skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is ridiculous. Congress could make murder legal (at least at the federal level) by simply repealing 18 USC 1111. There is nothing in the Constitution that would prevent them from doing that. Murder would, of course, still be illegal at the state level, but focusing on that would be missing the point rather badly. Murder is a red herring. The fact of the matter is that there are things that are not legal by virtue of the existence of federal laws. Congress could make those things legal by repealing those laws, but until and unless it does so those things are illegal. Likewise, the fact of the matter is that Roberts's appointments to the FISA court are not reviewable. Congress could make them reviewable, but until and unless it does so, they are not reviewable. That Congress could make them reviewable in the future does not make them reviewable in the present and more than the fact that Congress could make something legal in the future makes it legal in the present. It takes an extraordinary level of obtuseness not to grasp this elementary linguistic point.
I actually meant this seriously, it was not intended to be sarcastic.
Yep. Is it the cellulose (structure), or the lignin (electrolyte)? Or some combination?
> Secure by default
> SPDY

Choose one, SPDY mandates gzip, and gzip in SSL/TLS is vulnerable to leaking repeated plaintext, eg cookies in nearly every implementation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME_(security_exploit)
Turn Your Mailbox into Free Cloud Storage
Don't take the article's view as canon. Daft Punk are legends in the States.
Oh, they all fit this definition, but the mutation isn't always spontaneous.

For example, cervical cancer is often caused by HPV, which is why school-age girls are routinely immunised against it in the UK.
I'm not sure if you are saying that just because or because you know that what you say is actually true. Tron: Legacy was actually the first movie where the soundtrack was made before the film was finished, and the film was actually edited to fit the music (all other movies are scored after the final edit and the music is fit to the film).
He was at the University of Alabama, not Arkansas. George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama is blocking the entrance in a famous scene in American history known as "The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door." [1]

My dad was a professor at the University of Georgia during this time and still talks about what it was like being in the south at that time. Really fascinating to hear him describe it. He actually drove through Arkansas on a university research field trip right when desegregation was beginning to be enforced and saw the National Guard in place to enforce it.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door
Hmmmm... The layout of the page seems very messed up. Is anyone else having it show up like this?:

http://puu.sh/3vTL8.png
There may be some variability between restaurants of the same chain, too.

I really want to do the Church/Popeyes/KFC/Grocery/homemade fried chicken double-blind test sometime.
"It seems that if an issue does not directly affect the lives of the masses negatively"

While that certainly could be the case, I think you are ignoring the fact that there are many citizens who perhaps have been around long than you have that have decided that it really isn't a problem from their perspective and that it's a necessary evil. Things can't be perfect. And that they have given it some thought and are willing to put a certain amount of trust in the system to produce the right outcome.
It would be nice if the buttons actually looked like tyres, you could also make them wider/thinner to reflect the different sizes.
i use /libs and put js, css and less files there. After years of /css and /js folders, i find /libs to be much easier to work with.
That's a little scary. I would have figured smart programmers would know these things.

Most of the case law that has shaped this area of jurisprudence involves obvious criminals, mainly those who would be prosecuted for illegal drug possession. One could read all those cases, say, while in law school, and think "Why do we need to be so careful to observe the protections of 4th Amendment? Aren't we just protecting drug dealers and other criminals? Aren't we just making the job of the police more difficult?" But one could also conclude that it is the Constitutional principles we are exercising such caution to protect, not the obvious criminals who sometimes might escape prosecution as a result of forcing police to "follow the rules".

In the context of modern telephone and internet surveillence (which in the coming decade or two will become one in the same, when AT&T is fully transitioned to TCP/IP), one might reason that there's little need to observe the 4th Amendment as it only protects criminals, would-be criminals or citizens with "something to hide". The net is widening.

Instead of the undesirable side effect of having guilty parties (e.g. drug dealers) get away because of the hassle to police of following the rules so as not to collect inadmissible evidence, it seems like we are headed for a different sort of undesired side effect. When all evidence is by default "lawfully" collected (because it's so easy to collect it and people have over time assented to this by failing to object to it): innocent parties are likely to get swept up in what will become a massive dragnet.
What’s New and Awesome in Ruby 2
Could someone explain what problem this solves? Go already has http, templates, and (duh) goroutines. What is Revel adding?

Sure, PHP programmers are accustomed to having their syntax errors detected by surprise at runtime. But aren't we choosing Go because it can detect those errors before we've deployed? [1]

In Java it may feel natural to take a simple task like dispatching a URL ("Routing"), and turn it into an elaborate overabstracted object architecture. But aren't we choosing Go to escape that nonsense? [2]

[1] http://robfig.github.io/revel/img/helpfulerror.png

[2] http://robfig.github.io/revel/manual/concepts.html

Am I missing something?

