skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that 99.99% of these motions to propose a new law are not written by people who understand parliamentary procedure and drafting of valid motions.

passing a new law may require altering existing law or striking down old laws - the "conseqensials" get this wrong and you will lose.

and there the whole question of time tabling if the government can control when the motion is time tabled it might fall off if time runs out if they schedule it at the end of session for example.
I think it would fall under unauthorized access.
Usually you would throw in some radomization, ie, 5% of the time the barometer would tell you the opposite of what it really thinks you should do.
But you are not AUTHORISED to access said resources, so you would be in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
> The bigger thefts come from people trusting untested websites acting as banks & brokers that are not regulated, do not (usually) have a physical presence, and usually do not have the required capital to insure their holdings.

e.g., bitcoin wallet websites
"The rail doesn't go where you want it to go" comment is directed at Muni, not Chicago's or New York's system. Chicago's and New York's largely goes where people want it to go because development springs up around the transit.

The problem with buses is capacity. If you city is relatively sensibly laid out and commuters tend to follow certain predictable routes, you can get far more capacity on a rail line than on roads. Not only does a bus carry a lot fewer people (an NYC reticulated bus can carry about 120, a full NYC subway train about 2,000), but as a practical matter you can't run the buses as fast or as frequently as you can run trains.

Predictability is also a problem. Buses are at the mercy of street traffic. Trains run on a schedule. My commute from northern Virginia to d.c. by highway used to take anywhere from 40 minutes to 80 minutes depending on traffic. My commute from westchester to new york city by train (which is actually 2 miles longer) takes exactly 34 minutes almost every day. About once a month a train will be 5-7 minutes late (which is consistent with the ~95% on-time performance of Metro North). I can leave my house 5 minutes before the expected departure time (with a 3-4 minute walk to the station) because I can count that the train will arrive within a minute of its scheduled time. You can't replicate this by car or bus in a dense metro area.

Pollution is another problem. Air pollution has huge externalize costs in a city because of the density. With electric rail, you can build the power plants out in the country where the pollution affects fewer people. With buses, you're clogging up the air breathed in by several million people in close proximity. Buses are prime contributors to sulfurous and particulate pollution in cities.

Moreover, it's not like bus infrastructure is free. You have to build and maintain the roads, and if you want to replicate the capacity of trains you need to build isolated bus highways through the city. These are not cheap, and have a very damaging effect on the communities they run through by cutting them in half. Highway construction inside a city is an absolute terrible idea from an economic point of view.

It's wholly inappropriate to compare the operating costs of transit to revenues. First, the shortfall in the MTA isn't because it can't charge high enough fares, but because the ticket prices are kept artificially low ($100 for unlimited rides per month!) as a subsidy to low-income people. Second, transit infrastructure generates high positive externalities. You have to look at the net impact on the whole economy instead of looking at just a piece of it. E.g. consider the highway system. It brings in a few tens of billions in revenue each year via gas taxes. Is that the whole of the economic benefit of the system? Are people like me, who don't drive, subsidizing people who do? Imagine if we got rid of the highway system. What would be the impact on GDP? A hell of a lot more than a few tens of billions, I can tell you.
I could see a world where they HL3 is exclusive to the Steambox (or whatever it's called) for a period of time. Alternatively, they could offer lower prices (or subscription things) to make obtaining valve games significantly cheaper/easier on their own hardware.

I think they have to move quickly though - the steam-sale model is getting copied by other PC download services and they stand the chance of getting lost in the crowd.
Completely agreed. Just defining a "multiple_of" method which takes n as a parameter would have better than the method_missing hack.
In a society with significant child labor, it's not clear to me how "just pay the parents more" is a serious response. When significant child labor exists, it does so for a reason.

Given that parents would probably prefer their kids get an education instead of working, it's not clear to me that depriving them of the option to work in a factory will result in the child going to school. In all likelihood, the child will continue to work, albeit at their next-best (perhaps illicit) option; their best option (via revealed preference) having been removed by enlightened westerners who don't have to face the same constrained set of choices.
No, a different product. However, it looks like TracDot will be available for purchase in April.
He wasn't "allegedly" arrested for downloading files illegally. He was never accused of or charged with copyright infringement. He was accused of various forms of "hacking" and trespassing.
Apple requires its business partners to continue paying underage workers while they go to school. In this case, the company is no longer a business partner. Therefore, it would seem that the children aren't going to get paid.
Prioritize shipping
> Some aspects of the design would have to change --- there are places where the originals used asbestos, for example.

As far as space stuff is concerned, would that sort of consideration actually be made? If there is something actually better than asbestos I am sure they would use that instead, but if asbestos is the best material for the job is its danger really in the same league with the rest of rocketry? I mean, they still use hydrazine...
The simple difference is the level of scarcity.

