skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will repeat, since you apparently managed to miss it last time around: using your type system does not require using UTF32 as your internal string encoding. Hell, you don't even need a type system to have separate bytes and string types, you can even do that in dynamically typed languages, regardless of the string type's internal encoding (it could even be variable, within a single string).
So perhaps an ereader with an edge used for advancing through the content that shrinks in depth as you approach the end?
BASE jumping?
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The same world where just these departments have a combined MRAP value of over $56 million.

edit: jk, thats just the first page.
> I've never seen that kind of construction used except by very young children or non-native English speakers

«then the herdsman filled him the bowl out of which he was wont himself to drink, and he gave it him brimming with wine»

From "The Odyssey of Homer; translated by S.H. Butcher and A. Lang." available at http://www.bartleby.com/22/14.html
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Nah, build it so that it responds to distance to tower. Send out an alert to the whole system. If the phone is within communications distance of the tower, switch off.
I admit I'm not keeping up with the news but doesn't the law still require that a human driver be present in the car?
Perhaps. Would you also say "Maybe it's better to keep the term 'sum' for combining the count of two sets, and to let the generalizations that aren't that (e.g., adding integers, adding vectors, adding polynomials, ...) be called something else"?
I live in Puyallup, Washington and we've received (what I believe to be) an MRAP. (It looks like one, but I've yet to see it outside of the building so I haven't gotten a very good look at it.) It's housed in the police/fire station downtown.

Puyallup is a "city" of just under 40,000. Our crime isn't even too horrible (http://www.piercecountycrimedata.org/NeighborhoodCrime/index...)

But we have an MRAP. It might be Pierce County's MRAP, housed in our building, but even then compared to the rest of Washington state, Pierce County is pretty tame.

Although, we do rank #9 in the U.S. for meth labs. So there's that. http://www.kplu.org/post/pierce-county-among-top-10-us-numbe...
I use Highrise. I like Highrise. I'm happier that they spun this off instead of selling it. Don't know much about Nathan, maybe someone here can speak to that, but so far it sounds like I'll be able to stick with Highrise.
Do you employ HVAC service people to do on-site repairs or subcontract?
I think this is a weird reply to make to a comment where someone identifies as a "dilettante hypermiler".

They are much more likely to be highly aware of how they interact with traffic than they are a dangerous, oblivious obstruction.
It certainly looks that way. Perhaps YC is trying to hedge their "name-your-price" bets by accepting two businesses with this pricing model?
> to become good at something, which I think requires far less time and dedication.

> I claim that it takes roughly 1,000 hours of practice

It presents itself as neither fiction nor reference. It presents itself as a thought and a claim.
Within highly constrained circumstances, they can come and demolish the property. IANAL, but I believe the legal rationale is under the nuisance law -- that an abandoned building constitutes a nuisance to the community, like a pickle works or a paper mill, and either the owner must mitigate the nuisance, or suffer consequences.

The point of the story is that the city appears to be abusing the law. A building with a legitimate Certificate of Occupancy is not dilapidated, and a building which is occupied is not abandoned.
Maybe they are hoping that it will attract more attention from hackers who might do something cool with the data. I'd like to make an app that plots all of the purchases on a map, or finds all the military gear ordered near you. But I don't have the time.
The "essential feature" that are disabled under this bill do not include the camera (or emergency calls).
Sounds sketch... but you already got paid right? If so, move on and find some more freelance work.

As for their contract? Tell them you won't sign until they reciprocate the favor.
The argument is that they would have to pass the law first to compel the manufacturers to implement the switch in every phone. Then any other agency outside that law's jurisdiction can take advantage of the presence of the switch with little oversight.

It would still likely result in lawsuits anywhere it was used regardless of the law.
>Why would they brick phones, costing each user (and likely themselves when the users sue) hundreds of dollars in damage when they can easily disrupt phone service in an area for a controlled period of time or block specific subscribers at the telco?

Because they can demand that power and have it offered to them?
If the identifier is an SKU, it seems to follow that to distinguish between different prices one could have an additional "version" identifier? Or perhaps even a more generic on-this-date parameter, in this case representing date of quotation (which then dovetails quite nicely with the expiry mechanisms already built into HTTP).
Furthermore, not allowing an identifier such as IMEI to be changed is a potential privacy problem!
If cell service can already be at the tower level, being able to kill individual phones seems like it would be very impractical in a protest situation. This seems less prone to abuse than a mass shutdown.
"I continue to love discussing the company’s future. I love trying new products and sending feedback. I love reading about what is going on at the company. Count on me to keep ideas and inputs flowing."

