skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason the NRA has been so effective is because they understand the old truism "give them an inch and they'll take a mile." When anybody brings up otherwise reasonable limits (no heavy weaponry, no automatic assault weapons for civilians) the NRA immediately responds with by shouting "fuck you" through a bullhorn on the Capitol steps. They commit to spending serious money opposing even these "reasonable" limits, and they don't mind being despised by half the country for doing so. By refusing to cede on even the seemingly obvious issues, they make it politically impossible for opponents to slowly take away the rights they actually care about.

The problem is that very few organizations are willing to take this hard line the NRA has adopted for 75 years now. Look at the smoking industry as an example: first you couldn't smoke on planes. (Alright, that seems reasonable, we don't want fires on airplanes.) Then it was hospitals. (Ok, also reasonable, there's sick people there.) Then it was workplaces. (Well, you should have a right to work without someone blowing smoke in your face.) Then it was restaurants. (Ehh..) Then it was bars. (Wait...) Then it was the outside areas of restaurants and bars. (Huh?) Then it was beaches and other outdoor gathering areas. (Well, hold on....) Now entire cities have banned outdoor smoking. Literally the only place you can smoke is in your home (assuming you don't employ anybody). This is exactly how rights are systematically chipped away.

Even the organizations that are willing to take stands and be despised often get sidetracked. Look at the ACLU. In the last 20 years, they’ve more often represented high-profile criminals in low-value cases (constitutionally speaking) than taken on serious civil liberty issues like the PATRIOT act, drone strikes, state-ordered killings of US Citizens, etc., etc.. This problem only gets worse when “their guy” is in office.

People often deride “insane” organizations like the NRA, but unfortunately, most of the time “insane” is what’s necessary to combat the usurpation of rights that appears “prudent” at any given moment in time.
I certainly can't reproduce it :-/
Biofuel credits behind mystery cross-border train shipments
@quicksilver03 - keep me posted we will make sure everything works out. (robert)[dot](demmer)[at](jetbrains)[dot](com)
Show HN: Did The [NBA team] Win Last Night?
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Sounds like a redefinition of HATEOAS. I don't put URLs as my ID's, but every resource has an "href" value which is the URL which makes it somewhat discoverable by tools such as https://github.com/jed/hyperspider.
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I do. I use it to try to increase my visibility to potential employers in my area (none of whom are hiring at the moment, of course) and to fill the otherwise gaping void in my employment history with references to occasional freelance jobs.

With that, and a network of actual working professionals willing to vouch for me, I'm hoping that when the opportunity for real work arrives, employers might actually take that crucial second glance at me.
I was endorsed for a skill by someone who I haven't seen or talked to for ten years. The last project we worked together on was in 1997.

It would be all well and good, except it is a skill in which I would not claim professional expertise. Ten years ago, I was a one-eyed man in the land of the blind. But not today. The area has expanded and credentials have been formalized, and I have made little effort to keep up beyond what I encounter from time to time.
They should print it for 78 RPM, they would get about double the bandwidth.
Last time I looked at their finances it was about 50% went to fund servers, bandwidth and engineering in general. Now I'm sure that they do need to spend more than that, but I found that proportion different to what I had expected and it discouraged me from donating.
Product vs. Platform -- Competing at right angles
This vulnerability has been known for years and has been effectively demonstrated many times in the past. The title should rather be something along the lines of "New tool to use memory dumps of running systems to read encrypted harddrives."

I've seen options to store the key in the L1-cache instead of the RAM-memory to make this attack much harder. I'm not sure whether I remember correctly or if it's even possible with common tools though.
How do you find your sales lead? Specifically, my question is how do you identify a potential sale target? Is it through your connections. call calls or online ads?
NIH peer review system identifies innovative biomedical investigators
I also get this on Chrome Dev (windows). It fixes itself if I resize the browser to get the mobile layout and then size it back to normal.
Is there a difference? Or is your question really about what field the R&D will have to happen in?
Play trivia for bitcoin
I really think they should have taken the advertising route. A couple of google ads would have been enough to fund the site, and they would be less of a nuisance than they're fundraising ads.

In fact, I think if they had become a for-profit, they could have innovated more than they do as a non-profit. Quora and StackExchange show you can use user-contributed content in a balanced, but for-profit way. Imagine if Google had become a non-profit dedicated to an open search. We wouldn't have Gmail, Android or self-driving cars...
and also pretty ugly with those grey spots...
+ please close the "h2" and "a" tags properly (at the end of the home page)
prediction: people will download the digital files for the record models, then write software that will play them back from the file rather than having to print them out and playback on a physical machine...
These mobile and tablet optimized UI's are really annoying for those of us who still use a regular computer from time to time (i.e nearly everyone). I mean how hard is it to support two UI paradigms? one for mobile/tablet and one for desktop/laptop. Isn't easy separation of content and presentation one of the core benefits of web frameworks?