If there is a high demand for fiat money -- observable through a rise in interest rates, a measure of the inter-temporal preference for money now versus later -- the Federal Reserve can print more. If there is a high demand for gold money, at the margins we can produce more, but basically the supply is fixed. This limits the rate at which the real economy can grow.

Many people who favor a return to a "gold standard" do so because they have experienced inflation, but have never experienced a deflation. Deflations in general are more painful than inflations.
or if its a badly worded motion/petition it would have to pass the rules for validity according to the rules of the finish parliament and if it failed that it wouldn't even get on the order paper let alone moved.
hahaha thanks! Much appreciated!
> a much more economical way of communicating

I've read about this, I think it's called "leapfrogging your infrastructure" or something like that.

Since the US has had reliable and ubiquitous land lines for a long time, we were a lot slower at uptaking mobile phones. Whereas many African and Asian nations are only deploying land lines in a limited way, and mobile has been red-hot since well before the first iPhone.

Basically, if you don't develop technology in a certain area for a while, then it's actually easier to modernize because you don't have a large long-term investment in older technology. See post-WW2 Japanese manufacturing for another example.
Seems interesting, but I was tasked with integrating several analytics packages at my last startup and it certainly didn't take months to do. All I did was write a few javascript wrapper functions and stick the various mapping in there:

function track(event, category, options) {

_kmq.push(...)

_mxp.push(...)

.

.

.

}

edit: Also, I'm interested to see how eager startups are to add yet another $150/mo to their analytics bill when nearly every service starts at that level... While it may not sound like a lot of money, a few analytics engines can add up really fast, especially for a bootstrapped company.
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Honestly, the economic situation is getting fugly (Mexico),
just check Proceso or La Jornada for a quick glimpse into this country transforming into a closer China.

With extremely low wages (minimum DAILY wage is $5 USD), we have 50% of mexicans living in poverty.

It's a win for USA and a win for mexican politicians, but a loss for all mexicans...
Someone did just this in my high school. They nearly got expelled.
No most people weren't flipping, but cash-out refinancings were fairly common.
As a consultant that builds such systems under similar circumstances:

- The cheapest option is not the best option.

- Chemistry is more important than price.

- A very busy consultant will not be very fun to work with. Will miss deadlines.

- Find someone who is good, but does not take a lot of work at a time.

- Don't stick to one languge/framework. Let the consultant help you pick.

- Pay for a sit down. This is when you talk to the consultant in order to weed out any details about your goals. Well worth the money.

- Don't focus on hourly costs. A weekly or monthly charge ends up being easier for both sides.

Now, in #3 you let me know that this is a busines syou believe will get traction. How good are your business skills? If you are like most physicians out there, then you don't have a good clue as to how to market a product. This is the most important part of the business. If you havent thought about marketing then do so now. Don't invest a penny until you have proven beyond reasonable doubt that this will actually sell.

If you'd like, we can chat more about it privately. My email is in my profile.
I wonder if he'd be willing to move the entire thing to an MIT auditorium. I'm sure there's a larger audience that would like to see this speech live, and the ability to ask questions about the situation could be invaluable.
I blog about development and IT-related items at http://taylodl.wordpress.com/ Recently I've been focusing on functional programming paradigms using JavaScript. If nothing else I've found that writing helps me internalize the material.
For the curious, http://jewelrybox.unfiniti.com
But that was the point - you can write it cleanly in ClojureScript, experiment, find bottlenecks, then drop down to Javascript for the tight parts, and clean it up (beautifully) with macros.

There's obviously a tradeoff here with immutability/correctness/speed, but when you need to iterate over thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of items, you can get 'native' speed when you need it.
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thanks!!! :) we put loads of hard work to make them happen! :) the next batch will be definitely more interactive! ;)
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>Just like the printer post above, it's incredible how many webcams are left completely unsecured.

My guess is that making a webcam publicly accessible is more likely to be intentional than doing the same with a printer.

Of course, if the webcam is for security, then probably not. But people installing security cams should be expected to know what they are doing (LOL!).
Would you say it's a customizable investments that roughly equate to targeted retirement year fund? For example, a target 2025 retirement date mutual fund, but more specialized for short term investments?
No email in profile or post.
A drug can make sleep optional
You have no idea what your talking about. First off Antibotics have never worked on Viruses, full stop.

