skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt they could come up with something dangerous, but I wouldn't worry about that particular mode. Plasma doesn't travel far.

A nice portable high intensity directed neutron radiation source might be pretty nasty, though.
That is pretty cool, sort of combines two fun disciplines, robots and cellular automatons. So the art installation here is swarm robots that use pre-programmed neighbor visibility setups but I'm going to have to think longer about ways you could do this with minimal localization information.
Show HN: VETS – Volunteer Effort Tracking System
About 5 years ago I volunteered to help our local SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) build a computerized system for tracking hours that their volunteers spent. This an important part of the volunteer coordinator's job, as there are hours/year requirements for volunteers, awards given out annually, etc. Prior to that they were using a paper binder with sign-in sheets, and adding up everything by hand at the end of the month. With about 1000 active volunteers, this was no small task, and seemed like a place computerization would be an amazing help. I wrote up a simple system in Rails (which I had spent a fair amount of hobby time with) and it's been running there ever since.

Today, there are about 67,000 "hours" entries in the database, about about 3,000 volunteers (1/3 of them active), and the system is a little slower than it ought to be (my original testing was with tens of records, since there was no existing database to import). Rather than try to update and re-learn ruby and rails, I opted to give a try porting the essential parts of the system to Python using bottle.py

The result of my work is now up at https://github.com/vets/vets and licensed under MIT.

I'm at a point where things are about functionally complete and I'd love to hear feedback from anyone willing to take the time to take a look at it. It's a generic enough system that I could see other non-profit organizations (who often have much/any money available to spend on commercial software that can track things like this) being interesting in this.

Things I'm not that great at, which are incidentally the main things this project uses:

* Python
* bottle.py
* SQL
* HTML/CSS

This is a hobby project for me (I'm a C programmer by day) so I am probably taking a naive approach in most cases, but in some cases I know that when I re-deploy this version of the system, it's likely to sit for another 5+ years.
What I've found is that startups have impossibly high standards during a physical "interview" process, out of fear. It's like their lack of management skills make them unable to decide unless someone is clearly a 1% hire.
Some guy patched Dosbox to rip out the physics engine of Pinbal Fantasies and replace it with an actual pinball table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGpTfb8HUCY&list=UUs-pFQ5_s3...
How about if we put it like this?

When a democracy has a war with a dictatorship it is similar to when the police defends civilians from violence.

(So this don't get into a shouting match: Check "democratic peace theory". I am aware of that the police can misuse their position. A democracy often also do cynical realpolitik when it isn't its voters that gets harmed.)

Edit: You might want to do the distinction of a junta that do a general draft, so there are soldiers for the dictator which didn't volunteer. It isn't an easy solution, but citizens in a country can theoretically overthrow their dictator. Hopefully with more help than the Syrians got from Obama.

Edit 2: I assume that you don't think it is immoral to sell weapons to police. If you are that pacifist, then I think you should move to some place without police to protect you... I hear they have good weather in inner Somalia and southern Yemen. Both are traditional clan societies without police.

Edit 3: Ah, you have a 60s style of police racial violence discussion in the USA right now. I get the down votes.
I was looking at these option initially too, but ended up going for the challenge since, both I read some not-so-good reviews and shipping the thing to germany would probably ended up being at least as expensive as buying the soldering equipment :) Building one of those custom GamePaks takes about ~4 hours once you have all the materials prepared (you really need very, very thin wires!) and putting it together for the first time is one of those finger crossing moments which you'll remember for a really long time :)
i guess my question was about choosing the language itself,

if it's chosen in-game, you could HTTP some basic analytics data to yourself.
Wow, 25% of people in New Hampshire came from Massachusetts! No wonder our politics have been shifting recently.
I guess it depends :)

I'm using Angular's databinding and recently it felt as if it was just convenient enough to implement a nice-to-have feature that I might have postponed otherwise.

