skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it is still the case that most fire departments in the US are either for-profit or volunteer. Tax-funded departments tend to be a LOT more expensive and less innovative than private or other voluntarily-funded ones. The best new ideas tend to come out of the for-profit firefighting sector and then spread to the city-run ones.

The chief advantage of paying by subscription in a market for services like fire protection is that you don't have to pay for services you don't need and there is a profit incentive for efficient and effective customer service. Private firms can't just automatically raise their rates and FORCE everyone to pay the new rate, so they have to actively LOOK for ways to save money on an ongoing basis. Police patrols are in a similar situation - when you include building security, most police in the US are privately funded, and the private ones are lot less likely to bust into your house and set your baby on fire and much more likely to be polite and reasonable and helpful.

If you want more info on how either of those work, I recommend to you a book called The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without The State that goes into a fair amount of detail on how much our system ALREADY relies on successful but overlooked free-market provision of police, fire departments, courts and other services.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Enterprise-Law-Justice-Without/dp/...

If you want more on the practical, logical CASE for doing so - including some interesting historical precedents - I recommend a book written by the son of Milton Friedman called The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism - the new updated edition should be out in a few months.

http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Freedom-Guide-Radical-Capita...
> As you say, the SCotUS didn't explicitly say the exercise of a right cannot be taxed

No, it didn't just not explicitly say that was the reason for its decision, it explicitly said what the reason was, and that wasn't it. So it is a falsehood to claim that the SCOTUS struck down poll taxes for the reason you claim.

> but that doesn't obviate the fact that I am making that argument, absent any appeal to authority, right now.

Okay, fine, you are making the argument, and you are wrong. Exercise of rights can be taxed (whether you are using "can be" in the strict sense of possibility, or in the sense of "consistent with the US Constitution".) You may want to argue that they should not be taxed, but you haven't made that argument.

> The issue was that poll taxes were being used to prevent poor black people from voting, denying their rights.

Not exactly; the issue was that taxation created a differential burden based on wealth which thereby denied equal protection of the laws by imposing a qualification with differential impact on an axis (wealth) unrelated to a valid government purpose related to the right being exercised (voting). (Not particularly relevant to the immediate discussion, but additionally contrary to your statement, race actually was not a cited factor in the decision, though wealth was analogized to race, creed, and color in the decision.)

> I say that a right cannot be taxed. Any external impediment to the exercise of that right, of which taxation is but one, is an infringement.

If a right were truly absolute then, certainly, by definition any external impediment would be an infringement. The question is whether we should consider "voluntary commercial activity" an absolute right (a category which even most basic rights are not generally held to fall into, as they are not generally, even by people who agree that they are fundamental rights, tend to accept certain external impediments to them as necessary) -- and you have not made any argument for why it should be so. You may consider it to be an axiom, a fundamental, unquestionable value in itself. But if you do, you should just say that and admit that discussion is impossible, not try to reference a Supreme Court decision that does nothing to support your position.

> But let's not just appeal to authority and let it lie without addressing the substance of the argument.

There is no substance to your argument, just an assertion of what is either a conclusion without support or, to you, a basic axiom ("a right can't be taxed") combined with a series of dubious analogies, and waving at inaccurate descriptions of what the Supreme Court has said and your predictions of what the Supreme Court would say in cases that don't clearly relate to the point you are arguing for.
CQRS the simple way with eventstore and elasticsearch
I'm a died-in-the-wool leftish vegetarian, and honestly, I actually am annoyed by the GMO issue because I think it distracts from the far more important concern about other modern farming practices that have far more serious impact.

Excessive pesticides, monocultures, over-intensive factory farms, fossil-fuel-based fertilizers. Those things worry me far more than GMOs, and they're far lower on everyone's priority-list.
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I deal with addresses and geocoding on a regular basis, but I'm still a bit confused. What's the use case for something like this?
Slower for what, exactly? How often do you need to do arithmetic - multiplication, in particular - in a hurry with no aids?

Perhaps if you were in a cash business, or a trade involving lots of measurement, but there's not much call for it for a software engineer.

