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>No third party, including libertarian, can win in the current environment.

It has nothing to do with the "current environment" unless by current environment you mean the first past the post voting system.

People who talk about "vote for X party" are just deluding themselves. Parties aren't based on ideologies, they're based on coalitions. To win you need to get a controlling majority of the seats in the legislature, not "be a small government conservative" or "advance the cause of criminal justice reform" or whatever thing you think would fix everything if people would just make decisions based on that. The only reason any party does anything is that they think it will keep them in power.

So that's how you fix problems. You make it so that the candidate who doesn't advance your cause doesn't get reelected -- and you make sure they all understand that before it happens, so that they do advance your cause.

Which is why the drug war has never been fixed. Because we haven't cared enough about it to move the needle. When things like this happen, do you all go out and write your Congressmen a letter that says "fix this or I'm voting against you"? Do media organizations whose lazy government-sources-only coverage favors prosecutors and law enforcement in cases like this get an explosion of phone calls from regular people complaining about biased reporting? No. Which is why it hasn't been fixed.
You can have a look at the latest issue here: http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9f8345c9a9462d19984b8ca5...

I've been publishing for a little over a week and have gotten some quality feedback so far but would love to hear from HN readers, particularly in terms of the content curated: am I covering the most pertinent areas? Too many articles? Too little? Is it something you'd be interested in subscribing to? Any feedback to this end would be awesome.
I live in Berlin. A good friend of mine lived in London for a while and I visited him a couple of times.

Rent in London is a lot more expensive than in Berlin, and food etc is more expensive as well. Salaries are higher in London, though. Flat sharing is common in Berlin, but my friend had no big trouble finding flat sharing in London.

Speaking English is no problem in Berlin... many internationals live and work here.

Don't know anything about Barcelona, but I suspect the weather there is a lot better than in either London or Berlin :)

I suggest you spent a week in each city, attend some meetups etc and decide based on which culture you like better.
I think it is usually easy to determine by context when someone is referring to a language and when someone is referring to the typical implementation, libraries, etc that come along with a language. In the context of performance benchmarking it is clear (to me at least) that the benchmark would be of a particular implementation, of which there is usually an obvious choice. I don't think there is really any misunderstanding of that.
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Does this setup work with web sockets?
Yeah, but I always played with number_pad enabled, so I never picked it up. (And then I wound up being incapable of playing the game sensibly on my laptop, alas: no diagonals.)
I'm sure make and git work with Rust like anything else.
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Ask HN: Does the accelerators interfere too much?
My associate want only angel investors, and not try a accelerator because he thinks he will have to do whatever they want and this will affect our creative control and general management of the company.

Since I never worked with a accelerator, I don't know what to think exactly, but to me it sounds he is right (since YCombinator for example requires you to move, or some others are clear they have some strong rules).

So, is he right?

Or at least, there are different styles of accelerators?
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Great quality instructions Shay, nice work.
2) If you're talking about chargebacks, it would be YOU that the buyers would be charging back the money from, not the warehouse, since you were the merchant that accepted the payment.

And am I right in that you are basically saying that the buyers take on all risk of storage at the warehouse facility? If so, you should probably outline that as well, including what the insurance policy of the warehouse, covers, etc.
Great Post! I am in a process of learning a visual design tool myself. It was great to read a fellow entreprenuer's journey to this hugely hackneyed notion of design.
You absolutely can make private online purchases
I was looking to see if anyone else uses my acquisition service's business model. As to-date, I've made over 20 purchases using them, and I've always been quite satisfied. The way they parcel out data at point-of-purchase has never left a complete record of what I've gotten or of my personal info on anyone's files, and someone would have to hack 4-5 different, secured systems before they could even start attempting to reverse-engineer any sort of profile. If you haven't found a better way, you might enjoy the peace-of-mind their service affords. If you have found a better way, I'd love to hear about it.
Were any of these London hospitals?
Hi, BCN guy, intern @ Telefonica R&D.

To go around BCN you should have at least a basic Spanish/Catalan level.

From what I've heard, most technical meetups are usually done in English.

Startups: Tuenti, Yuilop, Socialpoint, Teambox, 3scale, Itnig... Many others here https://angel.co/barcelona

If you want to focus exclusively on startup jobs, I think that http://www.jobfluent.com is probably the best site to look at.

Referring to incubators, there are some but I don't know if English is spoken there. I can tell you that at Telefonica everybody can speak English because there is people from around the globe working in there (at least in R&D) so I assume the same for Wayra. By the way, other accelerators/incubators/coworking spaces: Seedrocket, Barcelona Activa, La Salle Technova, Palo Alto BCN, MOB Barcelona...

