skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The constitution, and American law, tells the American government what rights it ought to enforce or protect, within it's jurisdiction.

No, it doesn't. You can keep asserting this, but making up claims from thin air is not actually enforced law.

> It makes no such distinction. Didn't the US have a civil war over this? Which side won?

Are you proposing that we should have a feminist versus anti-feminist war? Because I'm pretty sure the anti-feminists would win that one right now.

> In places where American law applies, yes. Do you think they shouldn't?

My opinion isn't material. My questions have, aside from the philosophical digression, been about the factual ground we're upon.

Because if American law applies to foreign nationals, then Guantanamo becomes a lot less illegal. Quote passages of US Code, or other relevant law. Not your philosophical opinion, which isn't the point here. If you want to discuss what should be, then let me say that I don't even want America to exist. That's how far afield we're going if you want to know what my opinions are.
I saw those on Amazon a while back, too. It works out quite well, both sides get a say.
Pretty sure this was sarcastic folks.

Please god let this have been sarcastic.
I think rooms get far less than a full apt, even if you get the same space. Just having to deal with another person there means you can't totally relax in most places. (Like walk naked from the shower to the room.)
In any case, I don't see how that approach is ultimately very different. Sure, it means people cover a bit more stuff out of pocket, and places a higher burden on sick poor people, but overall it's pretty much the same.

Describing comprehensive health care coverage and catastrophic insurance as "pretty much the same" is factually inaccurate and misses the point of Douthat's piece.

Consumers right now have essentially no motivation to choose a $30,000 maternity bed over a $50,000 one. Third party payment disrupts price signals and encourages overspending. Sure, there are a variety of ways to try to contain costs through centralized oversight or "per capita" reimbursement schemes, but the GOP, at least, believes that nothing works like a competitive market. Laser eye surgery is perhaps the canonical example: It's not covered by most insurance, so providers have had to compete on cost, and the result has been a rapid increase in availability and affordability. That's a free market, and it's nothing like how the vast majority of health care will be paid for post-ACA.

No, you're not going to pick which emergency room is cheaper when you're having a heart attack. Catastrophes are different, that's why you insure against them. But someone who's getting frequent treatment for a chronic disease should absolutely be allowed to consider visiting a less expensive clinic over a research hospital and pocket some of the resulting savings.

Why should I expect Republicans to object to it for any reason other than being the political party of Crazy?

That you think a plan passed by a ridiculously Democratic legislature in Massachusetts and signed by a fairly moderate Republican governor represents the will of the national Republican party is maybe not capital-C "Crazy", but it does call into question how focused you are on the realities of U.S. politics. Did you not notice what a huge stone that was around Romney's neck during the primaries, to the point that he had to make one of his key campaign pledges repealing ACA on "Day 1"?

Remember when Bill Clinton got NAFTA passed and created the WTO? How could Democrats object to comparable free trade agreements after that without being the political party of Crazy, right? GWB saw how that turned out, and even Obama had trouble in his own party getting his USTR confirmed. It turns out that political parties represent shifting interests and diverse demographic and geographic coalitions, and what a GOP governor of Massachusetts thinks is the best political deal he can get for his (deep blue) state may not be reflective of what the party would like as a national policy, especially when that party is skeptical of all one-size-fits-all solutions, and generally prefers state-by-state experimentation.
Blame the governments of both Labor and Tory persuasion that decided that it should be incredibly difficult to build new housing virtually anywhere in the country. In particular the pernicious greenbelt rules and the grotesque planning permission process. Also worthy of special condemnation are London's protected views.
I fail to understand why providing someone a comfortable, safe home to live does NOT fix the problem of people using hotel 22
Having new, random, unvetted people accessing your building on a daily basis should make a difference to you.
Our startup slide deck == our website
Hi johnmurch,

Yes I've heard of it! HappyBox mainly focus on drag & drop web page creator. I should have mentioned it is for people with no coding knowledge :)
Here is their official Developer API

To send a request:
https://data.healthcare.gov/resource/qhp-iml-dev.json?state=...
and that can sue you when things go south...
Every time I logout, I get logged in to HN as someone else
To cure cancer everyone needs to wear green hats

Proof:

In the past not everyne wore green hats and they got cancer.