I'm also careful with adding too many dependencies for simple things. But since I've committed to learning and using Angular anyways, I don't mind the weight and like using what it has to offer.
That's all well and good, if you live in one airport and are traveling to another one. Realistically, it's going to take you another hour or two just getting from your point of departure to the first airport, and from the second to your actual destination.

Rail tends to have stations actually in the actual cities, which is an awful lot more convenient.
The only time I have ever wished "Hacker News Gold" was a thing.
We don't have "non-reproductive castes" in quite the same sense...
Now that is insane.
Eh, other than Adwords Google hasn't been able to monetize their web properties.
SpiderOak Implements A Warrant Canary
Another option is to put the money in foreign accounts. I don't know this space at all, but interest rates at consumer banks in India are 9-12%. Even after currency exchange rates, you'd probably make >= 4%/year
What I find equally shameful are the individuals and groups using the riots as an excuse to loot and plunder the streets.

If I was a business owner over there and my shop was robbed blind... I'm not sure what I would do.

(also, the escalation of the police force is in proportion to how aggressive the people are getting - not excusing the situation -- just point out that people are firing rockets, fireworks and other projectiles at the police, flipping vehicles, looting and plundering...etc... absolute chaos.)
I hope you find that djinn djar someday. But you should know that just sitting back and saying "citation needed" is implicitly an ad hominem distraction attempting to discredit the speaker, and an invitation for that person to appeal to authority.

I prefer to think that everyone should always question everything I say, and independently verify my claims with their own trusted sources. Then, if they find contradictory information, they are free to share it, so that I might possibly disabuse myself of my prior misconceptions. (As you see, I also have need for wishes.)

Of course, if you have actual research funding for me, that's a different story. I'll give you as much evidence as you can afford.

Talk is cheap, and proof will cost you. If you want evidence, you might have to grab a shovel and start digging.
I'm not sure why an article ghost-written at the direction of an executive is more devious than one actually written by an executive.
Because Netflix uses something like 45% of North American internet traffic, they need to do something like this in order to efficiently deliver video. Of course this is going to give Netflix better ability to stream, but I don't think it is unfair.

It would be unfair if Netflix was paying to "speed up its traffic" (read as: slow down competitor's traffic).
I co-authored a book called How to Make Money in Open Face Chinese Poker: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Money-Open-Chinese-Poker-ebook/dp...

The book took around a year to write and edit, and it was published in mid April.

Marketing is primarily relying on the fact there's no other books in the same niche so it would show up mostly within first page when people search it. The book is not yet profitable.

Something I would do differently next time is that I would try to publish the book myself rather than using a 3rd party service like BookBaby. I couldn't control when to put a discount. Sales data are like two, three months behind. Now is mid August, and I only see sales data up to end of of May. Also I couldn't participate in programs like Amazon KDP Select.
limited usefulness - can't return from the trying function. incidentally, try/finally and returns are what gives people funny facial expressions.
Enter the GitHub Data Challenge without coding
"Maria Trisler is often dismissed early from her shifts at a McDonald’s in Peoria, Ill., when the computers say sales are slow. The same sometimes happens to Ms. Navarro at Starbucks."

Wouldn't this be farily easy to game ?

That is, I don't serve anyone at a register for a 10 minute period, so I quickly buy a small coke using my own money ... thus simulating a customer ... which would (I presume) throw off, or reset the whole algorithm.

Two assumptions - first, that the software really isn't that smart, and second, that it "fails safe" ... which is to say, if traffic patterns don't match up to existing models, just give up and keep people working and try again later.

So I would think this would be quite simple (and cheap) to game ... maybe four workers get together and chip in to simulate 2-3 meal purchases, thus gaining an hour or more of paid work ?
I wonder what measures they have in place to protect against someone cracking this open and dumping the entire video library.
Sony's CellOS on the PS3 was never Linux-based, it is built on FreeBSD. You could install Linux (or a BSD) until Sony pulled the plug on OtherOS.
Uncle Sam Was a Real Dude
Unlawful assembly? Isn't assembly a constitutional right?
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Plain English
Wow. I wonder if telling people they're of the genotype that responds to placebos (even if they aren't) could help them.

