skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_...

One aspect of the gun control debate is the conflict between gun control laws and the right to rebel against unjust governments. Blackstone in his Commentaries alluded to this right to rebel as the natural right of resistance and self preservation, to be used only as a last resort, exercisable when "the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression".[71] Some believe that the framers of the Bill of Rights sought to balance not just political power, but also military power, between the people, the states and the nation,[72] as Alexander Hamilton explained in 1788:

[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude[,] that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.[72][73]

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If you accept above interpretation, why don't local police have nuclear weapons? Also why aren't nuclear weapons sold to citizens who have a right to "keep and bear arms"?
Haha, I'm sorry but why on earth would you have an error screen as one of your main screenshots that displays the apps functionality. "Connection Error". For that matter "Loading..." seems a bit odd too. This honestly looks like satire but I don't think it was intended to be so.

That aside to leave a real comment: I'm really pleased to see how simple the code is for these apps. I wasn't aware they could be written with Javascript. It seems more and more people are turning to JS as the scripting languages for most abstractions, i.e. google spreadsheets coding is in JS. Microsoft native apps are in JS. Pebble etc.. I wonder if Pebble is actually running V8 in the background or what they do.

Regardless good work!

Consider removing the error and loading screens from your presentation of the app. As well as fixing the consistency of the indentation in your code. But otherwise these are exciting times!
Very nice hover effects. I have only one gripe with them though: The transitions should be way faster. .3 seconds max., possibly less.
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Ask HN: Guides on finding hidden APIs by monitoring network traffic?
...Or other methods?
Thanks, I'm also thinking of limiting the target IP to origin IP, at least for port-range (next feature) scans.
I think if people who need to sleep more is at a competitive disadvantage compared to other people, they will be less able to provide for the next generation, which will allow natural selection to slowly weed out those who don't have the gene.
Had hoped from the title the product would be a way to switch a USB drive from read/write to enforced read-only mode to protect from malware on unknown hosts. Would be a nice product in itself.
If the project permits it (size, complexity, what kind of bugs I expect to encounter) I like to have my static assets in a separate git repository.

System configuration I think is a problem independent of the programming language and anything you try will feel as hack. As long as it works, it is ok. :)
in areas where fuel is pricey or ecologically unsuitable, sure
SSH in the browser
Hey, that's a good point. Thanks. I'm still trying to figure out a way for preventing such abuse. Otherwise, I would have to limit the scanning to origin IP.
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If you want to run with this metaphor, I sent employees to look into random rooms and tell me what proportion of occupants were dead.
Ask HN: Sell project?
Hi all,

I guess I am not alone with this kind of situation, let me explain:

So, a couple of years ago I was writing together with some colleagues this php-project - a real estate platform targeting the German market. Its not a small hobby project, but still never made any money - which is the point. Because, after some initial response from the market, we knew we had to put in some extra effort (mainly features the market requested), but we had no time since (family, other jobs, projects, ...). Now is the time to either take the whole thing down or sell it, because keeping it running is not a real option anymore.

I am neither sure where to look for people who are interested, nor at which price-point. Of course, as some things are not finished the market requests, the whole traction is just missing. The project is now 5 years old, running since then without problems, but was not developed since anymore. It took around 400 man-hours to complete everything. At the end, its very sad, since it was running a lot of time, money and heart into the project, but that doesn't count, I know I know...

Do you think, is something like this sell-able, or should we just take it down? Where would you look for buyers for such a thing?

Thank you for your answers.
I use Macdown when writing things for my Jekyll[0]-powered website. I've installed the CSS of my website as a MacDown theme, and so I can see what the text would look like when published to the site, in real-time while editing.

In addition I personally have found that while raw Markdown is great for writing, when it comes down to rereading what I wrote and editing it, I prefer a properly typeset version of the text, so I don't have my reading * flow*​ _broken up_ by [unnecessary characters](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) and `so on`. And having a live preview lets me reread as soon as I make the change.

It's a minor difference, but I like it. To each his own.

[0] http://jekyllrb.com/
I am sure they will get on it right after they close gitmo six years ago.
The nuclear arms argument is a classic fallacy bandied about frequently when gun rights come up.

There can be no argument in favor of nuclear weapons used for individual, or even small group or very localized, self-defense. In fact, I'd argue there can never be a valid argument in favor of nuclear weapons for self-defense (with emphasis on self).

For defending a larger population base, the police have no reason to have nuclear weapons because they are not in charge of national defense or national security. That is left to the military, which does have nuclear weapons.