This describes Ballmer's 34 years at the company. I used to think highly (or high-er) of him but it can't be clearer to me that him being appointed CEO was the worst decision in the history of msft, leading to the lost decade. I don't think he has any idea what he was doing - listen to his recent interview on Bloomberg.
You are still incorrect. The average wealth and rate of innovation is richer you have more aggregate wealth in all the forms that matter to you(Dental) except possibly status.

I'm pretty sure he wish he had dentistry.
"Google's self-driving cars are programmed to exceed speed limits by up to 10mph (16km/h), according to the project's lead software engineer. Dmitri Dolgov told Reuters that when surrounding vehicles were breaking the speed limit, going more slowly could actually present a danger, and the Google car would accelerate to keep up."

Clicking through to the source:
"Google's driverless car is programmed to stay within the speed limit, mostly. Research shows that sticking to the speed limit when other cars are going much faster actually can be dangerous, Dolgov says, so its autonomous car can go up to 10 mph (16 kph) above the speed limit when traffic conditions warrant."
You don't understand what he was getting at. It's much more complicated to go through this process to brick each phone individually (Which requires figuring out who owns what phone) then just disrupt phone service for a while in the area.
Flynn seems to be focusing on the deployment side of things but that's only 1/2 of the value Heroku offers which is a fully managed platform. You take on that responsibility with Flynn.
Yikes:

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12

AL,MONTGOMERY,1010-00-691-1382,"LAUNCHER,GRENADE",1,Each,720,2006-04-12
There's 84 total grenade launchers in the data set, if you are curious. Florida took twice as many as CA (36 to 18) and the rest of the states with them are under 10. Why Florida needs so many is another question...

Also interestingly, Montgomery got all 9 of AL's grenade launchers, more than Sacramento or LA took.

edit: actually, this data is wrong because I only used the first page, didn't even see the other 3....
He didn't say anything about the passing lane in his comment.
Don't be silly, that's a nationwide feature.
Url changed from http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/is-a-different-icelan..., which points to this.
This is a very important point. Also, the limited scope of the "essential features" which are disabled.
I'd be interested in trying out MTailor if they had an Android client and will ship to England. Is an Android client in the works?
Not sure - perhaps the airline is promoting that route or that route is already popular. Often the "C" segment takes you to the Caribbean or to Las Vegas. Price is not always correlated with distance flown.
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Brilliant idea.

Turn public opinion, city council pretty much has to follow. The free market might appeal to us but it's not going to appeal to your typical city voter. If uber can turn its message into something urban voters can identify with, they can generate favorable legislation, and urban voters generally love Obama's message.
I don't really like the word "network" as a verb. It implies that you are trying to schmooze your way into getting people to like you at cocktail parties. (I'm not saying you are, I'm just saying that's what the term implies to me) I don't think that's an effective strategy.

What I might recommend is spending a few months out here building some real relationships with smart people who are genuinely interested in your business. If you've got a quality concept & product, then good people will take notice. But it's a long process, measured in many months (maybe a year).

Note that YC is probably the most effective way to short circuit this, since it provides a strong signal of quality and helps open a ton of doors - but most importantly it gives you a large, smart & well connected peer group with whom to build relationships with.
I'm surprised how short and to the point Satya's letter is to Steve. You would think in the 20+ years they worked together he would relate some kind of interesting or personal story. Instead it's pretty terse and reads like a termination letter. I wonder if it was really Steve's choice to step down off the board.
It's not whether or not he can, it's whether or not he did.
The "coming apart" of American culture isn't because too few people watch NASCAR or eat at Applebee's, it's a problem because in one America lots of people do it and in the other America people never do it. It's slowly creating two separate cultures where people have trouble relating to each other because they're growing up with two distinct sets of cultural experiences. It's only incidental that the divide in culture is being driven by meritocracy picking the haves and have-nots.

I'm not surprised you found the results unimpressive, since Britain has a far different history with class and mobility than the United States. I was impressed with how the questions ascertained that I'd grown up in a rural area then moved to a wealthy suburb in adolescence. Things like going to parades, eating at Applebee's, or going fishing were strongly present in the first half of my life and completely absent in the second half. I crossed a major divide in American culture without even realizing it.
Nathan is me! :) I put out a lot about who I am here: http://ninjasandrobots.com/ Basically just a guy trying to make businesses. Some work out, some don't. Lately I've been working on Draft (http://draftin.com) which has been going pretty well.

