skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "But didn't the mayor then have much of the same powers as the mayor now? Doesn't that suggest that the 'benevolent dictatorship' then was the source of the problems?"

His train of thought is consistent. The idea is that benevolent dictatorships can either be a great force for good, or wildly incompetent. As compared to a market or ballot-based governments that are practically guaranteed to be incompetent. Lesser of the evils, if you will.

> "(You suggest that the alternative is to leave things up to the market. That is not the case. There are other forms of municipal government.)"

OP specifically cited North Virginia, with a market-based government, as a failure. How does that interpret as an endorsement of market-based government?
I love, love, love this.

I've been quite interested in figuring out how to turn multiple/complex input into a single, actionable value (it is pretty damn hard!) - and this project is a great example.
Google Says It Always Requires Warrants for User Email and Cloud Data
Google revealed Wednesday that it always requires a search warrant whenever authorities seek access to the content of a user's emails or documents stored in Google's cloud...
professions where a bowtie is suitable for a job interview:

- clown

- english professor

- that is all
But at the same time we vote up articles complaining that we as engineers should stop making cat video websites and focus on important problems. We flock to advice blogs to find good startup ideas that solve people's problems. This article is food for thought IMO. I'll take a 15 page article detailing inefficiencies/fraud in banks (of which many of us are employed in IT) over a 3 paragraph blog summarizing an 8 paragraph blog on weak typing.
Tips to accelerate SSL
ThetaBoard looks like a Trello clone to me (caveat: Trello itself could be a clone of some other project).
Disclosure: Shameless plug from a team member of yet another travel search Startup 90di (which mainly searches for flights, trains, buses in India). *

Seeing what Adioso has done, and also that there is a good deal of overlap. Could not resist, telling about our Startup.

We do what we call as 'free text search'. Its customized for searches in India, like you can do something like:
'Bangalore to Kanpur by train via Delhi'.

Or you can just search by a train name, or number, or flight number or by Airline name and many other things.

Some more examples of free text searches possible are at:

http://www.90di.com/travel/help/examples.html

If you are interested, please do try out 90di.com, and any feedback is welcome.

* Sorry for using a throwaway. I do maintain another account here, and contribute positively, I promise :-)
Maybe it should. We could have a few other suggestions:

Waive your fourth amendment rights. If a policeman wants to search you or your home, you can either let him, or force him to come back with a warrant. But if they need to get a warrant, and discover you had done something wrong, you're in for a heavier penalty.

Waive your fifth amendment rights. You have the right to remain silent. But not answering questions will get you a heavier penalty if you are found guilty.

Waive your sixth amendment rights. We already waive the right to a fair trial. Why not waive the right to counsel? If you lawyer up, you're obviously trying to obstruct justice. If you're found guilty, that's a heavier penalty.

Of course, most of those are horrible ideas. They may make it easier to lock people up, but it also makes it easier for the police and prosecution to do a shoddy job and still get convictions.
Just curious: Does the debt number include unfunded liabilities for social security, medicare, etc?
I'm not the OP, but I'm from Uruguay and I pay for Netflix because of the quality and convenience.

The local latin american pirate equivalent is Cuevana:

http://www.cuevana.tv

which has had its share of run-ins with justice.

No torrent site has the convenience of Netflix, and Netflix itself is still a bit behind cable tv in convenience - I want some kind of "channel" experience for Netflix, I think there are some devices in the U.S. that offer it, but none here in Uruguay.
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Its a cost-demand thing. Software can (and sometimes is) built like we build, say, a skyscraper. The problem is that most people don't want to pay the same price for software as they would for a skyscraper. Mission-critical software is built more similarly to how a house is built than an iphone app. The price difference is also much much higher to match.
Agree, this is great. This is the kind of daily-use information you want access to without having to turn on a computer.
I hope this pressures Apple to support WebGL in iOS Safari.
Here is what you would face in a UK bank if you tried to warn anyone:

"When I tried to resolve the previous difficulties with Jo Dawson [HBOS group risk director 2004-2005 who eventually replaced Moore], she leant over the table – she stood up – pointed at me and said 'I'm warning you. Don't you make an effin' enemy out of me'," he said."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/30/hbos-whistleb...
Actually, it's a rather reasonable homepage for value proposition testing with just two exceptions. I too was irritated by the links-to-nowhere, so that would have to change. And the email CTA is dangerous in that it deters actual signups. Otherwise, this page gets straight to the value proposition and the price, and almost nothing else. It's a reasonable way of quickly testing traction for your idea, especially considering that it was (apparently) a hackathon project.
My biggest problem with them is that they often feel like prosecutors building a case. They lay out their arguments and pile on supporting evidence with what feels like the intent of proving things beyond a reasonable doubt. And I'm often convinced, but I never really feel like I get the defense attorney's cross-examination.

