skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You don't have to agree, it's empirically evident. Try not paying your taxes and guys with guns will come get it. Now, maybe these guys with guns are justified -- but that's strictly your opinion.

Strictly my opinion? Hardly. Some neo-liberals aside (and them constrained in the US) it's the opinion of most of the world. Some people want lower taxes, others disagree with specific tax laws, but statistically speaking, nobody is against taxes in toto. The issue does not even come into play into protests (except from bizarro minorities). People all over the world demand that their government is brought down, that they get better pay, they corrupted officials are punished, and tons of other things -- but "no taxes" is just not on the table.

>By definition, your definition is wrong. Non-democratic governments impose taxes as well.

Which is beside the point. Taxation WITHIN a democracy is voluntary and decided via the democratic process. That a dictatorship can also have taxation doesn't change this. A dictatorship can also maintain an educational system. That doesn't make it non democratic when a democracy maintains one.

>Why do you define "voluntary" relative to the political landscape?

For reasons obvious to any who accepts democracy and is not Ayn Rand? Because a dictatorship forces the people to do stuff, whereas in a democracy they get to vote for what they want to be done. That some people don't agree with the result it doesn't matter, as long as the majority of people agrees with the process -- ie. the polling for the aggregate popular opinion as expressed in presidential candidates and party platforms and representatives.

>You're telling me slavery never really happened in the US, because it was voluntary labor -- as decided by the "democratic process"? Why do you defend slavery with such fervor?

Why do you insist in using BS non-sequiturs to make some bizarro point?

Slavery was not voluntary labor because the subjects of slavery weren't part of the democratic process that allowed it to happen. For one, they didn't vote. Even worse, they were victims of abduction and deprived of any citizen rights. They were mere objects to private masters.

A tax paying citizen is not that.
Well yes, but that's what the limited prototype is for, isn't it?

I mean, this one product isn't really sink or swim for the technology, and even if it doesn't meet the loftiest of expectations there's sure to be a lot to gain from the attempt in regards to features, usability, and UX.

After all, Blackberry smart phones sold extremely well prior to iPhone coming along and doing it "properly", but I'm sure Apple learned a lot of lessons from it. Even if many of those lessons were in what not to do.
I can't praise these two entries on the matter enough (here's the first one - http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-...). They've allowed me to better explain to those on the outside what it truly feels like. She does an amazing job with her illustrations and her words, and I wish her all the best in her recovery.
> In an established firm, existing product lines pay the bills.

In other words, the firm already is sitting on top of a machine that prints money. Of course the first instinct shouts, "Don't rock the boat!"
This legislation doesn't entirely fix the DMCA. It fixes some problems but more remain.

Copyright is some seriously fucked up shit right now. It has been dominated by big money interests for the last 50 years.
Call for homeless Omniture analytics specialist?
I'm pretty sure this is not real. Weird...
Problem definitely not solved. There's too much uncertainty, and comparisons are too hard.

This happens all the time in software. Non-techies put a project out for bid. They will get estimates from a variety of consulting companies. The estimates could easily vary by an order of magnitude. Do they go with the lowest, because they are the most efficient operation? Or is the low price a sign that they're the dumbest, and are underestimating? Do they go with the highest, because in a market economy price is correlated with value? Or are those guys just the gougers?

And medicine is worse, because things are so contingent. Complications get complicated indeed. And the person trying to make the decision is pretty likely to be sick. I tell you true: deciding what to do about cancer is hard enough without trying to organize and judge a multi-round competitive bidding process.
In Japan there is the concept of "amae". The feeling of being loved and "taken care of" is recognized as a valid need, and it is as much the job of the parents to make their children feel safe and supported as it is the job of the children to make their parents proud through high achievement. I don't know what Chinese parents are like back on the mainland, but I suspect that they have similar ideas, as Japanese concepts of loyalty are largely borrowed from Confucius.

Not that amae-based relationships can't be pathological, but they are less one-sidedly authoritarian.