Does placebo-sensitivity also extend to other negative suggestions? (Is it correlated with, or a reverse of hypochondria?)

Are those most helped by placebos also more credulous with regard to commercial solicitations?

Is there any such thing as 'false advertising' when the audience is highly-placebo sensitive? "It truly works – for you!"

Do mass-media ad campaigns improve the effectiveness of OTC medicines? "It's the strongest pain-killer available. We couldn't say it if it wasn't true, and also by the way it wouldn't be true if we didn't say it to everyone all the time."
Introducing HostBenchmarker – real, hard web hosting stats
It seems like you could just fly around obtaining or suing for the information, so it's not really impossible it's just too expensive because the data's not online yet?
Well, there is a kind-of-joke that commercially-available fusion energy is perpetually described as "30 years away". It always appears to be stuck at least a generation away... hopefully someone finds a breakthrough.

To put this in context, even the international ITER project is 'experimental' (with a budget of € 15 billion, expected to be switched on in 2019), and is expected to be followed up with a demonstration plant in 2040...
The Death of the Pitch Deck?
The PS3 CellOS is based on FreeBSD, not Linux afaik.
7.5 terabytes / 10 gigabits/second in minutes - 100 minutes - you are right - that is a pretty heavy sync.
They could see your face but it would look like 1 pixel.
HelloTel App Raises $500,000 in Funding for Hotel Check-in App
Is this a purely magnetic approach? I recall recently reading about a MagLIF variant that used lasers for pre-heating.
I work in a small office that does web development and I see this all day, every day. Kids (god i'm old) 8-10 years younger then me, fresh out of college, up to their ears in student debt and their "there for the paycheck"

(gonna make some generalizations here)
Your college education doesn't mean shit to an employer. Great - you've got a piece of paper saying you can sit in class, learn from someone, consistently for 4 years. My 2 decades of real world programming experience trumps you all day (no, i didn't goto college)

So while your sitting there looking at stupid pictures on facebook, or going out late at night - i'm working my ass off and building my portfolio when I get home. And when I go looking for the next job, I'll take a new title and more pay while you make a lateral move.

Wake up guys - theres too much damn competition out there. At 34, I don't feel like I've come close to peaking.

When your employer tells you "we hired you because we recognized your drive and work ethic" - thats a compliment you earn; not pay for.
This is part of the creeping one-sided "professionalization" of low-wage work. Employees are expected to arrive pre-trained, stick within specific constraining roles, and be available at all hours. Employers are demanding all the responsibilities of white collar salaried jobs while offering none of the benefits. For many people it's not even possible to juggle two of these jobs thanks to "improved" scheduling technology.
Wow, did it just drop me into a $828 price page without even letting me try. I wish I trusted yahoo enough to give them that kind of money upfront.
This is an ad. http://ad-assets.nytimes.com/paidpost/dell/will-millennials-... The entire article is an ad - you're saying you wouldn't notice this? The whole point of native advertising is that it's not easy anymore to tell what's advertising and what isn't. Only 41% of visitors realized that native ads were advertising at all. http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press...
I took a cart, removed the game IC, and soldered in a ZIF socket for eproms. And I'm a klutz so it's easy enough.

http://www.devrs.com/gb/files/faq.html
It’s Time To Reconsider The Retargeting Middleman
Tight immigration restrictions were put into federal law in the 1920s, and as people born before that decade aged, they made up a smaller and smaller percentage of people in each state. The peak period of immigration to the United States, as a percentage of people who had already arrived, was about the turn of the century between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 loosened a lot of restrictions on immigration that formerly applied to whole regions of the world, resulting in a new increase in net immigration (but still not all the way back to historical peak levels).

