skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well ok but what is the purpose of the gun amendment?

To reduce the likelihood of a totalitarian state. It was written by people who had recently participated in a violent secession from the world's largest empire. Self defense against ordinary criminals was another factor, and the Supreme Court has ruled that individuals have the right to own weapons for that purpose.

I can see the purpose of the "Free Speech" it makes sense today more than ever.

Limitations on the right to free speech are active political issues today. There has recently been a major push to limit "blasphemous" speech in western Europe and the US, for example. Source code as speech when the code does something governments want to regulate, like cryptography or DRM circumvention is not an entirely settled question, to provide another example.

What if unpopular rights are those that kill children

I count at least six out of ten amendments in the Bill of Rights as likely to have led directly to children dying. Free speech has led to violent action. Availability of weapons makes violent people more deadly. Four more amendments protect the rights of those accused of crimes, some of whom are required to be released when they would otherwise have been jailed. Some of those have killed children after their release.

Rights that are just a little unpopular don't need so much protection. The important rights all have the potential to get people killed, as does the lack of them.

Ok but doesn't that imply that the founding fathers somehow foresaw the advent of nuclear arms, school shootings, the internet and created a concise set of laws that would prevent us from sneaking in laws by creating loopholes.

Of course not. That's why we have courts.

The courts try to apply the original intent of the Constitution to modern situations. The authors of the Fourth Amendment probably couldn't have imagined laser microphones, but the courts have held that using one (or anything else high-tech) to eavesdrop on conversations you have in a private place is just like a search and requires a warrant. In other cases, the courts have limited the application of rights to new, unforeseeable technologies. The Supreme Court ruled, for example, in DC v. Heller that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to unusual and dangerous weapons; it protects the right to own handguns, but not nuclear warheads.

It is, of course perfectly reasonable to have a discussion about whether a right protected by the Constitution has a place in a modern society or if it should be eliminated or changed. My original point in this discussion is that we should not want it to be trivial to bypass Constitutional rights, e.g. by banning ammunition instead of guns because it would then become trivial to bypass any of them, at any time, for any reason.
Looks kind of like a Piaggio Ape: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_Ape (pronounced AH-pay).
QR codes?

"For nutritional information check our website or scan this [qr code]"
Shouldn't you expect to lose that water weight at some point though? Longer term weight gain should be calories in - calories out. What you eat might affect how full you feel (which could cause you to overeat in some circumstances), and macros matter if you're trying to build/maintain muscle.

My understanding is that peoples' weight problems are that they underestimate the calories of what they eat (related to specific foods or portions or forgetting details like the butter used for cooking) or overestimate that caloric effects of exercise.
"being a member of a right-wing lobbying group"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/24/amazon-becomes-18th-co...

Not anymore, at least.
Finance:

I work in Business Intelligence, on the backend side of things. SAS, Python, Bash, Excel and Access (SAS is the tool of choice on most BI environments, especially on enterprise - Hadoop is not known in this world yet).

Thins are heavily manual, I am writing python scripts so some of the things get automatized and also to wrap some of the various data sources (lots of TXT files dumped by mainframes).

Also, I have to deliver some data files in Excel or Access. Python and Tablib are very useful on that regard.

Before that, I worked a lot of time as a sysadmin and some as a mathematician developing models in finance.
It just needs one more ingredient to make it a must buy for its target market: Hemp!

Introducing Kestrel, The First Road-Ready Car Built Out Of Hemp
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-02/introducing-first...
Can you expand on that? Calories in/out has lost me a net 30 lbs.
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If I open the link in an incognito window, I can read the post just fine.
You were working in EMBRAPA?

(I ran away from there because of the shitty payment)
((Nowadays I work in finance...))
Technically voluntary, is still very much voluntary. As is using Spotify, or any other service that requires a Facebook login. I disagree with the philosophy that true online identity is better for all, but also disagree that Facebook should be forced to do this. People have other choices, and had other choices while Facebook was growing. People chose the 'true' identity social network long before it was the dominant player in the space. People kept choosing it before the super network effects kicked in.
The major catch there is that, if some common hypotheses hold, then where a calorie comes from has a direct affect on how your body burns it. The example commonly used is to say you need and consume 3500 calories to support your current level of activity. If you consume 600 that your body will only store, then your body will behave as though you still need an additional 600 to maintain your energy level. Likely leading to you being lethargic until you get additional food. (Which, as stipulated, you don't actually want/need to consume.)
The world was created perfect, but there was a tree of knowledge of good and evil, so people didn't know about good and evil, but they ate of it for some reason. They then had knowledge of good and evil. We're all experiencing what good and evil is.