So not only does it not work, I have grave doubts as to whether "tiger parenting" is normal among Chinese, or Asians in general. If anything it's a pathological development among certain first-generation Asian immigrants, who felt the need to produce exceptional children in order to compensate for perceived cultural disadvantages.
There is a hidden agenda in saying that this "fixes the DMCA." It has a morass of serious issues untouched by these modifications.
AngularJS directives that provide common visualizations based on D3
How many people on Hacker News criticizing the U.S. drone war on terrorists are actually terrorists?
Awesome! Any plans to support RTMP streams? If it did it would be _perfect_.
Experiment: There may be confidential content in your search results. […]
'Experiment: There may be confidential content in your search results. Please do not share outside Google.'

Did anyone else get this message when doing a YouTube search?
It is a matter of law - means the government wants to enforce it. But why I have to agree with it? I do not have any obligation to respect anything the government of Russia or Iran does.
Emails will be ignored. Call them. They notice that.
Google unveils 5-year roadmap for strong authentication
"You're only focusing on the "electric car" part. By all accounts, the rest of the car is an amazing package, even without the electric motor. I think the question is why was Tesla able to push the Model S so far ahead of the current industry in those other respects?"

This cannot be overstated.

I don't like a lot of the Tesla S design - both interior and exterior. Further, my use case(s) don't necessarily lend themselves perfectly to an electric car.

But the Tesla has a third row with five-point child harness seats built fucking in[1]. This feature alone changes my life. The existing auto industry answer to carseats and children in general ranges from "makes me want to kill myself to insert/remove carseat" to "merely makes me want to kill others".

How much of the rest of a Model S is like this ? Apparently the shocks/suspension are[2].

[1] Optional.
[2] http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/track-tests/2012-tesla-mo...
Conventional Wisdom About Clean Energy Is Still Way Out of Date
Raspberry Pi operating systems: 5 reviewed and rated
IIRC, the DMCA makes it a criminal act, whereas otherwise it might only be governed by civil law. If I'm contractually obligated to only read a stock market report myself, but I show it to a friend, do I deserve jail time, or just to get sued?
Congratulations!

Looking forward to the day PyPy becomes the reference implementation.
Playing Sports
The reason this is, BTW, is that calling isn't scalable. Any idiot can fire off emails or print petitions or print and mail letters (albeit with a budget). Fielding calls is a huge pain in the ass and can be linked - via area code+prefix, among others - to a specific district.
people think of iPhones as the standard

The tech crowd does, but Android outsells iPhone by a ton each year. There isn't such a central concept of "an Android", but that means plenty of people are used to differing UIs, from HTC's Sense or Samsung's Touchwiz. A Facebook OS layer could work just as well as they do.
As an aside, you say,

"In your post, you mention not being profitable yet, even with the injection of around 7.5 million dollars."

Investor's money has nothing to do with profit. You're profitable when you have customers giving you money, i.e. revenue, in excess of your expenses. The injection of capital is not revenue.
Show HN: Never forget the meaning of HTTP response code 400
Or, and I'm going out on a limb here, and we could have a thing called a "democracy", where we jointly decide to pay for health care for everybody. And then we could come up with some sort of system for sharing out the costs of the joint project in a more-or-less equitable fashion.
Never. May I know what your words you searched are?
As I understand it, the phone buyer is going to have to sign up for the same two year contract, regardless of what phone is chosen. So essentially this indicates that consumers are basically assigning zero value to Facebook Home as a feature (or perhaps negative value compared to other phones). Seems like a significant story.
JavaScript is going very strong these days, mostly because it's the language of the web. Every browser supports it natively, and the language has only gotten faster as client compilers get better.

Some tech to check out:
- jQuery for DOM manipulation (interacting with HTML quickly and effectively)
- Underscore.js for a nice toolkit of often-used utilities
- node.js for running a server, which means you can have JS on both the client and the server.
- Backbone.js/Angular.js/Ember.js (and others) are Javascript MV*s: that make large, single page apps like Pandora faster, more maintainable and easier to build.

