skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) You don't have a law against breaking locks. You have a law against willful destruction of other peoples' property, and locks are property.

2) You have an exception to such laws for exigent circumstances or implied consent.

Here is the flaw in your argument: We don't have to nail everything down to nail part of something down. We don't have to define "exigent circumstances" mathematically or put the badge number of authorized fire marshals in the statute. That doesn't mean we can't do better than obscenely broad and vague nonsense like "unauthorized access to a computer."

There is a reason we have laws more specific than "anyone who does anything bad shall be punished by a fine of up to one hundred trillion dollars or up to one thousand years in prison."
Another reason is to make sure they get their gold back first, just in case there's a been a financial ponzi scheme in gold trading where paper instruments are not backed up by real assets.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-09/hsbc-sues-mf-global...

"Five gold bars and 15 silver bars underlie eight Comex contracts between the brokerage and its client Jason Fane of Ithaca, New York, the unit of London-based HSBC said in a court filing yesterday. Both parties have asserted claims to the bars, creating difficulties for HSBC, which is storing them, the bank said. HSBC asked a judge to decide who the rightful owner is."
I think it's mostly because the dedicated servers at your host don't hide between the convenient API of a PaaS like Heroku. Much more things are happening when you do git push heroku than when just pushing on a remote of yours.

If you tried to write a few scripts to automatically deploy your code on N instances, manage http load balancing and all the nice but invisible features of Heroku, I'm sure you would be down more often than they are ;-)
Here's a source to back that -- a talk from one of the researchers involved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UT2yYs5YJs

Relevant stuff (liquid-fuel vs. liquid-coolant) somewhere around @23:30.
Glancing through the objections, the non-political ones all seem to boil down to "We don't actually know that they work at commercial scales, because we've never used them at commercial scale before." Well... yeah... but as an objections go, it's hard to imagine a much weaker one. If that's the best technical argument the detractors have, that says quite a lot about their arguing position. On the other hand, they seem to have the potential to fix some very real objections to nuclear power from the uranium cycle.
Just received a second email an hour later, this time for hellofax. What part of "installing a plugin" makes it OK to email me?

I can't believe anyone supports a company that spams so aggressively.

Are all the near-identical sounding overly positive comments in this thread all astroturf? Surely a bunch of programmers and networking people can't be that excited about being able to sign documents online. In fact, this reeks of astroturfing.
I believe on 1, you meant for the title to be Sublime Code Intel.
Haven't been on there in years, mostly due to the fact that as a heavy user, I was getting deluged by spam (less common) and repeat links (more common). I'm sure they fixed this by now, but it's so hard to change habits once you get away from using a service.
Ask HN: How would you build a game streaming service (eg Gaikai/OnLive)?
"That you could go away and learn what color the middle wire is is great. But the guy next to you has been fixing wiring in distributor caps for years. And right now, I need people that know what color the middle wire is."

If you're hiring a mechanic, yes. However, the analogy was pointing out that the person being asked the question was a potential car renter. That specific knowledge is not relevant as a car renter.
Forgot about this, sent through my details on 9/24/12, still seem to have an account "waiting for approval" (i'm non US though)

email I got at the time said "We're reviewing developer applications over the coming week" and there seems to be no way to delete my account now... so my information is sitting in triage
Yes, that's correct. In fact, pretty much any modern design that's available for purchase will be a couple of orders of magnitude safer (at least regarding decay heat removal) than the designs currently operating in the U.S.
#1 should be SublimeCodeIntel, not SublimeLinter - otherwise thanks for this list, I didn't use Emment before but will certainly give it a spin.
Need for enriched Uranium: that is correct, though liquid fueled Th reactors are designed to operate as a closed system that breed and "burn" their own Uranium from the Th, starting from an initial supply of neutron flux to start the process. That source of neutrons, it's usually assumed, will be Uranium.

LFTR designs breed U233 (as opposed to the U235 used in conventional "thermal" reactors). The people trying to revive liquid-fueled reactor development say that U233 is by far the most practical "starter" to provide the neutrons to start a reactor going. The US has a stockpile of U233, which would provide a significant advantage for in the US any race to develop the technology.

Sadly, the US has a program costing hundreds of millions of dollars to destroy its stock of U233, thus throwing away that advantage, for dubious gain. Last I heard, they were due to have started by now. Video on the subject from the guy who did the excellent Thorium remix 2011 video (on skimming it seems it doesn't really explain why U233 is better than alternative neutron sources as a way to start the reaction):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p49Sq7mbpE

I don't think they're done destroying it: if you're a US citizen, I guess there's still time to write to your member of congress.

"some problems similar to uranium reactors": I think you need to be much more specific for the comment to be useful.
Pano Logic [1] tried something like this for the Enterprise virtual desktop market and failed [2]. Maybe some of them ended up at Dell and want to take a shot at the consumer market.