That said, it's really obvious how much work and thought goes into these. If you compare anything of this complexity against perfection, it will always come up short. But I don't know of another news show that consistently hits the level of quality that Frontline does.

Honest question: Does anyone have any suggestions for reporting they think is in the same league? I'd love to check it out.
This just seems like a classic example of the Dunning–Kruger effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
A Moolb filter?
I was nodding my head in agreement up until that last bit. How is it more dangerous to pull off the interstate and park (assuming you are using an offramp and not just the shoulder) than making a phone call?
Sorry, for some reason I was under the impression that you were saying MySQL was popular because of its replication/HA features. On second reading, I'm wrong.
It does a bit, but on a positive note the documentation does still exist and they had a few engines to work from, including one perfectly preserved example. NASA has done well.

Long term, I'd hope and expect the Library of Congress to take over the storage and maintenance of documentation and artefacts relating to major public engineering works, so people can at least go back to the source to re-learn the lessons of the past.
You just did the equivalent of a user calling tech support saying "my computer doesn't work".
I found this tour a bit difficult to navigate. The tooltip moves to a different spot each time you click prev/next, making it hard to follow the whole tour. Perhaps navigation that stays in a fixed spot could make this easier to use.
"not having to make something bulletproof for 1/6 the planet to potentially use just means it gets out the door quicker" is exactly what I'm referring to. As Google's market share grows, so does the bureaucracy. It's one of the inevitable problems of scale and it takes a very strong conviction on the part of the company's management to actively avoid it. I don't think Google's management is actively resisting the forces to bulletproof things and as a result progress slows down.

But your point about working on fun projects that are too small to matter to the world at large is very well taken.
Glad it was very useful for you! :)
Samsung posts record profits in Q4 2012
List of currently acttive bug bounty programs
Yes, and they had big (and hilariously stupid) plans: http://web.archive.org/web/20090522144903/http://blogs.sun.c...

How will it work? Candidate applications will be submitted via a simple web site, evaluated by Sun for safety and content, then presented under free or fee terms to the broad Java audience via our update mechanism. Over time, developers will bid for position on our storefront, and the relationships won't be exclusive (as they have been for search). As with other app stores, Sun will charge for distribution - but unlike other app stores, whose audiences are tiny, measured in the millions or tens of millions, ours will have what we estimate to be approximately a billion users. That's clearly a lot of traffic, and will position the Java App Store as having just about the world's largest audience.
Made In The Triangle of North Carolina
Even if it was a joke, that behaviour is obnoxious.

Not to be that guy, but XKCD is very relevant here: http://xkcd.com/322/
Microsoft reports revenue of $21.46B on surprisingly solid Windows performance
Do they only accept accredited investors? Is that a dumb question...? Not sure the state of crowdfunding..
Maybe you want one of these instead: http://www.indiegogo.com/blutracker/

It's from the same people behind this: http://sticknfind.com/product/

I would have linked to the Indiegogo for the latter but it just ended. I've got a few of the latter on the way!
>You should share that theory with the ones they put in prison and the many they've successfully sued.

Which are a tiny, microscopic even, minority of people who pirate.
I never said the FSF should change its principles. I was just pointing out that the GP's suggestion wasn't possible.
Oh ok, sounds cool. :)
In which chrome version did it get supported?

I'm trying on chromium 23 on Linux Mint and only see 2 concentric circles and nothing is playing / moving.

Though here it seems not to complain like it does in FF when in chromium and I could hit a random play button on the page:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro/

cheers!
From the article: "Seventy percent of the study participants, all college undergraduates, said they thought they were better than average at multitasking. Of course, that's statistically impossible" [my emphasis]

It's time this misconception ended. I can't remember the amount of times I've read something like "but only 50% of people can be above average!" To put it another way, I imagine most of you reading this comment have an above average number of legs.
Stack Overflow User Survey Results
Thanks, this looks interesting.

Actually I'm developing/maintaining something like this at my job, as part of the Data Services team. Similar to this, it uses Google Charts and is a node.js app. It will be open-sources in a couple of months. The goal is to avoid using Gooddata for as much stuff as possible, GD is too sluggish.
If their justification is "the one that developers use," then you want the 64-bit installer. No one is intentionally confining themselves to 32-bit these days, except under very specific circumstances (usually non-x86, or embedded, but that's 99% irrelevant to a Java discussion).