EDIT: I've seen lots of Go applications, and none of them have spent 8432579842375 hours developing scaffolding. Actually, they saved time not having to spray their logic across a zillion source files.
it's useful to have extension if you want to disable it and temporarily see ads; also it's easy to whitelist ads on particular sites/pages - there are non intrusive and useful ads.
Ask HN: Is there a way to reinstate a community page suspended by Facebook?
Recently (just past midnight (EEST) on July 6) a community page on Facebook belonging to "Ötekilerin Postası" https://facebook.com/OtekilerinPostasi was suspended. The reason for this is not clear at the moment. This page was extremely useful for disseminating information during the events that unfolded in Turkey over the past month or so. This community was founded to act as citizen journalists and did so superbly. As many members of the HN community may know, the events are not over (e.g. there were multiple detentions today, the construction of underway passage is being continued despite a court order for stopping it, a demonstration is planned on Saturday in Taksim Square etc.), so this suspension will cut off a very valuable news source for many people. Does anyone here know how to go about to reinstate this page?
The President appoints, Congress merely confirms or vetos the confirmation.
Perhaps they can use gamma-ray tomography to see the internal structure of the battery without opening it: http://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=12301&pNid=240 I don't know if it can be modified to distinguish the materials.
C++ isn't suitable for Web programming.
Congress can and has made murder legal: people executed under the death penalty have "Homicide" listed on their death certificate as the cause of death.
Of possible interest -- There was a homeland episode [1], where they used a hack on a pacemaker to assassinate someone. This caused lots of discussion around medical device security [2] [3] [4] [5].

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hogan/homeland-recap-s...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/12/06/yes-you-c...

[3] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100306578

[4] http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Homeland-Pacemaker-Hack-22063...

[5] http://blog.ioactive.com/2013/02/broken-hearts-how-plausible...
At what point is a personality merely a symptom? If everything about us is a result of our ailments, and all of our ailments have treatments, how does a person know which parts of his personality are him and which aren't? What am "I" then?
I too went down the Chernobyl history rabbit hole during so-called study. It's absolutely incredible. The big thing that gets me (which seems to happen at work in rather less cataclysmic style, and in every industry all the time) is the way that every misstep was followed by those involved making the worst possible decision. Then the next thing done compounds the earlier events - often with the chain of events occurring over months. Why do people universally do the worst possible thing at the worst possible time, and miss every opportunity for course correction?
Java Main Pattern
Probably right. Be careful!

I had a Chinese clone Lenovo charger a while ago. There was 50v floating AC on the chassis when supposedly open circuit (!). Zapped myself on any metal part I touched.

Fake one was dismantled for study and appeared to be missing most of the components. Tracing the circuit found a 1k resistor between live/hot and the ring on the PSU connector (laptop chassis DC ground). Turns out I was basically turning it into a voltage divider by touching it and was a the mercy of my quite high skin resistance :)

Replaced with a genuine Lenovo one immediately resulting in no random minor electrocutions!
What is A/B testing? Local optimization with an assumption that every user is stateless and identical.
Gamma-ray computed tomography (Gamma-CT)
> Someone who notices both her AIDS and her left-wing behaviour will likely be a tiny bit more confident that one causes the other.

So just because some people are woolly headed, artistic endeavours should show only one-dimensional characters? Reality is filled with Syrian rebels who eat hearts, rapists who were nice to their mothers and computer programmers who pray to god.
I'm pretty sure they have not actually built any new reactor this time around. AFIK they are testing in the Halden reactor[1][2] from the late 50s. It's one of only two reactors in the country, both used mainly for research and testing, so the pellets feeding issue you mention is a feature not a bug :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halden_Reactor

[2] http://www.ife.no/en/ife/halden/hrp/the-halden-reactor-proje...
>A Controller is any type that embeds revel.Controller (directly or indirectly). revel.Controller must be embedded as the first type in your struct

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I'm learning Japanese, but what I hear about their criminal justice system is not inspiring.
Coinbase is hiring in San Francisco, CA. H1B welcome.

We're leading the bitcoin/digital currency revolution and recently completed the largest fundraise in bitcoin.

We're a ruby/javascript shop.

https://coinbase.com/jobs
What kills me about rich web frameworks for Golang is that the ORM problem for Golang is still open; there isn't a "mainstream" best ORM to use, and so frameworks don't have tight integration with storage; there's no "model" layer to work with.

If a framework is going to solve approximately the same set of problems for me as Sinatra, I'm not sure that's a big enough win over what Golang already ships with.
> chez17's comment implied that the whitelist applies to non-invasive and non-annoying ads, while there are a number of new qualifiers here, including a payment which you have omitted from your post.

Because it is not relevant. What you said here is true, but no bearing on the thing chez17 and I are walking about (that the ads are not invasive or annoying). I don't have anything against them making money. As long as they are not letting through bad ads, why would I object to them profiting?