1 - http://www.panologic.com

2 - http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/vdi-startup-pano-l...
> Today, with reputable central banks you don't need gold anymore.

Quantitative easing (aka printing money) isn't doing much for the reputation of central banks...
>I've also received a $110k offer from a well-known company and $165k from another early stage.

It seems the 165k one wasn't. Which is understandable. If they were a great opportunity for you, they wouldn't have to reach that deep into their pockets.
Thanks for the info.

`one of the most "advanced" -- has about 72 hours of heat-absorption capacity.` That is still a pretty decent "oh shit" buffer. I imagine Fukushima or Chernobyl would have benifited from 72 hours extra to get their act together.
I think it would have been worth using strncat. The example wouldn't have been much more complicated, and it's good to start people off with best practices.
So: MAC spoofing doesn't really help prove mens rea (that Aaron thought he was trespassing, but did so anyways). From another comment: "People fear magic they don't understand, and distrust those who wield that magic. Things that seem reasonable to technical geeks seem illegal to the non-technical." ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5067146 )

There is a chasm between what "normal"/non-tech people might consider proof of mens rea (and probably explains some of the history of the laws) and what technical people would consider proof. Technical people do stuff like MAC spoofing all the time, as in the article.

I run Tor because I can always reach my SSH server as a hidden service, even through firewalls. I strip my HTTP headers with an HTTP proxy because I don't like having to constantly configure all my browsers to throw out adnet cookies. I set curl and wget to spoof a more common user agent, because some things simply don't work otherwise. This sort of remedial stuff literally scares non-tech people, and having to constantly explain and justify such network magic to anyone who doesn't know how technology and networks work just to make them feel better is tantamount to bending over for a TSA screening because you're brown (OK, not quite that bad). It's increasingly demoralizing, and doesn't feel like freedom in a supposedly free country (Canada). I have nothing to hide; I'm still not willing to bend over like that. No one should. It's the new McCarthyism. Lawmakers and non-techs are afraid of us, and so we're treated differently, and it's becoming scarier (just because SOPA was stopped in one country doesn't mean there won't be more). I don't want to work to help people who fear my knowledge rather than celebrate it and, while I hardly think "web apps" represent anything like the future of the Internet, I'm a little afraid to work on much else if I intended to release it. (The person who made bitcoin didn't want his identity on it.) We're already paying the price.
It seems there is no point in arguing, since it gets continually ignored but once more: Being made responsible for the death of a person is a bit harsher than "getting fired".
Aaron Swartz NYC Memorial Service
The President's Plan to Reduce Gun Violence
It's a useful vehicle for starting the process, bringing attention to the issue, clearly explaining what and why, providing a single point of action for people to focus on, and gauging support.

What would be more useful is actually contacting your Congressperson and telling them. If you want you can simply read the petition. But signing this petition won't accomplish anything.

If all that goes well and the petition gets enough signatures and visibility, then that's a good point to segue off into the more difficult organizational problem of getting all those people to actually call their rep.

Why do you need to organize getting people to call? Just call them. Once you've called them, ask or convince (gently) two other people to call. Critical mass to get the ball rolling is usually about two dozen calls on the same issue (simply because so few people actually bother to use the phone for this anymore).
Yes, wherever we run hipache. That can include for custom domains.
Microsoft launches mobile app 'HelpBridge' for help after natural disasters
Maybe the comments in the submission... were just trying to highlight the issues they saw.

Don't defend exacting discourse with the very hyperbole you claim is destroying it.

Let it be noted: I find immense irony in this discussion occurring in a thread where the parent comment is about how things need their context. What you're defining as misinformation needs to be taken in context.
I believe that because the thorium is "burned" so effectively you don't see much in the way of U232 for the amount of energy output. I would be worried about a plant that can make many kilograms of fissile material per year. I wouldn't be worried about a plant that can make many grams of fissile material per year.
While my brain has most certainly been switched off for quite a while (prepping for a 3 week holiday!) I can assure you that $50 is cheaper than what they currently have, computer-wise. It's also less maintenance heavy.

You forgot to mention that you also need to pay the people sitting at said computer, buy their desks, hire their office space, pay their managers, their manager's managers and your own brand new sports-car.

Those are also things that are totally unrelated to the cut in costs you gained by swapping the computer for a fifty dollar stick.
The problem with framing it that way is the danger of not holding the prosecution responsible for the part they played in his death. And that would set an extremely scary precedent. Kind of like saying "We can do whatever the fuck we want and if you crack, that failing is on you." That could turn our court system into a de facto hazing ritual. Not a world I want to live in.
When I go to your app’s page, these are the things I see (in order): 1.) smiling samurai on top, 2.) a bunch of menu pages in the screen shots + 1 sudoku puzzle, 3.) a description that’s more tell than show - “the most outstanding sudoku app”. The problem is, I have no idea what makes your game so special. You have about 3 seconds to grab someone’s attention before they hit the back button. I don’t see anything here that differentiates this from other sudoku apps in a meaningful way.
I'd be interested in learning more; can you provide the URL?
You are totally right, fixed, thanks :)
> What some politicians are proposing right now is an outright snub of the 2nd amendment

So what? Maybe the 2nd amendment is wrong, or a bad idea, or a 200 year old proclamation that is no longer relevant in modern times? People's attachment to this clause is just... fundamentalist.