Second it's not an all or nothing story. We use far more antibiotics on Animals than people and that's a huge issue because it's eroding effectiveness not simply creating a single super bug that will now rule for all time.
Fourth paragraph of the article:

>>As a result, Apple terminated its relationship with PZ and reported the labor agency (Shemzen Quanshun Human Resources) to the provincial governments of Shenzen and Henan. "The agency had its business license suspended and was fined. The children were returned to their families, and PZ was required to pay expenses to facilitate their successful return," wrote Apple. "In addition, the company that subcontracted its work to PZ was prompted by our findings to audit its other subcontractors for underage labor violations—proving that one discovery can have far-reaching impact."

Remember, this company is breaking Chinese labor law. And committing fraud, to boot.
I don't entirely understand. He has to live in it for 7 years to claim ownership and Bank of America has already issued an eviction notice, how is he still allowed to live there?
Thanks for a Joel article I hadn't read before. Two of my favorite class projects fell heavily into what he mentioned, implementing FAT12 in C for the OS course, and implementing a scheme interpreter in scheme for the programing language concepts course. Although call/cc still haunts my dreams.
Ask HN: California highest possible income tax rate at 13.3%.
I saw on news that the highest possible income tax rate in California is now 13.3%. That is huge and highest in the country. How will this impact startups/businesses specifically silicon valley ?
For fun, I used to troll open webcams in Japan. The best were the ones you can pan around and zoom in and out of. Lots of nice vistas, sea ports, city scenes. I'd put them on in the background and provide some visual "noise" during the day.
Have any of you ever seen the 7-up series? It's a series of documentaries that follow a bunch of from age seven through age 49. I think it's available on hulu.

One of them squats for a while and this just reminded me of that.
Considering how Bank of America has been handling foreclosures in my neck of the woods I am surprised they even noticed. Good luck to him.
Tom Preston-Werner vision of Github future back in 2010.
This looks great - I'll be trying it out.
Why would anyone go to jail for this?
Oh inventory, you crazy - hardware startups & inventory
Thanks for your reply. Do you think most Mexican people will not be enjoying economic progress in their daily lives in the next decade? You mention

a win for USA and a win for mexican politicians,

but what specific policies are keeping the majority in Mexico, as you see the situation, from having rising real incomes?
I think most startups can get away with the free plan, if you ask me...

Regardless, I'm a huge fan of what segment.io is doing! I really like their service so far! :)
It's one reason I left for Washington many years ago. It's great getting 10% more money in an area with lower Cost of Living.
I mean, I started job-buddy.com to help the unemployed. That's something...
Don't be silly. USENET? IRC?
Hello, why is the file limit 5MB? can you make it bigger?
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Is there a performance difference between x&gt;1 and x&gt;=0?
if you can find those cams via a google search, doesn't that mean they are linked from some other public site (which has also been indexed) which would indicate they were left public intentionally (at least most of them)?

If I would set up a web-accessible cam without password protection, how would google find it? Its a crawler right? It doesnt just searches for random IPs and tries to connect to them.

I always was under the assumption that there is a pretty big part of the internet which is just not indexed by the major search engines (thus more or less private).
Twitter is becoming more like Tumblr in its pursuit of in-line media. Vine is only the most recent example.

The developer angle, from the story:
"The combination of the building out of the platform and Twitter's pushing away of third-party developers has the company somewhat at a crossroads. In order to serve each type of user best, Twitter has to give users more ways to filter their timelines (i.e., all tweets by people I follow with video, or all tweets with video and a given hashtag.) But experimenting with these kinds of "client" features is what the dis-invited third-party developers do best. Perhaps there is a middle ground where developers can write "plug-ins" to allow users to transform their experience within Twitter, the most popular of which Twitter would buy and fold into the main product."
I do plan to give it a whirl on my next side project. I'm hearing good things.
Your statement is totally sane. But the legal system isn't. Typing a public URL passes for "hacking" in our crazy courts.
How do you figure? Were they willing to tolerate some risk, they could have done it successfully two years ago. The only thing standing in their way are the engineering challenges needed to reduce the risk to levels that they consider acceptable, and they seem to have a firm handle on what that entails and how to achieve it.
It is not possible. This is a serious flaw in Android's permissions model IMO. Everything must be asked for up-front in the app's manifest. You cannot ask for more permissions at run time.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissio...
If you find traffic predictable, you probably don't live in Los Angeles. As for lives at risk - my decision to commute to a client is orders of magnitude more dangerous to people around me than the momentary distraction of letting my wife know whether I'll be able to provide child care. I'm personally OK with doing that, so long as I take steps to minimize the risk to myself and others.

It sounds like your situation and/or value system is different.
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I understand your point and I mostly agree, it's usually better to share experiences with someone than go it alone. On the other hand, flying solo is better than not going at all.