Another news site that's gone full tilt tablet UI is pandodaily, but at least their site renders correctly and is mostly usable (both not optimally so) for a desktop/laptop user.

Are the costs just too high to support two presentation layers such that shops will bet on mobile/tablet users over all others?
Sorry, how do you mean lie? When did we lie?
>And yes, if your computer is running or put into hibernation your encryption keys will be at risk—guaranteed.

Don't get too hasty there. The default for Truecrypt at least is to dismount upon hibernation.
I hope that the future UI of articles online is not scroll based; not on computers and especially not on mobile devices. I much prefer the "several pages of columns of text" layout, where I can swipe left/right or up/down to read the previous/next pages. That way, I don't get completely lost when scrolling.
DARPA’s AlphaDog (LS3) can now sit, follow, and roll over
That is what the text of the amendment says, and contemporary sources make clear that the framers included it in the Bill of Rights to make legally explicit the limited scope of federal power that they all had in mind. This is the explanation given by James Madison in the Federalist Papers, No. 45 [0], for example.

It was only a decade or two into the twentieth century that judges began to call the Tenth Amendment a meaningless "truism". It's no surprise that these were the same judges who first lent their imprimatur to vast new federal powers, mostly through boundlessly expansive interpretations of the commerce clause and especially of the general welfare clause relating to taxation.

0. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendXs4.h...
Your applicaiton's link relations should be URLs. This means that you can expose each bit of documentation for each rel at their URL. So every time you see a link in a hal+json document, you can follow the _rel's_ URL, and fetch the documentation for it.. that turns out to make the API very easily discoverable, and gives you a way to model/manage your API's documentation in a consistent way.

You can actually see what that looks like in practice here (click one of the book icons on one of the links on the left):

http://haltalk.herokuapp.com
And many people don't like Git.
Me too. Long delay for 'processing payment' at element5, but it did go through.
You might like my page about it:
http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/MillsMess.html?HN0

And the frame-by-frame analysis:
http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/images/MillsAnalysis/Analysis....
> People seem to have this idea that there was this golden age of Wikipedia where you could write everything, and then the EVIL DELETIONISTS took over. The fact is, huge amounts of what gets put up on Wikipedia is junk.

The most common complaint I've heard was rather different: nobody questioned that some pruning is necessary but complained that the standards were incredibly arbitrary and niche interests like anime characters or minor porn stars frequently made the cut while e.g. academics were deleted because they didn't have a mainstream book, New Yorker article, etc. and the deletionist cadre wasn't interested in widely-cited papers, broad recognition within a particular field, etc.

Jason Scott also highlighted a similar problem in http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3826 noting that the question again has never been quality but a very small number of people deciding a topic wasn't of interest to anyone else despite demonstrated activity.

Attempting to portray this as a question of spam control or lack of external sources is either uninformed or whitewashing.
Remember that IntelliJ have plugins that makes it have the same features as Webstorm, Phpstorm, rubymine and Pycharm, except for one feature: "Open Directory". If you get IntelliJ you must create a project in order to edit the files in a directory. :-/
It would be interested to see what would happen if it was upheld that a sworn official who passes (or votes for) a law that is later deemed unconstitutional has to step down. I don't believe such a principle would ever be approved by official bodies, but it would certainly have an interesting effect, one way or another.
I wonder if an Epilog laser engraver could do any better.
5 Facebook Ad trends to watch in 2013
They might also convince their company to buy some full-priced commercial licenses. They could end up with many new customers this way..
I'm mostly curious why no one on LinkedIn (a) saw this one coming, or (b) implemented any form of an easy fix. I put two in this article, but there are probably dozens when you consider more advanced machine learning algorithms designed to really match users together. This little feature seems to have so much potential, I'm baffled why they haven't given it the attention it deserves.
Most things below the atomic level occur in quantized form, meaning variables that hop between discrete states. For example, energy radiated by electrons falling into a lower orbit is exactly equal to the difference in energy between the two orbits. Or take sub-atomic particles that have properties like spin, this also occurs in discrete steps. What this means in the context of these new magnets though I'm not sure. I seem to recall a paper where fractionalized spin states where hypothesized but I can't find it right now.
No kidding. Appcode paid for itself in the first day of use. Probably the best $100 I've ever spent on software.
I think there's just a lot of unknowns about quark behavior. No theories because of a lack of information.
It makes the photos you are tagged in available to print, I know for me at least, that most of those photos are not mine. And when I go to print some, I am printing photos from multiple friends. You can imagine how painful it would be to go to multiple people (especially if they are not your best friends) and ask them to find specific photos from some point in time and send them to you, then you still have to go and print them. In the end the photo quality maybe better but it would take much longer than a few minutes, if you even receive all the photos you want.

