skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we are only interested in punitive measures, Kickstarter is just as able to fund prisons and buy guns and pay for legal offensives as any government program (I don't think most forms of damage need a new law as such). (My point from another comment though was that government actions have a strong tendency to be a punitive, and I do not consider that leadership.) Ideally, governments would see no money whatsoever that people didn't voluntarily commit to specific ends. When record-keeping and communication were slow, the current system made better sense - but now that those things are fast and easy, taxation feels like an anachronism.

To your comment below:

> Those 100 people have nowhere near the resources required to take on the company.

I don't see a big difference between appealing to the public for the resources to mount a legal offense and lobbying campaign to revise the law to better support a cause, vs appealing to the government for the same ends. In the former, the individuals affected retain the moral authority and in the latter, the government is cast as a parent figure which I find patronizing and undesirable (not to mention highly susceptible to corruption and self-interest of officials, with access to a bottomless purse). While we may need the latter in times of extreme duress (war), I wouldn't recommend using it that way unless we actually want government interference to be the norm. (IMHO governments should not even have the capacity for selfish behaviour, so I am trying to think of ways to minimize it.)
Thus providing a wonderful illustration of my point.
And it is in a very obvious place, even though I dislike the whitelisting, they did tell me about it and make it clear how to change it. I see it as the adware installers in legit software you can uninstall, it is there to catch the unwary and make money off of them.
That's what I do, and it's easy enough, but that's not the point. Revel is trying to be a comprehensive "ready to go" framework - and as such, it has all these other features fairly well covered, but it's falling down, relatively speaking, in this one.
This is a very common reply for any HN post about Snowden. I agree that it would be a shame if we focused only on him, but the truth is that we don't! There is tons of coverage here about NSA, spying, restore the 4th, etc. I'd say there much, much more of that than there is about Snowden. And we do get to talk a little bit about him, no?
The third word I quoted is also important.
Reminds me of Bartleby the Scriviner.

I'd guess that the widespread "major depression" aspect may be based in an acute perception (may or not be accurate or accurately portrayed) of what life is like for many Nippon men.

Thankless and sweatshop-like work, heavy drinking, the high value of socialization and lack of individuation. Not a surprise, then if "most men lead lives of quiet desperation" as they did when Thoreau recognized the fact.

If this is happening to young teens (sad) maybe they cannot see a "road less travelled". Homogenization of options is not good for everyone's mental health.
>The heat source in this case is cars, which are literally radiators. Cars are actively driving through the space and even at rest they are radiating heat.

Not that much. The "warmth" is also true in garages or levels where there seldom are cars coming and going. One every while. Even when the garage is closed.

The other reasons stated (the thermal behavior of the structure) are more promising.
I can't seem to locate this lawsuit. Do you have information on it? I'm interested in seeing exactly what the decision was.
My point was that even with pretty obvious criminal activity in the Watergate scandal, it still took a long time for it to reach crisis point, so it's a bit early to judge how the NSA thing might play out.

I agree with you about the messaging, and don't think the fourth amendment has ever supplied the broad privacy protection that its boosters seem to imagine. I think we need a more explicit privacy amendment, but haven't really thought about how to effectively promote this idea so far.
Pedantic? Nitpicky?

A comment was made about a lawyer making an argument which, in my opinion, is a bad argument. I pointed that out. I'm not being "pedantic" nor am I "nitpicking" when I point out that a potato cannon is, in fact, a deadly weapon and the lawyer's argument against it is stupid.

Now, I agree that the comment, and therefore the whole thread that followed it, was not really on-topic. But I'm not seeing this whole "pedantic and nitpicky" thing.
The issue particular to buildings is, as opposed to manufactured goods etc, buildings tend to stick around for quite a while and cost a lot of money for the build and a lot of money to operate. More than that, large capital outlays are required to reduce the operating costs by marginal amounts over the life of the building.

Whenever you have a substantial delay between the outlay and the payback, market forces tend to be ineffective. Also, if we are talking energy costs, something like half the energy costs in buildings are in embodied energy - in the steel and concrete and materials used to build it. A broad scale energy tax would encourage reduction of upfront energy usage at the expense of long term operation. Any at the same time, may trigger the demolition of existing stock.

Add to that most - something like 60-70% - building stock in the US is between 20-70 years old. If we take the example of making more efficient cars which started in the 80's, where the average age is less than ten years, we might expect to see the market delivering some real gains in building efficiency in 100 years or so..