One pattern that is long-lasting in these data is the extremely low rate of settlement of foreign-born persons in most states in the deep south (that is, the states of the old Confederacy). States that attracted more immigrants tended to be those that were more dynamic and with more personal freedom, and then the presence of immigrants in those states helped preserve the dynamism and personal freedom, setting up a virtuous cycle that attracted other immigrants.

Disclosure: my family background is one of ancestors who arrived in the United States well before the Ellis Island immigration station in New York harbor was even built, well in advance of the first major federal restriction on immigration, which was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. My ancestors through whom I gain my family name arrived, father and son, after being born in New York state and then settling for a while in Wisconsin Territory, to Minnesota Territory sometime in the early 1850s. My wife, by contrast, is a first-generation immigrant herself, who first arrived in the United States in 1985.
If such an infrastructure did exist, do you think people would use it?
yeah, I agree. I don't consider it spam if the articles are of such high quality.
Right, I see what you mean.

On the other hand, it doesn't mean it's easier to produce good art; the idea is that it makes it possible to modify the art at all. This is supposed to be used for games where you don't have the source code.
It's lawful until un-lawful activities start taking place (the looting and plundering, vandalism, projectiles being fired at people and police, etc)
It is, but you often need to get a permit first.
But it would create a financial upside. They are a fund after all, and you'll find plenty of institutions investing in LMT, NOC, and friends.

You might lose some of the halo effect for one audience, but gain it from another. Not everyone things defense (or if you prefer weapons, or arms dealing) is a bad sector to be in.
Meeting Manners and Scheduling Etiquette
The Security Now podcast had an indie ISP owner on the show back in June (10, I believe). Most of the show was Leo Laporte calling him as asshat, but one thing he said that was compelling was that his customers require Netflix -- if he doesn't give them Netflix, they don't sign up. The bandwidth was killing him, so he told Netflix he wanted the OpenConnect, and that he'd pay for installation and maintenance. They told him no.
-Thanks for your feedback - yes to BLE!
-we are still negotiating larger scale manufacturing but that is the ideal.
-One example of an in-app purchase would be optional tools to organize your dog's life and changing the color of the LED, etc.

What font do you think would work better?
Map: Where The Majority of Immigrants Come From By State (Removing Mexico)
So the cops arresting journalists in McDonald's, or shooting tear gas canisters at Al-Jazeera on an otherwise empty street, that's a proportional response to aggression?

If one a-hole in a crowd hucks a bottle at you, gassing the whole crowd is not proportional.
I'm not quite sure about that. From my understanding you can do it in a way where eventually you lose the trail. Because of the legalities of what information each country shares, if you get it in the right order you can prevent it from leading all the way back.
I use a Trello board that I add links to. I tag them and sometimes add a little description so I know why I want to get back to it. Oh, and I also use my web browser.
Edit: To think of it, is this just with SF Bay startups?

It's just a guess, but I'd say there's a good chance of that. I mean, I'm on the East Coast, and from what I read on here about SF / Bay startups, I get the feeling that a lot of things here are less competitive, less hyberbolic, more relaxed, etc.

Which is ironic in a sense I guess, since traditionally it was the West Coast were people were considered more chill, laid back, etc. But in terms of the startup scene, I feel like that may be a bit backwards. It's hard to say though.
That's less of a problem now than it was back then. I'd be pretty comfortable taking a center of mass shot using 75gr TAP 5.56mm into a man's chest, especially at a plunging angle, without too much fear of overpenetration. I wouldn't do it with .308 m118lr, but I might do it with the right hollowpoint.

If someone in a crowd had drawn a weapon and were firing at the police, I'd consider this an acceptable risk, even if someone might get injured by the shot (the bigger risk would be the crowd moving in front of him, etc.)

