skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is a widespread and very dangerous misconception. Rights as conceived at the time of the drafting of the US Constitution are not granted but rather inherent. The Bill of Rights enumerated rights the founders believed all people had. It was a list but not meant to be complete. In fact one strong argument against enumerating them at all was that people would come to believe the list was complete or that it somehow granted the enumerated rights.

The religious ones thought these rights came from God but in any case most all agreed these are "Natural Rights" that you have because you are a human being. Such rights can only be violated by governments. They cannot be granted or taken away.

This attitude that rights only adhere to citizens of the US, common among united statesians, is a pathetic indicator of the level of indoctrination. It's also morally and philosophically appalling. It's the same attitude that allows united statesians to support bombing brown people on the other side of the world for whatever reasons their leaders give them.
Voxeljet Plans $91 Million IPO (VJET) to Compete with DDD SSYS XONE
I'll usually ask at least one question in an interview to see if the candidate will answer with "I don't know" or ramble on incoherently making something up. Guess which I prefer.
Yeah,well some startups dont have a legit business model at first place. These laws may be bad but you wont change them by being "disruptive".
That said, there is a special place in hell for people who move next to an airport and then complain about the noise. The special place next to hell's airport.
There was no "them" when I thought about it. I wrote about what I would prefer for myself. Do you want a humane solution? Ask the people affected what they would prefer. And chemical castration does little permanent harm. Yes, long-term use could reduce bone density, but a few months of the drug, and the offenders might change their mind about whether rape is worth the trouble or not.
More likely, they have a finite number of trucks and staff, and any reasonable arrangement of them is going to result in someone's neighborhood getting hit at 6:15AM on Sunday, and you just got lucky.
In a Google-Dominated Market, Can Adproval Shake Things Up?
Any proof of concept source code yet?
OTOH you can't get sufficient sampling on anything but the smallest systems to make any sort of dynamic prediction about it. Not to mention the approximations that were made during the choice of basis sets for the atomic orbitals and how one decides to handle the configuration interaction.

TLDR: Approximations are everywhere, make sure you work that into your conclusions.
One of the main reasons is that ordinary cars are heavily taxed, while electric cars are not taxed at all. This makes a Model S cheaper than most BMW or Mercedeses for example.

Add to this that electricity is cheap, while fuel is expensive. Also, Norway's wealth is relatively evenly distributed while at the same time the GDP is high. All these reasons makes it affordable for a lot of people to Buy a Tesla Model S.

While I have seen a few Model S on the road, I can't commute to job without passing a quite a few Nissan Leaf. Those have been sold in large numbers here (3% of all cars sold first half of 2013).
Also creating my environment would take a few seconds.
It's already running for 2 hours.

http://imgur.com/RLkai25

Yup, this is about the time it would have taken me to set it up myself.
One obvious value of this "gossip rag": investors evaluating Twitter's IPO getting an idea of the volatility in Twitter's management.
Quite. I have no idea who this guy is, and thousands of people work at Facebook.
Is + Enough? Regarding iOS 7, flat design and affordances.
Ev was a seasoned entrepreneur at the point he sold that stake, definitely a smart move to take something off the table. $340 million is an immense amount of 'fuck you' money for something that had no business strategy at the time. Twitter could have very easily gone the way of Tumblr, resulting in a loss of 2/3 of Ev's value (and Tumblr is a wildly successful example).
Justice Department Hits IBM Over H-1B Hiring Practices
You've got it. The $200k level gives you a 2D graphics card from 1998. It looks like their original target market was people who want an embedded emulation of this sort of ancient system so they can run DOS, Windows 95, or ancient Linux/X11 on it. Markets in which changing the software is horribly expensive due to compliance costs.

The $400k goal targets Direct3D 8. That appears to date to about 2000: http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/directx-an...

(I'm impressed that article is still up from 2000!)

$1m is not totally unreasonable for the shader-based design at commercial rates. Last time I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation for a shader-capable fully open graphics card delivering working silicon, I came up with two years, $2.5m, and a hiring shortlist.
I've tested quite a bit, I've gotten market feedback from potential clients - I did a survey as well that suggested that 80%/100% were willing to pay $X/mo for it.

I've talked to random individuals I meet at meetup groups as well. It isn't a totally earth-shattering new idea, but one with an already existing and ever increasingly new platforms and market expansion.

Short answer: Its already a proven market. I know my competitors and their offerings, and history.

What are your thoughts on doing 10-20 hours of part-time freelance as kinda a segway into this?
It reminds me of this french car named "Pajero", Spain is a neighbor...
That is not the point. The information could be available, and the recipient could therefore act on it. If the information is not available then that is the point - but that could in principle be the case even if there was interaction.
To be _fair_, the location of a person's birth should not determine the rights they are entitled to.