Last recommendation: To know what is going on within the city, follow @startupbcn and subscribe to the BCN Startup Digest mailing list. This should be a good start for newcomers.

Overall: I think that the BCN startup community isn't as big as in London or Berlin, but this is changing fast. The other problem I see is that still lots of entrepreneurship events are held in Catalan/Spanish, and I think it discourages foreigners to get into the ecosystem. I hope this will change soon...

Anyway, I always say that I would choose BCN because it is the other SV (Sunny Valley) ;)
Ask HN: Why would a website have office hours? 
So the website to apply for disability from SSA has office hours.

http://imgur.com/6VrftmO

This sounds crazy to me (and laughed a lot about it) but I was wondering if there is a legitimate reason to close down a site regularly (other than temporarily for maintenance)?
Very roughly, you strip the casing and then bend the fiber until a small amount of light begins escaping through the small gaps created by the bending. Most of the light continues to travel through the cable unharmed aside from a tiny decrease in intensity.

Here is a page with some pictures of something along those lines:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/protect-your-netwo...

Here is an article about a US sub equipped for this kind of job:

http://defensetech.org/2005/02/21/jimmy-carter-super-spy/
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Thank you for this post. It should be a Wikipedia page about regulation.
"ability to detect British humor"

That would make an excellent browser plugin.
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I should have been more accurate - the bank would be liable if the customer charged back and couldn't reclaim the money from Vinetrade (e.g. we'd ceased trading).

There isn't huge risk for the buyers - all wine in the warehouses is insured at full replacement value. It's more of a hypothetical "what if" or worst case scenario.
glad u liked it :) and best of luck in your endeavor.
You don't have to. The arrows work just fine. You can use 'hjkl' (or whatever pleases you), and many people choose to, for the main reason that having navigation keys in the home row is really nice.

Having navigation on 'hjkl' for me was never about a lack of arrow keys, and has always been about convenience. The reason it's specific to Vi/m is that you need a modal editor to be able to pull it off.
> Who needs capslock anyway?

C and Java programmers.
This is plain wrong. I am sure that in my friends' minds I am a caring and compassionate person. In return I try to do my best preserving them in my basement.
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nginx doesn't support websockets quite yet, so no, but will do soon - http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap
Knockoutjs is nice for that sort of thing. They have a pretty quick tutorial: http://learn.knockoutjs.com/
Think of it this way: when you were a kid, were you told to keep a clean desk or a messy desk? Why?

If there is a place for you to put your books and stationary and papers and periodicals, does it make more sense to put things in their place, or pile them on top of the desk?

Eventually, you're going to have to clean up your mess. Eventually, things will have to be put in their place. Is it better to put them in their place now at a small inconvenience, or let those small inconveniences pile up into a big one later?

And are those who always put things away irrationally fearful? That sounds like an awful big stretch.
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I'm no expert either, but I was under the impression that the paleomagnetic record is pretty good for at least the last thousand years. So a magnetic variation which could cause a 20-times-normal variation in the production of carbon-14 (from 5/100 of a percent to 1 percent) would have left some evidence?

Likewise for volcanic explosions, especially considering the narrow time scale; enough material was pumped into the atmosphere to cause that 20-fold increase in variation, but its effects were gone in a year or less?

Anyway, I know that mainstream science reporting is not the best, but just because scientists don't explicitly say "we've considered alternate explanations and found them less likely" doesn't mean they haven't done that.
You can list the calls for $x, but there's no process for selection behind it.
Group policies can be used to disable execution from any user-writeable directory.
You use a lot of words to make one good point, which is that jikl for movement and h for insert is a sensible key mapping. Whether or not you're aware of the advantages of near-home-row movement keys, all the snark surrounding your point is a disservice to it.

I'm going to try your suggestion though, it makes sense.
What's even more fun is that depending on your LOM configuration -removing- the keyboard can send a Stop-A.

This is not entirely hilarious when a junior sysadmin 'tidies up' the keyboards connected to the main database server (and even further from funny when the slave is currently down for maintenance ...)
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Apple put a $50 computer in peoples hands- the iPod shuffle. Sure, it might not be as full featured as a laptop, but you have to walk before you can run.

Yes, it's me 'hating Apple' because I think you're missing your calling as a spin doctor. A patronising one at that ("your grandmother, bless her heart")
Scary if you think about what information can be found online about your personal life
> I would even go so far as to say that these individuals very likely have a background in law or simply have an MBNA

IS MBNA a typo for MBA or is this a specialized certification I've never heard of?
"No one wants my "cure"* for cystic fibrosis.

