skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because a gun is an excellent example of force, coercion or violence. If someone points a gun at you, you know exactly what it means.

The laws, the courts, everything else is ultimately backed up by violence or the threat of violence. If you are convicted of a crime and you say you don't want to go to jail there are people whose job it is to MAKE you go to jail. If you cooperate, the threat of violence doesn't turn into actual violence but if you do not, it will materialize.

It's probably the easiest way to cut out the myriad different ways that the state will back up it's laws with actions and cut to the chase: you can choose not to comply but you will pay dearly for it.
"Egocentricism"

Aggressive term. He may be being egotistical, or he may be mentioning his specific device to give clarity on what was actually prohibited in his experience. No need to call him egotistical and it surely wasn't remarkable.
This is a Know Your Rights pdf from the ACLU, for those who would like to know before clicking.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

> The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), ICE-HSI Special Agents, and Coast Guard officers (E4 grade and above) who are all customs officers (those tasked with enforcing Title 19 of the United States Code) with the United States Department of Homeland Security, are permitted to search travelers and their belongings at the American border without probable cause or a warrant.

And the "border" isn't just what you might think of as the border (https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-co...):

> According to the government, it is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the United States.

Thus, we have a "constitution-free zone" in the US, where 197 million Americans reside (https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-constitution-free-zone...). Within this region, the Fourth Amendment is invalid.

If you Google the term "constitution-free zone", you can find numerous articles detailing the experiences various US citizens have had while traveling within the US (with no intention of crossing any national borders) of being stopped by federal agents from one of the groups listed above (CBP, ICE-HSI, Coast Guard) and being subjected to a search in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Also: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-...
Very interesting. I wonder if that is a difference between the disease processes of dementia and Alzheimer's. I am noticing a marked regression in my mother-in-law's ability to function with normal tasks, whereas my grandmother who had dementia was able to perform certain activities well (although she didn't know why).
> This is a trite and strawman attack on sociology.

No, it's a comment about an article written by a sociologist, commenting favorably about another sociologist. Neither of them are straw men. Both of them are typical sociologists.

> Gladwell is a journalist, not a sociologist, for starters, and never claims siciology expertise.

The article I quoted from wasn't written by Gladwell, it was written by a sociologist.

> Don't confuse Gladwell's journalism with sociology ...

I didn't. The author of the inked article might have, and that's why I commented as I did.

> which has a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Yes, but not remotely scientific.

http://xkcd.com/435/
Given that he failed to make money off of his own inventions, he doesn't seem to have had a good grasp on that side of affairs. Like a lot of good technologists he seems to have assumed that if you can just produce more good stuff, it somehow gets shared where it needs to be. Reality isn't so simple.

This selective blindness isn't so surprising. Genius in one area does not imply genius in another.
I think they are synonymous currently. I wouldn't mind seeing Cards used for "static" things and Widgets for more interactive... widgets.
> 3. I think if you study Bitcoin, you realize that the currency is an application of the protocol. Bitcoin is actually a chain of digital signatures. Each “bitcoin” is just a ledger of all transactions of that “coin.” In other words, applications that have nothing to do with currency or payments (e.g., like Bitmessage) can exist.

I disagree.

Despite the name resemblance, Bitmessage is not really comparable with Bitcoin. I think about Bitmessage more like Freenet for messages. It's just a p2p temporary distributed datastore.

In fact BM has no blockchain and there's no concept of mining (which would not make economic sense since you wouldn't get rewarded for it). Relaying messages to get yours relayed is much cheaper, and messages get deleted after 2 days, so there's no huge blockchain to maintain.

The real Bitcoin breakthrough was the blockchain and POW as an agreement protocol, and I don't think that's applicable outside of currencies because mining is very costly and the entire security relies on it.
absolutely, gnome boots up very quickly but the churn that happens right after boot slows opening applications to a crawl.
clever, good call. i'll try to remember that!
> no one buys an iPhone to replace their computer

No, but many people buy tablets to replace their computer and tablets happened, effectively, because the iPhone happened.
FWIW, Verizon MVNOs do not get to use Verizon's LTE network AFAIK. Actually, that may be the case with AT&T too? I'm not sure.
It's a complex problem. The best overview I know of is here:

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html
Though they had the proportion wrong when describing the perfect rectangle. Instead of a/b = b/(a+b) they had a/b = (a+b)/b, which is obviously incorrect.

Also, all their graphs and tables were from the Dover publication Tables of Functions With Formulas and Curves by Eugene Jahnke and Fritz Emde. I enjoyed reading this in high school and college.
Curved smartphone have higher surface area per unit of outer surface area. More pixels in same size essentially.
>World class, amazing, top of the industry with no true peers.