Browser plugin issues not-withstanding, of course. But who uses Java in a browser anymore?
Fuck it, I'll Do This Alone
End the war on drugs, relieve all the unnecessary burden on the courts, and then end plea bargaining.
Just as the government can make an example of a person -- the people can make an example of a government representative.
This comment is basically nonsense. Not saying I agree or disagree, it just makes no sense as a response to my comment. I was making a factual correction. The GP suggested that LibreCAD change their license. I pointed out that doing so is not possible and not likely to become possible. That is all.
But it's not allowed in the USA either where none of those problems would exist.
It's a flaw in the demo: that tooltip points to the h1 above which is 100% the page width even if there isn't much text there.
I've experienced some users reporting bugs using chromium and ubuntu, I haven't had a chance to look into it, thanks for letting me know!
Some games have third-party DRM listed, but I have no idea if most games with such DRM are detailed in this fashion:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/35140/
3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™
4 machine activation limit
Peter Schiff has been screaming about hyperinflation for years and has been completely and utterly discredited.
I doubt anyone disagrees with your idealism, but take the example of a guilty man who has a small but real chance of avoiding any repercussion due to mistrial. It benefits the prosecution, the defendant, and society if there can be a way to mitigate that risk by shortening his punishment.

The real question becomes how do you propose fixing the cons that arise from this obvious benefit?
Poll: What additional programming languages do you use?
Has anyone explored the possibility of making a nice clean language that compiles to R?
No, "public debt" is at 73%, including "intragovernmental holdings" (social security etc) it's at 105%

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt#Meas... and refer to the first paragraph of the article of a definition of the two debt types.
Well, I'm sure if you paid Gordon Ramsay his regular (high) rate to do the crappy kids birthday, he'd probably take it.

I'm sure there is no end of little hand holding that top brass do. So long as the rate is right.
It gets pretty expensive to do that if you have more than one bag. Plus a dedicated tracking device can be smart enough to detect plane takeoff and landing, and shut down during that like the FCC wants everything to do. Plus much better battery life.

Plus if you live in the US and are trusting your pricey, covetable electronics to your checked bags and the underpaid TSA inspectors, you are much more trusting than I am.

For a similar product with an actual presentation, see http://www.indiegogo.com/blutracker/
How To Run Your Business Using Evernote - Next Up Asia
Inside Look: Scaling LendingClub's Booming Peer-To-Peer Lending Platform
Thanks everybody! I'll do a Show HN post after we finish fiddling with some conversion tracking bits.

Getting scolded by a 3 karma account was fun :)
I don't think that the issue should be between public and private companies building these systems. I believe the lack of engineers in the public sector is more likely to blame for the incompetence of public engineering projects. How many scientists and engineers are in congress? Its hard to hire for a job you have never done.
The entire expose is worth reading: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/

The most outrageous part in my mind was where Assistant AG Lanny Breuer (who just resigned) gave a speech in which he talked about how he loses sleep at night over concerns about what bringing a lawsuit against a big Wall Street corporation could do.

Imagine if you applied that argument to prosecuting drug cartels! "Just think of all the poor footmen and couriers who might lose their jobs if we prosecute their ringleader"
Feedback on our pricing model please
Its not just the suburban aspect though. I was shocked to find that the suburbs in Chicago were a lot less "suburby" than Fairfax. Good commuter transit, walkable downtowns in many places. Grid streets all over.

My wife grew up in a town of 2000 people in Iowa. She hates Fairfax County for being so isolated. Her town was small and rural, but it had a walkable downtown with a little street grid. The town planners long ago made it that way in case it ever became a bustling megalopolis.
I'd love to see this article with the nginx equivalent configuration directives.
"There are many people, particularly in sports who think that success and excellence is the same thing and they are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control… If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually… people who put excellence in first place have the patience to end up with success… An additional burden for the victim of the success mentality is that he is threatened by the success of others and resents real excellence. In contrast, the person fascinated by quality is excited when he sees it in others." — Joe Paterno
I guess this is an early design prototype (as all the social links are referring to dribble.com). Not sure what this is doing on HN.
If the airline wants you to turn off your harmless e-reader, they're not going to be keen on having your luggage emit radio frequencies.
Hi, a woman programmer here. I asked a question on StackOverflow once while first learning Python, and got a pretty mean answer. I called the guy out on my blog, of course: http://natashatherobot.com/hey-dude-you-dont-have-to-be-mean....

Before asking the question, I never posted on StackOverflow before, because I expected a mean answer, and that's exactly what happened. StackOverflow is not a very safe place for asking questions. It's a place where guys go to show off how much smarter they are than you. Most of StackOverflow questions start with "I'm a noob at this..." - that's because people, even guys, feel the need to pre-qualify the question by proving that they're not complete idiots despite not knowing the answer.

Asking a question is a vulnerable thing. You are admitting in public that you don't know something. It's really hard to participate when you know the very same public you're trying to get help from will turn around and critique you.
The C language doesn't, and has never, said anything about what the assembled code should look like. If you want performance, you have to use a good compiler. That's true with any language.

You're right, C11 doesn't have a 128-bit integer type; that should be remedied. Fortunately all major compilers (GCC, LLVM, VC++, and ICC) provide one.