Things to look forward to:
ECMAcsript 6 and 7 are in the works and include tons of new features: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript

ASM.js was recently created by Mozilla and it allows near-native speed using pure JS to run things like Unreal Engine inside the browser without the need for plugins: http://ejohn.org/blog/asmjs-javascript-compile-target/

Even more standardization. IE has finally become a fairly standards compliant browser, so JS in this browser is very likely to work in any modern browser. Coding standards are also more common and are held to more often.

Personally, the worst thing about JS in the browser is that you have to deal with the DOM. The DOM is a smelly old piece of crap that acts differently in different browsers.
Is there any reason not to support this? What negative impacts could this have towards the companies that this effects?
Adriaan Moors, Scala Tech Lead at Typesafe starts his talk
with a straightforward and possibly controversial idea:

Scala is simple.

To support his argument, he offers evidence to the contrary,
and then refutes that evidence in order to make a full circle
connection to his claim.

This talk is a comprehensive look at Scala 2.10 featuring
multiple examples, code demos, and aspects worth highlighting.
What has changed, and upgraded in 2.10, and what are the
details of those changes?
I faced a similar dilema just over a year ago and made a similar decision. I've not regretted it one bit. It's amazing how much of the fear melts away instantly when you commit to something and realize that most of your limits are self imposed.

Great post, thanks.
yup seems more likely (to me at least) than matching on an ip address
Being Full of Shit Doesn't Work Anymore
So you are saying that a lot of the short interest is coming from people hedging their long bets?

I can somewhat relate to why one would take this strategy, as Tesla is getting a lot of hype, implying that the stock might break out (or already did, currently at $71), but they are also in a fairly precarious financial situation, with a ton of debt. Elon himself warned that if the company didn't get to positive cash flow it was likely they would go under. Still it seems like a high price to pay for a hedge, wouldn't it be simpler (and possibly cheaper) just to reduce your long position?
Would this happen with any sufficiently powerful magnet? Also, does anybody know why the magnets would turn off a pacemaker? Pacemakers try very hard to filter out EMI.

Edit: Implanted defibrillators, not pacemakers
Challenges for academic research
That would be an interesting hypothetical if anybody sensible had ever suggested anything close to that.
This is mostly due to the study's redefinition of the term "tiger" to include "unsupportive."
here is a screenshot of the same
http://awesomescreenshot.com/048198m964
Fart Fiddle (using The Onion's fartscroll js)
Well then this article would be testing how well the papers were written, not whether or not it was possible to reproduce the results.
>...who often advocates for a return to advanced research which couldn't happen without higher education.

I'm not quite so interested in the hypocrisy part, but as a Thiel fellow working on a pretty research heavy project (in biomedical tech), the academia + industry interplay is quite interesting.

For me, the fellowship has been anything but a way to abandon academia; indeed, my project depends heavily on collaborations I maintain with folks in the academic world, not to speak of my curiosity there. Thus, while the fellowship enables me to wear an industrial hat for the present, I see it as an interaction with a slightly different facet of academia. I've temporarily put down my classes to study the translational part of science, and hopefully help move it along.

So, for me the fellowship doesn't undermine the advanced research society needs, but enables it in another way.
I haven't done a larger project, but I did port a small project by starting with just the AppDelegate. It was easier to first turn the xcode project/obj-c code into a library, and compile it as such. The classes "just worked", and with all the nibs in resources/ those loaded, too!

I translated the models into Ruby, and pulled those out of the xcode lib. Eventually the entire codebase was converted (except the nibs).
It seems like Yahoo is following through their "focus on mobile"[1]. However, what other (recent) big moves have they made?

(As an aside, their weather app for the iPhone is very well done.)