Like it not, sometimes inefficient rigid standards are all we have. The standards are there to account for deficiencies in client requirements (or knowledge). There may be much better mechanisms to do this - one which better targets both the technical and motivational factors in energy reduction. But at the end of the day in an uninformed and long delay market, a blunt market mechanism is not it.
By that logic, no jobs should have a minimum wage, lest it drive up the price of having employees and then there would be less work for everyone.
Yeah, two things on that:
1. I know we are making leaps and bounds with computers, but we simply do not understand ourselves enough to make a copy of it. If you say that we can just simulate the physical capabilities to the atomic level, good luck to you.
2. So many questions about an electronic brain and yet it will (for a long time) have plenty less brain cells than a cow or a cuttlefish, and yet we kill and eat both every day(Delicious meat, I must eat).

So, when does the cow end and a human computer program begin? Do we need humane programming practices?
>I imagine we'll know the line of when it would be 'evil' to go against our own instincts and turn off an intelligent automata that wants to survive when we see it

considering how we treat other intelligent lifeforms around us on the mere basis that we perceive their intelligence inferior to us, i'd be surprised if we find "the line" for the intelligent automata. Well, i guess until it forces it upon us.
The death penalty is not simply a state-by-state issue.

Besides the existence of a federal and military death penalty, the federal court system, including the US Supreme Court, deals with Constitutional issues related to the death penalty in states constantly, and has imposed various restrictions on its usage. SCOTUS has also been on an excruciatingly slow but clear path towards total nationwide abolishment.

There is very little in the US that can be treated as purely state-by-state, and so long as the 8th and 14th amendments exist, capital punishment definitely isn't one of them.
The parent comment I think captures my own initial thoughts on the matter. If anything, it seems to me that the root cause of the issue is that AdBlock has the option for some websites to be whitelisted and allowed to show ads provided AdBlock deems them to be "acceptable" based on their own criteria. Even worse, this criteria includes whether or not a said website is paying them for the whitelisting privilege.

If AdBlock didn't accept payments in part of considering whether a site's ads are to be whitelisted, then Google or any website for that matter couldn't use their monetary assets to give them themselves an apparently immoral advantage over their competitors.
That's a pretty cool use case, unlike some of the suggested ones, like going to a museum. I'm pretty sure a website with images would beat that in pretty much all cases.
The war on drugs is almost always a war on the underclass / minorities. It is almost impossible to see when you live within it, but there will come a time years in the future when looking back on current America is like looking back on the era of slavery, in basic disbelief to the overwhelming ignorance of so many.
I am the 94%.
Snowden reports the NSA is hiring illegal immigrants at their Utah Data Facility
He said in the original interview with Greenwald that he felt that since he was breaking the law, he owed it to Americans to explain why. The way he's done it, he's the very definition of a whistleblower.
Run for the hills.
why? surely criticism of something is useful - it shows that something is wrong.

in contrast, vapid repetition of ideas from the article serves no purpose. it's science, not a popularity contest.
Specifically, these type of comments may be originating from such programs as Operation Earnest Voice:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...
This is one of the things I like about the Play Framework. The routes file can be split up across subprojects.

http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.x/SBTSubProje...
> These laws weren’t written yesterday just for Mr. Snowden.

... sounds eerily like something you'd hear Carney or some other spokesman say at a press briefing. It's the familiar paternalistic tone that does it.
> You think it is attractive to accept a lifetime of exile

If I lived in an oppressive state then a lifetime of exile would not be too unwelcome.

During the cold war, the USA was somewhere persecuted people fled to. Now it's somewhere persecuted people flee from. While it is not yet as bad as the USSR was, it seems to me that it is sleepwalking to authoritarianism.
Make sure to use Ghostery when visiting this website. Ghostery claims to have 18! trackers found there.
And that's of the population smart enough to use the internet... think about that the next time you are reading some of the stuff people write there.
The virus was discovered in 1983, but knowledge of the "gay cancer" was around in the late 70s. I shouldn't have said "HIV research" there, but rather, "AIDS research". The medical world's interest in AIDS was pretty limited until it started to break out of the marginalized populations of gay men and drug users.
I had the same thought, but I don't believe Pew run surveys at the request of PR companies.
The majority of that C and C++ code is hand-written, and not just the output of a compiler or an assembler. They have directly been used to craft some of the most important, and often most difficult to implement, parts of the web application stack.

It's absurd to claim that C and C++ aren't suitable for web development when a huge part of basically every web app today is written in one or both of them. They aren't just suitable for web development; they are critical for it.
Out of curiosity, why can't we just use a series of sensors on the computer to generate random numbers? Between mouse movements, touch inputs, video camera input, microphone movements, the behavior of applications in your system and how they use resources like RAM, CPU, hard-disk, listening to all the wifi + bluetooth signals around you and munging them, etc. I would imagine that there is enough entropy coming in through input and being generated by whatever the computer is doing to be able to have lots of unpredictable random numbers.