It beats the alternative of hundreds of police responding with unaimed pistol/rifle/shotgun fire, for sure.
10 Diagnoses Commonly Caused by Hypothyroidism
This is needlessly conspiratorial. Oil companies and sovereign wealth funds are some of the biggest investors in renewables on earth. Everyone knows we will reach peak oil at some point, whether through increasingly costly extraction/taxation or increasingly cheap renewable competitors. There is no 'grand conspiracy' to quash alternative energy sources.
I've got an HN chrome extension that might have caused the glitch. oops. I'll leave it alone as slang800 answered it. thanks!
For the last two decades, the U.S. Government has been slapping a "void where prohibited" sticker on citizen rights.

Which is why we have "1st Amendment Zones", endless debates on the 2nd Amendment, the NSA violating the 4th Amendment with impunity, and American citizens being denied their 5th Amendment rights via armed drone.
>lean startup

You mean a bootstrapped startup?

http://steveblank.com/2009/11/02/lean-startups-aren%E2%80%99...
http://practicetrumpstheory.com/2010/03/bootstrapping-a-lean...
This thing really needs a GPS, great idea just need something "more"!
It would be really cool if I could embed/share a widget on my blog that includes all the functionality from your trip pages (e.g. http://itripd.com/trip/3). Give people an easy way to upload photos and locations on your site, then output a code they can embed on their blog as a "where I've been" section.
Linkage http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/heatmapjs/
How do you started it? How long it took for you to find first clients?
How America responds to the events in Ferguson will affect what we see in our own neighborhoods in the coming years.
A Rust curiosity: pointers to zero-sized types
Well, that's not the entire story of what is going on over there.

As I said, I'm not dismissing the situation -- but if I owned a store over there, I would want the police to protect my storefront from vandals and looters in force.

As for the other things that are going on -- I think it's best to wait for the full report being assuming [the worst] things.

Just remember, 99.9999% of police don't wake up in the morning and say to themselves "how can I screw over citizens today". They are just people like you and me. There are always two sides of any story.
But heaven forbid we build a bike lane to reduce the number of cars on the road
I feel like this research garnered attention only because (1) it uses little robots and (2) it came from Harvard. A computer simulation could have demonstrated the effectiveness of the underlying algorithm just as well. I also suspect if this same project had been done at a state school far fewer people would notice.
I don't think you get the conflict of interest issue, like, at all. Your example is sort of okay. However, its really easy to find examples that aren't okay from your own site.

1) http://mashable.com/2013/04/11/social-ad-revenue/

Ad revenue article sponsored by a marketing firm that sells a product in relation to that.

2) http://mashable.com/2011/11/18/hubspot-sponsored-post-1/

This is basically plugging what Hubspot is selling.

3) http://mashable.com/2010/12/15/sponsored-technology-500-list...

Here is another one that basically plugs itself.
not to get into the nuances of how modern democracies work but thinking that politicians are constantly crowdsourcing the best ideas and using that information to guide them is an incredible naive view of how modern democracies (usually democratic republic with additional branches that contain a mixture of elected and appointed officials).

Politicians in a modern democracy do indeed need to stay elected but that is typically independent of what a true, unfettered democracy would produce. Some of this is by design -- a pure democracy would be largely unworkable. At best too fractured and at worst everyone would vote for more benefits and less (no) taxes at the expense of national debt for a future generation.

Mostly politicians vote for what keeps them in office. Which as we see in the US is typically special interest groups and powerful lobbists.

True crowdsourcing occurs in free market economies. We could go there :) The libertarian would say if high speed rail was so in demand and made such economic sense then why arent companies scrambling to take advantage of a market inefficiency to make gobs of money?
Ask HN: How do you let people know your project exists?
Suppose you create an app or a web application: how do you let people know it exists? I mean, you can setup a twitter account, but nobody follows it initially (nobody knows it exists), you can setup a landing page but nobody knows it exists too and so on...so, what are you really "beginning" strategies?