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/16/yahoo-mobile-earnings/
I was under the impression that Amy Chua (the woman who wrote "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother") gave up the "tiger mom" strategy after one of her children had a breakdown:

"What brings the situation to an end is two horrifying incidents. First, Lulu hacks off her hair with a pair of scissors; then, on a family holiday to Moscow, she and Chua get into a public argument that culminates in Lulu smashing a glass in a cafe, screaming, "I'm not what you want – I'm not Chinese! I don't want to be Chinese. Why can't you get that through your head? I hate the violin. I hate my life. I hate you, and I hate this family!" Her relationship with Lulu in crisis, Chua, finally, thankfully, raises the white flag."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/15/amy-chua-...
How could you know the answer to a legal question offhand?

Is this FUD? The point of DMCA anti-circumvention is that it makes a crime out of things that were otherwise legal, not tack on charges to things that are illegal for other reasons.

FTFA:

"- It amends Section 1201 to make it clear that it is completely legal to "circumvent" if there is no copyright infringement.

"- It legalizes tools and services that enable circumvention as long as they are intended for non-infringing uses.

"- It changes Copyright Law to specify that unlocking cell phones is not copyright infringement."

Or you could read the text the bill adds to DMCA:

It is not a violation of this section to use, manu-
8 facture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise
9 traffic in any technology, product, service, device, compo-
10 nent, or part thereof that is primarily designed or pro-
11 duced for the purpose of facilitating noninfringing uses of
12 works protected under this title by circumventing a tech-
13 nological measure that effectively controls access to that
14 work, unless it is the intent of the person that uses, manu-
15 factures, imports, offers to the public, provides, or traffics
16 in the technology, product, service, device, component, or
17 part to infringe copyright or to facilitate the infringement
18 of a copyright.’’.

emphasis added by me.
Not in 4.0, but it's in the works.
Mousefart.js - Based upon The Onion's fartscroller.js
Oh yes, I remember the circumstances. :) Totally understand, and glad your wife is okay!

Hopefully we'll see you at Minicon or somewhere else Minneapolis-ish someday.
Just how well will requiring two-factor auth for end-users go over for both gmail and especially google apps customers? I strongly believe in two-factor auth but what device do they think corporate users would want to act as the secondary auth?, their personal phones? Not likely. What ever happened to servicing the customer requirements... ie optional, not dictating?
On the contrary, the chart in the article shows that "permissive" parenting produced lower achievement than "authoritative" parenting. The distinction in the article isn't about letting kids "be kids" but whether parents are responsive/warm versus cold.
I have to work on porting an iPad app to Java from a guy that didn't bother to use comments or any documentation and his idea of versioning system are a bunch of folders 1,2,3 for different components whose numbers dont always match up.

I'm afraid I've been scared off Obj-C for life now.
You want something between the raw data and the digested summary provided by the news service? That's expensive. Who should pay for it?

For the most part, I agree with your view. There's almost no deep analysis of the reasons for renunciation. That analysis is hard. It's going to be a variety of factors. Given the political tone behind the (unenforced) Reed amendment and the (proposed) Ex-PATRIOT act, anyone reasonable would avoid bringing up the non-tax-avoiding reasons and emphasize the other reasons.

But your view is that we can't make any inferences. I disagree. We have the raw numbers - there's no need to trust people for that. It might not be as easy as you like, but it's at most an evening of work. (Less if you trust graphs like http://finance.yahoo.com/news/should-you-renounce-your-citiz... ).

There's no need to "calculate the proportion of citizens doing so." As the article reports, "From 2009 to 2011, the number of expatriates, or those who renounced their U.S. citizenship, doubled to 1,781." The number of US citizens did not double in two years. Including a population analysis in this news article would be a distracting tangent stating the obvious.

Those raw numbers show a big increase in 2010. That's when the US reporting law went into effect. You insist on some statistical analysis, but in my readings, no one has come up with a better explanation for the increase - what tests should people do? Correlated it with Bieber Fever?

We can't get meaning from those numbers, and it's hard to get that information directly from the people, but we can ask people who generally give international tax advice. Biased though it might be, that's what this CNN article does.