Was it possible to just learn good and evil in a perfect world without all the death?
| If Microsoft decides to kill a feature available in Excel 2010, you still can use it.

Individuals with that version installed can use it, but you can't get new licenses for more employees, and you won't be able to upgrade to get new features. You might also be wary of applying bugfix patches in case your key feature gets zapped. Also, user support for your feature will dry up eventually.
Houston is ver hot, but very flat. I wonder if this would work with a cooler chest air conditioner? It would be added weight, but like I said, there's few hills in Houston.
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FPS means First Person Shooter here, I reckon.
Matt: It is, as you say, likely a deal breaker for aspiring or pro photographers. And in the end it's also a case of "their servers, their rules."

But there's a difference between telling users clearly this is what you're doing, and putting it in the headline of a blog post, vs. inserting this language into the middle of a terms of use agreement. I don't think anyone here begrudges Instagram making money. But being upfront with the users who just made the founders $1B (well, maybe $700M) is something that's not unreasonable to expect.
The WiiU seems to be the perfect example of this confusion.
happy to know that! Yes that's a long road and the experience you gain help you to know what you have to do . You can be more or less lucky (I was pretty lucky with the education market) but most of all you have to be persistant and learn from mistakes (I think I've already heard that somewhere else...)
According to [1] the 6" subway Tuna sandwich has 470 calories. Assuming the footlong has twice as many calories that's 940 calories.

[1] http://www.subway.com/nutrition/nutritionlist.aspx
I've always wondered how Apple approaches learning projects like this. I thought one of the reasons for having an app rejected was its redundancy with existing apps.

Is Apple likely to approve your app as long as it works like its supposed to?
I believe that "curing yourself" of negative personality traits becomes more difficult with the context of mental illness, yes. These conditions are not rational or logical.
Do you have any clients in finance? If so, how do you deal with the issue of "it's sensitive, we can't let you have this information"?
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ack, having some payment issues. if you try and it doesnt work, send me an email at frank@startupthreads.com and we'll get it fixed.
Where does this happen? I'm not seeing it: https://gist.github.com/4329831 – the exception seems to come through just fine?
Android Botnet Sends Spam SMS To Infect Users
somehow this is depressing. Kudos to your skills. But really now?
HTML form element font. completely over the top party invite.
1) estimate calories 2) add them up to too much 3) eat anyway and enjoy 4) drive back and resume sedentary lifestyle
That is correct. I can see I was mistaken.
How did you determine your target caloric intake value? I recently graduated and had a moment of self-realization as to how poor my diet was the last semester off campus and without a meal plan. I'm determined to do something about it, but health and fitness have never been my strong suit.
Any thoughts on the enclosure? It seems to me that making it enclosed defeats some of the most significant benefits to a bicycle: compactness. Once something gets over the "too big for a bike rack or my apartment" threshold, you run into parking problems. Also, with its size, you can't go around traffic. Despite showing this on sidewalks, I would anticipate that you in practice couldn't do it that often. It would be highly irritating to me as a pedestrian.

So I do love it because it is cheap & electric. I like that because it is so large and the range is short enough to be concerning, plugging it in would be a pain and the solar cells solve that. I don't love it because it is not a bicycle replacement, it is a car replacement with short range and little space. This is because expensive enough to be a considered purchase (the price of a 2005 Hyundai Elantra) and large enough that it needs identical parking/road space. The niche for this is seems to be people in suburban areas who live within a few miles of frequent destinations and want to bike but not really.

I love that people are trying to reinvent transportation, and if this is a really niche cool thing, that's great. I would be curious to see if anyone thinks that could have broad appeal.
It would seem that the key difference is in the first example Instagram has to be involved in the nightclub venture. Which is all fine and dandy for an Instagram themed nightclub or nightclub event. Now however, and this is the kicker, Instagram can let as many nightclubs as they want use the photos without Instagram having to be involved or even disclose their involvement with anyone.

TLDR - Before: Instagram had to have clear collaboration.(which would limit how many people they could sale your photos to.) After: Instagram does not have to show clear collaboration.
Except that Amazon shows you the last 4 of your card when logged in. That should be removed and the cards should be named.
If we're talking about legal purposes, then names are a pretty poor primary key. In such situations, SSN or other UUID would be superior.

For any recreational/social purpose, what's the point of requiring legal name? How many "John Smith"s are there in the world?
The TechDirt article says this:

> [Developer] Kip's followup was downright laughable.
>
> "We will allow you to play for as long as we can preserve your game state. This will most likely be minutes."

Everyone seems to hate on the DRM, thinking that it's just a business decision that is not at all integral to gameplay, but they all seem to be forgetting one key thing:

The new SimCity is, at its core, a multiplayer game!