Sure, they can ask. They ask citizens. The difference is that citizens get fifth amendment protections and can politely refuse to answer.

If you're a non-citizen coming to visit, refusal means deportation. It's simply racism based on where someone was born, discriminating against people on a trait that they have no control over.
Absolutely, they love their lists that make you click through 10+ pages reloading ads every time.
This is really cool. Thanks for posting that!
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Selling a side-project. Any advice?
Hey HN.

I recently put up a side-project for sale (details here: http://simondlr.com/post/63455198178/twimemachine-for-sale).

I'm trying this approach before I head to a marketplace such as Flippa. I need advice. Some questions that come to mind. Do I approach specific potential clients? Is a marketplace such as Flippa ideal? If you have any experiences to share of selling a side-project, I would love to hear it!
On the job interview point:

I'm always as truthful as possible in a job interview - especially technical ones. My background is not in tech, however I'm an autodidact with programming and whenever technical questions are asked that I may not know, I'll say it. And then I'll say how I think it should/would be done, or the steps I'd take to figure out the answer and solve the problem. Not sugarcoating some of my technical inability has faired me well so far. And then after I hear the question, think about the steps to do it, and/or get coached by the interviewee - I know the answer, and am ready to use it in my technical/creative arsenal. I feel like it's a win-win to not bullshit about something I don't know.
AirBnB appears to have navigated New York politics in a naive and inexperienced manner. Uber made a similar mistake early on, but graduated to a more sophisticated approach which involved working with local regulations as opposed to trying to bulldoze through them. Announcing that they are refusing to comply with a New York State AG's subpoena, versus more subtly seeking a backdoor face-saving solution, continues AirBnB's streak.

An acquaintance, living in a building whose management was very tolerant of the short-term rental of its units, recently saw a double-digit rent increase. The owner believed, probably correctly, that he was better off leasing his apartment to a series of short-term stayers versus a long-term tenant. Ignoring rental and regulatory volatility, this makes sense.

Point is, the gripes are real. They are also the kinds of social disagreements politics is designed to deal with. Blowing past that will probably backfire, particularly in New York.
Can you elaborate on that? I've never seen bootup on Linux take that long unless something goes wrong (e.g. fsck fails).
Sorry to be a grump but I think we're actually worse off for having these very shallow and simplistic analyses of data. Also, patent != innovation.

That being said aesthetically it's very pleasing and with some rigour there might be something of value here.
"Chemistry answers that H2 and O2 can be joined to form water under certain conditions, but doesn't answer the whys".

Chemistry does answer the whys beyond product yields, why certain elements react is vastly covered throughout organic, inorganic & physical chemistry . It is the basis of these sub-fields, and how this is determined is looking at orbitals, energy states etc...
What makes it crap?

It's a brilliant plugin, with a great unlimited "trial". I've not came across any bugs, nor have I had any issues with it. So again, what makes it crap?
Why NeonMob Is Art Collecting Done Right
I just noticed today the email app has periodic sync on a current build, so hopefully it is on 1.2 (or 1.3)
The main problem is that the developers do not respect your freedom. When there are plentiful free replacements, I see no reason to use proprietary software.
Actually, if you use efficient software, you can get lots of stuff running in basically no time. In particular that means avoiding shell scripts and using as little external commands as possible.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that if the author stopped using OpenRC and used systemd instead, to initialize the same things, it would have made a noticable difference.

And a little self-promotion now :P As far as network config is concerned, using my NCD[1] software, it can be set up in no time (that is, not much more than the time it takes to negotiate a DHCP lease). In fact if you were super crazy, you would drop systemd and just run NCD as init, doing both basic initialization, as well as network config, all in one NCD process. I've even tried it some time ago, and got some very basic stuff working[2].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/badvpn/wiki/NCD

[2] https://code.google.com/p/ncdinit/
Maybe there's a misleading comma there.

serial rapists and serial murderers is how I read it.
Be careful. "Saying" they'll pay and them actually paying CAN be a different thing believe it or not. Consider yourself testing the market till you ACTUALLY take money from a few customers. (caps for emphasis: I've been burned before)
But setting up a mail server is more difficult than firing up a piece of P2P software.
High Speed Rails Deploys With Git
Don't abolish MBOs, but don't tie them to bonuses
They are.

But the previous generation of scientists came of age when Molecular Dynamics was a disappointing tool because of limitations in the Newtonian models and the lack of computational firepower to do sufficient sampling. The latter has been addressed by a combination of Moore's Law and the ongoing migration of molecular dynamics codebases to GPUs, but the former issue remains - a Newtonian approximation to quantum chemistry.