The older photos on Facebook are pretty low res, but they do now have higher res ones available and are the proper res for 4x6 prints, I believe they have had this since adding the full screen image viewer.
Reopen and Modify Ruby Classes (Monkey Patching)
Finally placed the order and got confirmation email. Thank you
Technically the fifth amendment was abandoned the Minute the US began imprisoning/killing people without trials. the drone wars are a great example of this.

The fifth amendment uses the word "PERSON" not citizen. So in some sense this is just a continuation of the same - what is applicable to a "military age male" in Afghanistan is now applicable to a American Joe Q Public.

This is an excellent wake-up call - do not gut American values to (notionally) protect the American People.
While everything the author says is true and makes sense, dumping the "mysql_*" functions seems more like "PHP grows up" rather than a "good thing".

I'm a newcomer to PHP, only having learned some of it last summer, but didn't the easy use of MySQL from inside PHP constitute the reason for PHP's ubiquity and success?

Using ODBC or any other way to get to a database is quite a bit harder, albeit allowing more control and security. Adding difficulty means not as many recruits to PHP, so I predict we see the PHP crowd becoming more conventionally professional. The other side of the "increased difficulty" coin is that newbies won't automatically flock to PHP. I predict we'll see serious rivals to PHP's place as the first refuge of the newbie web programmer.
I have to agree with your entire assessment. Being reasonable instead of reactionary goes a very long way.
Re: individual rights, one thing to keep in mind is that at the time of the founding, states weren't required to respect individual rights. The states inherited the unlimited sovereignty of the British Parliament--they could do anything they wanted, limited only by their own constitutions. It wasn't until 1925 that the Supreme Court held that the 14th amendment had been intended to apply parts of the Bill of Rights to the state.

So asking "what would the framers have thought about warrentless wiretapping" is a bit misguided, because the framers wrote a document against the assumption that the states were the ones responsible for internal security, and could use their very broad police powers in the process.

Really the question is: are we less free than we used to be? And contrary to popular myth, we reallly aren't. If you're not a white male, you are unarguably freeer than you have ever been in the history of the U.S. Even if you are a white male, you are free from many of the overreaches of state police power that you would have been subject to before the Supreme Court applied the Bill of Rights to the state. And it's at least debatable that internal security measures like warantless wiretapping aren't as extreme as say the Alien and Sedition Acts which were passed less than 10 years after the ratification of the Constitution.

I'm sympathetic to the civil libertarian cause, but when people complain about the erosion of liberties, I have to ask: which ones? First Amendment? First Amendment protections are today the strongest they have ever been. The First Amendment now protects commercial works like video games that in the past might have been seen as outside the scope of First Amendment protection. State-level obscenity laws, libel laws, etc, have been struck down by federal courts. Second Amendment? Until 2010, nothing would have prevented a state like Illinois from banning guns completely--states simply weren't subject to the 2nd amendment at all. Fourth, fifth, sixth amendments? In the 1970's the Supreme Court went on a rampage striking down state practices that they felt violated those amendments. Heck, just in the 2000's, the Supreme Court extended habeas protection to non-citizens in Guantanamo Bay. A hundred years ago, that would have been inconceivable.
from the Nature article preview:
"The experimental realization of quantum spin liquids is a long-sought goal in physics, as they represent new states of matter."
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7429/full/nature1...
Yes. Some people are really good at that on twitter by itself.
The future of piracy.

1) Download a 3D model LP file from BitTorrent
2) Create LP from model using 3D printer
3) ???
4) Profit!
And if you are lucky enough to be dealing with a functional javascript library like d3, you can even use cljs functions as arguments to your js library. This leads to very succinct and powerful interop.

For example:

(.timer js/d3 (fn []
(-> root (.selectAll "g") (.data curClockData)
(.select "path")
(.attr "class" #(str (:key %) (:which %))))
; return false to keep running
false))))

This snippet does this twice to provide a longish function to the d3.timer call and a small inline one to attr to set a class based on the data in the selection. More context available: http://bl.ocks.org/4326896

ObTopic: cljs in cljs does sound dreamy. Would this also enable <script type="text/clojurescript">?
Is it genuinely identical? E.g., I get Python refactoring and Django/Mako/Jinja template support directly in IntelliJ?
Yeah, that's fixed in production now.
The last part does make a lot of sense.
was hoping for more technical details. maybe they're still going through the patent application?
I think there's a much simpler way to do fix it - force users to anonymously unendorse in such a way as to maintain a fixed ratio of endorsements to unendorsements. Don't show unendorsements or a negative endorsement level.

