skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your post sounds reasonably objective only because we've all been indoctrinated to worship in the churches of democracy, the constitution, and common law. You're actually ruling out a whole class of dissent that recognizes USG is simply not working as intended nor producing good results. Of course showing up to the polls and voting for non-incumbent candidates ends up looking like lively dissent when real dissent has been so marginalized.

I can't claim the above will ever be a popular opinion (and your comment is only net negative because it's combative and so blatantly inconsistent with TSA reality), but the technologies that replace our decaying systems of social organization won't be designed by committees either.
Look, once upon a time you would see a few april fool's jokes, and they'd be funny, and you'd laugh, and good times were had.

These days, every single company absolutely has to send out a "press release" or "product announcement" or "feature enhancement" or other crap, and all of them have been designed by boring marketing departments at boring companies, and vetted to be as non-offensive and boring as possible, and still, people discuss them and send the links around.

Moderation. It's a virtue.
> I'm sorry but you are just making sht up*

Um, no; for a non-lawyer (at least I think he is), Thomas is one of the more knowledgeable people around about the law.

> The Supreme Court is also not the ultimate arbiter of Constitutional rights, that is reserved to the people to elect officials that either comport with the Constitution as interpreted by the SCOTUS or not.

You're quibbling. Yes, lawyers all learn in first-year Con Law that Marbury v. Madison [0] was a bootstrapped, ipse dixit assumption of authority by the Supreme Court. But almost uniformly, state and federal officials have gone along with it.

EXAMPLE: When Arkansas state officials tried to block enforcement of the Court's [1] school-desegregation rulings, President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to escort the black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, to school [2].

The only significant exception I can think of is from the Civil War: Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that only Congress had the power to suspend habeas corpus and therefore a suspected southern-sympathizing saboteur in Maryland could not be detained by the Union Army without judicial process. This was Taney's ruling as an individual circuit justice, not a decision of the full Court. President Lincoln and the Army ignored the ruling, but a year later the prisoner in question was released (along with others). The case was Ex parte Merryman [3].

> An "unconstitutional law" is still the law of the land until it is duly repealed by Congress.

See above.

NOTES:

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison

[1] Style convention: Whenever you see "the Court" in American legal writing, it is supposed to refer only to the Supreme Court of the United States; all other courts are referred to as "the court" (lower-case c). EXCEPTION: In a brief, you capitalize references to the court you're in, for example, "this Court previously ruled ...."

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine#Armed_escort -- for photos, see http://66070092.nhd.weebly.com/military-interference.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman
out of all the things Google have done this year, I would think a competition for which the prize is to give them $1500 would be much more appropriate for April fools... oh wait
As cool as that looks, I've been using DCIntrospect for a year or two, and it's nearly everything I need in a live UI inspection tool.

https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect
>I hate dinging hobby projects

I don't think you should feel even a hint of remorse, crypto and money are both very serious things. A project with crypto and money at its center is in my mind basically exempt from any margin for error normally associated with a hobby project.
What happens if you copy in the fonts into your fonts directory?
After I clicked on this link I played the demo for over 4 hours on Linux. Such a fun simulator.
Sure, but you need to get over that initial hump. That's the difficult part, for which Google needs to have a solid adoption strategy that is more inclusive than "early adopter geeks".
Who makes these, and where can I order one?
Stackoverflow rolls out "Chat with an expert"
Thanks for your reply, most helpful!
Heh.

Also, I think I recall that there's a restriction on the total amount of liquid you're allowed to bring. I think it was "all of your 3.4 oz bottles have to be able to fit flat inside a X sized ziploc bag" or something like that.
Just make sure you understand the software you are using. This mechanism isn't good for the user since you negate the efficiency of backups if your coins constantly move from older addresses to freshly created (unprotected until next backup) addresses.