And why do people insist on equating gun ownership with freedom? You're not allowed to own bombs or missiles, does that also mean I am not free?

There's lots of things we're not free to do which actually makes us freer: not to steal, or house break, or kill people. I for one am glad my freedom is curtailed in this manner. It means i can live in a (largely) peaceful and safe society, and am free to go about my business with minimum threat to my existence or assets. And further adding to my sense of security is the knowledge that I am very unlikely to ever be threatened, injured or killed by a gun as almost no one owns one here - because they are illegal.

Everybody in Europe manages just fine without owning guns, what makes american's so special? why do you need to own a gun? (yeah sure, self defence, but if no one had them in the first place that wouldn't be necessary)
But what about the loss of ad revenue? I imagine folks are posting to Google because of what can be substantial monthly ad revenues -- which then a content producer becomes dependent on to finance the series and which makes an arbitrary termination like this even more disastrous.
Microsoft 'to replace Xbox Live voice chat with Skype'
Great, so just reupload your greatest hits and most recent ones to Vimeo (or whoever) and update redirects from CWATF.com.
I think your competitors complained to Google using the right terminology. I had similar experience with Google.

The conclusion I saw for myself is to "use platform, but do not rely your business to platform".
It's safer to assume that geo-based services posted to HN are likely US-centric and for good reasons (company is US-based, US is huge market, expanding outside the US is hard, etc).
I see this change was implemented. Way to go! https://www.hellosign.com/gmail

This is auxiliary but it makes me more interested in using HelloSign.

BTW I think it's even better for marketing this way. Now it's a double-endorsement.
I hate to see anyone build a business based on one platform. I haven't looked at your content, but I'm pretty sure the biggest web video producer I know of (Leo Laporte/TWiT.tv) would disagree with your comment. Gain audience any way you can before trying to monetize.
The ternary is generally a problem for readability. Ruby's particular style (like being able to return a value from an if-block) generally make the cases where they're useful obsolete.

In this case, if we cared about readability, we wouldn't use a ternary at all:

if @foo == :bar
:foo_matches
else
nil
end

Which simplifies down to the exact refactoring offered.
The estimated worth of the gold in jewellery privately owned in India alone (mainly by housewives) is estimated to be worth $600 billion. To put that in perspective, total US gold reserves are valued at around $420 billion.

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/07/14/indias-600-bil...
Macro Trend: Code becoming User Interface
The energyfromthorium.com rebuttal of the IEER report is interesting reading as well.

http://energyfromthorium.com/ieer-rebuttal/

They take issue with the IEER report judging thorium as a fuel when they are mostly talking about it in a solid fuel reactor. I can't think of any thorium proponents who are proposing solid fuel thorium reactors. The excitement they have over thorium is almost entirely over its use in the LFTR reactor design (which is not without its own design problems but those are distinct from a solid fuel thorium reactor).
So this is open sourced by Tim at Square. We're hiring (-: https://squareup.com
It would seem to be more of a trade of services - provision of content to Google which they then monetize in the form of advertising, and possibly share with the content generator. Google then keeps the majority (or all in most cases) of the ad revenues to cover their operating costs and profit, or shares a small percentage with certain eligible producers. So, I don't see it as a gift as much as an exchange of services that is balanced primarily to the benefit of Google. Otherwise, why would Google do it? They're a business, not a charity.
"I think all of the so called gun ban legislation is a front or cover for something else..... someone somewhere will greatly benefit from some sort of gun control legislation.'

So you're saying that the universal outrage over all these children being murdered couldn't possibly lead to good faith attempts to reform society to prevent similar events? You're saying it's probably a front for ... something? That the powerful archery, knife and karate lobbies were just waiting for any pretext to get rid of guns so they can start raking in the bucks?
I see.. I googled it and it seems like the comparison is multi-threaded (multi process? multi machine??) vs single-threaded, single process. It doesn't really seem like a fair comparison, and since you guys are obviously knowledgeable I bet you understand as much.

