skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the sham vote in Crimea

If you knew the history of this region (or at least last 20+ years) you'd not spent any effort typing the word "sham". Decorating the vote with all the bell and whistles that would supposedly make the vote "legitimate" (as if anything could make such a vote "legitimate" in the western eyes :) would change nothing in the vote's result, so Putin just didn't bother.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Crimea (very democratic elections result of which was nixed by Ukrainian troops an year later :)

Don't get me wrong, i don't support the annexation. My point here is that trying to play the "sham" card leads nowhere in that situation because it is immaterial.
He can issue an order to wiretap, but not to retract.
Ask HN: Hiring Former Private Equity Employee for you startup?
Does anyone have any experience hiring a former private equity employee? Seems their background would give a good mix of evaluating industries / business models, as well as financial acumen to help you navigate cash needs in growth and negotiate with venture capitalists.

Any stories or knowledge in this area would be helpful.
People who do this just don't know how to use technology. I have a smartphone, but don't spend any time using it for music, and very little for web browsing. In particular, I never synch my phone exactly to avoid any dependency on its contents. However, I am glad to have it because I know that in an emergency I can use maps, or even search information. And sometimes I use the camera to store temporary information. I think it is just a matter of avoiding that the technology become an addiction.
Is it sad I knew exactly what that room was before clicking the link?
You can't write a blog article about make while comparing it to a bunch of Node.js build tools and not mention the word Windows once. Make is good for you because you're not an open-source project built on a cross-platform development platform. All of your employees use Macs and your servers are Linux. For OS Node projects make is simply out of the question because it is janky on Windows and every makefile ever written is full of bashisms.

Next.
>> In short, your beef is mostly with straight people

> No. It's very much not with straight people. It's with the State.

But the State is made of people. And most of the people who support, and benefit from, those special privileges are straight.

> I don't vote and don't contribute to political campaigns.

Okay -- I can understand neutrality. I just can't see your argument as supporting a position of active opposition to gay marriage.

> you haven't appreciated what it means to be against the State's involvement with marriage

Well, I was indicating that I didn't completely disagree with you about it. I certainly don't completely agree, either.

> being against State privileged marriage (and therefore State privileged gay marriage) does not make one a bigot

No. But opposing gay marriage more than you oppose straight marriage does.

Eich donated to Prop. 8. There's no way this makes sense as an expression of uniform opposition to all State-privileged marriage.

I think chipotle_coyote put it very well. Allowing gay marriage reduces the State's involvement in marriage. Presumably the number of actual marriages will increase slightly, but that is because a restriction on them has been removed.
I have never gone to the doctor when I had a flu. If it had lasted more than one or two days, or if I had a temperature higher than 102, then I would have gone. But as it was, nobody ever knew that I had the flu except myself and my family.

Then perhaps you didn't have strictly the flu, but some other viral upper respiratory tract infection instead.

It is hard to judge from symptoms alone (which is why lab confirmations are required for diagnosis), but as a general rule of thumb influenza A infections in adults tend to be much more severe and long lasting than what you describe [1], with distinctively higher malaise, fever and incapacitation than your regular winter cold. It is so debilitating that you probably would have gone to the doctor in any case, I would guess.

[1] http://www.influenzareport.com/ir/cp.htm
This might be workable with an exchange (there still needs to be trust in the guy holding the USD). However, options markets require margin accounts. It is pretty hard to offer anyone credit without a lot of trust.
I'm a little confused by this part of the quote:

> 'Although history never repeats itself, we are now experiencing a strong return of little nations...`

I've never heard the phrase "history never repeats itself", I've only ever heard "history repeats itself."

Is this a saying that comes out of Italy, or am I just grossly uninformed?
" Italy is a made-up country," uhm, aren't they all just made up? Granted Venice used to be its own country, but still all countries are made up.
This sounds similar to the technique used in the integer-only version of bresenham's line drawing algorithm.
To be fair, that kind of manager-speak is also used to avoid openly assigning blame for production mistakes, which is generally a good thing.

The problem is when it's "the feature landed" but then "Sam broke the feature".
I mean this in the most generous possible way: good luck and please go. One of the best possible outcomes for all Americans and humans would be the the breakup of the USA as it currently exists. California could probably get that party started in the best possible way.
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When you're an executive, you have many problems. It's pretty common to deal with the immediate one and create a whole host of other ones. One could argue that that's how it should be, because otherwise you're irresponsibly avoiding what you should be doing.
And the 18th century, and the 17th and the 16th and .... Countries have been conquering and absorbing other countries for a long time
Certainly you can. In fact, the OP did exactly that and his article is at the top of HN.

