skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His claim is that there are legitimate questions, though he does not claim that he is asking them. Legitimate is subject to interpretation, but I'm willing to be reasonable here. Regardless, I would settle on him saying that he is somebody who has questions, and telling us what those questions are. Alternatively, if he isn't the person with those questions, just a quick link to somebody that does have those questions would be nice.

It should be trivial to prove if it is true (though the claim does not prove itself), which is why I feel comfortable in asking to see that proof. It isn't asking much.
Really? With the properly configured dictionary, T9 can be a treat. I regularly type 2 or 3 page texts in under a minute using T9.
It might fall under the First Amendment's "right of the people peaceably to assemble" but short of that, I don't see anything in the Constitution that allows freedom of movement.

But the No-Fly List does appear to violate the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
When Germany gave jurisdiction power to US MPs and special laws around US military bases (in the public streets outside the bases too), I didn't hear the same outcry.

They have a culture they want to preserve, they know that the US is exporting its culture very bullishly (in Hollywood movies and TV shows for the most part) and they are, like many western european countries, afraid of the negative side effects of the US culture (mostly around guns, violence and extreme religion, but also individualism in general).
Missing E's warning is to indicate that using a third party plugin to alter the sites behavior - which is constantly being improved and worked on - could have negative effects. If something breaks due to Missing E not working with an update that gets pushed out, then disable Missing E. Check the first page of the Missing E blog, and almost every post is regarding an update due to Missing E breaking in some way due to incompatibility. Seems pretty straight forward to me?
I've had similar situations, but never as victorious as that. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing that story....(now I want to get that code back somehow and look for that NOP)
Trying to spread apathy? That's a new one. I'm just trying to stop the spread of unreasonable hyperbole on HN which used to be much more skeptical towards links like this. There are enough things to get riled up about (the NSA for starters), no need to add lies like in OP's link to that.

Here's a post to downvote, feel free.
Given your opposition to ideologically-driven information vacuums I take it you don't support the public school system?
I use dumbphones. Dumbphones do not pause the music (at least not the ones I've been using for the past 10 years), which is probably why I'm against this behavior.
Don't forget his party was the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; the only part you probably don't know is Arbeiter -> Worker's.
OP's link is a link to a US homeschooling advocacy organization. So you're right, the problem is the link itself - not a particularly constructive thing to post on HN.
Who knows, it is made up stuff with no basis in legitimate research.
I don't just mean humanitarian aid, which I think is dwarfed by the costs of whatever attacks are being considered.

I'm talking about direct support to the revolutionaries - combat hospitals and the like. We could do more than just medical support too without risking blow-back, things like robust communications links and battlefield intelligence from drones, vehicles, spare parts, mechanics to work on the vehicles, food, and other supply-chain type stuff. Pretty much everything we do for american troops except providing weapons. We just have this mindset that the support we provide to the people doing the fighting must itself be directly offensive which is itself a risk to us because of terrorism. Those blinders have caused us to sit it out and let the conflict drag on.

And then there is the question of what comes after. By providing direct support we would be building personal relationships with the revolutionaries so that when it came time to put together a new government, they would be much more receptive to our input on what it takes to make a stable and american-friendly government.
The majority of comments from the illustrious Hacker News crowd seem to indicate we are disturbingly at ease with the Persecution of homeschoolers.

I feel as long as students are making the grade on standardized tests, there shouldn't be an issue.

This works out perfect for both parties. Whatever aspect of public schools the parent takes exception to can be avoided and the kid still get's an eduction.

By forcing parents to send their children to public schools you are in effect giving the perception of indoctrination.
I agree. Of course, including the context would make a number of the visualizations make sense, which would defeat the purpose of the site. Of course, visualizations that make sense with no context are the sort I guess the creator of this site likes. Someday, we'll all get our news in nice graphics, without all that bothersome reading and thinking that goes along with context.
I saw a login page. How about making your free manifesto also registration-free.

Edit: strange, no I can see the article. Maybe a bug with the URL before or some kind of site hiccup.
You're essentially saying we have no way of judging whether the law is good or not.

But there are at least two large bodies of scientific literature that shed light on this question. The first is the psychological evidence that sending men with guns to drag children away from a family where they are safe and loved is hugely damaging. So much so that it is highly unlikely to be worth it, even if you think homeschooling is bad.

The second is the evidence that home-schooled students do not underperform other children by any measurable standards, and are frequently found to outperform. This includes both academics and general success/happiness later in life. They are also no more likely to engage in anti-social behaviors. Which begs the question: what is the state's compelling interest, if there is zero evidence for damage to the children or to society at large?