Please don't let what seems like a cool project be tainted by marketing bullshit. (I really, really hate marketing bullshit :)
"England has a complete ban on guns. No UK citizen can carry a gun. Period. Not a one. Result? UK violent crime rate is 3 1/3 times higher than America. The FBI reports 386 violent crimes per 100,000 in the USA. The UK Home Office reports 1,361 violent crimes per 100,000 in England."
People saying that the service is free and Google owes you nothing are missing the point. If Google continues this practice and makes things worse, then people will lose trust in them, move away from their services, and they will suffer financially. This isn't about entitlement - this is about wanting a service to be good, and giving feedback when it isn't. Also these services are only nominally 'free' - Google makes plenty of money off you by you using them.

I find it bizarre that people think you can't give feedback on a company's bad behavior because their service is free.
It good while it works and last. Have backup plan when provider suddenly decides to boot you up or creative competitor complained to terminate your series.
TweetCaster Arrives on Web, Brings Beloved Mobile Twitter Apps to Desktop
What looks to be the next step which is nginx and lua based.
I was pretty disappointed at first too, because I couldn't find any portals. Then one day I discovered a spot with 3. Then I found out that if you log on with your web browser you can see the whole range of portals with a Google Maps-like interface. I won't say I'm hooked, but it is played every couple of days. There are not a lot of portals where I am either, but new portals are added periodically and you can submit places to become portals. The latter part is probably the whole reason Google launched it: Google created an army of people taking photos of landmarks and interesting businesses, museums, etc.
HN had this discussion a week ago.

http://devbootcamp.com/

http://www.appacademy.io/

http://www.gschool.it/

http://www.starterleague.com/
I'm surprised at all the criticism over the blame mechanism.
It's clear the goal here is to avoid the diffusion of responsibility that occurs when dozens of people are getting the same exception emails. And in any case, what kind of developer worth his salt is offended by blamed for a bug? I mean sure if someone is being an asshole about it, or if they jumped to the conclusion that it was you when you had nothing to do with it, but if git blame algorithm flags you then what is there to be offended about? Surely we all accept that good software can not be created by tiptoeing around the facts and occurrences of the software development process?

This looks like fantastic software, it's the most exciting thing I've come across in several weeks or maybe even months, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.
$50 loss leader pricing plus a ~$19 per month (first ~3 months free!) OS service could be a very good way of monetising cheap hardware.
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You're welcome, sir!
> Today, with reputable central banks you don't need gold anymore

Just look at the inflation charts of last 2 centuries...
Primary Care for $20/month and $10 copay - Profitable
Partnering For Community Care, LLC (www.partneringforcommunitycare.com) is a healthcare start-up that I co-founded in June of 2012 with my brother, Dr. James Brown, a family physician. As of this month the start-up has become profitable.

I would like to take credit; however, my brother called me with an idea last year to start a business for the sole purpose of providing low cost primary healthcare through a membership model - so low that uninsured could pay out of pocket and so low that it might be cheaper for insured patients to join than pay their insurance copay. Being uninsured myself this sounded like something that might be appealing for me - now if only someone can figure out low cost ER programs - and so in exchange for my legal services (and continued legal services) I became a co-founder and filed the legal documentation to start running the business.

In order to keep the start-up low cost, we opted not to purchase a brick and mortar location and staff it, but instead we ran the program from my brother's existing office, located in Daytona Beach, Florida. We starting activating members about September-October last year and traction has been great so far with extremely happy members, some patients have come into the office twice already. With a local hotel signing up a number of their employees (for $15/month corporate rate) this month the business officially turned a profit.

At this point we are considering 3 different options: 1. Continue the business from the existing office only, 2. Try to partner with additional primary care offices already in existence, or 3. Begin to open out own brick and mortar Partnering for Community Care branded offices.

Despite being a non-tech start-up I thought HN might appreciate this post, have questions or advice/suggestions.
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You're confusing molten-salt reactors with molten-sodium reactors (different beasts). Molten fluoride is also reactive with water (hydrogen fluoride anyone?), but often MSR proposals don't involve water (they go for helium or CO2 gas turbines), and the ones that do separate steam far away from nuclear components, through intermediate coolant loops. Sodium reactors do the same thing. The risks really are manageable (in theory).

Radioactivity is dominated by short-lived fission products, not U-233/U-232 and company. U-232 is very radioactive, yes; but in a nuclear reactor, there exist vicious things far more radioactive than that. (Note that U-232 is a trace contaminant, but fission products are present in bulk amounts. U-232 is highlighted only because it's impossible to separate from U-233, a point of theoretical (and meaningless) debate involving nuclear weapons. Otherwise it's unimportant.)
yes they confiscated domestic gold.
but confiscating another sovereign's would be an act of war.

A lot of US treasuries held by Central Banks in reserve might suddenly go on sale and send interest rates sky high...destroying the USD.

They would want to think twice on that.
> got my wife from Tucson to Seattle as safe as could be
It's a lot safer, I would have thought, per mile to do long highway drives than lots of short urban journeys, particularly on the separated highways in the USA.
Google Play apps, books, and whatever else they sell there aren't free. They are hurting their brand.