My hope is that we can just carry on with our dev work and Windows will slowly fade away as a platform for developing anything but SharePoint intranets...

[Note: I don't have a neckbeard, but I do run Debian testing.]
It doesn't say "only," and at the bottom of the page:

As long as this platform is powerful enough to emulate the PlayStation 3, yes, there is a high chance that RPCS3 will be ported there. However, at the moment we only target Windows and Linux.

Boo-ya-ka-sha? FAQ is probably just outdated. Never seen that on an open source project ;-) luckily I read the whole thing <3
"We hate government and taxes" should be the proper Mises institute motto. I'm not convinced that taxing and revenue issues are a major reason countries secede (or choose to unite). Very often seceding states are actually getting more than they pay in taxes.

Usually a person supports secession because of perceived oppression. "Part of my taxes on average might go to another area" doesn't seem to be a major reason, unless you believe that territory is somehow making your life worse.
Of course not, and that was not my point.

The original comment said that because DDoS could be illegal, is was different from openly carrying a fire-arm; that assumes that openly carrying a firearm isn’t illegal. It often is, outside of the US -- hence my response.

I would have appreciated you didn’t downvote me before you understood that.
Agree, but those days may pass soon. The overall trend seems to be all versions of IE losing market share:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-201302-201402
Is your business model related to capital markets in any way? Imagine you got the funding, what would you use this person for after that? Without knowing the specifics of your business the most likely answer is "rent it, do not buy it", I.e. Short term contract or some kind of agent agreement would work better.
"one could argue" isn't worth a damn when the SEC or some other federal law enforcement agency comes knocking.
How is it possible the author doesn't know that?

Because you are (your words) using 'intentionally over-simplified terms.' A free market is not simply one without government controls, it's one without government controls or other de facto authority, such as price-setting monopolies.

Excessive government regulation means a less free market. Similarly, excessive monopoly control or cartel-like behaviour means a less free market. These are similar forces; the market loses freedom because one group has excessive control of it.

So, paradoxically, government regulation can result in a freer market - it's more complex than you are claiming.
You say 'reducing wages' as though it's a side effect, but in reality it and preventing poaching are one and the same. If companies wanted to keep their emploeyees from being poached, they could pay them more and offer them better conditions. They could have conversations with employees about what it would take to keep them with the company. By having anti-poaching agreements, they avoid having to do that.
Or at the very least, not do so unilaterally. It's possible to imagine adopting something like the Constitutional amendment procedures to allow the nation to "cast off" a state that wished to be independent.

But what is not going to happen is that a state gets to take it's ball and go home just because the nation had the sheer audacity to vote for the wrong President.
(I work at Stripe)

You can't currently accept payments with Stripe via wire, but you can accept payments via ACH-in (currently in beta: email amber@stripe.com for access) as well as debit/credit card. You could certainly do exactly what you describe with ACH-in and a separate authorization/capture process via credit/debit card, however authorizations expire in 7 days, so you may want to keep that in mind.

I suggest doing a separate authorization and capture via credit card (https://stripe.com/blog/auth-capture) OR accepting payments via ACH-in, rather than attempting to do both at the same time which can lead to customer confusion.

Stripe only charges upon a successful transaction (https://stripe.com/pricing), so the uncaptured authorizations will not cost you money.
It's not intellectual hubris. It's not intellectual at all, and it has nothing to do with beliefs. It's emotional, because love is emotional. When someone tells a gay person that they can't marry the person they love, they are telling them that their love is not the same as straight people's love, that it's lesser. It doesn't matter if that's not what they meant to say, or if they have statistics and graphs to make some point about the effects on greater society. The inevitable conclusion of any position other than full marriage equality is that same-sex love is something different. To those that feel it, the statement is an insult pointed directly at one of the strongest emotions that any human can feel. It hurts tremendously.

Are you surprised by the way people react after someone insults one of the most precious and important parts of their lives?
A Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages, 2048 version
You can demonize me all you want, but you've still provided no philosophical justification for the viewpoint that penalizing preferences in general is acceptable except for gay sex preferences. Citing an activist court opinion (which totally misuses the rational basis test) is not a substitute for thinking through your own views.

If your actual opinion is merely "gays are on my team, therefore I support them", that's fine. But don't couch it in abstract principles like "treating people the same.
What’s New in Firefox 29?
A Clojure library for trading at the Bitcoin exchange BTC-E
Is it a "precedent" if it happened once, 150 years ago? No current USA general would send troops against any area of the USA that held a proper referendum to secede. If one did, few current USA soldiers would follow such unlawful orders. We're more civilized than that, now.
The article doesn't mention that it was an Internet vote with no legal value.