Some bitcoin clients fix this by using a deterministic generation of new addresses for the wallet.
I'm not an expert on the matter, but to be fair there are lots of things you can do to secure your wallet. Some of them are even discussed in that thread.
Tell me everything
How did the popular 'Proposition HN' idea turn out?
Here's a link to the original thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694

It has been a couple months, how did things turn out?

Are any MVPs finished?
Your claims are ridiculous and you're bigoted.
Anyone remember Leisure Suit Larry 7 with the Rub'n'Sniff cards or whatever they were called? I wonder if mine (in the original box) still smells...
Same with me - I signed up to loads of these things because I loved the idea. Turns out I didn't have time to actually do any of them, but it didn't cost me anything to sign up. I may at a later date search my inbox and access the material.

It's not really a retention problem if you offer something for free and tons of people have a look without making much commitment. Having said that, probably the only relevant statistics about these courses are how many people did them and completed the assignments/tests.
An additional possibility would be measuring the background knowledge students have and are comfortable with so it can be better matched up with each course.

The thing is, all of these speculations bear empirical confirmation. We have to see what works best in the wild and there will be a coevolution of student behavior, teaching strategies, and companies in the space.
That gmail webcam gesture control was nice too.
There have also been several bitcoin services where the owners ran away with the users' money.
Agree. I would start to use ember only when ember-data was stabilized.
Say it out loud to someone nearby.
An option is to use a pre-packaged virtual machine image with the main web application that you want if it's available, for example from http://bitnami.com/ or the Amazon AWS public store or installing one locally (VMware or VirtualBox Virtual Appliances etc)
Fish can, so mermaids might.
I've been using ember-data for a month or so now and it definitely has it's limitations. I'm really looking forward to it being included in the core.

They're trying to do that quickly though... emberjs.com/blog/2013/03/22/stabilizing-ember-data.html
Deeper noise = larger amount, roughly. Larger bubble has some sort (logarithmic?) correlation to size. It's necessarily rough though.
It's not that bad, we are not using ember-data because it's not yet suitable for us (no special handling for significant HTTP errors), but instead we use jQuery callbacks. I think ember-data will be great later on, providing all the Active-Record-like magic, but you really can get along well without it. IIRC Discourse does not use it, either, but has its own model base classes.
Gone now. Anyone have a mirror?
It isn't part of the core because they don't want to force you to use Ember Data. Similar to how in rails you can choose to use active record or not. You might ask why not include it in the main file, but let people not use it if they want. You don't want to do that because then the file size will be bigger and make for longer load times.
It's a leap of an idea... but... I can maybe see how letting people do what they love will work.

The most important axiom of a startup is make something people want--you have to make a small subset of people happy.

IF, and this is a big IF, you can get enough users, you can evolve a market of specialists solving problems for each other. And if you can keep the businesses small, ie not corporate, you can probably get away from the "profit by any means necessary" mentality. When businesses, when transactions become depersonalised (which is what happens when you enter into deals with large corporations), you necessarily become one step removed from knowing that you're solving someone's problem. You don't get to see that you're helping people, you only see the proxy of that--money.

It's an idea. I don't know that I buy it. But it's worth a try to make compassion for one another obvious in letting transactions be more personal.
This app looks awesome. Reminds me of mit roof net. Can't wait to try this out
Works better in IE. The smell of a dumpster is perfect there.
Nbalanced - Balanced Payments node.js
HN Being Fair
May I ask why? As I mentioned in the sibling comment, we get along well without it. Also, you could reuse Discourse code instead.
That's certainly not true for all Coursera courses. I took one in February - if I go back and look at it now all the material is gone (although the lecturer put the videos on youtube) and there is nothing but a flat description of what the course was. I'm actually signed up for a course now that I found out about half way through and didn't have time to do on the spot, so I'm looking for a way to download all the material because I fully expect it to disappear once the course 'finishes'.
I don't understand the fundamental argument you are trying to make. On the one hand, you appeal to the Constitution as a document of natural law (it very much isn't, but let's stipulate that it is). Then you proceed to argue that judicial review was a usurpation by the Supreme Court, which has zero power and is apparently increasingly irrelevant.

