skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm both a German and US citizen, have lived back and forth between the two countries my entire life, and vote in both countries. Germany is definitely far ahead in the mechanics of democracy: ballot design, voter education, voter id, single set of coherent rules across the nation, etc. That's the benefit of having a great reset of the country a mere 70 years ago (or 23 years ago, depending on where in Germany).
Here's an example of using it to build a quick Linux system monitoring dashboard: https://github.com/joewalnes/web-vmstats
Hm, practically we don't get a choice and by we I mean the tech-community. We're less than 10% of the voting population in ANY country.
> [3] The controversy itself is an example of something interesting I'd been meaning to write about, incidentally. I was one of the first users of Reddit, and I couldn't believe the number of times I indignantly upvoted a story about some apparent misdeed or injustice, only to discover later it wasn't as it seemed. As one of the first to be exposed to this phenomenon, I was one of the first to develop an immunity to it. Now when I see something that seems too indignation-inducing to be true, my initial reaction is usually skepticism. But even now I'm still fooled occasionally.

I think we could do with fewer of those stories on HN, truth be told. They seem to generate a lot of heat and little light, and are generally about "off-topic" subjects without being intellectually gratifying.
Bate cars are placed in high-crime areas, have unambiguous ownership (read: anybody trying to drive away with it is trying to steal it) and are easier to stake out than an entire neighborhood of cars. They require less manpower per arrest. Furthermore, bate cars can be rigged to trap the suspect in the car, eliminating the possibility of dangerous car chases.

I am not bullish on punishment. I am instead interested in protecting the public. Imprisonment is useful not because it punishes criminals but because it prevents the criminals from victimizing the general public. Punishment itself serves little purpose (I don't believe that punishment as a deterrent is particularly effective). Rehabilitation is useful, though imprisonment during rehabilitation is often necessary (rehabilitation is not an out-patient procedure). America needs to work on it's rehabilitation, but in the meantime arresting criminals remains necessary.
This. Although there is no age limit on YC applications, there appears to be a natural bias towards younger candidates. Women, however, tend to move into being an entrepreneur later in life, when they have more experience.
I observed an incubator program where there was an early-20s founder who was very fratty, taking shots in the office with his team to celebrate releases and stuff like that. That team all lived together. As founders age into their late 20s, they seem to become less enamored of that lifestyle.
Being given control of the aircraft is secondary. You've condemned 200 odd people to death cause of one person on the flight. A small bomb, any thing to disrupt the flight will do that. (This is very easy as opposed to going to a theater or other urban crowded locations and staying alive long enough to take out that many people). The point being your only option is to lose everyone on the plane. Is that a casualty you're willing to accept. Security works by deterrence. If every time someone starts shooting in theaters and schools, the casualty is upwards of 200, its going to be a more viable option. Its a question of the cost of doing something vs the damage it causes. the inherent nature of flights (Since they fly), is that it takes relatively less effort to get one to crash. And it terms of preparation (in this ideal scenario as per this article), one guy just has to walk into a plane with items you get in your local store (propane maybe?). Im not an expert on this, but i just feel the effort required is just ridiculously easy if there is going to be no one to keep a tab on what you carry/have access to on a flight.
No, it wouldn't exclude non-rational weights. Consider for example the field Q[sqrt{2}]. Any element a+b * sqrt{2} of it can be represented by two rational numbers a, b. Since any field extension is a vector space (in this case of dimension 2) the addition can be implemented trivially and the multiplication is

(a1, a2) * (b1, b2) = (a1 * b1 + 2 * a2 * b2, a1 * b2 + a2 * b1) (#)

A formula for inversion can easily be derived from (#).

TLDR: there are different kinds of encoding than binary fractions.
I think a lot of it has to do with the amount of experience the readership has to this kind of "journalism". Sensationalist and highly opinionated journalism loses its impact on individuals over a few years of exposure. After a while, people start to realize that such things are almost never the full story, and you need to wait for more information and analysis to come forward before forming an opinion of your own.

The reason this kind of journalism works is simple: because there is a steady supply of new people who aren't resistant to it yet.
is it?

It is if you are seeking funding for a startup based on hacking. The context in the article makes it clear that this condition was implied.
Ask HN: Why can't I buy bitcoins with a credit card?
As far as I understand, paying with Paypal or credit card is nearly impossible over the bitcoins exchange currently. Why is it so ?
For Paypal, I read somewhere that it is because of the chargebacks that paypal allows to the clients. This would make possible for anyone to buy bitcoins, and ask for a chargeback to get their money back, while they still received the bitcoins. Why do Paypal don’t check the blockchain in any way to check that a bitcoin transaction between a merchant and the client has taken place ?

