skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top post is devoted to a discussion of those second-order effects. I'm pointing out that it ignores some rather significant checks upon government's use of this.

the police there will be free to do whatever they want with this switch.

Why, do they not have any law about interfering with communications in MO? If not, why hasn't cellphone service been shut down there already?
Reminds me of a similar project that was called 'lunch-hat' or something that I can't find now. The premise was similar, you find some strangers near you to have lunch with.
And Google in particular is rightfully pilloried for it.
Free speech doesn't mean one has the right not to be confronted with free speech of others (in this case - with the downvotes of others.)
If you encrypt the data first, then you're inserting "random" data as far as analysis goes.
There is a (mostly) unfiltered feed available, just change the sort order to Most Recent. You may find that Facebook periodically (or in my case, always) changes it back though.
Also by Lars -- Norman Centuries -- fascinating account of how Vikings ended up ruling Britain, Normandy, Sicily and leading crusades. http://normancenturies.com/
This is the funniest post I have read on HN in months - pure genius.
The only thing you need to solve this specific problem is jQuery.
Is there more detail on just how the energy is being generated here? All I see is "battery" and intimations that there are no working fluids.
10 Growth Hacking Lessons from Nathan For You
Yes, most US dollars are "virtual" by their definition.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/MB%2C_M1_and_M...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuisance
Looking further at the metadata, the author is "Williams, John A DLA CIV DISPOSITION SERVICES" and the company is "Defense Logistics Agency"
A slum is not defined by the income of its residents, but by the quality of the homes.
The containers are stacked higher and nearer the edge than I would've expected for an oceangoing ship. Do ships like this lose containers in rough seas?
Just change the and ("— and Microsoft") to "but Microsoft", and you get the true meaning.
I can't speak to their overhead, but the fees certainly seem excessive and in some cases insulting (e.g. at-home ticket printing convenience fees).

They have also been criticized, sued, and investigated for anti-trust practices. In fairness, I don't think any of these challenges have been successful (though some have been settled and the terms are not public).
NB: source of that land use chart:

http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/2036_Alternative-Energy-Sour...

http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010/...

http://www.cnet.com/news/figuring-land-use-into-renewable-en...
This looks interesting. I have been using App Engine for a while, but getting a little sick of the restrictive environment. I think I will give this a try.
First, let me caveat: I'm not a REST expert, but I've been known to pretend to be one.

It seems to me you're under the impression that REST tends to lead to systems that:

1. Transfer logic to the client
2. Put the client in charge with modifying the state
3. Lack Behavioral APIs.

Too many people assume RESTful services are these simplistic services that return JSON objects, which are then modified by the client and PUT back on the server. This isn't the case. When you request a resource (think object) from a RESTful service, it doesn't just send you its state. It sends you its state and metadata describing the interface in which you can interact with this resource. If you we were talking about an HR database, requesting an employee object would not only return the employee's data, it would also include relevant metadata on how to request vacation days. That operation is not a PUT operation, it's likely you'd POST a vacation-request message to a URL that would start some sort of workflow.

A RESTful architecture is very good at behaving like a network file system by default, but it can also support behavioral interfaces in a RESTful way when you need them using POST. You may be familiar with the CQRS architecture, which explicitly separates commands from queries when designing APIs. The idea is anything queries your system should *never* change its state, and anything that changes the state of a system should be sent as a one-way message. If you've done CQRS correctly, it should be easy to log all messages that change your system's state similar to a database transaction log. A RESTful architecture makes the same demands and then some more.

1. If you're implementing GET, don't modify the state.
2. If you're implementing PUT, it should modify the resource addressed at the URL and it should be idempotent.
3. If a resource implements POST, you get none of the above guarantees.

So, I don't think REST prevents behavioral API's so much as it demands that anything behavioral is POSTed as command-based message.
Most of us who have been developing with the Microsoft stack have been burnt at least twice with key frameworks/technologies that have been artificially end-of-lifed while at their peak, leaving our projects based on obsolete technologies at v1.

I suspect that is what the parent comment is about, and not immature projects that were discontinued (with ample warning and exit) due mostly to lack of interest, as mentioned in your counter-bicker.
I hope this whole racketeering workshop will be cut for good sooner than later.
"Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that IV kept asking the same companies to reinvest, and if they didn’t, the threat was that the company could always find something to sue one of the entities over."

Say, nice corporation you got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.
It was "cricket" originally, wasn't it?
The new stock photography
Yeah, that worked really well in Ludlow. I can't think of any other cases in the US where armed civilians were up against automatic weapons. I'd be delighted to see some more examples.
Life may have improved compared to the tail end of the empire, when economic problems (and misguided attempts to fix them) and raiding barbarians made life difficult. An exodus from the cities was happening, inflation was out of control, and rigid rules attempting to reverse the economic changes failed horribly (but hey, macroeconomics is hard, and wasn't really figured out until the 20th century).

