skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty weak article. He suggests ignoring the Constitution because only the House is supposed to present revenue measures. I was hoping he would detail every way the Constitution has been eroded and sidestepped and conclude that it's an ineffective document in need of updating: more teeth and more specifics.
The more laws are bent and disregarded, the less any law (not just those laws) will be followed. Ask any parent.

I think that we may be better off if those that are willing to give up all power to the government to disregard the constitution would just run their own country, and leave the rest of us out of it. For someone that writes for an organization that makes its living off of the 1st amendment to advocate throwing out that which provides it that 1st amendment is moronic at best, and suicidal and murderous of a free press and a free people at worst.
I think that everything you directly mentioned is incremental improvements over the last decades (electric cards, SSDs, 3d printing, tissue printing, DNA/RNA microarrays, 3d motion detection, RaspberryPI and Arduino [which are more mass production and extra firmware plays than anything], etc).

However the io9 link's contents are the f-ing future and they didn't even scratch the surface. Our understanding of biology is getting better and better, automation is finally starting to get wide acceptance both in industry and academia, and there is so much work being done by universities today that was pure science fiction only a decade ago.

The future is sneaking up on us quietly, and once it's here, there's no going back :)
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Wikipedia is shady at best about how much money they actually need from the community. Reddit does not internet to receive people into giving up money. The recent push to giving gold sounds pretty cool.
Netbooks don't strike me as garbage at all. I have a desktop (well, more of a desk-holder-up since it's a tower) and that's what I use for any kind of processor-intensive work. When I'm mobile, I don't want to do anything more complex than editing a document, and I don't need an expensive high-powered laptop for that.

Come to that, a typical netbook configuration of some atom-style processor and 2gb of memory is not that bad - that would have been a high-powered machine 8 or 10 years ago and with an SSD it's pretty nippy.

Invest in build quality and reliability, potentially at the cost of end-user repairability.

Thanks, but no thanks.
Exactly. How many times has the supreme court struck down laws because they violated the first amendment? I'm not OK with giving congress unlimited authority to do whatever they please.

Edit:

A quick search shows a total of 1,315 laws have been declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. And countless laws weren't passed in the first place because legislators were aware that they would eventually be overturned.
Humans have been talking about flying cars since the 60s. If we would have had them by now, their creators would have been educated well before Thiel Graham and Arrington.
I've met a lot of people who have non-CS degrees in the industry. I have a non-CS degree. Can you actually do the work? That's the question a lot of employers will want to know the answer to.
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Given Reddit is 7 years old, it's a dangerous gamble they're taking in not developing some kind of sustainable business model, one that provides cover for disasters that inevitably hit. Obviously Conde may choose to provide for them perpetually, but that's extremely unlikely.

Then again, maybe they're at a large enough scale now to fully run off the Wiki model. More power to them if that's the case and Conde is ok with it.
Win 8, and I haven't booted it for weeks.
What percentage of page loads have real adverts for you? I thought maybe it was due to my location (England) but I'm unable to get any real adverts through a US based VPN either (on a clean VM with no reddit session information).

Edit: just had a guy I know from the US do the same experiment, of 20 page loads all 20 were reddit related for him. Not a single "real" advert.
Tornado like webserver with Twitter Finagle
Show HN: Dating website where ladies get paid
Happy new year fellow HNers! This is my first Show HN... and it's a dating website. The crowd here is not my target market, so I'm not looking for SEO/traffic, but looking for feedbacks. Lots of it. I'm fully prepared that I'll get bashed due to the nature of my product.

What: An online Indonesian dating website where the ladies get paid if their date sucks. That "paid" part is just a gimmick (the feature is not fully implemented) which seems to work. So far nobody questions the lack of implementation. If people do need it, I'll implement it.

Why: I want to quit my job and "do startup" but I don't have any good idea. Dating website is (saturated but still) easy to get traction. I also use this as a learning vehicle (Scala, CoffeeScript, AngularJS, Google App Engine).

When: I'm doing this after hours and weekends.

Where: http://www.ngajakjalan.com

How: Most likely you don't want to create an account, so please login with demo/demo. It's a real account, so please don't send message to other members from there :)

Stats so far: Landing page for 2 months, then 2 months running. 8k members, 85% male, 100k pageviews/month. Spending $10 daily for FB ads to get female members.

Specific questions: I'm thinking of raising seed money so I can quit my job and work on this fulltime. Given my situation (single, employed, solo founder) and my website progress, (1) Is this a good idea? (2) What would it take to get me there? (3) If not good idea, what are the alternatives?
I believe Netbooks will be seen as a very important development in the evolution of computing devices. The early Netbooks focused on a small, portable form factor which also had an extremely long battery life. Hardware was mostly from the previous generation and the default OS was an open source Linux variant. Yet, it was good enough for most people.