Obviously it's not really about protecting children. Because if it was, you would write a law laying out standards for what constitutes sufficiently good education, and then let anyone try to meet those standards. Instead the law imposes a monopoly.
This article has a pretty good picture of what a Pisces submersible looks like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces_class_DSV

And this reference from the above article shows a cut-away diagram of the vehicle, with people inside so you can get a sense of the size of the crew compartment:

http://books.google.com/books?id=1X1hL2LFT0AC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA...
Texas Pastafarian Becomes First In U.S. To Wear Colander In License Photo
I hope not ever.

I second that. I'm also not a supporter of air strikes.

This is sectarian violence. If the Saudi's want to support the rebels, let them. I, however, refuse to support us getting involved in yet another Sunni vs Shiite fiasco.

"Never pet a burning dog" applies here.
OK, it looks like hooking this up with Angular directly is not going to work without pretty major changes. Angular's resource module is set up to work with "broken" JSON APIs out of the box, presumably because most are set up that way.

Angular has way more to it so I'm probably going to leave it as is and continue hacking away at Fortune to make it a little more forgiving with the requests it handles.

I also exposed one more express method in /fortune.js:

Fortune.prototype.static = function() {
return express.static.apply(express, arguments);
};

Since Angular is all client side just creating a public folder was enough to serve up the required pages from the same app:

app.use(app.static(__dirname + '/public'));
Horribly off topic, but what is the current status of the Electric Duet player routine? I read somewhere that you had placed it in the public domain in the 90s, but I can't find any confirmation of that.
Ask HN: why are Bitcoin trading fees so high?
Most FX brokers charge customers fractions of a basis points per trade, and they run a legit operation that often has high costs for compliance, customer support phone numbers active 'round-the-clock, efficient and reliable IT infrastructure, substantial banking costs for account management and more.

Compare this with the largest bitcoin exchange by volume, MtGox. They offer a terribly unreliable service, slow customer support, high exposure to counterparty risk for the funds you entrust them with, have to comply with fewer regulations (and recent events suggest they fail to do even that) and yet charge two orders of magnitude more than any competitive retail FX broker.

I understand that there is still little competition in the space where they operate, but the situation has been lasting for a while and I am wondering if there is any good reason why things should remain this bad. Is there perhaps something structural that I am not seeing?
In context, I think ramen should be read as "only ramen".
Did they try holding the router reset button for 30 seconds?
I'd argue that there's a difference between the ability to move/travel and the ability to operate a vehicle (car/plane/etc). Operating a multi-ton missile puts others in danger if you don't know what you're doing, while sitting on a Greyhound bus as a passenger requires no significant training.
The figure I heard in the press was that the Assad regime has thousands of chemical weapons stockpiles scattered about the country. Thousands. Not even the most optimistic of hawks believes that the coming bombing campaign will make a dent in the regime's ability to wage chemical war where and when it pleases. The rationale for this campaign is that it is necessary to take a symbolic stand against what we all agree is a heinous act. Yet if symbolism matters, why are we responding with a meaningless gesture which will ultimately weaken our standing in the eyes of the world and the enemy?
It's a shame how god damn _ugly_ ads are in apps. Is it so hard to make them blend a bit better within the app aesthetic?

If your entire UI is a light color scheme, nice on the eyes, don't make the ad 300px high with a bright cyan 2px border.
You're actually surprised to see HN folks coming to the defense of parents/individual rights and against statist intervention into every aspect of a person's life?

I think it's pretty clear that you leftists believe that the state really "owns" the children. That's a sad thing to see here on HN.
Google's secret about DART
Not for long distances, but there are still some "Ocean liner" type vessels out there. The Queen Mary II is almost both--fancy like a cruise ship but it does ocean passes and not cruises (where everyone boards and departs at a single location).

http://www.cunard.com/
"If you have done enough software projects, you must have figured out the pattern already. Programmers would sit down and start coding, before even understanding the requirements, let alone specifying how the system should work."

Erm. No. Nope.

I have never seen anyone start coding without knowing how their code should work and how it would interact with the other code, the rest of the project and at some point, other projects...
We don't know in which month it will be released , we always target seasons
consider it a "dark pattern" to trick users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301378
Clickable:

http://www.pngine.com
I'd rather have a little state overreach than fundamentalists whose beliefs have solidified before they were ever even exposed to ideas that didn't fit their parents' version of reality.

And I wouldn't.
>Graphing calculators are entirely unnecessary for learning high school/college mathematics/physics/etc.

Maybe not necessary, but the TI-nspire I got for school was absolutely amazing. Seeing functions graphed out was very helpful. And it can quickly do stuff that is a pain to do on a regular calculator. I used it a lot in school and learned a lot with it.