I really wanted to run the Disney World Marathon last year, but I couldn't get a group together. If I had decided to pass I would have missed what turned out to be one of my favorite trips ever.
Settings > Manage Apps > Browser > Clear Defaults

Next time you click a link, it will ask you which browser you like. Choose Chrome.
Do you make a concious decision to not use StackOverflow for a particular reason or is it simply not a tool you need?
I am simply gob-smacked that people who are communicating over the Internet (needs gold, even if you are using fiber for much of the way) via their computers or smartphones (needs gold) don't realize how much gold is used in modern tech. Admittedly, fractions of a gram, but times millions of items!

And gold has been used in jewelry, art, decoration as well as monetary purposes for 1000s of years.

I would expect at the least, American readers to be familiar with the "Continental currency" and its devaluation to 1% of it previous value: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency#Contine...
In case people are interested in the name searching code that we referred to in the article, I will try and put something into github in the next couple weeks. The code isn't very complex, but it is a good start if you are facing the same problem we were. It would be great if folks add to the code because who knows, we might need another name soon.
That's my feeling too - I've gotten a number of responses to the effect of "well, there hasn't been a release" but the official line at conferences, talks, and in the documentation is "this is the way to use Ember" so I think that's a distinction without a difference.
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Then let me say that I am in support of underage workers.

The idea that preventing children to work in these factories helps the children is ill-conceived, as you pointed out. If Apple wanted to help these children, it could have required better working conditions or better pay, but not letting them work doesn't achieve the goal.

These kids won't just say "alright let's go to school then" when they can't work anymore.
Can you please explain a bit more? How would he slip up? Is he not allowed to leave the property or something like that?
I think anyone who doesn't provide programmatic access to their analytics app is going to fall by the way-side so quickly there wouldn't be much demand for them to be integrated into Segment.io. I'd be interested to see an example of an analytics service that doesn't offer API access.
AdWords Scripts - anyone doing anything cool with them?
An Amaz-ing Resume (Fake Amazon Resume)
Minimum Viable Workstation
Just wait until the bank uses non-lethal force, such as tear gas, to defend their property thus encouraging him to leave and end his 7 year stay early...
Plus, if they've got the balls to break in the house, what's to prevent them from coming over here?

Huh?!? I'm always amazed at the ease of fear-mongering that some people come to. The squatter didn't break into an occupied home (assuming he broke in at all), he occupied a vacant abandoned home. At least he's trying to publicly live there and make it his, which may help reduce more malicious squatters from occupying that home and using it for criminal purposes (this has happened with abandoned homes in Las Vegas, NV).

At least now the neighbour can claim a 100% occupancy rate in the neighbourhood, and not one where there exists an abandoned, foreclosed home.
There's an upcoming game called Shootmania that is an explicitly nonviolent FPS: guns fire bursts of light rather than bullets and slain characters sort of "derezz" like in Tron rather than bleed and gib.

So maybe the violence is an optional component of this sort of game after all.
The partnership is centered around the job training programs, not a partnership with temp agencies. The goal is exactly the opposite of a race to the bottom, it's providing skills and real world training, something that will then be marketable at the conclusion of the program.
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I agree. Someone should magically conjure full-time work instead.
Vine isn't perfect, but it's perfect for Twitter
Why not push for an interoperable standard from analytics vendors?
Apple no longer world's most valuable company
> The more jobs that get replaced by automation the more prices will fall.

I am not as concerned with cheapening junk food as you are. I want to satisfy human needs through tasks like feeding the poor, healing the sick, sheltering the homeless, and educating the illiterate that aren't getting done today because they aren't profitable enough.

The ruling class owns the means of production and the robots that are replacing people's jobs are using these productive forces entirely for their own benefit. In a system whereby the means of production are owned by the poor and working classes, workers can scientifically manage production to satisfy human needs rather then personal profit.
The term Third World doesn't really mean anything any more. It originally meant that a country was not-aligned with NATO, and was neutral towards communism and capitalism. It just so happened that the countries on that list tended to be economically poor which is where the association came from. Taiwan, for example, was never a third world country. Vietnam and China are technically second world.

That being said, I spend about six months out of the year in Vietnam. Three months in NYC, three months in Saigon, etc. Originally, I had employees there, but now I just go because I have a network of friends and really love the place despite all of its warts, of which it has many. I'm not sure it's had much impact on my perspective of anything though. Maybe it's deepened my sense of American nationalism, but that's mostly from dealing with Australian ex-pats there, whom I generally loathe.

My experience with Asian cultures in general, has had some impact on how I view family as it's typically been the antithesis to how I grew up in a single parent midwest family of black sheeps.
> games built on top of Unity

For the curious, here is Unity's components reference page:

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/index.html