> ..and perhaps most importantly, have paid for it.

> The whitelist standard is not just about non-intrusive ads as the title of the setting implies to users, it's about a payment too.

And the relevance is…? Nobody said the transaction did not involve money. A whitelist can only include unobtrusive ads and also charge money for inclusion — those ideas are not at odds. The statement "they are charging money" is 100% compatible with "they are only whitelisting non-invasive and non-annoying ads."
According to their latest tweet
https://twitter.com/RadikalAktivist/status/35326417912320000...
The reason given was "content including nudity, pornography or sexual solicitation" (my translation)
Half of eBay used to be a massive ISAPI dll plugged into the back of IIS.

It did a fine job at the time!
But others should be forced to work to give that person food and shelter?
Yeah if that's the case then they should really just find a different country to live in that doesn't explicitly provide constitutional protection against this kind of stuff instead of supporting the illegal violation of ours. Too many people have died for these protections to let fear-based mindsets water down those accomplishments. I'm not even joking. If you aren't brave enough to live in a free society then you are free to leave and live in any number of nanny states.
I've just skimmed most of it, but Revels seems to be "Rails/Django magic" framework.
i don't understand. heterosexual women are way down the list. what are you trying to say? (i haven't seen the film so perhaps i am missing something, but i thought the argument from the original comment was that being a sexually active woman wasn't a major risk factor).
What prevents it from revisiting that now?

1. They have a great deal of trouble doing anything right now. This will blow over before that changes.
2. This is pretty much a solved problem as far as they're concerned. Congress tends to tack "solutions" on top of "solutions". They rarely refactor.

gist of what he's saying is as wrong

Unless Congress changes things, what he said is exactly correct. Within that context, he's right. Maybe you're arguing that he has the wrong context, but I'd argue that we should probably assume that congress isn't going to change those particular rules of the game at this point.
Or you pay them the same, and skip out on benefits as well as payroll taxes and your ROI is much higher.
What happened to our freedom?
I assume this post is a joke.

"Could someone explain what problem Play/Wicket solves? Java and servlets already has http, StringBuilder, and trivially created threads. What is Play/Wicket adding?"

What it's "adding" is the 8432579842375 hours you don't have to spend writing your own routing, template-loading-and-management, and logic separation code.

EDIT: Your #2 is a strawman. "revel run" mode statically compiles all files and dependencies if the timestamp changes. It's not even remotely comparable to PHP. Just because it has a friendly error message doesn't mean revel magically dispenses with static type safety.
The selling point of MT is that you can get human tasks done, if bots chase the humans out they loose that. It's similar to marketplaces like etsy in that regard.
What part of the article suggests that Roberts is an obstacle to reform? The article only states that in its current formulation, FISC does not have a lot of accountability because the judges are all chosen by Roberts with no input from any other part of government.
First, when you have to structure an argument around "they should just find a different country to live in", you know you're in the weeds.

Second, when you're talking about the majority of Americans finding a new country to live in, you're not just in the weeds, but also howling at the moon from them.

Third, it is fallacious to presume that people who don't have a problem with what NSA is doing now don't respect the 4th Amendment. It's right there in the text of the Constitution: searches must be reasonable. The Constitution punts on what "reasonable" means; that's why they used that word. There's no absolute for you to fall back on here.

I happen to agree with you that omnibus metadata collection is dangerous and should be further checked by the law, but I can also see both sides of the issue, and you can't, and I think you should try.
Big media often play down the positive effect of protests against government and underestimate the numbers in attendance. They feign objectivity but subtly undermine.

Either that or my tinfoil hat is too tight.
No it's not. Facebook is up for me.
"Are you saying anti-war protesters can't be women beaters?"

can you really not see the argument being made? the original post was not saying no women got aids, or that no anti-war protesters are wife-beaters. it was arguing that there is a systematic bias.

i don't know if that's true or not, but wilfully misunderstanding or misrepresenting the argument doesn't help anyone.
A series of ClojureScript experiments with core.async
> My point is that it doesn't matter what one individually believes on the subject of testimonials and the effectiveness thereof - they are indisputably effective for selling.

That it works on people just means it works on people, not that it's not lame, and not that it works on me. Which , if you read carefully, is exactly what I said.

And I don't believe, I think. And I have good reasons for what I think, too. I would even say I know to some degree. If you don't care about that, that's fine; but notice the irony of you telling me what you think (or what "statistics think" which is saying the same thing with less courage).

> We're on an internet message board talking about conversion optimization.

Yes, and? I find reverse engineering and defeating techniques of manipulation much more intellectually stimulating than just fawning over them. Not that I did that here, but then again I clicked this think because it claimed to be about UI, which I care about, and just typed up my initial reaction to it.

They got my eyeballs with that, so now they have my testimonial, too ^^

> Statistics don't care about personal preferences; your competitors will laugh at them straight to the bank.