In fact, it gives a specific and reasonable example of why someone may renounce their US citizenship, because of tax purposes: "growing numbers of Middle Eastern investors were ordering their dual-citizen children to dump their U.S. passports if they wanted to inherit family-owned companies without onerous U.S. estate taxes".

This is not vague, though it is from a secondary source.

Therefore I persist in correcting you. This article gives enough information to draw the reasonable conclusion - affirmed by other data - that 1) renunciations are increasing and 2) that the US tax laws are a likely factor.
How I would use Trello to move my House
The Oatmeal: I have some happy news about Tesla
Is there a way to play with it for people who can't still afford it?
The closest thing I know about is Kivy.
How to tell if you're dangerously popular (or 'Performance Testing Better')
An Ode to the Re-Inventors of the Wheel
Slides available at http://prezi.com/so_0867vexsl/how-to-tell-if-youre-dangerous...
If this was still the early 1980s I'd take you up on it... Coming from C# and Java, I really find it unappealing.
I doubt this has ever been tried, but I seriously doubt it... the compiler does a lot of work looking at the Cocoa frameworks to build the bridgesupport files. Are GNUStep frameworks built the same way?
Apache Giraph Graph Processing Platform Reaches 1.0
So, when this happens again, and then is discovered, who decides which partition of the tree is the "fork" and which is the main branch?

I presume it happens by consensus? But... where does consensus come from, in the general case? Does it operate like much open-source governance, via a mix of public and private meetings on IRC between the maintainers of the biggest clients? When that "community" decides to invalidate the mobster's Bitcoins, is there an appeals process, and do the judges have bodyguards?

How does one get a seat at the Bitcoin developer summit in the first place? Do the contributors of the most code have the most influence? Which in practice usually translates to "friends and allies of the project founder" and "rich individuals and companies who pay developers to contribute to the project in order to influence its direction?"
Facebook in talks to buy Waze for up to $1 billion
I remember when I went through a phase where every HN comment I posted was likely to get downvotes. Now I think a little bit first and try to come up with a better way of making my points (usually).
The construction of her acronym shows how brilliant (and snarky about acronyms) she truly is.
It's easy to see Home as a failure because Facebook is so huge, but it's an early product. They can't develop all the capabilities to ship a mobile phone without getting their hands dirty, and Windows and Blackberry are proving that a good mobile OS doesn't mean you have distribution.

They have "Facebook phones" in stores and they didn't have to:
- invest in hardware
- develop a new OS
- fork Android
- bootstrap retail distribution

This approach is eerily like Tesla, where even if your initial product doesn't match your end goal, you have a realistic path from reality to vision.

Remember, when the iPhone came out, it had 2G internet, no copy/paste, no apps, and it cost $600. It wasn't competitive with the phone marketplace (it was better, but sold few absolute units compared to the whole market). But it got better every year, and sales ~doubled every year, and now there's no comparison between an original iPhone and the iPhone 5.

I'm not a FB fan but congrats to them for shipping!
The exact same fight is being waged in Texas by the established dealers there.

Here's a little known but closely related fact about Congress: its membership has long contained a disproportionate number of car dealers, which leads to "wins" for America like this: "Last summer...Congress approved a financial reform bill that specifically exempted auto dealers’ financing from regulation."

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2011/04/11/3948/6-car-dealers...

This raises the larger point about car finance in general, which has become the heart and soul of the business. Essentially, the major car companies have become banks with manufacturing wings attached. The interests, skills, and motivations of their senior ranks tend to reflect this non-automotive set of priorities, so it's no wonder that Musk was able to poach serious talent. People who have obsessed about cars their entire lives finally found an employer who wouldn't leave them to die on the vine.

Which brings us back to point #1 about business in general: it's not about what's on the table. It's what's in the chairs.
Ah thanks for the info, was worried it was just me for a while although the YouTube discussion on Google Groups is pretty full of this now.