The interface is a lot better too. It has a mouse, menus, color graphics, and you can just input functions how they are written.

http://education.ti.com/kbase/C21770SS7.JPG

http://mathbits.com/MathBits/TINSection/PreCalc/piece4.gif
"Supporting the revolution" means supporting who exactly?
The trick with SEA is that if you stay long enough, the cost of flying is amortized by the cost of living. That's how, as a student, I managed to spend two summers in Vietnam, coding remotely for a professor for 15$/h, 20h a week. It didn't cost me anything to go there for 4 months.

Also depending on when you fly, and with some little research, you can get fairly cheap tickets.

If you know you will be in a precarious or idle situation for X weeks, you can balance the cost of staying here (US/Canada) for those X weeks (food, accommodation and some activities) vs flying there and saving a ton on food/accommodation/activities.

It seems odd but it's completely true.

It also helps that I don't have a mortgage to pay.
Make $377,000 trading Apple in one day?
Replace 'disliked' with 'incapable of,' and that hypothesis is neither cynical nor disrespectful. People with subpar cognitive abilities are less likely to move themselves out of poverty.
>“The Department of Defense does engage” in computer network exploitation, according to an e-mailed statement from an NSA spokesman, whose agency is part of the Defense Department. “The department does not engage in economic espionage in any domain, including cyber.”

Why not? It would be effective.
They don't force children to be sent to public schools - private schools are specifically protected by the German constitution.
Not just the tax money. If tax money were completely irrelevant, nobody would bother to collect them.
Not all people want American English thank you very much. Every time I'm forced to type 'color' a small part of me dies.
I am really excited to be a part of the Fall 2013 class. The startup community and ecosystem in the Raleigh/Durham area has grown significantly over the past several years. The diversity of this class as well as the distance some of them traveled to be a part of it is a testament to the support and opportunities available.

This is going to be fun!
The 45-Year Old Pivot
If you're curious about causality could have saved yourself the trouble of constructing these thought experiments by reading the abstract:

"[W]e examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich. This cannot be explained by differences in time available, nutrition, or work effort...Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity."

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976.abstract

Buying or not buying a soda seems like a plausible example arithmetically, but in practice any personal budget that does not include a few small luxuries is not a personal budget that anyone is going to follow. If it's not a soda it's going to be a magazine or something else eventually.

Anyway, even if we concede arguendo that those now presently in poverty got there by being stupid and drinking soda they couldn't afford or not finding cheaper lodgings etc., if we somehow removed bad decision makers from the population it wouldn't mean an end to poverty. It would just mean good decision makers would find themselves in poverty. That's because we need at least 5% unemployment to keep inflation at bay, with some number above that underemployed and some number below that dropping out of the workforce entirely. While those states could theoretically be transitory for everyone, in practice they're going to be sticky for a large number. So even in a population of 100% good decision makers you're still going to have some poverty just so the central banks don't run up against NAIRU.

And then, if this paper is correct, those new poor are also going to start having a hard time with congnitive tasks.
They're not thinking of ramen-at-the-noodle-house ramen.

They're thinking of nothing-but-cheap-dry-noodles-and-salt ramen.
I'm guessing you speak french inside the home? Have you thought about switching that over the english? That would probably be really good immersion for them.
If anyone thinks serious academics will adopt something stupid and flashy like this in place of "old-fashioned, dry PDFs" when it isn't even free or publicly specified, they're seriously deluded.

Fuck start-ups and capitalism.
There are better ways to get this point across - while your opinion might be right, it does not warrant being impolite.
"IANAL, only an entrepreneur, but this should surprise no one even passingly familiar with trademark law. Failure to enforce your trademark's registration can expose you to claims that your mark is no longer "in use." "

I'm an IP lawyer (though this is not legal advice, of course).

This is absolutely not true in cases of what is known as "nominative use" like exists here.

Here, he is referring to the Tumblr product properly, and referencing their trademark'd product properly. He is not using their trademark to refer to another product, or confusing users about the trademark.

This is pretty much absolutely protected, and there is no real excuse for a C&D.
Well, let's see. Do people have the power to stop paying a congressman his salary immediately or do they have to wait for the next election and hope another guy wins? Or maybe they can take a congressman to court for not keeping his promises? What incentives does a congressman have to truly react to those who elected him and do something about the issues they have?
Is it safe to assume they cost money and/or are regulated by the state?
Duolingo is great for learning the language (I'm using it to pick up french right now) but not so good for good pronounciation.
The WSJ's rep, last time I checked, was a solid newsroom, and a insane, frothing at the mouth editorial team, with a strict wall between the two.