Do Paypal plan to make such a service soon in the future ? Maybe by recording the merchant wallet address as well as the client’s address? This way, Paypal would be able to check for the bitcoins transactions (using said blockchain, as in http://www.blockchain.info ) and then allow or disallow the chargeback to happen.

Do you know why the credit card payments such as Visa, Mastercard, are not used by merchant to sell bitcoins ? Is that because this chargeback issue is in the way, same as Paypal ? Also, do you know if any bank, in the future, has some offering in the works regarding bitcoin payments with credit cards over the internet?
Test-driving a Node.JS API
Well that just does it. Someone needs to found a YC funded startup to use standardized A/B testing to implement outsourced founder evaluation as a service. Keep your finances and negotiators and mentors in house, but think of this similar to an outsourced credit check, call it a ... credibility check or something.

To say it would be high risk / low volume / high cost service would be an understatement. And just defining success would be hard. But a hard problem is a good startup problem. And you could probably pivot into (or out of?) employee interviewing.

I guess you could bootstrap as some kind of outsourced HR lady to ask those annoying anxiety producing interview questions (you know the typical HR lady questions, like explain your worst attibute, or tell me about your greatest failure, or the classic when did you stop beating your wife? (kidding about the last one)). This is a legit business opportunity to help small biz do the "HR" questions at an interview and formalize the reporting of multiple candidates, and could pivot into this A/B testing of startup founders once some cash starts flowing.

I'm not kidding about this. Someone else with more spare time that me, take it and run.
More or less childish than Samsung commercials who associate the iPhone with brainless caricatures standing in line?
New response
https://digitalocean.com/blog_posts/transparency-regarding-d...

I like DO as a service, but this is kind of strange. Humans act always the same. When catastrophe hits they want to sit it out, underestimating the impact
It's not particularly useful as an ID without an expiration, photo, etc. and you're supposed to keep it somewhere safe, not with you.
Wasnt this the old Cue/Greplin hiring challenge from years back?
The Israelis don't stick people in compact security lines for this exact reason. Easy targets.
Yes. You have to register at the Police station when you move and hospitals have to report if patients are illegal aliens. Very advanced.
If I ever lose the right to buy cough syrup, I might win it back by voting.

If I ever lose the right to vote, can I win it back by buying cough syrup?
In all seriousness: glitter gets everywhere. Something I learned in a non-security context....

You can (by means) embarrass / frustrate / reveal undesired examination / tampering of possessions by placing one or more "glitter bombs" in them. A sealed bag, container, envelope, etc. Use different colors to reveal to you just what was accessed.
I think you can put whatever you want in your license, but do you really trust the NSA to follow your license guidelines?

Seems to me a bit like putting a sign on your front door that says "no burglars, please."
Would be great to see the changes made in the ARM variants too. I know there's no value in compiling libobjc for ARM, but at least for academic value.
While bad arguments can be made with Hitler, good arguments can be made with Hitler as well. These arguments do not necessarily need to use Hitler, but they can. They frequently do because comparisons to Hitler are accessible. Nobody needs to explain who Hitler was; nobody needs to tap out of the conversation for a few minutes to go read the Hitler wikipedia page.
The author is trying to sell "trust the government to manage things".
Greatest. Breakfast. Ever. - Imgur
All of the disdain that some people show for activities and occupations that are more associated with participation from women does have some very ironic implications, given the stated intentions of those people.
I think it's obvious to everyone that code coming directly from the server can not be trusted completely by the end user. The only solution that might work is signed browser extensions. I really would have liked to learn about more considerations when taking this route.
IIRC, most states that have instituted voter id laws have made the cost of an ID free. Also, expired drivers licenses work as identification (for the elderly who have ceased driving).
"especially wrt collaborative editing" - The office web apps got real time collaborative editing a couple of months ago [1]. I've used it and it works quite well.

[1] http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/06/c...
An electricity bill /and/ being registered in your district. It is not like you can take an electricity bill to any poll location and vote.

20 Euros might not seem like much but if you are making minimum wage it can be significant. And what if you lose your ID? Or you don't have access to the documentation to get an ID right away? Or you are a college student and your residence is with your parents?

The fact is that voter fraud is not a big problem. Disenfranchising voters, however, is a problem. There are even 2000 page tomes on exactly how to go about it.

That's what makes /me/ sick.
Right, and I guess this is the result of a push poll too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/technology/google-accused-...
It has to do with whether it can pay its debts or not.

The NHS does not have debt in any meaningful sense, the government takes on debt, and chooses to spend some of that on new missile systems, some on wars in foreign countries, some on education, and some on the NHS.

A part of government cannot be bankrupt without the entire government itself being bankrupt, because it is funded as part of government obligations, and the amount given to it is decided almost entirely on the whim of politicians - it varies considerably and depends on all the other expenditures. You might argue that the UK as a whole is borrowing against its future rather than paying down debts (and it is currently as many countries do), but to argue that the NHS is somehow in debt or in danger of bankruptcy simply doesn't make sense when it is part of a variable budget paid for with taxes and borrowing.

