skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oxford English Dictionary definition of Freedom: "The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants."

Webster's American Dictionary definition of Freedom: "Unrestricted use".

Thus the dictionary definition would agree with the definition of "Freedom of speech" being absolute. The legal definition may disagree, however, my argument to that would follow:

Article 6, Clause 2 of the Constitution: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof... shall be the supreme law of the land." Which loosely translated means "This Constitution and any laws which support this Constitution shall take precedence over everything else." Consequently, while the "Yelling Fire! in a theatre law," which may have been upheld by the Supreme Court, and which are probably more for the good than bad, and certainly protects more people than it harms, is actually an illegal law under the Constitution as it seeks to restrict your first amendment rights - which is quite contrary to the Constitution.

The wording is explicit. If the wording is not permissive enough for the government and legal system to cope with, then an amendment must be proposed and ratified. There are no amendments to the constitution that say "guarantees the freedom of speech, except where we can convince the Supreme Court to pass a law that restricts that in our favor." The Constitution is quite clear and explicit - "Congress shall make no law" so any law that has passed that serves to restrict your Constitutional rights are illegal in the eyes of the Constitution.

Thus your freedom of speech, in the eyes of the Constitution is absolute. It is only an illegal law, which agreed, made in the best interest of the people, in violation of the Constitution that restricts those First Amendment rights.

So what takes precedence? The Constitution or the law? What happens when they conflict? Well the Constitution covers that... "no law shall be passed" which conflicts with the Constitution. So the question becomes what is more powerful, the Constitution or the Supreme Court? I think that can only be answered by the people.

Why am I, as a non-American and non-resident of the United States, debating in defense of your Constitional rights and you as an American (is that a fair assumption?) are debating against it? That seems a little topsy turvy, no?
Good call. I'd love to see the stats on that as well. Love seeing Twilio on that list. :)
For a very techy subject, I really like the creativity on the site's design. I like the Eclipse icons on the field at the bottom for example. Creative, without forgetting that we are talking about technology. Props to the designer.
I use http://rediffmail.com
Fewer interruptions
Good point, its the West indeed.
Myhrvold published another cookbook - with photos
Health Insurance isn't actually designed in the US to benefit the individual. Its defined to benefit those who sell health insurance.

If you can't pay: you die. That is an axiom of the entire insurance industry.
I'd vote for myself in one of my druken stupors
Twitter’s Postmaster on how email provides the pulse for social networks
I'm on a Mac and appreciate an app called "Concentrate". It effectively blocks certain apps (like Skype etc.) and websites (Facebook, Twitter, ...) and prevents me from using them! Works great for me.
Ex-AWS Engineer AMA on Reddit
I disagree - it's not stockholm syndrome.. for me it was realizing that SQL actually has solved a lot of common and useful ways of expressing the process of getting to the data you want in the order process you want... simply because we write code to generate SQL does not make it bad... I suspect you also think HTML is bad? Being able to say select x,y,z from table where x=1 is very simple and very clear IMO... I'm just giving you my opinion though... you clearly see things differently :D
I find it bizarre that you equate this to nanny state stuff.

If true, it is simply criminal abuse of power by a small set of individuals. Nothing in the 'normal' war on drugs encourages anything like this.
I look forward to the discussion revolving around the concept of ten billion inhabited worlds colliding with the prevailing HN wisdom that the only place to do tech in the known universe is SV.

That's nice that you want to do tech, but if you stay on flyover Tatooine you'll never work on anything more modern than a moisture vaporator, better boot up the x-wing and fly to SV back on old Earth if you want to get paid to do stuff with jquery.
What if your salary already has that factored in? What if you wouldn't have that salary without those extra 3 weeks/year you are working? To say it another way, if I only work 1 hour/day and run the numbers it is a great conclusion.
Design Patterns: The Command Pattern
>Thank god (and the Labour party) for the NHS.

On the one hand. On the other hand, it has created a nation-state currently in the death throws of a victim mentality.
Typescript has its own issues:

interface IA { }
interface IB { foo(): void; }

function fn(passedFn: (a: IA) => void) {
passedFn({});
}

// compiles but throws TypeError at runtime!
fn((b: IB) => b.foo());
As a marketer myself, this makes the most business sense. Leverage your legacy. People (lots of people) find it cool for various reasons. Leave it up, and call attention to how it can still be played even on new systems.

This was a PR win before they took it down. They have the ability to turn it around and continue to make it a positive, but they have to do it fast.
Is comming out against the "war on drugs" really a career killer, still? I think some real leadership from public officials would quickly reverse the remnant of public support that exists for this so-called war.
> The Airbnb stunt is another proof that Loren wants more to stand out than to fit in

Isn't it better for a founder to want to stand out than to "fit in"? Fit in what, exactly?
Uh, pure alcohol does kill, but poisoned alcohol is worse and much more effective (as the US government knew[1]). There's nothing contradictory about it.

pstuart didn't say if heroin had been pure that everything would be fine, just that the user might have a chance. And you definitively have a greater chance of surviving alcohol addition if you don't die from a single bottle[2].