* Not a cure, a means to be healthy in spite of the defect. Quibbling detail which everyone misses."

Your confidence in your anecdotes and bitterness that they're not taken as fact may be seen as offputting. Try understanding why people may listen to your experiences and not see them as an immediate path to follow.

Regardless of whether your "methods" are sound or not, there have been and are plenty of well-meaning and sincere quacks throughout history and certainly today, complaining that you are entitled to respect for having these hypotheses isn't going to swing anybody your way who doesn't already believe as you do.
Thats not so much a "nice bug" but rather a big fat warning sign for anyone trying to use MATLAB.
This is suggestion from articke to code in and I have no idea wtf it is
Exactly, the solution is to fix those standards, not remove them. That's why I tend to not take Libertarian "certification bodies for safety, not 'regulation'" ideas seriously.
> Syntax is mostly a matter of preference.

And to paraphrase Feynman, mathematics is mostly the invention of better syntax. One thing I'd say which distinguishes Haskellers is that they see their programming language as a piece of mathematics. A Haskell program is a bunch of equations, and the semantics are given by domain theory.
A few things that should be noted:

"There are only a bunch of fonts that designers use."
This really isn't true. There are about a hundred or so that are particularly common that any good designer should be able to recognize on sight, but there's an enormous long tail, many of which are perfectly servicable for specific uses.

"Corrections at this stage will generally be minor"
Your interface's visual corrections may be minor, but in terms of usability, information architecture, and so forth, if you haven't incorporated results of real testing by this point, you're in for a real suprise. Especially if you're not versed in design and usability literature, you're likely in for either a lot of frustrated users or a lot of reworking.

I'll also just point out, while I'm at it, that on your screenshots page, your Facebook icon is next to the word "Twitter," and proximity implies association.
I had the same quibble. This article even goes on to make the connection to Schmidts trip. The two subject matters have no single fiber connecting them.
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The original article did mention that switching to use lines instead of characters would probably speed things up considerably, but argued that this makes the program harder to understand, while Haskell makes the same optimizations automatically on the character-based program.

And that's a fine point to make, but I do think it was a little misleading and handwavy. The proper thing to do would be to make the change and show the difference both in code and performance, and let the readers draw their own conclusions.
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Well... one cool thing about Chernobyl is those black mushrooms in the reactor, that do radiosyntesys (yes, they "eat" radiation, awesome).

But no, they don't glow, quite the opposite (they absorb a wide range of electromagnetic frequencies to its internal use).
Relevant: patio11 made a 45 minute video about improving software's first-run experience which I found very useful. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.

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Preference isn't arbitrary, people make reasoned judgments to determine what tools they will use to get their work done.

No one spends 40 hours a week with a language without knowing its strengths and weaknesses.
I'm genuinely curious as well. We've seen a lot of pure css images like these that seem to have no functional use. Technically speaking, why would someone choose them over sprites, webfonts, etc? Just to reduce the number of static requests?
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Nice anecdote, but that's a rather uber-sensational title - not in a good way.
Because they can, probably. Little other reason.

Although webfonts tend to render horribly on Chrome, so they're not without problems either.
+1 and thanks for the mention (I am the creator of Giraffe).

However, despite my support for open-source tools, and my deep love for graphite, it might in some cases make more sense to use a commercial product. There are many pretty neat commercial dashboards out there which could make the setup and any learning-curve much easier.

Just to name a few I've heard of (never used, and in no particular order): Librato metrics, ducksboard, geckoboard ... and probably many others I missed.
>the imaginary constant i in MATLAB was getting overwritten!

The constness of i in Matlab is also imaginary, which is pretty terrible.
Maybe change the title.
Created by two SoundCloud engineers over the weekend at Music Hack Day Stockholm. https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-stock...
Instead of automated processing, you queue up the report and then an employee at any of the SSA offices generates and sends it to your browser?
No, just an ME degree from Stuttgart but I focussed on controls and optics. I worked in machine vision for years and gradually drifted into software and firmware engineering with a lot of EE mixed in. I'm at HP now and they don't car what your degree is in.
I am curious why you feel the need to hound me and repeatedly use terminology like "quack". That is generally not socially acceptable behavior. No one else on HN does this to me. I wish you would stop. It isn't likely to accomplish anything constructive.
If you end up with an app that is marketable and users will respect, the 8 weeks is probably worth it.

Besides, it's a skill that keeps giving. Now he cans spend the next week both writing and designing his next app instead of getting stuck with an ugly app and no designer.
Could you provide a link for more information about those mushrooms?