If you think there is a set of core moral values animating the country, but you don't believe the Supreme Court has the power to enforce those values, to whom are you appealing? Clearly not Congress; it's Congress that passed the law that has you yelling at me.
Are the pitches based on something? They appear to be totally random.
>> you can be certain of only one thing: some propaganda office somewhere either wrote [the article] or motivated somebody to write it that way.

When you wrote that, my first reaction was -- is he part of "the 50 cent army"? 1/2 :-) The propaganda thing goes two ways.

I've seen arguments that the reason why e.g. the Mideast countries are swimming in tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories, is that they LIVE inside a conspiracy theory -- auctoritarian dictatorships. The same goes for Chinese people. And you, too?
CloudyFS: A cloud in your filesystem
Something about this doesn't smell right.
Working with code without syntax highlighting would be aweful. Also, text right now is rendered with subpixel precision, e.g. Microsoft's ClearType [0].

Because only the horizontal resolution would be tripled, you would have a distinction between horizontal and vertical edges - i.e. if the difference in resolution would be noticable at all (which I'm not convinced of if you already have a Retina-ized screen), it'd be very bothersome to only have it in one direction, exactly because the difference would be noticable.

I love how he claims it would save on RAM and graphics power, while in effect it would require equal or more amounts of each, since you're just replacing one 24-bit pixel with 3 8-bit pixels. Arithmetic on one 24-bit pixel is faster than doing it three times on 8-bit values, so you'd need much more processing power and at least an equal amount of RAM. A thoroughly poorly researched article.

The idea strikes me as completely useless. The author probably read about Leica's digital B&W camera and thought it was ingenious.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
Is there a browser compatibility table for RC2? Would be interesting to know what IE versions are ok, or even what features to avoid in order to get it to work on IE X or Opera Y.
There is only one way that is close to being fully secure and that is what the guy who lost his money did. Have your bitcoin wallet on a bootable linux usb stick that you only use for bitcoin transactions.
The problem with those lossy formats is that you get those ringing artifacts that smell like benzene.
A clang build was recently taken out of that process, though I haven't tried building since then.
I thought they were very clear about this. I came from a low income family, and would never have applied to the Ivy League school I ended up attending if they weren't bragging so loudly of their "no loans" policy. Heck, at least one of the schools even cold called me (one that I didn't apply to -- not sure how they got my number) and started their pitch by saying "no loans policy."

Why would you be worried about taking out a loan for an Ivy League education? Assuming you don't do something foolish like major in Medieval History, it's one of the safest, strongest investments in yourself you could possibly make, even purely from a financial point of view.

I came out of MIT with something like $40,000 worth of loans, but the M.Eng. that paid for returned (and continues to return) a substantial multiple of that.

It's nice that these elite institutions are now offering an essentially free education for lower middle-class households, but if you feel capable of exploiting the value of such an education, there's rarely a reason not to leverage yourself for it.
I'm seeing one transaction every 30-60 seconds, which seems wrong to me.
It's working fine for me. Did you scroll down to the readme?
Also would be great to have it in F-Droid repo (http://f-droid.org/). They have direct APK download over https.
It's there for me.
nope, never heard of it.
The Syft (1) Mass Spectrometer - the Voice 200 (2) - can sniff air and determine minute amounts of compounds present in real time, sending the output in standard form to a computer. It's the size of a big washing machine, and a lot heavier, and is portable only in vans.
One application is food and flavour detection.(3) Others are sea container contamination testing (a very real problem - 20% of so are toxic when opened), ambient air testing for pollutants, medical breath testing and so on.