You might claim the UK can't afford the NHS, but I'd point to the other parts of the budget which consume considerably more money, and compare it to the spending of other countries - that's a very different discussion, and a valid one to have, but it's not one you can have on the basis of the NHS somehow being bankrupt as compared to an arbitrary budget set by politicians with an agenda.
How does vote fraud necessarily rely on a conspiracy? In many states, knowing someone's name and address is sufficient to vote as that person as long as they've previously registered. Any individual can show up at the polling place multiple times and vote as someone else and it would be very difficult to prove they'd done so.
Some people are a little squeamish about Germany's mandatory ID cards. I don't blame them really, I think we could all do with a better way of preventing electoral fraud without requiring people to hold state-issued IDs.
Broadly stated: independent sources cross-confirming each other is the best way to ensure reliability (an old scientific, police, historian, and journalist principle). Simply because we agree with a single source's statements and viewpoints doesn't guarantee the single source is right.

However, a variety of people over the years (Drake & others) have also remarked on the over-the-top surveillance. It's also true that the NSA has admitted certain of Greenwald's accusations. So at least in principle, Greenwald has been confirmed.
Either digital ocean actually has real SSd disks for each vm or something is deeply wrong.

A new VM should have a new disk file.

When I create a vm I create a vmdk file that represents the disk. When I delete the vm I also delete the vmdk file.
If I then create a new vm I would use a new vmdk file.

Apparently that is not the way digital ocean does things, but how do they do stuff then?
i'm just going to put this right here:

http://imgur.com/78MF5i0
Applying the scientific method to investigate whether there is an unconscious bias in the selection of founders (perhaps resulting in the selection of less than optimal candidates) should not be insulting to anyone.
Thank you for sharing that.

For context: I am male and Indian. There were several female founders in my YC batch and I know female founders from other batches. From everything I heard, they felt quite comfortable and enjoyed and value the YC experience as much as I did.

Having been through it, I know YC definitely treats founders the way great startups treat customers - they pay a lot of attention to what founders want.

If a group of my prospective customers had trepidation about using my product, especially if it was because of undeserved generalizations, I would work hard to fix that. Looks like YC is going to do more of that with the female founders conference they have planned.
Here's my take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530237
why does paul graham hate women?
Who checked it? A "1 hour ago registered" astroturfer?
The irony is the only things I can't forget are the ones written down or photographed. I never need to look at them, but if they weren't written down it would have vanished.

It's like I have a form of telepathic cloud storage. So long as the physical information exists, I can always remember it and will never look. So some is potentially in a Schrödinger's cat state as I never know if my wife actually threw the note out or not as I'll never need to go look for it.
The outcry in the US over requiring someone to show an ID to vote is one of the most bizarre things to come out of that country. And, to make it even more unusual, it's coming from the left, the very people who used to love issuing IDs, numbers, and whose intellectual and ideological predecessors set up most of those schemes.

Practically, as much as the anarchist in me doesn't like that, you cannot have a mass society without strong, trusted IDs so this is a lost cause. Get used to them.
I think the most common type of fraud that occurs is voting by people who are not eligible to do so (e.g., because they’re not US citizens). I don’t know on what scale this occurs, but I believe there have been documented instances. A lot of it is probably politically motivated (trying to make it easier vs. harder for lower-income, likely Democratic, voters to register), but the fear of a small number of non-citizens voting based on an immigration issue, for example, and thereby affecting the result of a close election seems at least plausible.
Given that PG is a human living in America, psychological studies suggest that is statistically very likely.
Socket.io is a decent WebSocket wrapper which also reconnects, and of course has lots of other features.
If that doesn't appease you, how about...
Driving a car.
Renting a car.
Staying in a hotel room.
Flying on a plane.
Opening a bank account.

Many, many things in life require photo ID. It's amazing how that's accepted as normal but somehow outrageous when voting is involved.
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In response to the the morbid web calculator at the bottom of the article, I made this a few years ago: http://javasaur.com/deathCalculator.html that provides similar information, but takes into account current age and gender. It uses US actuarial tables (so this assumes that you're living every year as if it were 2007 or whatever year it was I used...)
Google does not care about what you want. Especially for GA, which still does not have better date range picking after all these years.
Nicely responded.

Over Thanksgiving a friend of mine who is studying for his Masters in Philosophy introduced me to the formal concept of the 'Principle of Charity' [1] which is on the hearer's part a requirement of applying the most reasonable interpretation of the argument presented. When pg wrote this:

"Also (as we've seen), if you talk about controversial topics, the audience for an interview will include people who for various reasons want to misinterpret what you say, so you have to be careful not to leave them any room to, whereas in a conversation you can assume good faith and speak as loosely as you would in everyday life."