Certainly, Microsoft and Intel would hate the creation of such a category which would hurt their margins significantly. In fact, Asus was forced to sell Windows only netbooks after a point in time.

But at least now the customers know that such a long running, ultra portable and cheap device is possible. This, I believe, was a big achievement.
> I've conditioned myself to put all my things in my front pockets,

My friend got his wallet stolen from his front pocket on his shirt. The pocket was buttoned down and he was also wearing a winter jacket on top of it as well.

It happened in a crowded city bus. That is really just a goldmine for pickpockets. Well usually. It hasn't worked out for that particular group really as we managed to catch one of them (crowded city bus only stops at certain stops and because it is crowded it is a little hard to run). We brought him to a police station, where the cops promptly escorted him to a room and proceeded to torture him. I can still hear his disturbing and desperate cries. It felt like we won at the time but in looking back, I feel sorry for the kid.
Yes, but explaining to you that periodicals that have been in print for 88 years have a certain way of working, that people like getting copies in the mail, and that people expect consistency between the printed copy and the electronic copy will probably exceed your ten millisecond attention span, so it probably isn't worth it for me to bother.
72 Dodge Challenger, 340 sb. Slightly (ahem) modified to put out about 400 HP (measured on the dyno). Makes me feel like a kid everytime I drive it.
I'm a self taught programmer without a college degree. I have released some apps on the android market and done some freelance work. From my experiences, yes, yes you do. I have applied to countless programming jobs over the last two years and I can't make it past the filters. On the rare occasion that I do, the vast majority of the interview is focused around the interviewer grilling me on why I don't have the all important degree.
Who is going to let a little klepto sabotage friendship?
Fiscal cliff averted in 11th hour
I call that TWiGs management. Toddlers WIth GunS.

When I say that it's not legitimated, I'm not saying that it's illegitimate philosophically (although I think it is) but that such managers do a poor job of convincing other people that their power is legitimate.

In the military, most people buy in to the rank system. A major component of the abuse inflicted in basic training is to tear someone's ego down and build the person back up again as someone who can take orders. The result is that a lot of them come out of the process genuinely believing that the commanding officer's power is legitimate. In most companies, nothing happens to convince the grunts that the managerial power is legitimate, since most managers are puppet leaders rather than the leaders that the group would pick.
You don't need to replace old/discontinued RAID card with the used one (assuming you mean same make and model). The new card from same manufacturer will work. The RAID card writes DCBs on disks that are read by the new RAID card upon replacement.
Great response. Please keep posting.
Our core system of government - which has done pretty well for 200+ years despite all the undermining Congress & the Executive branch have done - is still better than the rest. It has done so well because it's a system built on principles that are eternal, it was specifically not built for any given time, but rather for all time. The only problem we have, is we need to return to a constitutional system of government, not be an extraconstitutional system, where the government intentionally ignores its limitations when it feels like it. We need to be a Republic again, not a mob rule Democracy that eats itself alive as is occurring right now.

The biggest problem America has is a vastly overreaching government, and it's overreaching in every regard possible, from privacy to fiscal to military to general freedom.

The only people advocating for an end or change to the Constitution, are those interested in various forms of authoritarian rule. Their goal is always, one way or another, to give more power to some central authority, and to limit freedom of the individual.
I've also gotten a lot of use out of my netbook. Small, long battery life, and can do just about everything my desktop/laptop can. All for $300 (a price point I could never imagine seeing from Apple). I can see that they're not for everyone and for many consumers tablets may be a better choice, but for me the netbook was cheaper and I could do more with it.
While the homepage was a self-ad, I just visited each of the subreddits in the small row of links along the very top of the page, which I presume to be the most popular ones. Every one except 'WTF' has a 'sponsored link' in the top position, which appeared to be from genuine paying customers. So, they're working in some genuine commercial placements.

This probably isn't it, but Reddit may yet find a 'native advertising' format that works really well for them without angering the community.
That sucks. What part of the country do you live in?

My advice: keep learning cool stuff, go to networking events (e.g. meetups, especially related to NLP, machine learning, and Scala) get some job leads there. Cold-emailing your resume rarely gets you anything, especially when you're in a career sand trap. But you have a skillset that, if you're strong in what you've cited, is desirable.

You will eventually get a feel for how much investment you need to put into your day job to keep it, and you can use the remainder of your time (which may be 20-35 hours of your work week) to keep current with the skills you want. If you're writing code on company time, be careful and make sure not to use it for any closed-source purpose, because you don't want your employer asserting ownership.

