skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal theory of the Commerce Power is that it can be seen as giving the federal government the power to regulate issues that could be described in economic terms as collective action problems. Eliminating infernal tariffs and trade barriers were of course the original animating rationale, but at root that's just one example of a collective action problem. I.e. it makes the country better off not to have internal trade barriers, but states have an incentive to erect trade barriers without some higher authority preventing them from doing so.

While the framers probably didn't fully understand the ramifications, I think the broad language of the Commerce Clause lends itself to a fair reading that Congress can act on matters in which individual states acting alone would face collective action or race to the bottom problems. So something like environmental regulations fits quite naturally into this framework. Pollution doesn't respect state bounderies and states face a race to the bottom problem in attempting to regulate it. Therefore Congress is empowered to act.
Thinking about it I agree it does seem infinitely more likely to be something on Google's end.
According to CNN:

$40 million to public school construction

$86 million for drug prevension, treatment

$12,4 million on public health

$3 million for law enforcement and public safety

$2 million for marijuana industry oversight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT6YYkFK4e0&t=2m0s
Agreed. Use that money for a good diet and exercise. Take an extended vacay if you have to. It could be life changing. It's worth missing work to get that part of life on track.

I don't mean to push a diet on you, but I've had success eating raw vegan & drinking vegetable juices. I also like yoga. It helps to live in a city that supports such a lifestyle choice. I live in LA.
http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/02/10/are-single-player-games...
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I understand that there are sequence points at those || divisions, and I appreciate that you've been careful with your layout. Even so, my spider sense is tingling horribly at having not just one assign-and-test in the condition for an if statement but a whole series of them that each reassign to the same variable.

If there were a language feature available to do this more elegantly, whether exceptions or something else such as a Haskell-style monad with fail semantics, I'd almost certainly agree with using it in preference to a series of manual checks, though.
All well and good - but can you buy a Beeb from a vending machine? You can buy a rPi from a vending machine:

http://www.hackerspaceshop.com/automat/

(In case anyone is in Vienna, Austria, this vending machine is in Metalab: - http://metalab.at/)
Redis keyspace notifications
> If you're going to claim that Harvard or MIT's financial aid is poorly targeted, you need to actually provide evidence for this.

I reject the question. It's not "financial aid," it's "perfect price discrimination." What other vendor demands to look through all of your financial records, including asking the IRS to verify facts, before figuring out exactly how much money you can pay?
They could really use a Sonos integration as well.
just found this while awesome feature while I was randomly reading redis.conf in redis 2.8 :)
Downvoting doesn't necessarily mean people disagree with you.

Downvoting also means that you're not saying anything. Which you knew perfectly well when you posted.
Seems to take some inspiration from a similar device for a parrot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5N3-QtMdf8
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I was born in Kharkiv and I am really grossed out that he step foot in my hometown. Really glad that he was not welcomed there.

On the plus side, notice where he went into hiding. What does that tell you about where his safe place is and where his loyalties lie?
The world sends us garbage, we send back music
Because they would need to support it. Plus all the other reasons why they don't have a native desktop client now. Like the strategic goal to establish Chrome as an app platform.
Anyone know anything about the base-band chip and it's OS?
The most brutal school for admissions, where they look only at the students' performance and not at creating any kind of "well-rounded student body," is Cal Tech. I don't know how the others fall under them, but Cal Tech is on top of that particular list.
because the first thing they'd do with it is throw away and rewrite it on the Google tech stack.

But this person might land a job at Google, like the Sparrow folks...
http://sparrowmailapp.com/
If I recall correctly, the implementation in Washington isn't nearly as far along as in Colorado.
free and fair elections

That is disputed and there is much talk of rigged elections, but I don't know enough about the elections to have an opinion. Let's see if things proceed peacefully and democratically from this point on - the lack of looting and the organisation do bode well compared to say the uprising in Egypt, and the regime lost my sympathy when police used assault weapons and snipers against lightly armed civilians (the people shot did not have guns, some were medics).

When the choice is between an oligarch or a dictator it is not a great one, but the choices in western democracies are similarly limited.

I am worried that perhaps in another 10 years we will see a new dictator being thrown over by the angered crowd...