Does that seem like valid reasoning?
So I guess no moving GC still, because of LLVM. That's unfortunate.

Does anyone know whether Android/Dalvik has made decisions that lock them into non-moving/conservative GC or whether it's still a possibility in the future?
Startup's happy moments (Video)
Ask HN: Advice on next step for Expression in Design
Hi all,

My brother has been running a successful website business for a while now: http://www.expressionindesign.nl/. Amongst other things, he caters to the needs of local businesses in, and associated with, The Netherlands. He's got a decent portfolio now (http://www.expressionindesign.nl/portfolio/), and I mentioned to him that the folks here on HN are probably the best to ask feedback on what his next step should be to ramp up the business. Specfically, if anyone has gone from the stage he is in to accelarated growth, to provide websites to restaurants, events, venues etc., I'd love to hear your advice.

Anyway, hoping someone can weigh in with their two cents so that my brother can strategize as to what his next growth channel should be.

PS: This is my first submission, so I hope I haven't broken any cardinal HN rules. Please correct me in case I have.
NC may be somewhat specific, but per reports a few weeks ago, only BCBS was offering ACA-compliant plans in all 100+ counties - Coventry was the only other option, and they were covering 36 counties. They may have changed that recently, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

EDIT: and thanks for your project - nice use of the data to help people get fast/easy access!
Gearbox Software is looking for a talented individuals for a variety of backend and web developer roles:

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/jobs

We are a top AAA game development studio and have just announced that Borderlands 2 sold over 7.5 million copies.

I am particularly interested in finding the following for the continued build out of our backend services and user-facing social sites for our games:

Devops Engineer: http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/jobs/135-dev-ops-systems-engi...

Server Engineer: http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/jobs/127-senior-server-progra...
Note that there are positions open at various levels here

Security Engineer and Lead: http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/jobs/125-security-engineer
http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/jobs/126-security-engineering...

Web Developer (Rails): this position is not yet posted, but our interest is in full-stack developers who want to build the next generation of our social sites and backend services which power our games
Not entirely convinced. Too much money that you are obliged to spend can sink a project just as well as underfunding.

Due to some "Mythical man month" reasons adding more people and features can put you in quagmire easily unless you have very good project managers. I am not sure even those could bear the influx of order of magnitude more money than needed.

Kickstarters are not preorders.
Cambridge, MA, USA

http://www.smartleaf.com is a profitable, privately held 30-person financial SAAS company. We are looking for four software engineers for various positions in the company: one in QA, one in financial engineering, and two for application work. None of these positions require you to manage other people. All of them are up at http://www.smartleaf.com/about/careers for your perusal.

You should be clever, competent, and kind.

Experience requirements: fluency in two or more languages (the application is in C++ (back end) and Ruby on Rails (front end)). You don't need to know C++ or Ruby, but you'll need to learn them. Some people use R for the sorts of thing one uses R for; lots of our internal tools are written in Perl. You must have the ability and desire to track down complex problems and solve them, learning as you go. Strong written and verbal communications skills are essential.

Nice-to-haves include experience with databases (Oracle or PostgreSQL, especially) or data feed engineering or being particularly good at math.

Full-time, on-site positions with occasional telecommuting. Compensation includes salary, equity, 3-4 weeks of vacation, NYSE holidays, all insurance premiums, food, excellent coffee, and a collegial working environment.

An ex-employee described us as the most interesting group of people he had found outside of MIT. It probably helps if you're an SF fan. As this is HN, I shall shamelessly namedrop: our CTO is Mark Nitzberg, who was at ViaWeb with PG.