You can get out of the sandtrap but you'll have to break the rules to do it. Stealing an education from a boss feels dirty when you're young and naive, but it's a necessary survival skill and, in a world where bait-and-switch hiring is common as dirt, not at all unethical.
not always possible if your intent is to reply in a timely manner.
"The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

What Lincoln did was constitutional.
I develop on Mac, deploy to Linux (Ubuntu). Didn't have to use a debugger so far.
I bet this would look pretty cool outside mixed in with some other light painting gear. Always a pain to get the background/environment the colours you want.
Our team produces instructional videos and downloads that teach sleight of hand (and a wide spectrum of magic effects). Some take a little bit of practice to perfect, but the result is well worth the effort!
To your point, here is another of his absurd claims.

>the president would still be checked by Congress and by the states

The states haven't been able to "check" the Federal government since the Civil War.
So I don't have to be a Ninja or a Samurai to get anything out of this book? ;-) Awesome.

The title still sucks. I don't get this idea of (ninja|rockstar|etc) and it's extremely disrespectful to those that practice those disciplines.
I did try D when it was in its early days (i.e. D 1) but at the time I was put off by lack of documentation, the standard library split (phobos vs. D) and general immaturity of the system. I'm sure things have improved since then but I really like Go's simplicity.
That was exactly my thought. Who gets to decide which pieces get ignored? A pundit who has his favorite pieces?

I agree the laws of the land, and, by extension, the Constitution, need to be altered to reflect the times; but an ad hoc method is not the right way. An ad hoc method simply means the people with the most power get to decide, something the Founders were decidedly trying to prevent.

One of the greatest accomplishments of the Founders was the recognized the need to change with the times and laid a foundation for it. As a country, we just seem to be too (lazy?) to follow the guidance.
To clarify, such titles as "ninja," "samurai," "rockstar," etc. that are completely ridiculous are quite disrespectful to those who practice the arts that they make reference to.

Not to mention idiotic.
While I understand your statement and its origins in 19th century thought, you seem to misunderstand the foundations of our government. This is completely normal, as almost no-one really get what the founders thought or why they made the decisions they did.

I'm one of those people that obsessively studied that period of history, however. Please, before you comment about the overreaching nature of our government, read Hume.
Social networking with Frientegrity: security with an untrusted provider
One problem I've had is uneven neck (and probably shoulder/back) muscle development, because I don't sit staring and facing straight at the monitor. This is a warning to those that are younger and haven't noticed this yet.
Maybe I'm just in a giddy mood because it's a New Year and I'm feeling optimistic.

But I think Gources are FUCKING AWESOME.

Watching the evolution of the STUFF WE LIVE TO BUILD while some energetic music plays in the background is JUST FREAKIN COOL.

Sometimes, it is just the simple things that bring so much joy.
That is why debugging JS that was written in some ridiculous language that compiles to JS becomes quite difficult. The other problem is trying to figure out the fix in the original language which may not be obvious. But this is not a popular opinion. Not that I care that today's programmers would rather require that a web app be written in 10 languages rather than 4 (Serverside, JS, CSS, HTML).

Adding complexity is the opposite of the software development goal. Too bad most people don't get this. Other than shipping your software on time and sometimes even above that goal, is reducing complexity. Too bad most people go the other way because it's "cool."

They shall pay the price.
It's missing the whole point of interpreted languages. I hate JS as much as the next person, but in the end, if you don't know JS well, these languages will only hinder your progress.
I'm the author of the article, and throwing away the tickets was suggested many times by different people.

We had a pretty big discussion in #parrot about the value of this ticket set. People on the project plowed through the Trac database and closed tickets, and even with that we still hundreds that tracked all sorts of development. Many were bug reports, and many were effectively to-do items, and many were bug reports that had been resolved but still couldn't be closed for various reasons, such as needing an automated test to verify it.

It's nice to start over clean, but sometimes there's too much baby with the bathwater.
We have experts in our team who know what's not allowed in certain countries. There's a Google Adwords like system in place where once you post a package it is reviewed to check whether it's legal to take that thing to the destination city. The traveler is also intimated about any suspicious activity. I understand that this is just a preliminary check an that it's impossible to make the system completely bulletproof considering people find crazy ways to ship cocaine and drugs. But this is a chance we are willing to take. We try to do everything to ensure transparency and will plug all holes one at a time.
Lets just scrap the government altogether. We're all adults, lets act like it. We don't need to elect a bunch of people to tell us what to do and what not to do.