Quite possible. I completely understand and sympathise with your ambivalence; western news sources are perhaps a bit too triumphant and hubristic over a complex and violent situation, as long as the outcome suits their geopolitical biases (EU/West good, Russia bad), and Russian media is even more limited by state control.
What is telegram and can I run my own copper?
Yes, you are right. I expected the downvotes. :)
So either my high-school classmate was extraordinarily lucky to get admitted in spite of the fact that there was nothing spectacular about his academics/extra-curricular activities, or he was admitted because his father was alumni. Call me a cynic, but I'm still leaning towards the latter.
Safari on 3GS running iOS 6 is vulnerable; chrome on the same device is not vulnerable
WhatsApp Rebellion
That's a totally unhelpful comment. You imply that you know something that should be obvious and you think it's more helpful to be condescending than to contribute what you think.
Source code for Android iBanking bot surfaces on underground forum
WhatsApp clone, may also be a joke.
Lots of people hit depression in college. See a doctor. You may not be sleeping enough, drinking too much, sleeping irregularly, etc, all which can cause depression
I can't believe I can remember mine as well (10407923). I don't even remember my old phone number that I had at the time, or the address of where I lived!
As some of my smarter and richer friends tell me about stuff like this - "No one gives a fuck".
It should also probably move slower to keep it from jostling the fish around.
Pretty sure it is a joke.
what I don't understand is that they're both down / offline for the last 30 minutes.

are they hosted on the same platform?
>BBM let you communicate for free, instantly, with people all over the world. It was pretty revolutionary at it's time.

It was not.
If you contribute $5,000,000 to Harvard or MIT, the marginal number of students from lower-middle-class and down backgrounds that would be admitted over the next 10 years would change by 0. They are already need-blind.

There are other valid reasons to donate to a university, but the really big names aren't going to start recruiting more poor kids if they only had a little more money.
> I guess I understand why they broke the agreement (keeping Yanukovich until December is, well, quite contrary to what protestors seek), but what I really fail to understand is why they ever agreed to that.

The "they" you are referring to are not one group - the first "they" are the protesters, while the second "they" are the opposition leaders. The first "they" broke the agreement that the second "they" made because they never agreed to it.
I wonder if there is any (increased) consideration for stronger laws against smoking in public areas. Particularly on high traffic sidewalks.

Cigarette smoke is bad enough (and should also be banned in such areas), but Marijuana smoke is far more pungent. It's bad enough we have to deal with exhaust from cars that are clearly illegal (emissions wise), why is it OK to spray toxic fumes all over a sidewalk with a smell that is aptly described as a public nuisance?
Avoid OS X apps linked against buggy SSL: Mail, iCloud, Safari, App Store
Yes, Little Snitch can help Safari pass this browser test (the unusual port was a red flag for me).
Another source (in pt-BR): http://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2014/02/whatsapp...
Since money is fungible (a dollar is a dollar no matter from which hand it comes from or pocket it goes into), it doesn't matter. They'll simply have a bit of handwringing the next time the budget gets tight, then offset the education spending by the amount it is increased by the pot tax.

This happens with remarkable consistency across the US on earmarked taxes, generally sin taxes or lottery receipts. [+] It also happens in a variety of other contexts -- donating $1,000,000 to your university as cash or with the proviso "must be used ONLY for undergraduate scholarships" has the same effect either way.

[+] Edit to add: I wildly underestimated how many taxes were actually earmarked. See: http://mercatus.org/publication/effects-dedicating-tax-reven...
There's also G-Ear player, available on the app store. It works very well, though it's not as good at search as the web app is - so sometimes it's easier to add music to your library using the web app.
Not just a clone; its selling point is that the clients and protocol are open-source and it supports end-to-end encryption.
Ummm... any institution which provides loans or financial assistance?
I'm not sure it is a joke, my friends chat on fb were talking about, and they found out about it cuz some other friends were talking about it in their timelines.

Whatsapp is down, so people are looking for alternatives of course. Sad is not textsecure instead.
> Consuming marijuana in edible or vapor form possesses no risk of cancer.

I would like to see a citation of a study that is powered to detect population-level effects which demonstrates that claim.

As an aside, I'd also like to see solid data on vapor form tobacco. There is not a definitive study at this point to demonstrate safety or clearly delineate the risk. It would be nice the be able to give meaningful guidance to patients on the topic of marijuana and tobacco, but right now I believe the most accurate and responsible thing to say is "I don't know."
There is no requirement to use the Turbulenz Engine to publish a game on ga.me. You can use whatever engine you want.

(Obviously you would need to use the relevant API hooks if you wanted to use any of the ga.me web services, for example, IAP, userdata, multiplayer, play information. But this is all modular.)
Funny. It must be servers overloading due to downloading all the messages to Facebook.
If the problem didn't eventuate for 17 years

That we know of.