Suddenly incentives are much better aligned.
Disrupting the restaurant experience. From discovery, to ordering, to service, to receipts. Pretty much everything to do with it is broken and inefficient, so lots of work to be done.
Keep in mind it has been designed for tablets and phones though

This actually highlights one of my pet peeves: that web pages need special "mobile enhanced" versions. 90% of the time, a "mobile web page" is just worse than the original. I have to ask: do the guys designing these "mobile" web pages actually use tablets or smartphones? Because what part of "mobile" means "ruin the usability and make sure a lot of awkward javascript-emulated touch gestures are involved"?
Ask HN: How can I get into publishing?
I have an idea that I'm researching, however I have very little context to go on, so I thought I'd reach out to see if anyone had any insights.

With the number of self-published eBooks out there, I think there might be a market for a digital publishing company that handles editing, distribution and publicity. I look at awesome companies like the Pragmatic Bookshelf and No Starch Press and wonder if there's room in the market.

There seems to be very little information out there on running a publishing company, and even less so on one that doesn't do physical media. What problems might I face? Is there an MVP for this type of thing? Perhaps I need to self publish my own work and build a process around that?
Was just thinking about something like this the other day when I forgot to respond to a Facebook post on my wall. I've got too many "inboxes" to keep track of, so an integrated thing like you're proposing could be handy.

I would look into hiring a freelance copywriter. There's a couple of spelling and grammar mistakes ("you have not respondED to", "seAmlessly"), and a lot of the wording is not idiomatic English.

I really like the idea, and the site design/typography, but it's gotta be backed up by good copy.
"Wii".

Oh, how the jokes flowed when the name was announced. Then the sales numbers came out, and people stopped joking.
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>the automatic response to issues about greenhouse gasses are that we must cut down and degrade our livestyle, rather than build the necessary dikes and compensate for lost farmland by irregating and better management (most useful in the developed world).

I kind of wonder how much of that is just idiots talking over each other. I have no doubt that there are some people advocating the position you're ascribing to your opponents, but I think it would be a mischaracterization of your more reasonable opponents.

Example: Suppose we implement a revenue-neutral energy cross-subsidy. Tax equivalent of ~$50/barrel only on fossil fuels, distributed back to all forms of energy, including fossil fuels. As long as fossil fuels continue to make up a large proportion of our energy consumption, the result will not be a large immediate increase in the price of fossil fuels, because you'll end up paying ~$50/barrel and then getting, say, $40 of that back (the rest going to subsidize non-fossil energy sources). On the other hand, build a wind turbine and you get the same $40/barrel equivalent without paying into the pool, so the market incentive is to build a ton of wind turbines (and solar arrays and nuclear power stations etc.) We end up with a large market incentive for generating less from fossil sources very quickly, which, when acted upon, naturally reduces the amount of the cross-subsidy because it's funded by a fixed-rate tax on fossil fuel use which is now lower, thereby over time making fossil fuels substantially more expensive but only after the replacements have already been developed, constructed and brought online.

The result would be a modest short-term increase in energy costs (because fossil would become somewhat more expensive before renewable construction completes) and most likely a long-term reduction (because maintaining an already-constructed renewable power generating facility is less expensive than maintaining the equivalent fossil fuel facility plus having to buy the ever-scarcer fuel). I don't see how it would result in any unreasonable decrease in quality of life.

On the other hand, it still isn't likely to happen before the deleterious effects of climate change are felt -- we're already there -- so we still need to take mitigation measures for that like you're describing. But I can't imagine any sound reason why the two should be mutually exclusive.
Compete on price, go out of business.
Only if you write for the New Yorker and don't have anything better to write about.
How will I prevent it from showing me messages that I have no intention of replying to?

For instance, SMS spam, or advertising and informational messages from my network provider ("your latest bill is ready to view"). I don't reply to these - from your description, it seems like they'd stay as notifications of unresponded messages indefinitely.
Intercom (http://intercom.io) - CRM and user messaging

Chartbeat (http://chartbeat.com) - Realtime analytics

Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com) - Sending email from an app

Dropbox (http://dropbox.com) - File sharing/storage

CouchDB (http://couchdb.apache.org) - Flexible database
Since you asked for feedback, I have two small points:

1. It's "seamless" as in "without seams". "Seemless" isn't a word.

2. If your major design insight is to display the number of unreplied messages instead of the number of unread ones, what happens to your business if the native Android and iOS apps start doing that?
just use PDO instead of ext/mysql .. it is not really any more trouble if you're starting from scratch. Please don't use ODBC.
It is extremely confusing.

- It does not work in the browser!
- Which browser?
- The browser!
- I got that, you idiot. WHICH browser?!
>The other side of the "increased difficulty" coin is that newbies won't automatically flock to PHP.

It's worth the price if we never have to see another linear SQL query again.

I've seen innumerable times where people will build queries line by line with if statements, and then add the query variable into SQL or something. I'm not even aware of an easy way to refactor that without manually rewriting every single statement and every method or function they appear in. It's insane.

and yes I used to be one of these people...