Sure, it's a multiplayer game with the majority of the user experience dedicated to non-social, intra-city interactions. But your city lives within a global economy, and if it's possible to mutate your offline state without mutating your online state, then sync becomes a huge problem.

Consider the server that models a consistent virtual entrepreneur who's moving or visiting from one city to another (which the new AI actually might do, from seeing the videos). Now, say the destination city goes offline for hours. Both the source city and the destination city could end up believing that the virtual entrepreneur is helping their city grow. If the offline time period is short (i.e. the "minutes" that the developer refers to), then the offline city can "snap back" to the correct state much as laggy players see themselves jumping across a map in a shooter. But if it's a long offline period, they could be snapping back in a very visible and jarring way. And it's near impossible to test all of the edge cases unless you can make assumptions about maximum latency before a disconnect.

The developers can only be faulted for not communicating the intricacies of an MMO to their audience well enough. Instead, they allowed their game server to be characterized as a DRM device, and tried to respond to criticisms as if it was just a DRM device.

I want to be able to play Skyrim offline. But I have no qualms about WoW disconnecting me if I go offline for more than a few minutes, or if I tried to log on with a stolen or copied account. I'd expect them to do the same to other players who did so. On that note, we should really just be glad that they're not making SimCity a subscription service!
This article is factually inaccurate. At least two projects they list as Where the ^%$# is it!? (Castle Story, Light Table) have delivered on time. I have played castle Story, and have used Light Table. This is nothing more then link bait.
To be fair a lot of people are REALLY bad a measuring and estimating both how much they eat and how much they exercise.
50GB? Are you sure? That's over 1700 full-resolution RAW images. (Roughly-estimated at 30MB each.)

Even if that is the case, you're welcome! I'm subsidizing your account. :)
To be clear you replyed to a previous poster who made two points. I defended those two points. These are two new points that I'll attempt to address.

If there's one argument I cannot tolerate it's a "for the children" argument. Yes great lets have less children die. How do we do that? Killing sprees in China show that you can kill several children with just knives and gasoline. So after the guns we ban knives, we regulate gasoline, we restrict the press and instill a curfew because "for the children." Better yet, while we're just naming stuff that will make us feel better, why not a TSA-like agency for all public places, a Patriot Act to protect us from killing-spree and more warrant-less wiretapping because "for the children." Pedofiles on Facebook; regulate the Internet "because for the children." Can we please find a solution that does not strip freedoms from the sane and law-abiding among us?

It won't solve the problem because we are not other countries. I don't say this out of hubris. Without addressing things like the gun-culture we have here or the irrational fear of crimes we have here people will find a way to procure firearms. I'm pretty sure in 10 years 3D-printing will have advanced enough for us to make upper-receivers. What then? Do we regulate computers "for the children?"
Knowing what to do and doing it are very different things. It took a major macronutrient shift after at least a year of trying to diet and failing before I finally got on my way to losing weight.

I knew I was done for the day, but boredom, stress, and hunger made it only a matter of time before I would crack. A week of eating well, then cracking and eating anything I could get my hands on, then repeat.
This article is rife with boloney statistical analysis and hand-waving, comes to conflicting conclusions at different points in the article, and really doesn't say anything.
White knight? You mean be a decent human being?

We aren't spherical chickens in a vacuum here. Don't play dumb. You know the implications of the title. Do you realize how ridiculous "perhaps YOU are the sexist for noticing sexism!" is?
Theres a lot of hyperbole there. Is there any evidence that building 100 megabit pipes to non dense metro areas is actually profitable exercise for ISP's right now? There is tons of groaning about slow internet access on HN and especially Reddit, but I'm not sure the majority of Americans would even opt in to this service as they might not have a need for anything more than a basic cable modem connection at $20/month.
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Why 84% of all projects ship late?
Both StudiVZ and MySpace are examples of how Facebook isn't a monopoly. So is Twitter and e-mail and Google Plus. And PHPBB and Diaspora.

Facebook has a monopoly on being Facebook. For everything else, there's ample competition. The fact that Facebook is more popular than the competition doesn't make it a monopoly.
Undestanding Snapchat (is it a fad?)
Wouldn't this argument justify almost any government law or control? It's true that Facebook should follow the law of generally free or democratic nations. That doesn't change whether or not the law is good or bad, and whether or not they should fight it.
Using Mailgun’s API to create and configure domains for email forwarding
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938319

Please don't use URL shorteners, please submit the full link.
I love this screencast series. What makes it so successful (IMHO) is that each weekly screencast is short enough to watch during a lunch or coffee break. Every week there is something useful. When somebody asks me how to learn Obj-C/iOS development, one of my first recommendations is to subscribe to this.
Agreed -- the method I explained was just calories in/out. The problem I had was that I didn't have enough data. The app and calorie counts on menus give me the data.
And that's assuming every user has 50GB worth of photos - which, for the record, is a lot of photos. Most are probably in the low hundreds-of-MB range, which brings your cost per user down by an order of magnitude, at least.
A good resource for understanding calories and their effect on weight:

http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/Fitness
Very well done.