I like thinking about those natural anomalies that you know some brilliant mind will attempt to mimic with technology, and that is one function that could have serious potential.
At the risk of being repetitive check out Spreedlycore as another way to work with or switch between gateways as solutions you prefer become available. https://spreedlycore.com/
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Tech in Asia has an English summary & commentary about the train ticket plugins ban:

http://www.techinasia.com/negotiation-miit-orders-chinese-br...

Indeed there seems to be one plugin which hotlinks a js file from Github:
http://www.ce.cn/cysc/tech/07hlw/guonei/201301/21/t20130121_...

But of course, blocking Github didn't affect any of the other plugins. So Phoenix TV is reporting that most other plugins are still actually working:

http://tech.ifeng.com/internet/detail_2013_01/21/21406667_0....
Not sure i follow your point.
Sorry, I must confess I skimmed and missed that you gave a shoutout to him. That's way awesome of you and I wasn't trying to detract from your rad project, either. FPGA consoles are totally baller, period.
Creating custom mappings is great until you need to ssh into an unfamiliar production system and you begin mashing up config files and cron jobs because your muscle memory doesn't match the standard mappings.
I'd be interested in such serious research too, but so far everything I've ever seen on the topic has pretty clearly been "research", emphasized scare quotes, with predetermined results that just happen to precisely flatter the preconceived notions of the researchers, and I don't trust the results.
For something aimed at designers, it's disappointing that the design is lacking. The font color is too light. I have young eyes and I found myself straining a little to read. This is especially poor since the number of points is in this light color. Points are what people look for and yet they don't pop out at you.

Another issue is the menu at the top; I didn't know the clock meant new until I clicked it. Adding a hover (at the very least) would make it more friendly to new users.

The key is to not go overboard with minimalism. At the end of the day, certain details that people look for in order to familiarize themselves with something cannot be eliminated for the sake of aesthetic.
'I fell into a canal while texting'
Pretty nifty.
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Is Ember Data just unfinished or fundamentally broken?
If that is the worst bug ever, I would die a happy programmer. Btw, why would anyone use the 3*i form when there is the much clearer 3i form?
I had a similarly fun time back in the 90s debugging a VBA script a co-worker had written for an Excel spreadsheet. She was looping through a bunch of time values...

... so she named her variable "time"

... which, when modified, would (naturally) set the system time of the computer.

I'm not sure whether they've fixed that one yet.
this has to be a troll
I'm not familiar with American prison conditions but I suspect they aren't as bad as this: http://www.utsalumni.org/news/how-one-man-escaped-from-a-nor...
bunch of fonts should more be like "bunch of fonts that they use on a regular basis" and I would like to incorporate your second comment into the slide if it is ok with you. I am making corrections in the app based on usability tests and thanks for pointing out the fb and twitter icons.
Those do indeed look like some incredible projects.

If I had more time (and judging by the docs better linear algebra skills) I might certainly be interested in these.

I hope that some smart hackers do take you up on this.
Obviously its a matter of personal preference but PEP 8 (official Python style guide) disagrees with you.
Bringing up node.js REPL: - No, thank you.)
jusben, they don't seem to handle subscriptions.
Kind of along the same lines in the sense of being my biggest facepalm moment; many years ago in my first professional programming gig we had full SA access to our sql server. We regularly did troubleshooting via direct SQL statements (a practice I've since shied away from). One particular day, we were troubleshooting a problem in our monthly billing process. I went to delete a few rows and foolishly forgot to include a limiting statement on the WHERE clause, which resulted in most of the data being blown away.

Thankfully, we were able to restore that table from a backup and rerun everything to rebuild the table's state to a correct place ... but suffice to say the experience taught me many things about attention to detail, and how debugging in production should happen.

Good times!
it's the most frequent error you can do when writing 'a-little-bit-more' complex scripts using MATLAB. it's sad to say but MATLAB takes too much care of backward code compatibility and they didn't fix this! all matlab's newcomers do that error. :)
I'm baffled by the fact that the single most common name for an integer variable has a special meaning (though it's not a reserved word). I'm pretty sure this is a bug in MatLab, not in OP's code.

But still I was wondering: isn't that code horribly un-idiomatic for an array based programming language?
That is a pretty awful MATLAB perk, using 'i' as the sqrt(-1) (and indexing the arrays from 1...).

It makes polyglot programmers make a lot of silly mistakes. It would have been SO easy to call the imaginary constant just 'I' instead of 'i'...
So this is what HN has come to eh? Just random trivia links. Cat pictures can't be more than two weeks off.
Exactly. I got dissuaded at "Font" -- I have known too many designers who jump down my throat over the difference between a font and typeface.