Cover letters and resumes to jobs@smartleaf.com; we prefer plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please describe an interesting problem you have solved.
Isn't this essentially the point behind 4chan?
"If we could stop hiring amazing people off HN, I could probably break the habit

Rather than trying to break the habit you could always hire a ghost commenter to carry on. With you occasionally checking in to throw off everyone's scent.
Intentionally designed obsolescence has literally nothing tondonwith Bastiat's broken window fallacy.
If I've submitted solutions (or what I thought was solutions...) for the first 8 problems, and I don't hear back, does that mean I need to keep working on it? I did submit code.
I live in London. I'm looking at >$600k for my first apartment. Jon's apartment in Vegas would be a small fraction of my deposit.

Ugh, I feel sick. And need to move.
Nominology: objective criterias for naming your projects (2011)
So, how many knowledgeable people predicted there would be a mass-casualty event at a TSA "security" line due to the high concentration of potential targets?
Wrong bimbo: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+shoulder+thing+that+g...
I came home from work a few minutes ago, hopped on HN, and I was logged in as some other random user. I have no idea how, I've never logged in to HN on any computer as anyone other than this account.

Even stranger, when I logged out, it automatically switched to another user! Clicking it a third time, and I was logged in as a third random user. Finally, after 3 attempts to logout, it finally allowed me to login as me.

Anyways, I'm sure someone probably wants to know about this.
Show HN: Developers use pre-workout supplement to increase focus and stay awake
Chrome would not autofill my name, just my email and then it filled in everything else. Disabled it.
Seems pretty easily solvable - only enforce it for listings for whole apartments.

People might lie, but there is going to be some immediate negative feedback when people find out they've rented out a couch...
Thanks! It's been a wild ride this year
I used to work swing shift, and would take the late night busses in Orange County home. I'd get on Line 60 in downtown Long Beach, taking it to the 57 line in Orange, then the 2 or so miles to home. The drivers of those late night busses usually having the interior lights off. They knew what their passenger load's like -- regular working people just wanting to nap before they got home, the homeless people who would sleep as the motors wound up, brakes hissed, and stops were announced -- so tiny bits of peace and quiet were appreciated.

I'd see the same faces night after night. Some were grumpy, years of living on the streets having turned their faces and attitudes to weathered stone. Some were friendly; willing to chatter, unbowed by what the fates had given them. I'd say hi, but not much else; we didn't have much in common -- my ipod and sidekick were very out of place for them.

There were routines, ways to keep their semi-warm, if bumpy, beds. People getting off at Harbor to transfer to the 43 bus. Long bus line there, could get lots of uninterrupted sleep. People getting on at Harbor; they'd done a round trip, needed to change to the 60 so they could get to the 57 for another good trip, another few hours of sleep.

It saddened me. Couldn't do much about it. I donated when I could to shelters, even when people in my social circle would question my sanity for it. "Fuck you, got mine" being the mantra of entirely too many. After all, this was a county where a light rail system was vetoed because of fears that "those" people would have too much mobility and become visible in areas where they obviously didn't belong.

Unfortunately, a few years back, the Powers that Be decided to cut even that most slim of safety nets. Budget cutbacks, no need for busses in those wee, cold hours. Regardless of the passengers inconvenienced, regardless of the people thrown even deeper into misery. Regardless of people working those late nights. Having a soul is too expensive in times of austerity.
Anyone Else Notice Login to Random User on Refresh of HN?
Apparently HN was letting us play musical chairs with User Logins on every request. Anyone else notice?
About 5-10 minutes ago, each time I'd refresh I was logged in as another user. On a side note, what's it mean when that user's header is cyan instead of orange?
I'm fairly sure it was sarcasm, since that's sort of a kneejerk reaction that coders have to people with issues, and in this case it's completely absurd.
kind of similar experience with me too during my intern search. My telephonic round went pretty well and the interviewer was very impressed by my problem solving approach. Later when I went on-site there were two interviewers and both focused on whether I remember the Ruby syntax or not. BTW I have 3+ year of full-stack developer experience at that time (Mar'13)
David Foster Wallace's questions are no less relevant today
Good stuff. Would you open source this ? The prices are a great starting point. A nice addition will be to easily see details like deductibles, co-pays, out of pocket limits, exclusions etc, the price just by itself won't be a perfect measure.
2) or just getting caught by going public with it... People should not boast about something that is illegal in a state...
4chan is not heavily moderated...
Could someone explain to my ignorant self why zoning a property as hotel and paying hotel tax is necessary? What is it for and why was it created?