I'd also if you have a chance, I'd love to receive any feedback you have about Highrise (nate.kontny+highrise@gmail.com)
There was a big thing made about it in Bergen County, NJ when it was first reported that they had received one. The police basically said they had no use for it and couldn't even image a reason to use it.
Thanks. Corrected. The perils of being in the UK.
I think the main reason they're passing the bill in general is a genuine desire to deter smartphone theft, and the result is a very bad policy outcome.

But keep in mind absent this law there is no mandatory kill switch in phones in the first place, so the possibility of police use en masse aginst protesters - regardless of whether law permits such co-opting or is silent on the subject - becomes much lower.
How connected were the Eastern Romans to the original western ones though?

Would you say it's like the U.S. and Britain, more distinct or less?
Sometimes it's called "derivation". In Grassman algebra you call it the exterior derivative. Ultimately these are all motivated by trying to find "the" derivative in different contexts and eventually greater and greater generalities... So despite the mild opportunity for confusion they really are in a sense each named "derivative".
It seems silly to disable individual devices with a remote "kill switch", when perhaps you can just do something at the network level: like block all but emergency calls, and instant messages, which coming via all the cell base stations in a given geographic area, which can be done without the inconvenience of sending configuration changes to large numbers of devices, based on where they are. There is still Wi-Fi. But most of that is connected to land lines going to telcos, with whose cooperation that could be blacked out also.
The high end ones can set the BPS in the electronics (usually in the grip).
He's not dealing with regulators, ever. It's not "insider" versus "outsider."
Yeah it is definitely a recball vs speedball division.
Return customer and product in same HTTP response?

Also, that's not how sales orders work. A sales order is a commitment to provide a product at a price at a time to a party. The price is tied to the order. If the price of the product changes, that does not affect the order.
For all that is holy, stay out of the left lane.

Even if it's clearly marked HOV, you need to make a left turn, or it's a single lane you'll still somehow be a danger to society.
This post is just phenomenal with the cloud to butt extension.
Possibly for later novels. The one I have in mind (Planet Oz) keeps the focal characters in close proximity, at least compared to the scale of their travels, so a geographic map could suffice.
>Or that in another case highlighted by the article, the investment firm founded by the City Manager and his brother better deserved the income from new units built where old ones were torn down?

it is called "eminent domain" (expropriation of private property for public use :)

Anyway, people don't have the right to be poor and live in the only slums they can afford. (and even less the society would care about pets which, most frequently than not, would be ok in the "slums" and not welcome in the new rental units)
It's important to remember that HN has always been about more than entrepreneurship, startups, and technology. Maps of the Roman Empire are more than welcome to hang out here [1]. The mandate is: anything of intellectual interest.

Inflammatory posts on hot issues excite a different kind of interest, which is why stories like the OP are mostly off-topic here.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8198481
New CEO's - or even existing ones - only have so many things they can openly talk about. Listen to Marissa's interviews over the past year - I had to since I was preparing for an interview and the repetition in her talk was almost maddening!
Helpful one. I actually met a CEO of a local wine company. He was excited (at least he asked a lot of questions), pointed me to his VP Marketing. Some are helpers. I will lock one and follow up.
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This pretty much describes how you end up with a Killdozer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA
I'm delighted to see a Ted Dziuba post! I'm very sad his posts criticizing Node disappeared. I never decided whether I bought his argument, but I thought they were valuable contributions to the discussion about the event-driven model. They did not seem trollish to me but earnest, and I would have liked to read a debate about them.

This REVAT post is also something I'd love to see get picked up and discussed more. I certainly have felt the need for immutable values indicating a snapshot of a thing's state. Personally I'd like to know how people solve this at the RDBMS level more than the REST API level, but there's a need in both places.
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They really shouldn't differ by that much, your car likely has a speedometer that is out of calibration.
As an outsider, baseball appears to be a very rigid game. (Not sure if rigid is the right word.) What I mean is that almost everything that can happen on the field is possible to keep track of statistically, that is, everything happens within a given set of actions (and usually in more-or-less distinct order).

This easily leads to agreement about what is important to keep track of. The example for baseball could be described in three lines of text.

The example for tennis, otoh, seem mostly to describe that there is little agreement on what is important (or on which level to keep notes). Some are happy to basically keep the score (the actual game score) by hand, while others describes details about each point (or even stroke).

It also seems like the big four American sports are much more obsessed with statistics than "European" sports, that might also have something to do with it.
Somebody at MS PR is having a good laugh with friends over beers now.
I'd say that you're historically wrong - that "sum" was used for adding integers, and then found to extend naturally to adding vectors, polynomials, matrices, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions, and so on. If you want to extend it to combining the count of two sets (because you're trying to re-found all of mathematics on set theory), then the word still fits.