When I need arithmetic, I'm usually sitting down in front of a computer, and almost everything I use can do arithmetic - the bash shell, pry repl, Javascript console, emacs buffer, Google or Wolfram Alpha - there's hardly a piece of software I use that can't do arithmetic.
Why would one want OSX support for docker anyway? Does anyone actually deploy OSX in a server environment? This is not a criticism, just a curiosity.
ah, and by "free" you mean "$5/month"? perhaps you want to update the headline to be less totally false?
I looked at the Croatian soccer team (since I lived there for a while and speak a bit of the language) and I was disappointed you have the Americanized spellings for the names. For example, it's Ivan Perišić, not Ivan Perisic :-)
Hospitals Are Mining Patients' Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick
my humble opinion is that sounds like a fair deal. there are 7 people and the founders always deserve a bit more due to the idea concept and effort to make it work. In the end you are going to develop something so you need to think in terms of how much money you will get calculating the probability to get much more than what you would in a normal job. If there is a 10% chance that you 10x the money you would get normally that's a fair deal. If you think this can go big then maybe there is a 10% chance you 100x the normal wage. This is a good arbitrage. Don't get greedy because "10% sounds little". If you think this project is not going to generate much and you don't believe in its potential just say no.
Ahh thanks!!! blush
I spent the last year tutoring math full time (approximately 28 fourth grade students per day in small groups).

At one point we did an exercise with a blank 12x12 multiplication table. I had students fill in what they already knew. Ones, fives, tens, elevens up to 11x10, and twos were easiest. Most of them could figure out threes and fours pretty quickly. I taught them the finger trick for nines (9x6... hold up your fingers, drop the 6th finger, you have 5 on the left and 4 on the right for 54.) Most of them also had 6x6, 7x7, and 8x8 memorized.

This left 6x8, 7x8, 12x6 through 12x9, 11x11, 11x12, and 12x12. Not surprisingly, these are also the products adults tend to have the most trouble with. I had students select some problems they didn't have memorized, and commit to memorize them over the coming week.

Lest you think it was all about memorization, I also taught a number of techniques for quick computation -- often taking the form of number splitting (6x8 = 5x8 + 1x8) or quick drawings (draw 6 horizontal lines, cross them with 8 vertical lines, count the intersections for 6x8 -- this can be combined with the previous technique by counting by 5s and then counting the remaining intersections.)

Those students who gained proficiency in multiplication also improved quickly in division, fractions, and various other parts of the curriculum.
Show HN: Context aware lockscreen mod for ubuntu
ReservationHop: ticket scalping for restaurant reservations
I would've thrown in "Free Trial", but it was too long of a title. Given that you do get 15 days of a domain for free without a credit card, I still think the title is pretty fitting albeit not quite there.
The "Five Eyes" term has been in use since 2006. Strangely enough the original Wikipedia document archived on the Wayback Machine seems to be unavailable, however we do know it pointed to "USAUK_Community" whose relationship was extended to include other allies which is now known as the "Five Eyes".

Before 2007 the amount of searches for "FVEY" was near zero. The relationship between these five nations wasn't named publicly until 2006 or so, before that the relationship was there - just under another name.

However there are documents dated to 2001 available on mors.org which have FVEY references: http://www.mors.org/UserFiles/file/82nd-Symposium/Form%20712...

These are public so you can assume internal naming was used well before then.
Fully agreed up until your last sentence: It's not going to happen unless they have reason to believe it will lead to evidence of someone doing something wrong, and that it will be wrong enough to justify the effort.
Concurrent Crawling with Go and Python
I guess the filter should only include titles with a colon after the "Show HN". Right now there's the story from yesterday: "Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product".

(Is it weird that the first thing I did was to see if this story was there?)
Is it normal to use a country TLD (Colombia in this case) for a real business that's not targeting the country directly? is .co really confused for corporation or company? Going to launch a site and wondering how smart (marketing wise) is to go with a .co
The SICP reading project
But, like all privately developed technology, buyers have the choice not to purchase it. Monsanto isn't saying that they own corn any more than Microsoft says they own OS's, or google claiming they own search. At the end of the day, you put up money to purchase something (or make a choice to use something) -- be it a product made of corn, the OS you use, or search engine - do you look at price, profitability and compatibility with your workflow, or "GMO free", "FOSS" and "Privacy Protecting"? You may answer the latter in all cases - and I can respect that, but there's a large number of people to whom added productivity/profitability is worth a commercial or financial commitment that may come with legal restrictions.
Isn't the beauty of solitary moments precisely that they are solitary? Much like how a good moment spent with a single other person is precious because of the intimacy.

Is seems like polluting the quiet and peace of these moments with a social media gimmick.

I don't mean to say this is worthless, I'm just puzzled at the approach which seems paradoxical to me.
Because in the typical Docker workflow, developers (who often use OS X) build container images on their computers.

Anyway, boot2docker works really well nowadays. Even individual port forwarding has been eliminated by using a virtual IP address where all exposed ports are available.
I regularly do arithmetic when planning meals, playing video games, analyzing my favorite sports team's contract situation, etc. Being able to do it in my head without breaking workflow (to bring up a calculator or even just to type in an equation) is a positive.
That's quite impressive! I'm curious how it works, is it finding these movies through google video searches? Or what?
What we need is more small scale live music. Every birthday party or romantic dinner should hire musicians. Recorded music will be a musician's calling card. People will again be primarily interested in local musicians, rather than specks in an arena 100 yards away from them. I'm happy this is happening.