It seems like a lot of these new startups are the same old business model but skirt costly taxes and regulation (Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotels, Bitcoin for money transfers)
XP? Really?

It's time to let go of a 12-year-old OS.
This custom scrolling is killing me and breaking my main method of going 'back' (on trackpad).
Generate thumbnails for many file types with online service
And many years later we had email viruses bringing the internet to its knees, notably the LoveBug virus which we were the first to stop at MessageLabs.

Now it's all just DDoS. Far scarier, and a lot less fun.
well, there's the whole blogging about it aspect, so not entirely nothing. :)
How could malware jump across an air gap to a clean machine, even theoretically? No uninfected machine would reflash its firmware from what it was hearing on its speaker.
I tried luck with FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but just couldn't.

Yes, I love both Operating Systems, I love that they are integrated and somewhat less retarded than Linux, I also like their community and development team and OpenBSD's focus on security and code-correctness.

But they are not yet "there" for Desktop use, many applications won't work or will be difficult to set up, and driver compatibility is way worse.

So maybe in a couple of years I'll switch to FreeBSD as a desktop, but for now Funtoo is still fun and somewhat usable.
Are there hotel and zoning laws in unincorporated communities in Nevada?
Do you have any of your hardware-oriented positions in D.C.?
Apparently you didn't get the timeline correctly.
Motorola sued Apple over some FRAND SEP back in 2010. The judgement came down in 2011 in favor of Motorola.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/06/motorola-suing-apple-for-...

In addition to that, you're quoting Don Reisinger?
At TechHub more than half our emails are opened on mobile (and mostly on iPhones, although there is some selective bias in there because of default image display settings). So mobile-first makes sense in every way.

> We began by asking, what layouts work well on mobile? The answer for us was to think “single column.”

This is nearly always the case. You can include pictures, and then use `align="right"` (or left) to make text float round the picture. You can use media queries to hide the picture entirely on mobile.

You can also use two buttons, one for mobile (which stretches to 100% width and more height) and one for desktop.

We use Litmus (http://litmus.com) to render test everything.

I have a strange love for coding HTML emails, so if I can help anyone with a bit of free advice, feel free to ask. @blowski
Well they made it in Lisp.
http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...
I used it for a while as a desktop.
Maybe it's because I have an old Thinkpad, and I know OpenBSD is being developed mainly in old Thinkpads, but everything works just a little better in OpenBSD. The video, sleep/resume, power, wifi, etc. Everything just works a bit faster, a bit cleaner. It's like FreeBSD but without feeling that a script kiddie will remotely crash or pwn your box.

If you limit yourself to the package repository (about 10K packages) everything just works. Compiling things from source often doesn't, (not different than many linux distros). Tip: use the binary packages.

Also it can't run virtualbox or any other virtualization software, so sadly had to switch to Linux again. Soon...
looks like a hybrid of USD and millimeters
I'm pretty sure wget won't buffer an entire document before writing anything through the pipe to sh. And since it's possible for retries to fail, you have to assume sh could be sent a partial document, followed by EOF, no matter if http/https were used, or chunked/content-length, etc.

It is surprising to me that the shell will honor a command line without a newline[1], but it does:

$ (echo -n "echo rm -rf /tmp/mydir"; exit 1) | sh

OUTPUT: rm -rf /tmp/mydir

Obviously if tmpdir got truncated to /tmp, or even /, bad things would happen.