What's the sales strategy for a POS system like this?/ How do small businesses find out about Vend?

Cool stuff James.
One concern may be how easy would it be for a small restaurant to do this? Large chains with highly standardised processes probably have this information to hand. But for small restaurants, even if they analysed every meal before putting it on the menu, how do you know the chef wasn't a bit heavy handed with the cream that day.

The differences may be small enough to be negligible, but it could still be costly for small restaurants that are already operating under tight margins.
First, who is this we you are talking about.

Having watched the videos, I would not crash it. I could get no idea of stopping power and the view from inside doesn't give me the warm and fuzzy that a front on collision will be fun.

Throw in the fact that NVH levels are very high with this item. I really see it was one of those obscure solutions that hints at the possibilities but suffers too many compromises to be viable.
I'd say it does matter, 10 kg of lettuce will take forever to digest and will require way more energy. Individual metabolism quirks will also affect how much of it comes out of the other end relatively intact.
FUD profiteer seeds FUD via blogspam.
> The evolution of the web technologies is an organic growth that won't be stopped in time to say "HTML5 certified".

At the same time now you have a way to say "When I say HTML 5 I refer to these features, at least". Without a spec fixed in stone it is hard to say "I want to use a browser that does HTML 5".

Without fixed specs we are currently regressing to pre-2000 sites "optimized for" a certain browser; "Sorry, this site works only with Chrome" is a common sight on Show HN submissions, but also on sites for a more common audience. With the comeback of something that resemble a fixed spec, let's call it a snapshot spec, this situation may get better, or, at least, not get worse.
Two points:

1) The minute your food touches a deep fryer, I think all bets on accurate estimates are off. My guess is that people don't know how much worse fried chicken sandwiches are for you compared to grilled chicken. A big part of fast food is deep fried french fries, which are mostly sold in "large" sizes due to value meals. There is also the soda element. I don't think most people realize how many calories are in the soda they get at fast food places, again, most likely in a "large" size.

2) A cheeseburger from McDonald's isn't that bad. But sandwiches like burgers have lots of ways to start pilling up the calories. Add an extra slice of cheese, toss on some mayonaise, maybe a little bacon. Pretty soon, you're hitting or going past the 1k calorie level.

So yes, a cheeseburger from McDonald's isn't that a bad (300 calories). A Angus Bacon Burger with large fries and a coke is a pretty bad meal (1600 calories).
I think it would be poetic justice if in a triumph of naturalism we actually cloned him and got only boring copies because the real Ramanujan actually got his insights supernaturally, like he claimed...
My experience is almost exactly the opposite. Whenever I'm writing in Python I can't escape the feeling that the code is simply fragile due to missing language features. Obviously this starts with all the regex initializations (often quite distant in source from where they are applied) which make regular expressions in python just a huge mess.

Perl's autovification allows me to build a data structure at parse time with code that is trivially verifiable. Python forces me to sprinkle the code with a thousand tests for whether or not the field is initialized yet, or write extra code to define things like defaultdict instances (with syntax that I always have to look up, and which in my experience most python programmers don't understand).

Not to mention that if I want to use an OO syntax for that data structure I have to write extra code defining a class for it (and inevitably be yelled at by the pythonista security branch for all the __whatnot__ methods I forgot to define).

Python's comprehension/generator syntax is nice, though, and doesn't have a clean analog in perl. One thing it does do well is chaining up "filter" operations on aggregate data structures in a clean way. And that has value and is worth emulating. But honestly most of the rest of the language is junk compared to perl or ruby.
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GitHub Game Off Winners
For YC, this is from their application page:

We usually invest $11,000 + $3000n, where n is the number of participating founders, up to 3 (i.e. 2 founders get $17,000, 3 or more get $20,000), in return for between 2% and 10% of the company. The average is 7%. [1]

[1] http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
Yes. It's not even happening in the first place.

Instagram would have closed shop the very first day it actually ATTEMPTED to sell a user photo without his permission.

Plus, I addressed this very question in my reply already. Not to mention that my first comment have several ADDITIONAL reasons why this is not actually happening.
Use a calorie calculator such as http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm or http://www.1percentedge.com/ifcalc/ and then adjust based on if you want to gain or lose weight.

Also, check out the reddit/r/fitness FAQ: http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/Fitness for answers to other questions you're likely to have next.