(1): http://www.syft.com
(2): http://www.syft.com/products
(3): http://www.syft.com/solutions/food-and-flavor-analysis

(disclosure - I have a very small investment in the company)
And a whack-whack-oomps for the losses?
This warrants the obligatory XKCD quote[1]: "Space is hard"

[1]: http://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
What is your Sublime Text workflow?
I'm curious: What does your editing workflow look like when you work with Sublime? What type of development do you do, and what plugins and features are most useful?
CYBERSNIFF TWOTHOUSAND ™ SNIFFFFF
Ask HN: Who's going to Coachella?
I'm a UI/UX developer who's going to be at the 2nd weekend at Coachella. If you're going to be there too, I'd love to say hi and chat a bit, whether it's about front-end development, entrepreneurship, music, or philosophy. Either contact me or leave your contact info in the comments.

I can't promise I'll be able to find you, but I'll give it an honest effort :)
We use RJS templates with Ember quite successfully at our startup.
The TED Conference
The Future of Huginn: A Protocol
If people are going to do that they should consider donating a bit to his wallet (14zoTKB29NdsJRvk4qP3vB9mQZ3dcV3eWk)

It gets highlighted and is really easy to spot
It's interesting that this joke comes the same day that The Verge declares "smell might be the next big thing in advertising" [1].

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/31/4166884/japanese-smelling-...
I like your optimism in thinking that people who use Bitcoin will fall for that...
Is that commentary on Windows or on the Liberation fonts? (I'm cool either way.)
I would assume that a Titan card is just as horrible for mining as any other NVIDIA card, both in terms of hardware cost and power usage.
Ember Data is overkill for many use cases.

It may seem counterintuitive, but because Ember's object model is so powerful, you don't need a lot of the model-specific sugar that other libraries provide you—it's baked into every object.

To see how easy it is to fetch records using the tools in Ember, see Robin Ward's blog post: http://eviltrout.com/2013/03/23/ember-without-data.html
I've already gone on this rant, maybe more than once. I'm almost at the point of thinking of "hack" as a standalone word to be a negative indicator of signal.
If only this 20% time spent on building this crap could have been spent on keeping Reader alive.
There's one thing you're forgetting here: Cell architecture. Noone writes software for that anymore, since it's been discontinued (either officially or inofficially). Most new supercomputers at that scale are powered by a mix of NVIDIA Tesla (with Intel MIC now coming as well) and Opterons/Xeons. This dictates the software stack of present and future research[1]. There's no reason to keep a computer running when it's severely underused.

[1] Plug: That's also what I'm working on currently: https://github.com/muellermichel/Hybrid-Fortran
The YouTube one was up around midnight NZ time.
I spent a long time trying to find similar things to what I was building, and of course now I'm finding out about PonyDebugger and this tool.

Different, though, because Kiln is meant to be more generic, and pluggable.
Using Kippt as a RSS Reader
I actually love it and have been using it for months now.

1. You can compose multiple emails at a time

2. You can copy-past from/to draft/existing emails/new emails

3. You don't need to change windows when you need to write an email. Works just like how google chat and facebook chat work embedded within the main page....it doesn't interrupt your flow.

When they came out with it months back, my first reaction was -- "wow that's brilliant!".
I'll go against the prevailing wisdom here and say get the degree. My roommate lost his job two years ago. Despite having eight years of industry experience, it's been impossible for him to find a job. ANY job.

He got a phone interview with another company. Everything was going fairly well until the interviewer asked where he went to college. Bob said he didn't have one, though he had done an equivalent job at his previous employer. The interview ended right there.
Bob tried to get a job at a call center. Bob had three years of experience at an IT helpdesk and was a personal friend of the manager at this new firm. Wouldn't let the manager bring Bob in for an interview since Bob didn't have a B.S.
Desperate for work, Bob applied for a receptionist position. He got back a form letter saying they required at least a masters.
To try and make rent, Bob started advertising as a baby sitter. In the very first phone call he got from a parent, the parent asked what Bob's degree was in and ended the interview immediately afterwards.