What's surprising is how much one can get out of these simple models despite these limitations, something that was echoed back in 1976 by one of Michael Levitt's papers that led to today's Nobel Prize:

http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/Levitt_JMB76_Simplified_repre...
They could ship an FPGA card, although backers would probably get sticker shock at paying ~$1,000 for a 1998 graphics card.
still, there was interesting discussion and even some praise in /r/Anacap:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/1nlyfd/l...
England's older is more literate and numerate than the youngest adults
What on earth takes so long?
Yes, but AirBnB has a database. All of the violators are just an SQL query away from being discovered.

I wonder if the AG will threaten AirBnB with abetting crime of conspiracy, or some other BS in order to coerce complince....
Sorry to go off-topic, but does anyone know if it's possible to get your hands on these pubs/journals for free at the Science, Industry and Business Library [1] in NYC?

[1] http://www.nypl.org/locations/sibl
Encryption isn't enough!

- an interesting lesson in [...] real world counterintelligence

- they were looking for [...] the exact usage pattern [...] for a mobile that is used exclusively for a handler to contact an agent

- privacy of communication content [...] is not sufficient to protect against even minimal monitoring
I wonder what are all the scenarios that lead to this pattern "sleep deprived ---> low energy levels ---> less activity ---> weight gain ---> heart disease ---> death". Another issue i wonder is about will power, if self control is mentally taxing, therefore your diet should be affected as well.
What benefit does having this law give? 'It also prohibits residents of certain buildings from renting their accommodations for under 30 days'
You do realise that the point of the proposal is to set us up to think "of course I'd pick the lash", and then to accept that it is still a brutal punishment, right?

His idea is that we ourselves tend to have a view of prisons as horrible enough that we might pick a punishment like flogging that to most of us seem barbaric. Yet he expects that many will still believe that flogging is somehow not enough punishment to replace prison, so he points out the seriousness of it.

This also serves to illustrate just how nasty prison is.

It's meant to draw attention to the inhumanity we allow in the prison system, with a half-serious proposal, that, if someone were to take it seriously, in the article writers opinion, would still be more human than what is currently done, and would at the same time be far more honest about how brutal the system is rather than hiding the problem away behind prison walls and so be conducive to further reforms.

(Note also how he proposes it as an alternative to be offered as a choice to prisoners).
From a UK perspective, the problem is that "pants" can be used to say something is rubbish, or similar. We might say "that new Yahoo Mail design is a load of pants". With the Wii example, there is not the same sort of common use in any country I know of. (Maybe there is, but I don't know)

So, OK, it is amusing and probably memorable, but as I Brit I would have tell them that they don't want a bunch of Brits saying their product is a load of pants.

So, anything else, and it might be slightly clever marketing, but in this specific, I'd put my sensible head on and say they should avoid it.
Actually, Vijay Pande's lab has been "folding" proteins in hours to days for years now by massively parallelizing the trajectories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain_Monte_Carlo

Similarly, David Baker's lab has focused on producing the folded conformations of proteins in hours to days using simplified models that are designed for that task:

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
> To be _fair_, the location of a person's birth should not determine the rights they are entitled to.

So we've gone from discussing civil liberties to the abstract idea of a Nation State?

Either way it's not always racism. I'm not American but I'm as WASPy as they come. If I followed your pattern at the US border they'd never let me in, and that is their right.
"What are your thoughts on doing 10-20 hours of part-time freelance as kinda a segway into this?"

If you can line it up easily, and if you think it'll actually cover your living expenses, I see nothing inherently wrong with it. Just realize that freelancing is not always the time saver people imagine it to be. You'll be dealing with invoicing, chasing payments, lining up steady and consistent work to keep the cash flow on track, etc. Freelancing is a full-time job in its own right.

I would recommend building out a freelancing runway -- for example, and if possible, carving out a steady freelancing gig for 18 months from your current employer, if that's possible. And get a contract in place. You don't want to jump into freelancing cold turkey and find yourself scrambling for gigs.
"“Dodecahedron” took second place [...] followed by a laundry list of other geometric shapes."

Heh, heh, heh, he said "laundry list".
You mean human-errors, or do you mean that Arch breaks itself mistakenly? If so, it might be worth reporting the problem. I used Arch a year ago or so(but switch to CRUX due to systemd), and I've never had any problems that wasen't me messing up things.
Thank the gods for that. Getting that wrong would have been total pants....
But the problem is not just in the cell where it just you, but amongst the general population. You are no safer if others opt for no CCTV and no castration, so you would be safer in your cell, and safe against becoming a rapist, but not much safer against being raped overall.
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It says "renting out the homes that they live in". Things it does not say: "renting out part of the homes that they live in" and "are present in the home during the rental period".