I'd argue you could say company with billions of dollars and the prestige to hire world class programmers. Windows Phone is an amazing piece of software, and if we got it 3-4 years earlier, it may have stood a chance.
Apple to Launch 12-Inch Retina MacBook in 2014
Ah,

I spoke too loosely. I should have written "closed-form symbolic solution" rather than "exact solution" (though "exact" is used colloquially to mean this, it's not clear). Yes, all solutions to an ode would be "exact solutions" in the literal sense.

It is worth noting also that an ode having a solution around a point doesn't imply that it can be extended indefinitely - you can hit "singularities" that make extension impossible.
That's exactly my point. The 'successful creatives' referred to don't sound like struggling artists and bohemians.

It's interesting that the author doesn't acknowledge where they sit in this process.
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WriteNumbers are a logical clock provided by (last I checked) a single coordinating HBase node, which is a totally valid and commonly used way to order operations. For the purposes of this article, though, I'm trying to focus on LWW data models and wall clocks. A discussion of every database's approach to ordering would take a little longer. ;-)
I know, I know, they already forced you to turn off your phone during landing, and now it sucks that you'll need to wait till you get to the baggage claim to go back to your Candy Crush addiction. How ridiculous is that?

Now seriously, isn't it obvious? It's a high-security area. There's all sorts of people trying to cross the border: business travelers, families, citizens returning home, tourists, illegal immigrants, terrorists, drug dealers. They don't want people distracted, speaking loudly on their phones, or sending instructions to others in line to exploit security weaknesses.

If you're really bothered by the wait (and have an extra $85 to spare), you should seriously consider requesting a Global Entry. While you still won't be able to use your phone, it'll reduce your time in line to 45 seconds.

I bet you can't even finish a level that fast.

(UPDATE: cost for 5 years is $85, not $100)
Show HN: Twitter for iOS style form validation for everybody
Background on the author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane
In the days before smart phones, the lady in front of me in an immigration line in London had her cell taken away from her till she cleared immigration, cause she insisted on using her cell (she had been told not to do so and there was signage everywhere).

I might be wrong, but pretty much every immigration line I've stood in prohibits cell phone usage.
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I don't understand the fatalist mood in articles like these.

Microsoft is still a very healthy company, and now they finally got that healthy competition. Competition is good for the market, it's good for us consumers. Hell, it might even be good for Microsoft in the long run.

I'm admittedly a bit of a Microsoft fanboy, but I doubt that would've been the case if MS had still been the monopolist steam roller it once was.

The current market has forced MS to truly innovate and to be a much more friendly company in general (evidenced by e.g. their broad contributions to open source these days). How can that be bad?
A Polaroid World - a path of portraits in Uruguay [Stop-Motion]
I must have misread the article; I thought it was only anonymous for the assassin (I'm sorry, "predictor").
When it comes to work or school I've always managed to do what's expected even if it's sometimes a struggle. But as soon as I'm left with only my own expectations to fulfill, that's when I hit the wall.

I was okay in school, nothing out of the ordinary. Always did my best, but never a talent. But what I noticed is that the more I learn in a subject, the more of a perfectionist I become and the longer It takes to accomplish a task (which sounds like a paradox).
This is an awesome idea. Totally looks good and I'd definitly add something lile that on my portfolio. I hope this will get attention by the gh guys :)
I can imagine this opening up much better ergonomics for phone. This particular design is probably more for aesthetics, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was slightly more ergonomic. There's nothing ergonomic about the current rectangles.
Excerpts and full transcriptions of the interview might me helpful.
I haven't dug into the proof to deeply, but that does not seem like something that would be that difficult to prove. It seems more like Keeler simply put mathematically correct writing into the show, and that math happens to be something that no one has bothered to formally show. Not to say that it is not an impressive level of detail to put into a cartoon, but the fact that it was first published in the show only shows that it is not a difficult or interesting result.
I tried doing this for a while (after this or something similar surfaced on HN a year or so ago) and used Chains[1], but I didn't feel that it helped much.

Honestly, a simple daily todo list as one of my "app" tabs is the best thing I've found. It puts a simple reminder of whether I've done something or not close to my face a couple times a day. For me, simply forgetting after I put it off the first couple times is half the problem.

[1] http://chains.cc
I think that Clarke's three laws are very applicable to the physics of a startup, especially the second law. We never know what we are capable of achieving until diving off the deep end of a project using a technology that we have never used before. Some of my favorite experiences were achieved by throwing caution to the wind and jumping into the deep water.
Once you have a specific goal in mind, it suggests the kinds of questions you should be asking the library oracle, and you let that guide what you study.

In other words, if you have an actual problem, and you really need to solve it, that is the motivating and focusing force.