Any evidence for the idea that the news section of the WSJ is corrupted so absolutely that they cannot be relied on in any story?
It's essentially linkbait spam. Just google 'ladder paradox' or 'barn-pole paradox' for a zillion detailed, often illustrated explanations. "Relativity's greatest thought experiment" itself is a tip off. Says who? Einstein and popularizers like, say, Carl Sagan were fond of

"[...] a paradox upon which I had already hit at the age of sixteen: If I pursue a beam of light with the velocity c (velocity of light in a vacuum), I should observe such a beam of light as an electromagnetic field at rest though spatially oscillating. There seems to be no such thing, however, neither on the basis of experience nor according to Maxwell's equations. [...]"

You can also make a reasonable argument that this is relativity's greatest thought experiment:

http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/galileo.htm...

Edit:

In an internet long past, when it was small enough to have such a thing as a physics FAQ, this was among them.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/physics-faq/part4/

The first chapter of the referenced Taylor & Wheeler 'Spacetime Physics' can be found here:

http://www.eftaylor.com/download.html
You're right. This is all optics.

Tin foil time:

Obama: "How do we get attention away from Snowden?!?!"

Minions: "Bomb somebody!"

EDIT: I prefaced the above with "tin foil time". In reality, this is all just about bleeding heart, spend-my-tax-dollars-to-make-the-situation-go-sideways nonsense. Is it horrible what is going on? Absolutely. Are we going to make it better? No. Do we ever?
It is of passing interest to me that this is the moderators' concern, rather than killing zero-day malware exploited site links. Wasn't it just a couple days ago that Google.ps had their dns hacked, and the link sat on HN for quite awhile at the top page?
I support biology, chemistry, and physics classes. You have a right to be taught what is known in these areas, how we got there, and what it means about our world. Consider human evolution (bio), carbon dating (bio/chem), origin and expansion of the universe (physics). The history portion of chemistry presented us with the scientific process and the story of how we formulated, experimentally tested, and refined our models of matter, often proving the Church wrong in its blind acceptance of ancient philosophers' conjectures. This is a way of thinking to which every person deserves exposure, and some parents aren't comfortable with it.

In physics, we used telescope measurements to calculate the rate of expansion and age of the universe. Results were not consistent with some parents' readings of Genesis.

I'll buy brainwashing in subjective areas like history, current events, economics, and literary analysis but not in science. The public school system is problematic, but it at least allows access to books and websites which are screened only for sexuality, not for reality.
The goal of a war is to win, and to win the opposing army must die. Napoleon demonstrated that. Most warfare in the preceding centuries was focused on winning battles rather than killing armies. But then Napoleon demonstrated how frighteningly effective it was to win a battle and immediately chase down and kill the opposition. Along with the invention of the standing army, warfare changed forever. We've been mainly focused on killing people ever since, because the people who wouldn't focus on that were swiftly debased.

If America chooses to support this conflict, I wish we would do it quickly and efficiently, and then immediately leave. Setting aside the question of morals, the primary reason Iraq and Afghanistan were such disasters is because we stayed. Actually, I wish we would bow out of the Middle East entirely and leave people alone, but that's unlikely to happen in the current political climate.

It's important to always remember the goal of modern warfare. When you choose to support war, you are choosing to kill other people, even if you're not doing the killing directly. There are no half measures. Either your side wins, and therefore the other army is dead, or yours is. So if you're going to support the war and endanger your countrymen, you want to win. Otherwise what's the point?
> Failure to enforce your trademark's registration can expose you to claims that your mark is no longer "in use."

Is that actually true? Has such a thing ever really happened in a situation like this?
My solution to this is to have the title randomly permute for each user so no user sees the same title. That way there is no consistent title for the mods to set it to.
What about the rights of the children? The parents do not own them either, and society has sometimes a duty to protect children from their parents.
How can they allow you to sign up with an email address and then require connecting G+ before allowing me to join a class? Much better to just require G+ as the login (or at least tell me up front). This conversion flow is irritating.
Bring "back" peace and democracy? I'm guessing that is sarcasm. When was Syria a democracy?
Yeah, and North Korea's regime is a democracy, according to its name (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
There has never been less subtle sarcasm.
And "all horses run at constant pace"? People are reading too far along skipping this thing - I mean, what's the point in finding the fastest one when they all run at the same pace?

For context, here's the actual wording from the article:

There are 25 horses and a single race track. The
track has 5 lanes. Your job is to find the fastest 3
horses assuming you don't have a stopwatch and all
horses always run at a constant pace. What’s the
way to find the fastest 3 in the fewest uses of the
track.
This is disgusting.

Which is the best country in the world to raise children? It needs to be safe, have little government interference, have exposure to "the real world", a culture of hard work, an open culture that is receptive to a multitude of ideas about the world, have challenging problems, multi-lingual, etc. Any ideas?
visualization rule #1: read the labels