That will disadvantage more produced, machine-assisted music that is hard to recreate live (or unconvincing when played at a moderate volume), but if there's anything the internet has taught me, it's that people will make that stuff for free, extremely well.
I used to buy CDs for that reason, but the convenience of digital downloads has made it pretty much irrelevant.

$10 on iTunes vs. $18 in a store? iTunes it is.

In many cases the iTunes package is better, it includes music videos, a full brochure, commentary from the artist. None of this comes with the basic CD package, you'd have to pay even more.
It's becoming more and more common, especially as all of thew newTLDs come into the market. Any two letter domain extension is a country, i.e. LY, IO, and ME.

It's really up to the country how they chose to use, market, and brand their cTLD.
this is such an incredibly disrespectful thing to do, i'm having trouble determining if you are a deliberate troll or not.

if you do this in real life unsolicited, you're going to have real problems.
Show HN: Visualization of the 3d Quickhull algorithm (Requires WebGL)
"What is the meaning of life?"

> 42

"How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"

> The answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind.

"How old are you?"

> I have been online since April 2014.

Cool.
Similar in vein to Lidador's comment. For the sake of not double posting the same answer, reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986043
Show HN: Read Later for Hacker News!
>How well did you know the cofounder beforehand?

I knew him very well....for about 5 years beforehand, and there are few entrepreneurs that come with a better resume and bankroll (which is why I agreed to take 20% of the company as a cofounder - he put up all the money and his history and contacts all but assured a successful exit).

What I didn't really know about was his temper and emotional issues when it came to business. He was essentially a completely different person. I thought I knew him well, and it turns out I wasn't even close. The beginning of the end turned out to be when one of his 7 ex-fiances (not exaggerating here btw) started flirting with me at a party and kept contacting me even after I told her it was a bad idea. I didn't reciprocate, but it didn't matter. After that, it all went downhill.
It's tricky to figure out where replies should go, especially if, e.g., there's multiple comments from different sources on the same line.

There's also the whole "what if there are comments from multiple authors to write back" problem, since you're presumably only going to have access to the API on behalf of one user.

I came away from the time I spent looking at this thinking that you'd probably be better off implementing a separate mode that talked more or less synchronously to GH as you replied etc., rather than working on an import / export cycle.

But there might be a better way.
Update to Microsoft Takedown – Domains Fully Restored
Yes it says exactly that. Thus the quotes "" in my post.

4'th bullet point from the top in case you wish to check again.
Great content structure!
I will definitely recommend this site for beginners.
"Which says a lot about the media you read."

Would you care to elaborate?
Alternative reading: Why the hell is an Eton educated Chancellor of the Exchequer so unable to field questions on primary school arithmetic, that the news is now seriously trying to float the possibility that 7x8 is in some way particularly tricky?
Show HN: Programming Assignment Grading System
I mean... there's no way for this to NOT fill up with dick photos...
haha pretty cool
It makes more sense to me that they actually use these in AND statements. For example, uses TOR and searches for JIHAD could be traffic that would be interesting. If I had to guess, the Linux Journal stuff was just something a geek put in there during testing.
An Interview with Gnosis, the group behind the Gawker hacking
30 days hath September, April, June and November
No it wasn't about news stories from legitimate news organisations.
This is all misinterpreted by people not knowing the facts nor the law, but lets ignore that and jump on the outrage bandwagon.
hah, what a surprise! it's looking good! Send Juan and Tom regards from Santiago.

Don't think HN is a good place to promote it btw, this is a very DIY community. Most probably register domains from command line.
Is this a legit Show HN? It looks more like an article from the New York times to me.
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How many people do you expect to read this article? greater than 1 million?
Thank you for the kind words and continued support/feedback, Daniel. I'm guessing we'll keep bumping into each other for a while. :)

I definitely hear you on the Gem volatility and agree on monetization. Eventually, I'd like to have a team working full time on the builder in addition to user-contributed features. Surely, it's a headache to think about hundreds of features past what Prelang has now but I believe it's doable with the proper architecture.

All the best.
You should post your ideas for changing the web, I'd be interested in hearing them.
it's very common. Most startups nowadays launch on .io or .co. Domains are becoming irrelevant, nobody types them in anyway, I mean, HN is on a subdomain...
You're litterally right. Your comment however does not take into account the I however do not find that categorizing people under condescending labels - Blah, no way to get heard.
Tax is theft even if used to benefit the person it was stolen from, which was the point of the very next sentence.
Second'd
This.
Google has so much data at this point they should be actively converting it all to pure 3D (structure from motion etc). With tango on the horizon there will be a point in time phone could know where its at by simply comparing geometry, or at the very least augment camera view with accurate directions based on the scene geometry, and not crude 'somewhere this way' gps+magnetometer Arrow. They could also use this data to augment self driving cars, so its a no-brainer.