At least, I am guessing that's how he did it. I could be totally wrong.
Looks like they came up with the technology before than they knew how to make use of it.
That does point to the other problem, that the U.S. runs a completely incompetent entry process. I'm always embarrassed when non-Americans visit the U.S., because we can't operate an immigration system efficiently. Meanwhile, I fly to Germany and it takes me 15 minutes to go through security and customs, not 3 hours.
Ask HN: SF is full of apartments with asbestos. Will we get cancer?
I'm one of those living in an old apartment with asbestos. It has been 2 years. Will I get cancer?
There's a lot of debate as to whether this is a distinct species or just a population of H.Sapien's suffering from disease. Personally I'm not convinced this was a distinct species.
No. It is the removal of asbestos and the dust it produces that is the danger.
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In India, where penetration of tech among SMBs is abysmally low (and is also a massive opportunity), cloud based accounting software is distrusted because it is transparent, rules-based and off-premise

To avoid taxes, most businesses fudge their accounts. Many maintain two sets of accounts - one for the tax officials and another one for the owners. Thus there is a premium on keeping data within premises and in silos.
Quantum computing company D-Wave searching for experienced Common Lisp dev
ROI is based on absolute returns. But more importantly, they gain actual dollar amounts from a sale. If they invest $3.5m from their $200m fund, and it returns $5m, they could care less. They're looking for the company that returns $50m or $350m.

The post I was responding to was saying that VCs were motivated by acquihires ("a great way to drive a VC exit"). Debating the semantics of needles and ROIs is pointless. VCs are unmotivated by small gains and small businesses, and wont even invest in a company that can't promise to be valued above $100m one day.
I think i have a good plan to solve those issues and some more.. i hope i will throw it to the lions here at HN real soon.. so the hackers can validate the reasoning behind it, and play a little bit with it .. but you are right... it was hard to get it right..
Okay, it's a high security area. What law allows them to prohibit the use of a cell phone? The way the US tends to work is that everything is allowed, except the things which are specifically disallowed by virtue of a law being written.

Think of it as whitelisting vs blacklisting. In the US we don't whitelist the things that are OK, we blacklist the things which are not OK. How did cell phone use in a border area get on the blacklist? If it's on the blacklist, but there's no law which put it there, then there's a problem.
Ask a teenager if they'd rather give up their iPhone or their laptop; I guarantee they'll say laptop.

The real problem for Microsoft and PC makers is that everyone has a PC and they don't need a new one. Whatever PC almost anyone has is now good enough. People are spending their money on the latest phones and tablets.
People complained about the Galaxy Note's form factor, and yet it's become enormously popular. I don't think we should be so quick to dismiss unusual form factors.
The point isn't the phone in and of itself. The point is to build something real with the new display material, which has its own benefits, most notably "unbreakable" displays.
Artist Ryan Leslie personally interacting with his fans using tech
http://ethor.com/

Last I talked with these guys this is their secret sauce.
Scientists take a quieter step closer to first practical quantum computer
melling, you're the best. :) I've seen your comments before, I got your number(pun intented). What do you think most people are thinking when they read your reply to my comment?
They're thinking about what percentage of cellphones currently in use have audio and/or video recording abilities.
Can you share the scripts/tools which you are using?
Argument matching has been discussed, there've been PEPs on that, and they couldn't come up with a satisfactory syntax. And that whatever you try, 'if/elif' statements are just more readable and streamlined than any syntax they've try to come up with.

As to strongly typed. Has anyone considered a strict attribute in python, I wonder? Because I'd love [1] to have compile time type checks for types/variables that I'm worried about.

[1] certainly not at a cost of having to contend with type hierarchies of a strongly typed language.
IPhone app turns your iPhone 5c and case into ‘Connect Four’ board
I really like the Seinfeld method. It works surprisingly well for me.

I first came across it when I started using 750words.com, a journaling website. The website prominently displays your streak at the top of every page, and there are achievements and rewards for building up longer and longer streaks. At the moment my streak is at 572 days, which is testament to the effectiveness of the method.

Unfortunately, the Seinfeld method, in my experience, isn’t perfect.

For me, it’s only really good for small activities that can be done daily for small amounts of time. I’ve tried using it for work projects on several occasions (for example, doing 2 hours of extra work a day) and I’ve failed every time.

I recently came across a fix, though - http://beeminder.com

Beeminder is essentially a more configurable version of the Seinfeld method. I first tested it on a goal that I’ve tried (and failed) to do several times before - ‘read and make notes on business books for one hour a day, six days a week’. Not that hard, but for some reason, I’ve always fallen off the wagon with this particular goal.

With Beeminder, I found it effortless. There’s something strangely satisfying about adding data onto the website. I ended up completing 30 days without much difficulty.

Since then, I’ve added a ton of extra goals with Beeminder, and I’ve been accomplishing them surprisingly easily. I’ve been gradually ratcheting up the difficulty on each goal (for example: I recently started with the goal of ‘spend 3 hours working on own projects every week’, and I slowly increased the goal requirements at a rate of 3 hours extra per week; currently, I’m doing an extra 24 hours a week without much difficulty on my part), which I find works really well.