I don't know much at all about cryptography, but why aren't all the natural sources of entropy an adequate source of random numbers?
I'm quite intrigued by your intense reaction to conversion optimization. Or is the particular mindset of GP that you are reacting to?

Just curious: in your moral calculus does it matter if the conversion is for Zynga's next Facebook game, or for watsi.org? The latter's homepage features prominent pictures of young people apparently from 3rd world nations, isn't that a form of manipulation? And if so, is that morally wrong?

Also, if you have two options, and one of them converts 20% more users, is it always immoral to choose that one?

I'm not trying to get into an argument, I'm just interested in what the world looks like from your perspective.
That doesn't change the fact that their coverage has been incredibly friendly to the Obama administration, while being very critical of Snowden. That's called bias.
I am AWESOM-O.
More like "living in an HN comment thread" or maybe "living on the internet". But if you did that, and only that, for two months straight, while confined to a small room you were unable to leave, then yeah, kinda.
I think you're being overly technical here.

It's like saying State Insurance isn't a simple state issue because there could be intervention by the feds. Of course, but de-facto, it's a state issue and the Feds have their own purview for things like the military and treason, etc.

But, if a state wanted to eliminate it, they could, so long as their legislature or judiciary so decided. So it is a state by state issue, by and large.

[PS] I think allowing things to be done state by state actually help in the end to get the whole nation to agree on things which as a whole it might not without states or a state 'testing the waters' as it were. Eventually I see all states eliminating capital punishment, and I think being able to refer to states that have and show that it has not resulted in higher murder rates post elimination is a good thing. Same for pot laws and same sex marriage laws. In this big republic, given that we're not a strictly civil law, I think this bit by bit helps out, in the long run.
I'm getting the welcome page for HN as my third result on the "hacker news" (without the quotes) search:

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

This is arguably the best result for the query, since it explains what HN is about and provides a link to the front page. (People who have already used HN know where it is and don't need to search for it.)

I block cookies from Google, so they're not relying on my search history to give me relevant results.

And I'm not sure why searching for "HN" would be reasonably expected to get someone to Hacker News. After all, "hn" is the top-level domain for Honduras, and could stand for a million other things as well. It's probably accidental that it ever worked at all.
I'm sorry - I used "accepted" when I should have used "chosen," since self-determination was implicitly my end. With that in mind: eagerness does not mean you had a choice (though perhaps that's unimportant to you).

There is only a choice if the alternative was actually an option. When the government can force you to eat cake, it hardly matters if you may have enjoyed that first piece. What matters is that you will be eating it one way or another. (That is not what I would call "establishing a free market" - that's not even a free lunch.)
1. Trend gets very popular on HN

2. Somebody calls out the trend

3. Somebody calls out the `the person that calls out the trend`

4. Repeat as long as neccessary

5. Somebody calls out the meta

Every time, every single time.
Admittedly, it would have been way cooler if they had gotten Oculus to chip in a Rift prototype as well.
Can't wait for the AI to file a lawsuit against the developer for defects found in his/her/it's? implementation
Who is to say humanity is the final product of evolution in the universe? Most people don't consider humanity to be evil for wiping out neanderthality.
It feels as though they got their answer about how the International diplomatic community may respond: it seems they crossed a line with the Latin American governments, and US influence in the region is already taking hits. First Equador renouncing the Andean Trade Preference Act, then the timing of this feels coupled to the Bolivian plane overreach (in stark contrast to Obama's "29 yo kid" dismissal). Perhaps it's unlikely to last, but for the moment we seem to be seeing this bloc standing together, motivated by the US.
South of the Border - A Documentary on Venezuela
I'm not sure if its still that way but I know PGP used to do that on Windows 95/98. You would have to move your mouse around in a window until it generated enough entropy to generate your key. I'm pretty sure I've seen it in either ssh keygen or openssl stuff also but that might have been in a virtual machine/jail with a poor or missing /dev/random.

Also I believe that is where /dev/random might get some of its information from, but I'm not too sure.
I'll say it's another stain on this country as well, but not particularly relevant to the issue of political imprisonment.
In my statement I kind of assumed that all the "cheap" optimizations in the framework are already done (e.g. PHP APC cache is enabled, lazy classes/configs loading is implemented, etc.) so we compare "apples-to-apples": a highly optimized C++ framework to a highly optimized, say, PHP framework (can't comment about Ruby - didn't have experience building/running large-scale apps on it). And of course, it all depends on the application itself. Fetching single "narrow" rows by primary key is obviously cheap and nobody cares. However, you have to dig through a table larger than 500G with multiple indexes is not so cheap.