Snowden took the data public. Anyone who did otherwise wouldn't have appeared to the public eye.

That's another key risk of surveillance data: we know at at least one guy walked off with it. We don't know who else could have.
I think the concept is pretty neat, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. For one thing the inertial effects on the water should be contained (a lid would help there) and secondly the response time is way too high. But given the mechanism, its possible to do some really interesting fish intelligence studies.

For example. set the cart to move very very slowly, so that basically the fish staying on the edge would move maybe 1 or 2 feet per minute. Second, use roller wheels so that the orientation of the tank stays the same regardless of direction, and only its position changes. Finally put different "scenes" around the room and see if the fish gets the tank to move over to the scene or not.

Then I would be LED lamps at different parts of the room, when one was the target color if the fish moved the tank to it, it would drop food in the water and the light would turn off. Then another of the lamps would turn the target color. Could you train the fish to move the tank to the correct light color?
I agree. Japan would be perfect for what my company offers.
I would argue that perpetuating hierarchy is almost the point of big donations. Yale alums are invested in making sure their alma mater's endowment keeps pace with that of Harvard and Princeton. Etc. The other part is tribalism. If you're a Harvard alum you donate to Harvard because you believe in their mission and want to help them carry out that mission. Other schools can depend on their own tribes for the same.

I don't think donors are confused about these motivations.
Agreed -- and Jim has done a lot more critical thinking about our political system than just about anyone else I know.
I'd be more interested in which schools don't discriminate on race in admissions.
It's totally an issue. If you're a transfer student, you'll find that the few universities that go on about how proud they are to be need-blind and offer a great education to everyone!...now all consider need in admissions, or don't offer to meet your need even if you do get in.

Considering many low-income students start out at a community college, taking even one credit at one effectively locks you out from virtually all prestigious universities. It used to be the case that you COULD go from community college to a fancy private, but it's all but impossible these days.

Combine this with what you mentioned in the second part of your comment, and low-income kids are screwed both pre and post high school. It also screws over kids of all income ranges with highly dysfunctional/abusive families (who won't help with college, didn't support your pre-college academics/extracurriculars, won't sign your FAFSA, etc), since the only thing you can afford is a community college in those cases as well.
Maybe they're overloaded, but it doesn't seem to work for me or my friend. We both can't see each other on the contacts list.

Either that or they don't work well with our phone number format.
See, this is exactly the sort of thinking that got this thread started. Yes, obviously Ctrl-C meant Break before it meant Copy. I cut my teeth on a Commodore 64, but you don't hear me saying that Shift-Run/Stop is a superior way to end programs. Older does not mean better. Technology flows like quicksilver; no one says "you're a professional now, so learn COBOL 60 and quit whining." Professionals favor efficiency. Clinging to tradition regardless of drawbacks is not professionalism.

To play devil's advocate to myself, yes, obviously just switching everything over to GUI standards overnight would cause all sorts of problems. Tradition is not inherently valuable, but standardization is. But for fuck's sake have some basic human empathy. In the context of an individual career, having to unlearn and relearn how to edit text is a pointless speedbump that gets in the way of learning actual skills. Teach students what they need to learn to survive in the world, but recognize that their complaints are valid.
Is this the same messengering app that had the whole encryption debacle a month or two ago?
Talk about being in the right place at the right time.
I've cheered Ubiquiti's wireless hardware in the past on here [1], but I have to agree with you. Stay away from their wired stuff. We've had problems with the EdgeRouter and the ToughSwitches.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829483
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How do we even know we are downloading the real iOS 7.0.6? - surely it downloads the new version using this library?

Edit: it's also digitally signed
The Messenger for Telegram app for Mac plays very well with the entire Telegram ecosystem.

IMHO, Telegram's (open source) value proposition is more up do date with the current multi-platform ecosystem per user.

https://telegram.org/apps
It's down for me. They seem to be having some real scaling issues. This is no joke.
Scientist Proposes New DNA-based Naming System for All Living Organisms
I thought that the original Arabs came out of Yemen.
Yeah, and specifically a lot of businesses were born when the founders of a first business faced trouble in a certain area. They reasoned that if it was so hard for them to do X, then the same must be true for others, and so launched a separate company to help others solve x.

Of course, care must be taken that using one's self as a reference customer is not being too myopic. But I suppose that's where the advice in the article could still be useful--that is, in vetting the idea.
That's the smell of desperation...
Agree completely. At the margin, $5m won't make a difference, just like at the margin donating $10 to cancer research won't make a difference. But that $5m check along with many other checks does make a difference - both in helping these school achieve even higher levels of excellence and in their ability to fund poor and middle class student tuition.
Yes.