> It will be interesting to see what Rome does. Will they send an army to take their tax money?

They'll still have to pay there taxes, this is either misinformed or following some agenda.

This is more factual: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
To save others the five minutes I spent looking for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7421417

However, the video appears to have been killed a day after it was posted.
The effect of the EU being on a federal trajectory, albeit increasingly contested, is interesting here. The independence movement in Scotland, and I expect this applies to Catalonia and Venice, paints a picture of independence within the EU. Scottish nationalists regularly talk about moving away from the UK model and towards a Scandinavian model, which is probably not what the average reader of mises.org has in mind when they think about secession.

Of course it's very complex as it seems the weight of legal opinion is that Scotland will have to leave the EU if they leave the UK. There are a few legal academics that dispute that legal point but their case doesn't sound very convincing to me and the EU institutions have more or less said they will have to reapply. However Scotland does have the advantage of having a fairly good faith partner in the rest of the UK if they do leave. If the current disputes over the pound and the debt don't turn vicious then a huge stack of treaties being signed all in one day to make it all legal becomes imaginable. I think Barcelona-Madrid and Venice-Rome relations might take a somewhat different path.
Can you explain your comment more, in the context of this article?
In the eyes of the colonists the separation happened in London, not in the colonies. The fighting started because they wanted "their rights as Englishmen" and nothing more.

There's a reason the Declaration of Independence happened more than a year after the first spurts of military action (and was very controversial in the colonies even then).
Of course, but "assuming the officer is lying" is something completely different.
Assuming it was an executive order (and I can't imagine it was anything but, although facts are slim pickings), of course he can "retract" it, using yet another executive order.

"EOs are published in the Federal Register, and they may be revoked by the President at any time."[1]

1.https://it.ojp.gov/default.aspx?page=1261
Your point is fine. But the limitations on the iOS side are more significant than you seem to realise. things that I'm aware of that apps can take advantage of:

* midi signals
* plain audio signals
* looking like a usb flash drive to the built in photos app

That's the whole list. The only one that seems vaguely useable for something like raw IO is midi signals!
We have a beta of ACH-in (instead of just ACH-out, which is public). You can email amber@stripe.com for access.
I would err on the side of caution and look at their previous behaviour as a predictor of future behaviour, which leads me to it being more from the side of necessity than anything ethics wise. You know the story of how Facebook was started yes?
There is nothing in the Constitution that forces a state to remain part of the United States. so... "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" Sounds like the gives the States the right to secede.
Countries that are only a century old aren't legitimate political entities?

(Germany's technically younger, by the way. Their Constitution was written in 1949, and arguably Germany became a new state after reunification in 1990. Does that mean it's okay for it to be dissolved again on a whim?)
stencils.io is actually a static webpage with direct links to the stencil's original locations.
I think California is more likely to split into multiple states before any of them consider secession.

Shaking up the state borders might give a few states pause, though.
Significantly worse. Using the jsonp[1] format is passing a regular javascript object to a global function

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP
How much more expensive are FinFETs to manufacture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigate_device#FinFET, basically 3D devices that trade height for width)? Per this article Intel is the only one doing them, and it includes FinFET technology in a list of expensive things.

With the article's focus on SoC chips, which might not be using FinFETs any time soon, I wonder if Intel will be able to do better with their 14 nm process node at their $5 billion Fab 42....
Plus it's a really weird comparison. One of the oldest, and by far the most successful online marketplaces with long term vision vs. a cloud storage startup who is competing against some major players (Google, Dropbox) and is burning through money. I'm unsure of Box too, I just don't see how Amazon is a reasonable comparison.
This. I've noticed how the government and most established/traditional media outlets keep referring to the NSA phone metadata stuff as if that were the only disclosed program worthy of review. But what about Prism, etc?
No. Montenegro seceded peacefully from Serbia. Czechoslovakia dissolved into two parts peacefully (no seceding, but close enough). Finland seceded peacefully from Russia. Amongst others...
Not sure that the effects you theorize are true, but they're definitely possible, in the dynamic ways these shifting strategies affect real employment/resource decisions... as opposed to the simplistic "salary fixing" [sic] spin from some of the coverage.

To an extent, existing employees with stock-based compensation, and also seeking "purpose/control/mastery" satisfaction at work, share their employers'/stockholders' interests in quelling rampant mercenary turnover and salary-over-all bidding wars.

Another second-order beneficiary of any attempted employment cartelization could have been the startup ecosystem. As a founder or very-early employee, you "eat what you kill" rather than any industry-average salary. And, the pool of willing founders could have been expanded by missing/lower recruiting from the giants.
Let's see...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=history+never+...