But what about compared to Rome and the empire in its heyday? What about before empire compared to during empire?
Yes, they do. A few weeks ago this hit hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8062864. 62 containers were lost due to a "once in a 100 year wave." One of which contained Legos.

I'm not sure what the expected value is for number of TEUs lost per journey. I'd hope that it's near zero, but I don't know.

Edit: quick google. Estimates range from 1,000 (World Shipping Council)[0] to 10,000 (Singularity Hub)[1] lost per year. Either way, with 120 million containers shipped per year, it's quite low.

0. http://gcaptain.com/how-many-shipping-containers-lost-at-sea...

1. http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/05/10000-shipping-containe...
It's mostly irrelevant. No one is investing in the hedge fund average, they are investing in the hedge funds that they think will do well. It's actually the same if you look at VC funds -- the overall returns of venture funds is poor, but the returns of the top quartile of funds is outstanding. In any case, the S&P 500 is not an appropriate benchmark for the hedge fund industry as a whole, because many hedge funds do not invest (solely) in equities and those that do theoretically have different risk characteristics from the market.
C++: Checking units at compile time (2003)
I made the other submission and it's actually the exact same article, there is just a small difference in the URL. Interesting to see how this took off when the other one did not.
Hey Craig, nice to hear from you, I hope things are going well. That is a nice bump! The data and model parallelism they added is very cool. We'll be hosting a meetup soon, it's been a while, hope to see you there.
Hah! I had the exact same idea. I created a landing page, posted it on HN and asked:

1. "Is my startup idea legal?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7167200

2. "Is it possible to 'shop without borders'? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166333

Interesting discussion ensued. Read more about my tiny non-existent precursor to Backpack :) I am so intrigued by the fact that they actually went ahead, launched and executed! Hats off. I never progressed beyond just thinking about it.
Anytime you care desperately about a cause or entity you branded as "yours", a certain irrationality has to go hand in hand with that. Without that emotional attachment to something that leads you to make those decisions, you wouldn't get some of the best gut decisions either. Give and take.
I can't find the 20k hammer or the toilet seat.
Immunity Project- This product sounds amazing.
Urgent: Does anyone have a contact at Weebly (YC W07)?
For the past 3 weeks we have been unable to export orders from our online store, and this is delaying the shipment of over $300,000 worth of orders. My emails to support@weebly.com have gone unanswered. Can someone at Weebly please help us resolve this?
> IV spends a large amount of money (billions [1]) on purchasing patents. One might reasonably expect that to encourage innovation.

I don't see how purchasing any kind of patents can encourage innovation. Innovation is encouraged by returns from the innovation, not by returns from sold patents. Recycling patents for profit is a completely parasitic business which has nothing to do with innovation.
> Better dumping it on Deputy Joe than letting it rot.

This is a central assumption the DoD/Government has been making, that is turning out to be misguided if not flat-out wrong. The police in this country are not properly trained as to when to deploy this equipment, and when it's deployed, how to use it.

Just as spreading weapons of war to all parts of the middle east hasn't exactly lead to peace there, spreading weapons of war all across America will hardly lead to an orderly society. It seems like if you give men weapons, they itch to use them, or the power it gives them.
Do patents boost innovation?
I presume this is an obvious leap, but in Ferguson the BBC reporter just commented on the tensions between the Black population and "the security forces".

I used to scoff at the "militarisation of the police" stories on HN. I assume this is the same mental leap everyone else is having?
Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms for Online Advertising
When I was majoring in physics 10 years ago, a prof with expertise in nuclear physics said the only thing stopping us was funding.

Just of late I came across this graph which says something similar: http://i.imgur.com/JyUZDe2.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaple0Ec1Dg

Besides the legal obstacles to making this commerically viable, there are technical ones too:

Unfortunately this technology is quite a bit more complicated than a simple .apk download - it involves system-wide changes including a modified Linux kernel.
Patrick Air Force Base is in Brevard County.

"Headquartered at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, the 920th Rescue Wing is the Air Force Reserve Command's premier combat search and rescue (CSAR) unit. The wing consists of over 1,500 Airmen, trained and equipped to locate and recover U.S. Armed Forces personnel during both peacetime and wartime military operations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/920th_Rescue_Wing
> The left most lane (excluding HOV lanes) is for /passing/. Unless you are passing you should NOT be in this lane.