Carry: "if (x + y < x)" compiles to code that uses the carry flag.

Overflow: "if ((int32_t) (x + y) < 0)" compiles to code that uses the overflow flag.

And the best part is, code written like this is portable to architectures such as TileGX that don't have status flags.
Samsung’s Retro Refrigerator Style
Note that this is from December.
Here are some alternative CPI charts worth viewing: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
- bowtie retail clerk

Though if I found myself wanting to sell bowties I'd rock an ascot to the interview
I suppose it can be seen as twofold:

1. an AeroFS-like part, i.e your files reside only on your machines and are synced via a P2P protocol, so not-yet-synced files are unavailable when your source is offline (unless like AeroFS, they are opt-in stored in the cloud).

2. a content-hashing part, which means files on your machines that happen to have an identical file elsewhere can be obtained from that elsewhere, even if your machines are offline.

Still, no source => no data, but that's a given.

Technically, 1. is of course a special case of 2. It's just that AeroFS restricts peer requesting to your machines (and — optionally — their cloud storage).
Carmen Ortiz's property seizure fails
Show HN: Bringing social & mobile to steel business
Twitter ordered to give up details of racist tweeters
I think GP probably was talking about using the shoulder. However, keep in mind that both merging on to the interstate, and city driving are significantly more dangerous than interstate driving. Combine that with the fact that calling to give an ETA is a lot less focus-consuming that most calls, and it is plausible that staying on the interstate is safer.
It's not that a special somebody wouldn't have listened. This wasn't as big an information problem as most people make it out to be. As this, and many other articles explain, bankers and underwriters knew bank fraud was widespread. The general public, who took out the loans, knew they were defrauding banks. Wall Street knew the rating agencies were full of shit. But everybody was making a killing as long as real property kept appreciating, so nobody cared. They all thought they'd be out before the pop.

Lots of people saw this coming. Peter Schiff, among other Austrians, were ringing alarm bells for years. That's part of the problem. People think, "How big a problem can it really be if you're on year number four of telling us what a problem this will be? Surely if it was as bad as you say, it would have happened already/we wouldn't be making all this money." If you read Michael Lewis' The Big Short, you'll get a nice profile of five or six guys who not only saw this coming, but actually timed it perfectly and made fortunes.

You can't solve problems like these by convincing one "important" person of anything, even if its the truth.
First thing they need to do is to allow the app to be installed to the SD card. The bloatware is now over 25mb in size, and I have a very limited size internal memory on my phone, whereas have a bucket load of space on my SD.

And while we're on the subject, YouTube, GMaps and TweekDeck all need to allow the same thing (every app should). I don't care about the lose of widgets since I never use them. I forced them to SD using Titanium backup, but it's not perfect and there are some glitches.
The commercial areas are built as far as possible from residential ones

This is because of urban planning.
I am not surprised anymore. I was when I first saw their card reader at the tiny smoothie shop next door. And then again when the old guy with the hot dog cart also got one. But now if I hear Square is making $100b/yr I'll just think of those tiny business and say: Obviously.
The very best reporting is in print. A good print reporter, given the resources to investigate and write a story or series of stories, can fit much more detailed information into a smaller period of time (the time it takes you to read the story). Big newspapers, and some magazines like The New Yorker or Economist, still deliver a lot of value to society this way.

TV delivers a ton of information, but most of that information is emotional--i.e. facial expressions, tone of voice, etc. A voice on TV cannot speak facts nearly as fast as as you can read them.
You forgot the link to a fake news article interviewing an "economist" predicting Massive Wealth Destruction and peddling a workbook detailing how you can survive the impending disaster.
A Lecture on Aaron’s Law
old burner cell phone that has GPS on it to hookup to sites online to track positions of the phone.

If by "sites online" you mean "send a text" sure. But that kind of data & gps usage will kill a normal dumbphone battery within a few hours.

These devices use a battery 1/4 to 1/3rd the life of a smartphone's and they use GPS chips or SOCs with integrated GPS that suck power much more quickly that the high-end SOCs you find in iPhones and decent Android devices. They do not have long battery life. Try it. I have.

There is quite a few tutorials online that explain how to to do it for your car

And these tutorials almost always hook the phone up to 12V power. Relying on a dumbphone battery just isn't worth it.
Because bowties are cool.
And they're using a little mp3 device, or a phone, or their computer.

Or they go to clubs, where a poorly mastered track will sound awful. Plus people who really love music can tell, and those are the people who popularize it. A poorly mastered track will be more irritating than exciting to them, and they won't introduce it to their friend at the radio station, or put it on their music blog, remix a club version, or play it at their next DJ gig.

Just because a low quality track might sound okay on the cheap equipment of the masses doesn't mean it is socially capable of getting there. It needs to have merit to make it.