one more year ;)
Ask HN: How bad is it to send Tax ID via plain text email?
I recently received an email from BrainTree Payments to verify my merchant information. They need to get the correct information for tax purposes, I get it.

I was dismayed to see my Tax ID and Legal Name next to each other in a plain text email.

I am a developer, but I do not have a lot of knowledge in the area of computer networking. So I am not 100% sure of the implications of sending sensitive information via plain text email.

How bad is this?
Ummm, I don't think so? Well let's say I didn't post it on Hacker news.
How 1:Face Crowdfunded Almost $360,000 in 50 Days
> Works like a charm!

but is ugly. When a feature is part of a language , you dont need to look at the source code of the language to understand how to use it, nor have to import yet another script to make it work.
The thing was around in 2009. This particular article is about an art exhibit that involves the mirror.
Having fired some of their weapons, I disagree that there is no difference between an AK-47 or AR-15 and a hunting rifle. Magazine size and ease of reloading make a difference. Semi-automatic weapons such as the AK-47, AR-15 or even SKS can still be manually fired at high rates, with easy reloading. They were designed for combat, not hunting, and even removing their fully-automatic capability, they're still quite effective.