This is not generally the case.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
Well,they needed 3 Kiowa(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_OH-58_Kiowa) & a lot(54) of Bell UH1-H's.....How do they afford to maintain a fleet that big?
What a great time to introduce you to http://www.cargolaw.com/gallery.html

This site has lots of amazing pictures if you can get past the Geocities design. Like this:

http://www.cargolaw.com/2012nightmare_bai_chay_bri.html
The speed limit applies to the left lane too.
IANAL, but I'm not actually sure datasets like these CAN be copyrighted. Copyright rewards "original creative expression", (Feist v. Rural Telephone Service) not just effort, and I know things like phone books and other databases aren't protected by copyright. Generally, compilation protection is limited to things like charts and graphs, were the author has actually shown creative input into how the data is presented or displayed.

EDIT: But just to be sure, I would recommend something is well understood and is aimed towards a general usage, such as a Creative Commons license of your choice http://creativecommons.org/choose/
It's a quote from "Independance Day" explaining how the us govt was able to keep the funding of area 51 secret.

I think the quote is not the main thrust of the GP point - but it's pretty hard to make any sensible comments with billions in hardware being given away.
It's more simple than that. Does IV produce anything?

If they don't have a product or a revenue stream other than suing companies, then they are parasite to the economy.
On the other hand, your job will be very happy to expand and take all "family time" that you have voluntarily chosen to forgo. Going with the flow takes you where the flow takes everybody else. You must first learn what is valuable for you and then plan your life around those values, not the other way around.
I didn't miss it. I simply know projects that use UTF-8 for in-memory strings, and none of the ones I'm familiar with uses a different type for it. It's all convention, and they all occasionally find that somebody flubbed the convention. Can you point me to any projects that manipulate UTF-8 encoded in-memory strings and actually use a different type for it them?

I realize I won't convince you. That's what I meant in the original comment that I know many people disagree with me on this.
Frequenting the bar scene, for those so inclined, is the fast track to this: "getting comfortable and feeling like every interaction with another human won't make or break you."
Build It and They Will Come Myth
That's an extreme example, but really traveling anywhere before modern transportation was slow. I remember from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography that it took him two weeks just to travel from Boston to Philadelphia. And IIRC, he went by sea and almost drowned in a ship wreck along the way.
This is really interesting -- I had the exact same reaction as the majority of the responses to this comment.

Ignoring the tax issue for a moment, I would expect the arbitrage to fluctuate with shipping costs and currency valuations, which is really interesting.

But unfortunately, it's really difficult to ignore the tax issue. In particular, China and the United States are sticklers for this, and getting caught smuggling a high priced item (I forget the threshold) won't be viewed as innocent arbitrage by customs.

This model would work equally well for drugs and human trafficking, so I would assume that most governments will/should have a problem with this form of tariff evasion.

Note: I'm not trying to imply that the founders have anything but the best intentions here. I'm simply pointing out that the very existence of a viable distribution network such as this might be of concern for authorities.
Very interested. shows an easy to understand history lesson with great visuals.
$100/hr comes out to about $200k/yr. Only the developers at the top echelon make that kind of money.
i might just move there. sounds like better odds than most places during zombie apocalypse.
I'll paraphrase the article:

Suppose that one day your daughter will physically and
mentally outclass you. You'd better find a means to
control her now that will still work even then.

...As you might have guessed, I disagree with the author. Here's how I would have done it:

One day, you will be feeble in mind and body. You'd
better raise your children well!
Microsoft is part of the DJIA so it should not be too surprising that their movements are pretty well correlated
Yet another critique of REST by someone who doesn't understand REST.

(product_id should be a hypertext reference to the product resource, not an id - you should be able to work out the rest (no pun intended))
This is blatantly false. I work on the east coast (Cambridge) and know lots of people on both coasts with tech jobs that didn't involve demonstrating a "passion" for hobbies that "revolve around stereotypical programmer things". I also know plenty that do demonstrate such passion, but it's not a prerequisite.
revolutionary transportation
I think that the existant baseball score-keeping leaves out some important information as well; it's not uncommon to see people extend the basic notation.

A fly-out to 4 is very different if there is a major defensive shift on, for example.

(Certain hitters favor hitting to one side of the field or another, and when they are particularly dominant hitters, the defense will move highly out-of-position; moving the defense from the standard position in general is called a "shift").
awesome, good luck ;)
I realize it's hard to predict what direction a company will take in the future, but is it YCombinator's policy to incubate companies that from the start seem to be competing against each other? It seems to me that ListRunner and Medisas (http://www.forbes.com/sites/alextaub/2014/04/24/meet-medisas...) do pretty much exactly the same thing.
That is simply not true.

The smartphone shall, during the initial device setup process, prompt an authorized user to enable the technological solution. [...]