Granted, these are the lowlights of a two year streak of seeing Bob get screwed by his lack of a degree, but you need to look at it from the perspective of the corporations. We've all seen plenty of individuals graduate from college programs without the competence to wipe themselves. So, if the people who PASS are that stupid, what kind of idiot do you have to be to fail?

Granted, if you're starting your own business, it won't matter one whit. That's what Bob is doing now, since the job market is impossible. But you should go get the degree if you want the option of getting hired.
Fall for what? It's explained right on the top of the page.
I've had this damn thing bookmarked for a couple months now and I haven't bought it yet http://dx.com/p/ultra-thin-bluetooth-v2-0-music-receiver-for... One of my vehicles is similar to yours, stuck in an awkward period where Aux ports weren't acceptable, tape players were too old, and the only input other than CD was the first-generation iOS port. Yes, an ancient 2009 model of car that already has an outdated port for fricken audio. What a mess.
This is pretty cool. How long did it take you to build, and what were your sources of the data? And also, just out of curiosity, what prompted you to create this project? Was it something that was just interesting to you personally?

I've been working on a little side project, Magnum Opus (http://mag.numop.us). It does things like orchestra job listings, allowing people to find local music teachers, and stuff for teachers to administer their studios (such as managing assignments and lesson schedules). Maybe once it gets further along I'll do a proper Show HN. :)
Theoretically, two other possibilities;

1) They act a certain way, and be prepared to defend civilly and criminally if necessary. That said even if what AngelList and FundersClub do is technically illegal, the fact they target accredited investors and don't promise insane returns, probably would tip the balance towards a civil action. IANAL and we're talking hypothetical action anyway.

2) Another possibility would be to obtain a declarative judgement that what they are doing is in fact legal. IANAL but this would be messy, expensive and a lengthy process.
okay, I fell for it. Kudos!
I can guarantee you that denser cities also suffer from loneliness (with the caveat that a minority of all lonely people love their independence and enjoy living by themselves). It's not uncommon for seniors living in high rises to have been dead for weeks or months before the neighbours notice the smell. I don't think physical proximity is the core of the problem.
Clearly not that well-known, then. I've never heard of it either. The Fog Creek Kiln project doesn't have its own Wikipedia page (which I consider a rough threshold for notability).
Seems to be going fine now. I imagine the transactions are just pretty sporadic. Either that, or it momentarily lost the connection with Mt. Gox and blockchain.info.
Thousands of biased studies.

Not a single one of them defined low carbs as 5%, in them low carb was like 30%.

30% carbs will make anyone fat with enough calories (exactly what you said was demonstrated.

I'll wait for the 5% carbs version.
Well, today I googled for "success", just to make sure that I got the spelling right. And then I saw the sidebar with links to this.

I found it funny. Shoot me.
First, everything needed to run on the JVM. Now, everything must compile down to javascript and run in the JS vm. The cycle will continue.
Is there a service about as cheap as Backblaze, but lets you use your own backup client, and doesn't limit which file types you can backup? I would love to find something that gave me a remote Linux account (even on a shared host), where I can put my home-grown backup package, and a half TB or so of storage.
"Things I wish I'd known at 20: Your time is worth $1000/hour, act like it"

Actually, for most 20 year olds that's not true. For me, for instance, it was absolutely a good tradeoff of time and money for me to catch a train to the airport, taking 1 hour and $10, instead of catching a $50 cab for a half hour trip (therefore, I am saying that half an hour was worth less to me than $40). Clearly he meant this 'metaphorically', but when your metaphor breaks down so easily, it might not be as meaningful as you thought. What did he actually want to say there? Was it something less pithy like 'value your time'? 'Consider the opportunity costs of everything you spend time on'?
You can click the link. His address is right there... Copy paste is a hell of a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_creek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky
Hello World/Hackernews

http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=h4e7zymwpdvsdjxs...