Google Earth is PATHETIC right now, sparse hand made badly textured blocky models of few selected buildings in a capital of European country? Really Google?

I sure hope they have a group inside google working on this already.
Looks great, thanks for sharing! If you don't mind my asking, I'm curious how you can tell if a .co is available or not; iirc, they don't have a public zone file. Might you do a dns check on the spot?

Anyway, good luck with your project!
That does raise a whole very valid point.

The issue of portability globally with subscription streaming services. The World is getting smaller and more people travel further than before and with that.

Are streaming services all equal, do they lock you down to certain countries and with that do any offer true comparable global reach that a physical object affords you.

I see this as something that will become more of an issue as time goes on and also somewhat worrying. Bad enough planning a local SIM card for a phone as cheaper than roaming. Will streaming services start to add roaming charges too later on? I do wonder and suspect they may very well end up doing that.
You don't actually need to force payment for fire. Fire protection is provided by private voluntary for-profit companies in many areas and it's a valuable enough service that when you borrow money for a mortgage the insurance company generally requires you to have fire insurance and the fire insurance policy in turn requires a fire service subscription, so the free market has created a system where most people just by default are subscribers and the subscription payment is taken out of their mortgage payment with no government force involved at any stage.

Then if there's a fire and you're somehow NOT a subscriber you can still call and have them to put out the fire anyway so long as you're willing to reimburse the full (retail) cost of doing so (which is quite expensive!) or your neighbors can call to have them come and stand by to make sure the fire doesn't escape your property to protect the rest of the neighborhood.

Police protection is a similar thing - best paid for by subscription in advance rather than on a case-by-case basis.
I certainly could. I'll add it to my backlog. Thanks for your feedback.
No worries, things happen. I knew it was due to Apple and rewriting an app is hard.
> Norman Borlaug's green revolution

Actually, in Norman Borlaugh's time, also his plant breeding methods (crossbreeding etc.) and the resulting crop cultivars were considered "unnatural" by some [1].

Also, when the potato was brought to Europe centuries ago, people were first very suspicious: "Even peasants refused to eat from a plant that produced ugly, misshapen tubers and that had come from a heathen civilization. Some felt that the potato plant's resemblance to plants in the nightshade family hinted that it was the creation of witches or devils." [2]

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jul/18/he-saved-a-b...

[2] http://www.history-magazine.com/potato.html
I thought I was the only one. Since grade school, I've pre-cached that as "The one I always get wrong is 56."
Not necessarily open source, but something self-hosted.
Show HN: Curv - a wearable camera
This is a hardware project that I've been working on the side. It's a wearable camera (don't roll your eyes yet) that captures events from a first person view. The difference between this and other wearable cameras is how it's worn. I used a makerbot to print the enclosure and bought a spy cam and gutted it to fit inside the enclosure. The device sits snugly on top and around your neck. It looks more like LG's around the neck bluetooth headset. Anyway, my reason for placing the camera there is that your neck experiences the least amount of shake and movement. And also because of the location and size of the device you can pack a much bigger battery. The whole motivation behind this camera is being able to passively record videos throughout your day in an unobtrusive manner. I know there are privacy issues regarding this but for me personally, I would like to capture events like while I'm traveling abroad or playing basketball. Activities where having a place to mount a traditional camera is impractical. Here are a couple videos with the prototype. What do you guys think?

Shooting around bball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6IkydhtmPw

Gun Range - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bI0tja8JVc

Random walk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2USBtarzBw

Ride in a lambo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNNZ2FINmI
What if it was just a copy-paste of the data and not sent as an attachment?
cap hill startup here:

www.trakstar.com.

also, we're hiring! rails devs please apply: trakstar.com/jobs
I assume that since "Jeremy Ashkenas" is listed as an author, and the submitter is "jashkenas", that this is a legit Show HN. Although, since it is a NYTimes.com article, it would be easy to assume otherwise at first glance.
I thought about that a lot. I tried to make the app so it would be a quiet complement to our solitary moments.

I think moments alone can be beautiful and sometimes we might want to share them with others. When we feel lonely, this app could show us that we are not the only ones.
People with such names might adapt them to be pronounceable (I do: my name has an English vowel which doesn't exist in German, and I introduce myself with a German approximation when I'm speaking German). But even the pronounceable version might not have an obvious correspondence with the written name. For example Nguyen might be happy being called [wɪn] rather than [ŋʷĩəŋ], but many English speakers will say something like ['guyɪn].