It connected with me that both in the interwebs and here on HN too often people do not apply this principle, either in prejudice or in ignorance, to the topics being discussed. That is really too bad, because it helps the quality of the discussion tremendously.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
I didn't say that I think it is limited to the young.

I said that I think that people interested in fratty culture tend to be young.

Beanbag chairs and a constantly flowing keg are not meant to attract older talent. Certainly there are some older people who are attracted to that type of climate, but that really is not the target audience.
Thus cockpits doors are not impenetrable if you could bring the necessary tools with you. If we did remove the security screening an attacker could come with 30 kg of professional cutting gear in his bag, and not even safes and concrete walls can withstand that for long.
Ice Ages?

Umm... God? Did the land bridge crossers follow animals? What animals?

God says...

C:\TAD\Text\PILGRIM.TXT

worthy of the use of the tongue and mouth of men on earth as are
the things of the God of heaven?

TALK. I like you wonderful well, for your sayings are full of
conviction; and I will add, what thing is so pleasant, and what
so profitable, as to talk of the things of God? What things so
pleasant (that is, if a man hath any delight in things that are
wonderful)? For instance, if a man doth delight to talk of the
history or the mystery of things; or if a man doth love to talk of
miracles, wonder
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Five years ago I took a Greyhound from Portland to Eugene. They looked through my bag when boarding. I also reeked of booze and the security guy suggested I get some mints and try again. But they were checking everyone.
This Slasdot article: http://m.slashdot.org/story/28566

describes a similar technique - glass spheres in transparent epoxy resin creating an uncopyable optical fingerprint. One of the comments states that tinfoil pieces in clear epoxy photographed from several angles were used as tamper proof seals during the cold war era.
Mailchimp by the numbers, 2013
If Clapper were removed from office, his successor would have to take the damage on. Clapper will be scapegoated for as long as this fracas lasts.
You, too, can experience flying without security: Get a sport pilot license and a used airplane for $20k or so.

Of course, you'll be much more limited by weather than a transport-class aircraft.
Liberal != left/progressive. Liberals were people that supported free exchange of ideas, believing that truth would be discovered through open argument (think John Stuart Mill). Progressives are pretty much the opposite of that.
I'm pretty sure princess bride quotes get the win always. If you read the subarticle mentioned on HuffPo the author there makes a pretty interesting argument.
Haha :)

I know what you're saying, but what I've seen is that people are unjustly called this word simply for being inexperienced. They have all the drive and are willing to do the work, but get derided for being inexperienced. Those people, who are incorrectly being called a wantrepreneur, are the people we are talking to in this post.
It's simple. If you buy bitcoins with a credit card, you could then issue a chargeback. So the person who sold them would have the money taken away, and you would just keep the bitcoins.
Because you need a large enough number to actually make a difference. 1 person going from place to place voting over and over could only get a certain number of votes in over a few weeks.

Could one person put 200 votes in if they really worked at it? Maybe, but realistically 200 votes just won't do it. You basically need a conspiracy.
"It is not like you can take an electricity bill to any poll location and vote."

It's exactly like that in 8 states + DC ( Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Washington DC.):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_voter_registration
Ironically, a lot of new accounts appeared on HN lately posting claims against Microsoft competitors and telling stories about how a new Surface Pro helped them do their engineering studies homework.
>>Provided you aren't a sexist/rapist, I see no reason why you need to be walking on eggshells all the time at a place where you spend a large percentage of your day.

It's been my experience that when men feel like they're walking on eggshells around women in the workplace it's because they're normally comfortable making sexists/rape jokes and/or have sexist beliefs. The feeling of eggshell walking is them trying to cover that up. I say this as a guy who has seen other male coworkers' behavior when there are no women around and how difficult it is for them to clean up their act when there is a lady in the room.
You should feel bad for anyone who gets pushed into any career they don't really love. I strongly doubt it's at epidemic levels for the daughters of HN.

I'm not applying any pressure at all to my daughter, I'm telling her she can practice any kind of medicine she wants.
Check out the controversy over the recent High River, Alberta gun seizures. During a recent flood, numerous evacuated homes that were entered by the RCMP had their houseowners' firearms seized, regardless of whether they were stored securely and legally.
A total of 542 firearms were seized.
There are ongoing debates as to whether any homes were entered for the sole purpose of seizure.[1]

"Plenty" of gun carriers is a stretch too, since Authorizations to Carry are very uncommon for private citizens, and typically are only issued to Brinks-truck operators and trappers in areas with high wildlife risk. Only ~9000 are issued per year.[2]

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-felt-political-pressure...

[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/who-may-carry-handguns-in-cana...