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
If you're very good at what you're doing, then no. You don't need one. It will be harder to get an interview, but not impossible.
If you want a different browser scripting language, start hacking on Firefox and Chromium and start a campaign to get it adopted. Otherwise, you are adding unnecessary complexity to apps that are already unnecessarily complex in the first place. Coffeescript, Fay, whatever. Build it right or stop with this bullshit.
The self serve platform has been around for a couple of years now and although I'm not well versed in advertising (so I could be way off the mark) from what I understand a CPM of ~$0.10 isn't particularly good for the publisher (but great for advertisers?) and with the recent talks from Yishan about reddit losing money I guess the self serve platform isn't going to be what rescues them (especially with their big focus on reddit gold?).

Here's a screenshot from the self serve control panel: http://i.imgur.com/QaevQ.png
I'm in Houston which is not a great city for that skillset.

I do extremely little for my job, so little I honestly started to wonder if I was missing something. Then I slowly realized my coworkers are morons. A few weeks ago, I was asked to create a directory structure for a bunch of incoming data files, a few hundred directories all told. Another person was tasked to do the same on a different server.

I spent about ten minutes on it because I wrote a shell script. He did it by hand and spent all day. Which, of course, is what I told my boss it took me as well. I just happened to use the rest of my time to read Akka in Action.
It's basically an IR thermometer that outputs a color instead of a number reading. Those "gadgets" are already pretty cheap, so not sure if replacing the expensive passive display with a 15 cent rgb led would make anyone profit.

I use this one for checking the oil on my pan to see if it's hot enough for my ribeye steak:
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Non-Contact-Laser-Thermometer-...

If they used an rgb led instead of the read-out, you might be able to buy one for $5.
"Sense of" clauses often determine the precise allocation of appropriated funds. Indeed _committee_reports_, which lack the dignity of a full vote of either House, or a Presidential signature, are treated by executive departments as determinative of public spending. They are the primary mechanism for designating "pork barrel" spending and thus are treated as the primary targets of lobbying efforts.

I know this because I have worked on those bills.

I do not know the legal or regulatory landscape around telecommunications in nearly such detail. But knowing the importance of such language in a REALLY significant corner, I would be very, very slow to regard any of it as without "impact [on] public facing policy." Not without a very thorough explanation of why exactly it was meaningless, and regarded as such generally throughout the industry.

Again, I don't know the industry. I do know that the making and implementation of law is a very complicated business, where the black and white readings of law do not yield the simple answers one might expect from logical analysis. And I know that in very important corners of government language like this, and still further from law than this, is effectively determinative of federal policy. So blanket claims that "sense of" language are without any real force are "demonstrably incorrect".
Fun to see theory11 on Hacker News. Great company, I'm a fan.

I wonder how many HN users are magicians. I've always felt a strong connection between hacking and magic - both involve trying to "hack" a problem in a way that ordinary minds will never think of.

In fact, I credit magic with teaching me the roots of skepticism and rationality - once you know how to explain seemingly unexplainable things, you realize that things that you can't explain mean a lack of knowledge on your part, not a lack of explanation on the universe's part. And when you have smart people around you arguing that it simply can't be done, when you know the secret, you realize even smart people get fooled into thinking that what they can't explain must be supernaturaly.
Sounds like you guys did your due diligence. In that case, of course, writing the app to move them over is the right choice.

Thank you for the article, BTW. It may be obvious to some but not to most. Especially contributing to documentation. I'd say that most open source projects can benefit more from that than from new features ... and maybe even most bug-fixes, depending on severity.
The reddit home page is empty for me (because I'm not subscribed to anything I guess), I normally visit via a shortcut that merges several subreddits. Hard to monetize a blank page.

I just visited with my phone (not logged in) and saw an ad for vacau.com at the top of the page. Were you discounting these ads?
It isn't laziness.

Change is disruptive. Disruption during instability (such as the economic condition of our country, political instability due to polarized nearly 50/50 political split of the people) is dangerous. But more importantly, estabilished lobbying powers inherently tend to equalize change unless one or more become significantly stronger and change the balance of power. And if those lobbying powers are not in favor of the change, it won't happen. Finally, change can lead to a great deal of uncertainty. Uncertainty is risk, and risk is typically bad when it comes to politics.

Amendments to the constitution could happen of course, but this would be an unlikely time for them.

It is more likely that the interpretation of the constitution would change. And that has changed very much over time.
Heh...oddly enough, I've been to Santana Row. It's the only mall in the entire US that I've been to that has anything even close, and while Santana Row does tell you what levels have free spots, the last time I was there they still didn't have indicator lights above each individual spot.

...but, again, it's not any one particular "invention" but rather the whole attitude that's different. The US has gotten complacent and seems to be spending more effort on justifying why it's the greatest than on actually, you know, being the greatest.