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

[2] http://www.ibtimes.com/last-call-poor-indians-continue-die-a...
Show HN: Gemme gem
We built Close.io off of RequireJS and Backbone.js using a modified version of this: https://github.com/backbone-boilerplate/backbone-boilerplate...
If you make less than (I believe its) 4x federal level of poverty in your area you are eligible for subsidies on your health insurance via the marketplace. The issue you are pointing out is where you make too much to qualify for your state's medicare plan but not enough to be able to pay for private insurance even with subsidies.

So its not that you make "too much" to get health insurance, but you make too much to get free health insurance but too little to live off of and pay for private health insurance.
Apple's amicus brief to FISA Court, fighting excessive secrecy.
Posted here before I'm sure, but no discussion of this topic is complete without a link to https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
> I'd tend to think anyone overly concerned with performance would use SQLAlchemy, if they use any ORM at all.

Or they did connection pooling outside the development framework.
Yes, but if you decriminalize all drugs then the whole industry surrounding incarceration of all those 'criminals' that are only inside because of drugs falls to pieces. There are plenty of lobbyists on the hill that are paid to do everything they can to prevent that from happening.
A Trick to Remember Names
I think the soft line for a police state is using the police to work towards social policy goals. So, for example, when you move from pulling people over for driving dangerously to having checkpoints.
It's more complicated than that. Politicians have a limited amount of political capital, and in American politics even getting little things done requires spending a lot of it. Obama put up some huge numbers and ultimately spent all his political capital just doing two things: 1) getting us out of Iraq; and 2) passing the Affordable Care Act.

Ending the drug war is important to some people, but there are tons of people who support the drug war for moral reasons, on both sides of the aisle. Meanwhile, with an aging populace people are much more concerned with Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, pensions, etc, than the justice or injustice of the drug war.

Even a politician who does care sincerely about ending the drug war wouldn't waste his political capital actually doing it, not in face of all the more important things that people want done.
This is a simple one-liner gem that makes it easy to render a Gemfile entry for the latest version of a gem. This is nice to hook into Vim so that you can quickly build out a new Gemfile.
This is interesting.

I think developers should be more aware of how the DBMS works under the hood.

Edit: In my case, I still use row-level lock when implementing the state machine pattern on a model. It enforces the application-level-consistency of the model state, preventing double updates in case of high concurrency, in which the second (concurrent) update would break the application logic.
I'm sorry to hear about your brother. My younger brother is also a heroin addict. I watched him change from one of the sweetest people I knew and the best man at my wedding into an awful excuse for a human being.

I am not so sure I would support the legalization of heroin. At times I have expressed support for the Gore Vidal approach, i.e. legalize all drugs and provide them at cost. In any case, I fully agree that drugs ought to be decriminalized and treated as a public health, not a criminal, issue.

I just think it's intellectually dishonest to pretend that all drugs are the same. Consider, for example, the ratio of the therapeutic dose (or, I guess, recreational dose) to the lethal dose. A very small amount of marijuana or LSD causes the intended effect, yet it's virtually impossible to die from overdosing on these substances. Clearly this is not the case with alcohol, cocaine, heroin, etc.

I'm not trying to argue strongly for tiered classification of drugs, but I am saying that it's not obvious to me that we should just treat them all the same. There are more-or-less objective measures that we can use to establish their risk to the individual and society.
I'm quite interested in your experiences with Django, as I'm somewhat in the same boat. I'm a .NET developer, and while I love C#, am a fan of strongly-typed languages, and am quite fond of the .NET framework I have a soft spot for Python and especially Django.

Similarly, I had a few days and decided to go out of my comfort zone. A few days later I had written a blog script and had modified it to work with Google App Engine.

Do you use Python/Django in a professional setting now? If so, how did you find the full-time conversion?
Bitcoin Is Not Broken
Why did Apple Shutdown iPad Air & iPhone 5 Inventory Checker?
You've vastly misjudged the battlefield. Among actual voters, the drug war is still seen favorably.
Alcohol and tobacco are bigger killers than heroin because A: They're obviously much more widely used and B: heroin has very little health side effects.

While alcohol and tobacco might have a larger "therapeutic index" then heroin, regular use can and does damage many peoples' bodies. Regular use of opiates causes constipation and a few other minor side effects. They aren't really comparable.

The main reason for overdoses on opiates is related to mixing with other drugs (alcohol and benzos). After that is the dosage amount. If patients always knew exactly how much they were using, like they would less likely accidentally use too much.