Looks like "history repeats itself" is clearly the more frequent formulation.
It seems that if the attacker controls the source URL, he could eval anything he wanted in any either case?
When you process payments with Stripe, they roll into a balance, which the marketplace can use to make transfers from.
White House to propose law to end NSA bulk collection of phone data
> It's not price fixing.
> It's self preservation.

It's both. One of them is illegal.
One feature I noticed in moving from a developing country (Pakistan) to a developed one (Canada) was how horrible city structures were in Canada. In Lahore (8+ million people) it's easy to tell someone visiting the city for the first time how to get from point A to B. No one uses smartphones for maps, because they don't need to. Buses are usually so frequent you don't need to wait more than 10 min.

In Canada, I see everyone using Maps to navigate because the cities are structured so bad it's hard for even the natives to navigate.
The vast majority do rep themselves. Only the top talent are catered to by the MCNs like Maker.

Then why would a small YouTube star want to join an MCN? The studios do still tend to provide a support structure and tech stack to help you grow your channel. Generally speaking, of course -- there are a lot of MCNs out there and each one operates differently.
Well, it works that way by convention, sure. But ultimately you're allowing a third party to inject scripts into your page. That's not ever going to be secure.
You're letting dynamic economic reasoning rain on the prosecutor- and journalist-fanned rage-fest. Math is hard, let's go suing!
The latest Air in ideal conditions does 12hrs. My friends couple of year old one managed to run out fairly promptly when using by the swimming pool where there were no sockets. He could be a customer if the gadget's good.
Is someone from Italy here, who can give his views on this?

Tried to understand what's going on and this looks more like some scammy online lottery cashing in on some diffuse dissenting and secessionist moods, getting overexposed by Russian foreign news channels than anything resembling a proper referendum.

It's nearly impossible to find some independent non-italian news-sources that not just reproduce the PR of the secessionists or RT "news".

[All following sources are Italian so google translate is your friend]

Found this video which seems to make fun of the foreign press thinking that good-who-knows-what happened in Italy (Like that guy who tries to sell the Trevi Fountain to some gullible American-Italian Tourist). [1]

This one is quite sceptic and seems to paint the picture of this just an embellished online poll, pompously relabeled as "referendum", run by a local businessmen, Gianluca Busato, with connections to some fringe secessionist parties. [2]

Even if this article written after the referendum ended strikes a different tone, the pictures and the crowd look quite orchestrated [3]

After all this whole issue says more about the sorry state of journalism than about the actual likelihood of the Veneto region seceding from Italy any time soon.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfhV3J3b1c

[2] http://www.vice.com/it/read/indipendenza-veneto-referendum-m...

[2 in proper english translation, worth a read] http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/veneto-would-like-to-be-italy...

[3] http://www.vice.com/it/read/referendum-indipendenza-veneto-t...
Dumb question, but could you solve the problem by simply using 1/16th of a second, not 1/10th?
I knew it. Netflix isn't to blame when my Internets keep getting stuck in the tubes, they're just taking a wrong turn through that beam-splitter thingamajig. Somebody should explain it to Ted Stevens and he'll get right on it.
There are a few: draw.io, Google drawing, LibreOffice drawing etc. But nothing comes close to omnigraffle.
Didn't the evidence indicate that engineers weren't off limits? That is, the companies were free to poach engineers from each other?
(I work at Balanced)

Balanced does: https://www.balancedpayments.com/ach-debits
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This is rad! I tried to implement something similarly but ended up pivoting away. I really hope this works out in much more qualified hands! The key distinction and point you tap into is the idea of anonymous, yet public. Look forward to being a user!
Some of the common quotes:

"History never repeats itself, but it rhymes"

-Mark Twain

Split enz also has a popular song with "History never repeats. I tell myself before I go to sleep".

The other quote you're your probably thinking of

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

-George Santayana

So all in all I'd say you're right on the thrust of the generally popular quotes but not necessarily on their wording.
That's the problem with learning all about options before actually caring for the reason they exist: risk management. Options can be replicated with a portfolio, which usually requires a certain minimum size. Investors with a lesser budget would then buy the smaller units of "risk management".

In a way portfolio management through risk diversification isn't free lunch. For example if an investor has $1000 he can't realize a portfolio weight of 10% in a stock that is worth more than $100 per share.
You can't "steal" employees. They're people, not property. They have agency. These agreements exist solely to limit the opportunities of the people who work for these companies. At the bare minimum they should have been public, so people who decided to take a job at one of the companies knew they'd be restricted in their ability to find work elsewhere.