You must mistake me for quite the short-sighted, selfish, materialistic asshole to believe that would impress me. As the Italian proverb goes, "after the game, the pawn and the king go into the same box.", so I'd rather laugh on the way from the bank to there, than on the way to the bank, like some complete noob.

You can't buy integrity; you can either develop and keep it, grow numb to the lack of it, or wake up in a cold sweat one day. Statistics don't decide such things, they're not even an indicator. Statistics don't care for the same reason rocks don't care. Statistics don't decide for you, at best you hide your own decisions from yourself behind statistics.

I'll go you one further: If you go by statistics, you can be scripted today by skilled people, and tomorrow by script kiddies or their AI equivalent. So personally, I stay away from that. When I finally do get pushed aside I'd like that to be a genuine loss, not a net improvement, you know?

I'm hoping the world will move towards more honesty and less alienation, and that integrity pays off in the long run. Sometimes I'm vaguely optimistic even. But if the mindlessness and materalism continue unabashed, I'd say humanity is over with - and whoever gets to stuff their pockets with the most money is the biggest fool of all, but certainly no idol of mine, especially with all the amassed inability to think or talk straight.

You go by the assumption that sales at any price are good, that money is all that matters, and that the web is a perfect playground for whores, instead of maybe something for humanity to communicate and learn with. I disagree on all counts.
you can not "split" taxes between employer and employee. The employer cares only about how much the total cost of employing someone is. The makeup of the cost is irrelevant.
Drinks at a bar would be using unwaxed lemons.

It's possible to buy organic unwaxed lemons, so people who worry about what's put on lemons and sealed in with wax can still enjoy zest.

For this post let's assume that all lemons are sprayed with pesticides and fungicides, and then they're waxed. And that the wax is removed by alcohol, allowing the pesticide and fungicide to come off into the drink.

A slice of lemon in a gin and tonic is going to give you a tiny dose. I'd be interested to see if there's any evidence that the pesticides and fungicides are doing any harm. (Especially in comparison to the alcohol.)
A new take on long tail app discovery? This looks interesting.
anyone know what it is?

it says a lot about what it is not.
Give us decent batteries and all will be well. My parents just scrapped their solar set up. Summer days in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, provides enough sun to have the charging switch off at about 9am, batteries full. Big Mac Pro, lots of IT gear, coffee machine, vacuum cleaner etc all used normally. No problem. But come winter the batteries would be perilously low, risking damage. Days and days of torrential rain prevented any meaningful charging. The ability to store more power economically would be so very handy. The panels would provide vastly more power than was used during a year, but were uneconomic due to not being able to feed it back to the grid (!!?!) and not being able to store enough. I'd say that decent power storage was a bigger problem than the generation.
Excellent idea! I didn't add any kind of source control learning material (although that if you learn Django and deployment, you will encounter git).
It's usually one of two things:

1/ An electromagnetic/mechanical effect in the transformer in the inverter. You can usually stop it by carefully undoing the tape around the transformer and giving it a squeeze.

2/ The audio system is routed next to a bus somewhere and it is just plain old noise being pumped out of the speakers.
Writing some example projects. Duly noted!
Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3
Highly active fission products - things like Iodine-131 and Caesium-137, but fissioning Uranium creates a large grab-bag of different fission products with very different half-lives and decay types.
She was a promiscuous drug user. Sharing needles, engaging in high risk sexual activity, etc. The original comment is saying that they were annoyed that the movie perpetuated the stereotype that these activities increase the chances of contracting HIV. Those of us that are annoyed by this person's annoyance are saying that indeed these behaviors are scientifically proven to increase risk of HIV infection.
Ask HN: HIPAA hosting provider
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions with a HIPAA compliant hosting provider they could share?

How much can one expect to pay for a HIPAA cloud host?
Once again, I'm very happy I don't live in your country.
1997 called. They want their framework back.
Sure. But it's just as fallacious to assume an author is contradictory because “Christianity” was redefined in another country after he already died.

Words can have different meanings depending on context, that's normal, but just like when we're writing software, we have to establish the context before we'll get anywhere.
I've been using Gorp in a way pretty similar to the booking[1] sample app. It's better than nothing, but still a ways from something like DBIx::Class or SQLAlchemy.

https://github.com/robfig/revel/tree/master/samples/booking/...
oh, ok. didn't know about the (iv) drug use. thanks.
The MFAP Hypothesis for the origins of Homo sapiens
The problem with the IRS and open source: logic, not discrimination
Religion isn't really relevant to the quote as far as I can tell. While various religions can have many and various authority structures, not all do, and of those do, many if not most aren't theocratic. Both tyranny and political imposition by busybodies constantly seeking protect us from ourselves exist in purely secular forms. Bringing religion into the discussion just distracts from the point.
Antiweb4 - web application server written in Common Lisp, C and Perl