Another cause for overdoses is when a patient discontinues the medication, then resumes usage assuming their previous tolerance levels. If these medicines were legal, far fewer people would need to stop using in the first place, further reducing accidents.

The other health issues with opiates are a result of unhygienic IV use. If needles were readily available, and medicines pure, there would be less health issues arising. Instead, people reuse their needles many, many times, and users may often end up injecting all sorts of materials into their blood.
is any of the links shared in here available as open source?
Your point is very important. The key to requirejs is to insist that all code after requirejs is on the page will have absolutely no manual work to handle dependencies. To do this, you need to not use globals, and instead get clever about making your code more modular. Think of the requirejs cache as a dependency injection mechanism (or a bunch of global variables that also are smart enough to initialize each other) and do all of your work through it.

If you want to 'augment' an object like this, consider instead exporting files like 'object-small' (which just depends on the object) or 'object-with-fancy-decoration' (which depends on the object and decorator and returns the decorated object). This way require can handle load order for you.

Also, the use of absolute paths (like "./core") is, in my experience, an anti-pattern with require. By using naked paths (like 'core'), you can move files around (between baseDir and some other path specified in your require config) without things that depend on them having to know that they have moved.
None here, thus far. Best mail client I've ever used.
Currently. But the plan in theory is to move downmarket.
Show HN: open source congress tracking application
It's basically a just a mailing list that subscribes you to the votes of your congress members. It's free to sign up and easy to unsubscribe.

I had initially written this as a script and decided to put it behind a web interface so others could use it.

Here is the repo:

https://github.com/bhelx/congress_track/

Needs a mobile responsive layout and will probably have bugs.
Just for your reference:

1 lakh (or lac) = 100,000

1 crore = 10,000,000
Yes, but I also don't have to depend on popularity.
Tales from a European Accelerator
Takedown notice in 5... 4...
How about helping you make an informed decision?
You are confusing two concepts: locking used by the implementation to provide isolation and atomicity, and locking used by the application to provide consistency.

Consistency is a separate concern from Isolation and Atomicity. With the default isolation level (repeatable read) it is frequently necessary to use row-level locks to ensure consistency with concurrent transactions. This is an application-level concern, and an interactions with the isolation level rather than an interaction with the implementation. Short of SSI (serializability), hazards exist which can have counterintutive impacts on data consistency. The implementation's use of MVCC is irrelevant.

Locking is also frequently used in applications to help ensure external consistency, but that's a pattern with real and significant pitfalls that should be avoided.
My long hours story. (in summary form)

Small company got acquired by a big 4 accounting firm.
Lots of changes, seemingly lots of room for growth.
Some people left.
I stepped up (no promotion or raise) and took over for several departed people.
Worked 12-14 hour days, 6 days a week, for 10 months.
Received the highest performance award, which is given to 0.25% of the 50k+ employees in the US.
Got a 1.25% raise because our unit was underperforming as a whole.
Quit 4 months later. (after taking 2 months off after my second daughter was born.)
I think the Lumia 1020 has introduced some pretty awesome features. In fact I think Nokia is the only company (soon to be Microsoft) that is innovating in the mobile space. *I have an iPhone 5 and probably won't switch ... MS needs non-ported apps.
I've seen this reported as 2 (http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/04/planets-galax...) and 8.8 (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/study-88-billion-...) billion this week. Anyone know why the wildly different numbers being reported for the same research?

I'm also curious about Earth-sized moons around gas giants in the habitable zone.
I feel like politicians are to their constituents what parents are like to teenage kids with respect to substance use advice/"laws." Parents of teenagers ban their kids from substances even though they themselves definitely did them when they were younger. The hypocrisy is kind of funny to me-- it's like there are two different worlds going on (one public facing, one the reality) that everyone just plays along with for reputation's sake even though we all know we're kidding ourselves -- it's ridiculous that this social play we put on actually seriously affects the lives of those touched by the global drug trade.
We had far more invested in prohibition, with far more outright corruption (politicians on the take from bootleggers), but managed to end that somehow. The difference was that alcohol consumption was mainstream so ordinary voters cared about the impact of prohibition. Drug consumption is not mainstream and enforcement largely affects minorities, so ordinary voters don't care.
I don't think that's fair .. at least not in most cases. Politician is not just a job. It's a leadership role, moral leadership among other things. Being principled is a major component of the job they've undertaken. If a doctor found a discrepancy between his career and the welfare of his patients or a judge between his career and justice, I really do think they are morally obligated to choose selflessly.

Maybe it's naive, but I think it's possible to have a society where most judges are genuinely obsessed with being just.
Listn is Napster of Mobile. Partners with Rdio. Lands $500k.
Why would you use extra locking inside of a transaction? Transaction gives you the required atomicity already
I don't get any sound in Chrome 30.0.1599.101 or Firefox 21 on Windows 8.
I commuted to an office for the first couple of years of my career and it was awful. Now I only commute to the farm and get excited about it. The drive itself is very similar to both locations.