I’ve also started using Beeminder for other goals like ‘meditate for 5 minutes every morning’, ‘go to the gym 3 times a week’, ‘cook at least 5 new recipes every week’, 'spend 30 minutes cleaning the apartment 3 times a week', and it’s worked incredibly well for each of them.

Beeminder has inspired a massive change in me in a surprisingly short amount of time. I’ve always thought I had a procrastination problem, or that I’m simply lazy, but Beeminder is showing me that this isn’t the case. I recommend giving it a go.
That's my life. Did great in school, grades started dropping near the end of highschool. Instead of learning self discipline my parents got a tutor to help me focus. Graduated school top of my class, got a full scholarship for a good college so I moved away from home. Dropped out after a year because I couldn't handle having no structure.

God it's depressing just typing that out.
I was about to say the same. When you're in immigration areas in many country this rule exists. The "no photography" rule also applies iirc.
Actually, there is a demo: http://lab.lepture.com/github-cards/
World Bank whistleblower: "Dollar valueless, about to crash"
That is true. https://github.com/lepture/github-cards#limitation
In my opinion, you can interact with a widget. In this case, it is not a widget, since you can't actually follow or star.
Same goes for so called 'lifestyle businesses'. I have heard it said that you can run a life style business till about $1 million per year in revenue before you need the systems and processes that only make sense for a $10 million per year business.
"I've always been a fan of Banksy's work. Especially the work he did at the dividing wall on both sides in the West Bank and Israel."

And this is why I roll my eyes a little when people deride Banksy (not necessarily on HN - rather in face to face discussions) as boring artistically, politically, or as some kind of a sell-out.

His works use the environment they're placed in to great effect (e.g. Bethlehem), use props (higher risk, more planning required, more interest generated) and are messages rather than trademarks (e.g. King Robbo).

And when someone drops the tired line that he copies others like Blek Le Rat; when you've had a go at making a stencil you quickly realise that you're limited by the medium (stencils can convey only so much detail), thus similarities arise. It's the message that's important, not the piece itself.
> As soon as it crosses international boundaries [..] it's fair game legally for the NSA to grab if they can [..] people have chosen and they are quite willing to trade some privacy for cost and convenience.

No they haven't. Most people haven't made this trade-off at all, they just "use e-mail".
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426239067/424327227/banksy-kid...

This piece which you see sold to 'the lady from New Zeland', seems to be part of a run of 25 pieces and priced at 100k-120k.
This article significantly understates the valuation picture of other tech companies during the dotcom bubble era.

Cisco was briefly worth more than Microsoft during the dotcom bubble. They had a $557 billion market cap, which is completely left out of the chart. Intel peaked at $509 billion (August 2000) - also left out of the chart. Nortel was worth $283 billion at their peak. Lucent was worth $285 billion. AOL was worth $222 billion. Oracle and Sun were both worth over $200 billion. Yahoo was worth $140 billion.

So they conveniently left out a cool $2.3 trillion or so in market cap among just a few other tech companies. Not to mention the various crazy valuations for companies worth tens of billions briefly.
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Xero was started by someone involved with MYOB. MYOB's software is a nightmare for SMB's, so they probably started there as small businesses are happy to put their finances in the cloud. Once they grow their businesses out I can imagine Xero will grow with those businesses (ie payroll). Xero seem to be embracing API hooks into other systems too, very smart play as they can potentially include things like payroll etc etc later down the track.
Self discipline has no relation to generation. It's a human condition problem. This method seems to have some merit and may be a tool that can help people suffering from depression climb themselves out. I look forward to trying it.
Couldn't agree more. As a Jew, this sort of behavior makes me furious and embarrassed.
Ok, you said 'without a use case' but I think there are several. If you really meant you might not be able to sell it then, well, if I had a use for it I would pay. Honestly, I don't think this is a bad idea at all.
Nothing new, greetings from Finland:
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Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon? That is a woefully inadequate list of competitors. Here's a slightly more (but by no means fully) complete list, including some companies that are no longer around:

Oracle

Salesforce

Mozilla

Sony

Nintendo

Samsung

Blackberry

IBM

Heroku

Rackspace

Sun

Novell

Red Hat

Jetbrains

Not to mention, open source projects like Apache, Linux, Open Office, etc that attempt to commoditize their products.

That is an incredibly huge list by any standard, and many on that list are giants themselves. Now, given that Microsoft has competed, on average, successfully against all these rivals, many of whom give away competing products for free, would you still consider their lack of success against a select few to be a huge shortcoming?

(Edit: typos, fixes, adding more rivals as I think of them)
Perhaps I want the original because other people value it more, such that its value is more likely to increase over the replica.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good (credit to dbond)