[1] Not so suprising when you consider sh -c "command" works without a trailing newline, I suppose.
Of course it's not only exclusive to tech startups...the word 'hack' has been commonly used to describe any Macguyver-esque resourcefulness for quite some time now.

I think non-tech corporations would benefit tremendously from more idea brainstorming 'hackathon' events -- which wouldn't exactly favor the upper echelons of management in their rigid roles (within even more rigid management structures). The whole point of any type of hackathon is to come up with disruptive results, which shake up product lines or the heart of the product itself, among other things.

I believe corporations can achieve this by keeping management smaller and more flexible, with the goal of being more open-minded towards new or radical ideas. Only then can these ideas be implemented, and rapidly so.
I doubt that's it. There's plenty of more wealthier people out there: http://www.forbes.com/lists/
I made the move from engineer to manager. Along the way, I managed colleagues and friends I used to sit beside while I was an engineer. It's difficult but you learn a lot about managing, and more importantly, leading.

I believe you'll need to move to a larger company (I did mine at a public company but our location had about 1000 people). I've done a lot of hiring (as a manager) and I was always looking for a good mix of tech and management skills. Shoot for the first role at a larger company as being mostly based on your engineering skills but make it clear that you would like to use your team management abilities more.

At larger companies, there's always lots of projects and lots of role to fill so you'd definitely get more chances at moving 100% into a management role.
FWIW, my wife was delighted when I sent her to Lollipuff yesterday. She thinks it's a great idea.

I guess one thought is that I don't know if I would ever gift her a used bag. Even if I trusted the source (which has always been a deal breaker before).

But her buying for herself, I can see her definitely purchasing something previously owned.
Zynga's Scramble With Friends wins Scrabble trademark row
Not in such an indirect fashion. He obviously endorsed "Romneycare" long before the election, he didn't endorse Obamacare during the election.

Again, you claim "bipartisanship" for Obamacare without evidence of votes or the signing of legislation.

As for "sane" definitions, with the end of various systems of party discipline, anyone who calls themselves a Republican or Democrat is one. But that doesn't mean you can't distinguish between different types. Again, go back to after the turn of the century, the feud and eventual party split between progressive Theodore Roosevelt and conservative William Howard Taft, which gave us Woodrow Wilson.
"Colbert, a man among men"

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1h5ed5/after_our_dad_d...
I would think many. Just did an hnsearch and came up with this comment from almost two years ago:

"Yet another way to look at it. As a terrorist you are trying to instill terror and kill as many people as possible. A large gathering of people would maximize your impact. I wonder what places and events consistently create large queues of people waiting in line? What about also a place that would cripple and disrupt the economy and travel? I'll leave that as a rhetorical question."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3461183
Probably. It's still in the state of Nevada and in a county. An "unincorporated" town isn't lawless.
Yeah this happened to me, I created another post about it as well with some screenshots. So bizarre.

http://i.imgur.com/27NyTmm.png
Without information on the deductible this isn't as useful as it looks. Please add it!

The price of plans varies dramatically by the deductible, and for most healthy people the deductible matters WAY more than the nominal plan level. (Since for ordinary services the different plan levels pay an extra $10-$50, but for a catastrophe the only number that matters is the deductible.)
The Raft and antennaheads together refer to Snow Crash[1], a most excellent novel by Neal Stephenson

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
That's the same thing eBay does. You know what? I never look at them on eBay. All I ever look at is the percent of positive reviews.
I'd imagine that would be a pretty big concern. This is a regression for serviceability. Connectors should be keyed specific to the function for a variety of reasons. I'm sure seagate has their reasons, but this seems like a bad idea to me.
Writing with multicast and using tcp only for the control plane? Interesting concept.
Curiosity killed the code-monkey

Sorry I had to have a peak, I think this is where you can find the source code for the worm:

http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/doc/morris_worm/

The first thing I noticed is it's written in K&R C, the ANSI standard came a year later.