And the reason why you don't see a lot of DB servers is that it is HARD to scale DB by just adding servers (I am ignoring for a second non-SQL servers w/o joins as well as high-end Oracle and new MySQL-Galera solutions). An ACID compliant SQL DB is a single-server affair unless you invest heavily into the DB itself since it is really hard to run DB cluster even from pure operational standpoint.
My understanding is that Wikileaks convinced him to hopscotch Hong Kong => Russia => Cuba => Venezuela. I think that Snowden's father made some statements that he was angry with Wikileaks for this (because it ended up with Snowden stranded in Moscow).
In NYC, I notice the underground subway stations are also really hot. The subways use electricity (no combustion engine), so there may be something going on other than the cars causing it.
The thing is that the USA remains a prosperous pleasant place to live..as long as you do not challenge authority. We even remain outwardly tolerant of random criticism of authority so long as there is no actual threat to power structures.

Those facts are unlikely to change until we are much farther down the road to authoritarianism than we currently are.
Now, all we have to do is charter a bus and go on a road trip. But unfortunately christoph, you are out. Only 3&4 letter nicks may board the bus ;)
I know its easy to hate on Reddit, but there is certainly some good content on a few of the smaller subreddits. I suspect that the majority of people in this 6% are only going to the front page and a few of the large sections.
SOL - Solar Powered Laptop
>* Much of the thermal mass in the garage consists of cars, which have recently driven in from the hot surface and are therefore hot.

>...

>* The cars generate a lot of waste heat as they drive around within the garage.

Cars remain exceptionally hot long after they've been parked. That has little to do with their carrying heat from the surface, and much to do with the fact that they run on a constant stream of controlled gasoline explosions. Once parked, they will radiate that heat into the garage. I think this is the most likely explanation for why garages tend to be hot.

Also, for weak evidence: I have never paid that close attention to it, but I'm pretty sure that I've been cold in a parking garage when I came back to my car very late at night.
Nobody here has said that C or C++ are absolutely needed. I merely pointed out the reality of the current situation, which is that both C and C++ make up a big part of basically any web app around today, even those written in some other popular languages.

Also note that I referred to "the most widely used" implementations of those languages. Yes, we know that PyPy exists, but CPython is still used far, far more often. Yes, we know about Common Lisp implementations like those you listed, but the reality is that they basically aren't used in practice. PyPy, CMUCL and SBCL are essentially irrelevant when considering the big picture. C and C++ are involved in one way or another in pretty much every other case.

If you refer to the original post in this thread, you will see that it was about the supposed unsuitability of C++ for web development. When we look at the entire picture, however, we do see that such sentiment is quite wrong. C and C++ play an absolutely huge role in modern web development and web applications, regardless of what some people may think.
No, you're missing the point. The nation as a whole permits the death penalty to continue, even if some political subdivisions choose not to impose it themselves.

The idea of 50 sovereign states doing their own thing is merely a convenient fiction for those who don't want the murders conducted in their name to bother their conscience.

And it falls apart completely when you remember, the federal government sentences people to death, too, not just states. America conducts state-sponsored murder. Not even the 50-state fiction shields anyone from that reality.

Edit Re PS: Speaking of being technical... You're focusing on the mechanisms. I'm very familiar with the mechanisms, and I don't care about them. I care about the result. The result is we remain one of forty countries, almost all of which we hypocritically lambast for their human rights records, to retain the death penalty. No amount of procedural justification will change that, nor will it reduce our moral responsibility.
CNN, and many other liberal "news sources" whose primary charter is to support the Obama administration can be blamed for most of this

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Can any HN/reddit folks recommend some interesting and useful subreddits? Whenever I stumble across a link to reddit I am not impressed with the level discussions. I have tried a number of different subreddits across a wide range (this is a wide net: anything from Call of Duty to Woodworking to Security) of topics and I usually find inane chatter or comments with nothing more than a link to the latest animated gif of a duck expressing gratitude. Where are the gems I am missing?
There are some Cleveland Occupy kids sitting in jail right now whom the FBI helped every step of the way.
I don't know the answer to this question, but there are architects who have attempted to solve this question.

This building:

http://www.jcvi.org/cms/sustainable-lab/construction-update/

has an underground parking lot. The lowest row of openings facing the camera view are air vents that lead to the garage; is has (supposedly) been geogaphically positioned so that thermal currents coming up off of the ocean blow up through the parking lot and ventilate it with no consumption of energy from the grid. I'll be able to get back to you in october with an answer as to if it actually works.
I believe that, at least in Linux, ACPI thermal sensor readings are used for this purpose.
Wouldn't blowing up a plane set a pretty spectacular example?
They still produce heat, quite a lot of it, both accelerating and braking. Also, don't underestimate the heat produced by people - even in the dead of winter large concert halls will be running air conditioning, not heating.