Just don't try to make the set theory version the "real" version, and then try to deny the use of the word in other places. Those other places were using it first; you don't have the right to hijack the word.
> When did preventing stolen phones become such a hot button issue?

When phone theft became half of all robberies in San Francisco. When phone theft rose 40% last year in New York, to become 20% of all robberies in that city. When phone theft became the number on property crime in the US, accounting for 1/3 of all property crime. When in half the San Francisco incidents, the victims were punched, kicked, or physically intimidated, and in a quarter of them were threatened with guns or knives.
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Absolutely. We talked to German energy heads that said they would invest but wouldn't tell anyone. :)

One thing we could use a favor from you. So, so so many people are saying "I support nuclear but I'm the only one"... you aren't! Believe me you're in the majority (70% in US support, although nuclear especially needs people like you, in the top of that group in knowledge/education to speak out and help educate) and that even this is changing... and just come out of the closet already. :)
I don't think this has strictly something to do with the state in REST. This is about state of things changing in general.

What you can do about it (other than creating something along the lines of your idea) is to create a history/snapshot on updates. I'm pretty sure most languages/frameworks has something for that, in Java/JPA you can do this by using Hibernate Envers' revisions. Exposing these revisions via REST API pretty much is what you suggested.
If a person is obeying the speed limit in the left lane and a crash ensues, it is not the fault of the person obeying the speed limit. They may be guilty of obstructing traffic in some way depending on the situation and the local laws dictating the proper usage of the left lane, but not the accident.

Going slower? Possible, depends on how much slower.
I'm not sure the analogy holds. Yes, the tower level of control can be used to remotely disconnect thousands of people from the net, but this just separates people from the network.

The remote kill switch disconnects people from their ability to document what's happening. This frees the state from a sousveillent presence because it robs people of the ability to record what's happening at all. Remotely shutting down devices isn't about preventing people from tweeting - it's about preventing people from being able to create durable records of what happens.
Web apps and other software tech can scale really quickly. I'm not so sure fusion plants and fission batteries can scale as quickly.
By "count of two sets", I don't mean to invoke set theory in any imposing, modern sense. Just the observation that, historically, we were adding counting numbers (in particular, non-negative ones with such properties as "The sum of x and y is always at least as large as x itself") long before we were adding integers.

Regardless, the point still stands: why would you allow the word "sum" to fit all those uses (disparate, but with a web of family resemblances), but not grant the same to "derivative"?
This reminds me of Apple's patent to remotely disable protester's (cellphone) cameras: http://www.zdnet.com/apple-patent-could-remotely-disable-pro...
In a sense this is d/d{primes}. D(8) is how fast 8 changes with respect to 2, while D(60) is how fast 60 changes if 2, 3, and 5 simultaneously increase (at the same rate).
I think a lot of us have been mostly concentrating on Electronics that are easily caught by customs:

Here are a few more things that dont fall into the bucket:

from http://www.techetron.com/11310/backpack-a-new-startup-in-tow...

Ever dreamed owning an original Bob Dylan autographed poster which you see auctioned at eBay? Ever gasped why eBay or Amazon products don’t get shipped to your country? Ever wondered how cool it would have been if you could hold first edition Harry Potter books right after they got published? What about having original jersey of your most favorite superstar?
This is assuming you have supreme power over the people, which you do not. America is 'We The People', not 'The State'. You are human and subject to the same laws you enforce. In fact, as a public servant, you work for the people, not the state. Remember that.

You too make mistakes:
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/04/11/tosh-0-producer-acci...
Disappointed but I guess not surprised to see the small number of helicopters, armored vehicles and assault rifles provided to southern border states. Federal government appears happy to distribute heavy weapons anywhere except where they are needed most as evidenced by actual incidents.
According to the Wikipedia page on speedometers, under the Error heading...

'Vehicle manufacturers usually calibrate speedometers to read high by an amount equal to the average error, to ensure that their speedometers never indicate a lower speed than the actual speed of the vehicle, to ensure they are not liable for drivers violating speed limits.', although no citation is currently provided.

Error is introduced by tire diameter being different than what was assumed for initial calibration... i.e. wear on the tires or tires that are under/over-inflated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedometer
I've seen similar questions arise from the thought of accidents. If a self-driving car causes a crash, who's responsible? The owner or the manufacturer?

Another random thought: do the cars respond to a police officer trying to pull them over?
whoa, backpack is classic airb&b/uber-style YC: compelling demand + scary pushback.

For bonus fireworks, do it for textbooks.