If I'm on the other side of the planet for a few weeks, I still live in my home in Washington, although I am not present at that time.
There is some ambiguous confusion in the reporting:

Are residents splitting space with visitors, or splitting time?

A common practice is that if you get a visitor from AirBnB, the resident goes and crashes at a friend's place for the duration of the stay.

(Heh, imagine if the resident used AirBnB to find a cramped accommodation for the duration! Full liquidity in the housing msrket!)
Intellectual Ventures' Buys Patent for CC Security Number
It might be unethical to prolong our lives in a way nature didnt intend us to...then again we are already doing that for decades.
Im just saying we also should look onto the consequences of something like this.
Here's the real world thing we need: Start enough services to enable: networking, cron, one wsgi server and a database. I need to do this next month for a deployment.
The Raspberry Pi is basically a GPU with an ARM in a tiny corner of the die. However, the GPU side of its behaviour is mostly Broadcom trade secrets. This produces outrage from some people who demand a completely open platform. However, I don't think there's enough demand money to produce one; and you may run into IP licensing issues, e.g. if you want to include an MPEG accelerator.
According to press accounts, a maximum of three people can share the Nobel prize.
Are you including the time it takes to open whatever applications you need to be productive?
> someone who thinks HTML5 is the best way to build apps, because it really isn't.

> I just like seeing Android having a great competitor that is open source and not driven by a huge company like Samsung

You're basically looking for Ubuntu Touch, http://www.ubuntu.com/phone (official launch towards the end of this month, and your best bet would be a Galaxy Nexus)
Finally! An answer to all the clamour for a Guile-based extension language to an increasingly nonstandard implementation of an increasingly fragmented 'POSIX' 'standard'.
It's not racism at all, it's territorialism. Rights don't exist in the state of nature. Rights are just agreements between groups of people to take certain things that they have the ability to do in the state of nature off the table. If you're not part of the group, you're not party to the agreement.
I have long suspected this to be true. That's my argument against mandatory voting, because if people can choose not to vote, they can express they don't know and hopefully leave the result on people who feel they do know.

However, it's a bit unclear how this ties together with Dunning-Kruger effect (which is also used as an argument against democracy). The D-K effect would suggest that if you allow people to express doubt, the experts will doubt more, and overall performance will decrease.

It would be interesting if someone did a psychology experiment on that. (I am actually in favor of doing these kinds of demonstrations in high school, because it's in my opinion important for people to understand how democratic voting works, for example the fact that voting won't get you a simple average of the results - which is usually used as an argument against democracy.)
... 2 years after the fact?
Provides stability to the residential community, preventing disruption from transients not invested in the social fabric of the community, who feel free to be a nuisance.
"What does this post mean for His portfolio companies? That VCs are sharks and you should find a way to not need them asap?"
I think it means that as an entrepeneur in their portfolio, you need to understand your position on cash flow...as you are beholden to not simply yourselves any more.

"another chuckles at the irony that his own firm is famous for making some of the largest bets with the least proven companies(ie. lyft)."
Sure..that fits with Ben's (and Marc's) philosophy of investing. They like things that, on the outside, look crazy. In general, they look at the team, the market, the idea(s) <- the s is important, and the business model. They realize that not every original idea is what will actually be successful for that company. A LOT of successful companies original intents were something different. Paypal was a mobile to mobile payment system, GOOG was enterprisey search, etc.

I think the best hyperbolic quote about it is "We invest in college dropouts with insane ideas going after tiny markets with no way to monetize". Will they have misses? Absolutely, but from a macro perspective, they will have hits that will far outweigh those misses (skype, nicira, etc.)
Did my best to explain what a hackathon is in layman's terms
If it wasn't for the Arch guide for my specific laptop I found online holding my hand through every single step of the way there would be no chance in hell I would get it working. I feel like you need to be a linux guru just to get it working.

Yeah human errors that threw the entire process off.

However the journey was really fun, I learned a lot, and I highly recommend other to try the same as once you get it running, it really is amazing. My crappy netbooks boot time went from 2 minutes with win7 to 14 seconds with arch.
It's a pretty good presentation, and it cannot be understated that good security is hard to quantify until shit hits the fan. Especially in an environment where "hackers are no longer the apex predator."

In case of living life on the edge (of legality), all it takes it one slip-up and then you're doing 40 years of hard time. In terms of predator-prey, hackers will now always be running and desperately looking behind them.

Good advice: Predators always love playing with their prey, so make sure you're not being manipulated.
Job Processing at Scale with SQS
I just can't wait to rewrite the next generation of GNU Makefiles so I can build them from /usr/ports.
Possibly, but I went into the article thinking it was going to be about a poorly designed logo from a freelancer or one of those amusing situations where their company name means something weird in another language.

I didn't for a second think 'looks like underpants' was literal haha