They Show HN'd to much controversy [1].

Started a $200,000 'crypto challenge' [2] which lots of people hated on [3].

Then someone compromised their protocol and they gave away $100,000 [4].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913456

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931457

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6936539

[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948742

EDIT: /launched/Show HN/s
CloudFlare just opensourced "Red October", which implements the two-man rule for any cryptographic checkout, but it could be really good for code checkins to catch things like this.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/red-october-cloudflares-open-sour...
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nice job! I test it and worked well. But why you say that built it with HTML 5? It just is JavaScript!
Here is a link to the underlying PLOS ONE paper, "A System to Automatically Classify and Name Any Individual Genome-Sequenced Organism Independently of Current Biological Classification and Nomenclature":

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089142
No, it isn't. It is still affected in the latest 10.9.2 builds.
Getting all the USB power you can
>people often buy Chromebooks for the simple reason that they aren't Windows PCs.

Not in my experience. People buy them because they are dirt cheap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people#Identity
It sounds like you're developing good skills that will serve you later. Nobody likes to do this boring stuff, but it just has to be done.

Advice: just write the paper. Between this comment and my last I've just brain dumped 1000 words down - 1500 isn't too much to write. Just get it done in some raw form, then go make dinner, then come back revise, edit, add sources. At least in the absolute worst case, you'll have something accomplished.

It brings to home a recent event, one of my childhood friends, who hasn't figured this out, has a couple kids by two different women, no education or good money making job skills. He's spent his entire life to date doing whatever feels good and interests him instead of making the painful investments in his future.

He just got his first paycheck after the courts ruled he needed to start making his child payments. That first paycheck was smaller than what he got from his part-time retail job he had right after high school in absolute dollars (adjusted for inflation it's way smaller).

He's turning 40 now and is just starting to realize that he's spent over 20 years accomplishing nothing, and in a little over 20 years, when he retires he'll have nothing to retire on. It's worse than if he had earned it then lost it all. At least he'd have the intrinsic skills and work history to try and rebuild it. Right now he's barely qualified for a low-paid, dead end salaried job working tech support.

It's all caught up to him and he's working all the time now and has nothing to show for it in the near or far term. He's getting by on the charity of others. He's looking back on the few opportunities he had, that if he had taken advantage of them instead of chasing immediate joy he'd be in a much better place and better able to realize his dreams, and better positioned to have and properly raise his kids.

There's a possibility one of his exes is going to move across the country and now he's desperately trying to figure out how to be involved in both of his kid's lives...and realizing he doesn't even have the money to make a single one-way flight to visit his other kid.

He has nothing to offer for his older kid's future either, now that he's only a few years away from graduating high school. And his kid, young as he is, has figured this out and is already making plans for his life outside of this mess...he's joining the military and this has my friend scared for the safety of his child.

This is not where anybody wants to end up, but it's all a result of tens of thousands of small decisions where he could have chosen to do the boring grindy stuff and invest in his future, or do something that felt like more fun and he chose the fun path.

It's not too late for anybody to turn the ship of their life around though, it just takes raw willpower and a single minded focus on your goals. Sacrifice near term fun for a better long term outcome.
MacVim is not official and it doesn't ship with any version of OS X. It's nice that third parties have developed tools to try and bridge the gap, but it doesn't really address my original concern.

Now, the OS X Terminal (and programs run through it, including vim) does support Cmd-C (after highlighting with the mouse), Cmd-V, and Cmd-A, because the OS can treat them as raw text without the terminal knowing anything about them. It doesn't support Cmd-X, Cmd-Z, or even basic navigation keys like Home and End.
The point is not that there won't be a thriving marijuana industry because you can grow your own, but that the industry will not necessarily share the evils of the tobacco industry.

The beer industry is a good example. It's nowhere near as powerful or nefarious as Big Tobacco, and in fact the phrase "Big Beer" doesn't doesn't even exist. Beer companies tend to be fairly benign, while the tobacco industry is famous for stunts like marketing cigarettes to kids and trying to suppress anything that suggests their products are harmful or addictive.

So if the marijuana industry turns out like the beer industry, that will be a pretty good outcome, really.
jslint won't stop it if there's a variable (c in this case) in the outer scope -- it's perfectly fine code as far as jslint is concerned. And jslint encourages that declaration style (actually encourages is too weak a word).
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