I feel like the big difference is the expectations of others placed on me. When I had to commute to the office, I was doing it for someone else. Others wanted me there certain days, at certain times, and it becomes a dash to meeting their expectations. That was the most draining part of the entire job. On the farm, I'm doing it for myself. I want to go because it is what I want to do.

Driving itself isn't that bad. I spent nine hours in the tractor and another hour on the road yesterday and while I was certainly tired and beat up, I felt a certain euphoria of accomplishment.
Apple wouldn't remove or withdraw the canary, and doesn't need to.

Simply, when they are making the next PR statement, then that next time they won't include a specific claim 'No warrants yet', and leave people to interpret as they want.
I agree for geeks, but not for "normal" people.
I would suggest you do concede to reality: We give control to other people at the behest of rhetoric about "getting things done" or "everything would crumble without me."

We shouldn't put people "in power" in the first place.
As I replied to your comment further down, you (and the article) are confusing the implementation's use of locks to ensure atomicity and isolation with the applications use of locks to ensure consistency. These things are different.
HP to replace Itanium with x86 in its NonStop server
The article isn't about "your body" (about which I'd rather know as little as possible); it's about the so-called "war on drugs" (which is actually a war on the poor).

Did you read the article before commenting?
Vaccinations have indeed been the topic of much craziness in the US as of late.

More on-topic, I once mentioned to a European colleague my company's policy of giving employees four weeks of vacation once they've been here for five years. It took some convincing for him to understand that those employees did not get that extra four weeks of paid vacation as their PTO balance every year thereafter.
I think a lot of people might've been using an external connection pooler, eg pgpool.
Because it doesn't actually affect the site and it gets around HN's duplicate detector.
If you're looking for the astrobites treatment, I think this is Howard and Marcy's paper, or at least Howard and Marcy are authors on this exoplanet paper discussing this topic:

http://astrobites.org/2012/09/02/looking-for-planets-around-...

Although I think the reported 22% number comes from a different exoplanet paper on the topic of moon formation, probably on the assumption you need tidal forces for ... something:

http://astrobites.org/2011/06/16/searching-for-pandora/

I highly recommend the astrobites RSS feed. Formerly in my google reader, now in my newsblur.
It's not misleading. It's fact.

Political dissent refers to any expression that conveys
dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a
governing body, and such expression may take forms from
vocal disagreement to civil disobedience to the use of
violence. Historically, repressive governments have
sought to punish political dissent. The protection of
freedoms that facilitate peaceful dissent has become a
hallmark of free and open societies. [1]

(edit)
Oh, and I just noticed a small difference here: they used "political dissidents", which is even more broad than "political dissenters":

A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively
challenges an established doctrine, policy, or
institution. When dissidents unite for a common cause
they often effect a dissident movement. The word has been
used since 16th century in the context of religion. The
noun was first used in the political sense in 1940, with
the rise of such totalitarian systems as the Soviet
Union. [2]

And just so we're clear: the article covers many different corpses, not just political dissidents. From the first chapter of the story:

In the mid-1930s, British anatomists described with envy
the “valuable sources of material” their German
counterparts had.

The “sources of material” included many people the Nazis
sentenced to death for minor crimes, such as looting, and
many convicted for political crimes that particularly
incensed the regime, ranging from treason to the vague
offense of “defeatism.”

--

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_dissent
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissident
Internet is increasingly webkit only. Sigh.
But how much of that was due to the speaker, and how much actually coerced?
I'm not sure I necessarily buy that explanation either, but I don't know enough of the facts of this particular story to know where it falls down or is supported.

On the other hand, we don't really know what the Chinese knew, or thought they knew, about Google and how it functioned WRT government surveillance. If they had reason to believe that Google would be cooperating with authorities and would have infrastructure in place to monitor email accounts that they could look for and identify if it was monitoring the accounts they were looking for, then this explanation makes a bit more sense.
> Thank goodness she is famous, even if lesser known by the mainstream and friends can appeal to help her.

Healthcare in the US sucks, no doubt. But I'd say she's not getting support just because she's famous, which sounds cynical to me. Personally, I feel a great deal of gratitude toward her. Like others in the thread, her books helped me start my career. So it's not just about being famous - she's spent her life helping other people and now people want to help her back.
That's kind of what I'm getting at, though. If a job is advertised at $50k, and then you find out they expect you to work 9 hours a day instead of the usual 8, it's really more like $44k. Such discrepancies just make it harder to compare apples to apples when looking at the job market.
Somebody messed up and used the active bullets as inactive bullets in the slider, to the right.
proper '98 cred would be a .gif of Gates with a half Star Trek Borg head.