(2) An authorized user of a smartphone may affirmatively elect to disable or opt-out of enabling the technological solution at any time. [...]
> Going the speed limit or lower in the passing lane

Except when a special designation is made (common on, e.g., two lane highways that have a stretch where a third lane is added to one or the other side expressly for passing), no such thing exists in many US jurisdictions. There are some US jurisdictions where the leftmost lane is by default reserved for passing (or passing and allowing traffic to merge in the other lane), but that is the exception, not the general rule.
When we first learned about finite state machines in computer science, baseball came to mind.

It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to draw the state diagram for a baseball game just like you could with a regex.
Jefferson county in WV did pay $189 per a latrine though...
From the Javascript point of view, isnt it usually better to manipulate dom object properties instead of DOM attributes?
You're probably not missing anything. By my (limited) reckoning, even if they can get their design to work in theory, I think they're grossly underestimating the materials requirements for the fusion reactor.

From what I recall, one of the big problems that any reactor project has is that the reaction has a tendency to destroy the reaction chamber. Not just the heat, but the neutron radiation can completely screw up the reaction chamber walls, which then need replacing. It's one of the reasons the ITER project is so large, to make it relatively robust in the face of such destructive power. I also remember reading a while back that the force from the electromagnets in the ITER project is sufficient to launch the entire reaction chamber off the ground, something like 5000 tons...

Having said that, I think it's cool that they're attempting it and I think that fusion projects have been grossly underfunded in the past. The reason why it's always 30 years away is because they're always cutting the funding!

I'd love to be proven wrong on this, but I imagine they'll have unexpected escalating costs surrounding the actual building of a working durable reactor and the company will die before it gets off the ground.
The speed limit is an arbitrary number that has little basis in safety. It is not a magic number under which you are "safe" and over which you are "in danger".

Speed limits in North America were lowered to save fuel during the oil shortages in the latter half of the 20th century and subsequently were never raised.

Assuming you maintain proper spacing between you and the other cars, driving at 110 km/h is not significantly more dangerous than at 100 or even 90 km/h.
The level of snark and juvenile responses in this thread is amazing. Technically, all Ballmer had to write was "I resign my board position effective immediately" and Nadella could have responded with "Acknowledged". But the letters aren't meant for us. They are meant for investors who may cast doubt onto Microsoft's future with such a key member of the board stepping down. They also serve to reinforce the company's new direction of mobile and cloud. Perhaps the letters are worded awkwardly, but let's not devolve HN into a Reddit joke thread.
Ask HN: How does Dropbox's Betacoin work?
25GB for free, 10TB for $13 by month
I find AirMail to be similar in style with a ton of advanced features. Have you tried using that?
Gems like "If some kids uncle really works for Panasonic then he will be far too busy flying around town in a drop top Lamborghini to be sat smoking 200 cigarettes a day in a shit hole of a wholesale market talking to me." was enough of a hook for me.
Intercom.io withholding information from my website as hostage.
So I just got an email from intercom.io that stated they received a message in my website, but I would only be able to see the message if I renew their service.

What happened here is that I didn't uninstall their gem from my website for the lack of time I have. Therefore, I would expect them to not allow my customers to send them messages anymore, but unfortunately they do, and they are keeping the messages as a hostage.

It's interesting how they market this. They say I have "A message from a potential customer", and then they send me to their subscription page.

I find this type of business approach DIRTY and NASTY. It's terribly immoral to collect data in my website, from my customers, and withhold that as a hostage to get my money.

I hope intercom gets this message. I already ranted for them in a long email. I find this approach illegal, as our business contract is over and they are still collecting data from my website.

I understand many companies have a very aggressive way to get old customers back, but that should never bear the immorality barrier.

Thank you.
See also more on orbital mechanics at the same website at http://www.braeunig.us/space/interpl.htm.
Great business--semi-custom service is a great market for on-line.
I really like your idea of an invoice or ticket for a specific instrument of product price/time.
Using D3.js to Graph Discrepancies in Palestinian Casualty Reports
The quality of the homes is determined by what the tenants can (or choose to) afford.
IV is a garbage company trying to portray itself as a bastion of innovation.

There are certain severe "bugs" in the way our intellectual property laws work in the US. IV exploits these bugs to make Billions of dollars.

IV is not concerned with whether something is good or not. They exist to make hay while the intellectual property laws remain broken.

I had no idea they had 500 people working for them. That means that there are at least 500 people that are severely deluded, or morally repugnant.

If you are an engineer or a lawyer familiar with the patent laws in this country, you can't read the claims asserted by IV and say that they are boosting "innovation" with a straight face. What they do is a dead weight loss on our economy.

I feel sorry for the people that work at IV. They have whored themselves out for a little bit more money, instead of just working productively in this economy.

I don't know how you can show your face in front of your kids and family knowing you go to work every day in an extortion racket.

I would rather make a modest living and look at myself in the mirror with no shame.