There can be no precise or selective targeting with nuclear weapons, in the sense of shooting a bad guy and not shooting an unarmed civilian near by. Nuclear weapons also do not function to defend against individual crime, which is something a gun can defend against. In any act of attempting to defend yourself from a localized attack by using a nuke, you will kill yourself and countless civilians nearby. There's an exceptionally long list of reasons why the floated nuclear weapons counter makes absolutely no sense.

Ultimately you can tell the nuclear arms argument is irrational, because if you follow the logic behind it to the proper conclusion, no person ever has a right to self-defense under any circumstances: because you should thus never be allowed to wield any weapons, including a knife or baseball bat in self-defense. It's the ultimate argument in ridiculousness: if you can't be allowed to do X very extreme thing, then you can't be allowed to do X drastically less extreme thing. A scale comparison would be, if I'm allowed to drive a car - cars kill 30,000 people per year in the US - then why can't I 'drive' an aircraft carrier.
I'm certain that it does; the argument is whether it is "bad" in a global sense. (It's bad for the US in the short term, and in the long term, we're all dead.)

The US got very good at producing food, and the result is low farm employment, low food prices, and too many monocultures and high-intensity operations that trade a few years of profits against long-term fertility. Corporations have few incentives to look many years into the future, and no incentive to clean up anything that can be externalized cheaper.

The US got very good at mechanization, and then at building tools for mechanization, and then at selling plans for building tools for mechanization... the low-wage jobs move to cheaper areas of the world.

Apple is a microcosm: what does it say on your shiny new white box? Designed in California. (Built in China, from components from Thailand and Taiwan, from materials mined all across Africa.)

But what replaces the low-wage jobs, when there are no factories, no farm jobs? Retail and service, and retail is being eaten by Walmart on one end and Amazon on the other.
"While it presents as a fever, you're also not particularly infectious in the early stages. Viral loading matters."

I have seen nothing authoritative that backs up this assertion. Our estimates of everything about the epidemiology of this virus are based on rather limited data. The disease isn't spreading like wildfire in Monrovia based on "burial practices" alone; we're getting some new data on what happens when it gets loose in a densely populated urban area.

As for your other point: you're right that rural Africa has problems with education and fear, but it's foolish to think that we'd be substantially better. Look at the response to the (perfectly safe) return of the two infected people to Emory: people were protesting this move, spreading misinformation on social media, and otherwise being complete idiots. If we actually had Ebola circulating in the population of a major US city, I doubt the collective response would be particularly educated or rational.

I hesitate to call these sorts of arguments xenophobic, but there's definitely an element of the "ignorant other" at work in assumptions that the people of Africa are responding in some fundamentally different way than we'd see in any large population of fearful people. We have sophisticated hospitals and high standards of medical care, but crowds are crowds around the world.
Thanks for the feedback! At this point writing a serious Cocoa app would require using the frameworks directly.

I think would be awesome if there was a way to implement native Cocoa apps with JS frameworks like Ember or Backbone. It might require some plugins but if done correctly could be interesting and maybe useful.

It may be possible convert official documentation and examples to use JS syntax. This could remove the context switch to Objective-C syntax.
The irony of holding communist China up as some sort of free-market paradise...
Not sure why anyone interested in writing a cross-platform application would even think of Objective-C. You must be an OSX user.

Just as one example, Komanda could've been done with Python and any of the variety of cross-platform GUI toolkits available for that language. It would run everywhere, faster, using native widgets, and in a language designed for the desktop.
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what can you buy with $35 that has the capabilities of the chromecast?
Here is another project that also uses this keyboard layout, with a marimba sound:

http://michaelscottnelson.com/app/Charmonika2/
I think that the 'bv's following 'yhgr' might be 'vc' instead -- sounds closer to me. I gotta say, I really like this layout, even if it's slightly less than intuitive for me.
So basically, the vendors who maintain Android forks that diverge significantly from upstream take longer to ship updates, the carriers don't care about updates, and even slightly-aged phones get left out in the cold. It seems like all of that could be significantly helped by Android and the vendors' forks being operated like open-source projects, with continuous pulls and rebases as necessary to keep the forks in sync.

Unfortunately, the entire OS and all its feature set of stuff that's got nothing to do with cellular is still held back by the carriers "concerns" about controlling the devices on their network: the carrier-locking and attempts to prevent the device owner from having root access. We need to separate the connectivity from the user-facing OS, the way we have a dichotomy for our wired internet connections with ISP-controlled modems and user-owned and controlled routers. The hardware's pretty much set up that way already, though the carriers might want a bit more compute power available to them in the cellular baseband if they don't get to have access to the application processor.
You can open the JavaScript console (F12) and it shows the name of the notes (along the musical octave).
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136781/carol-rosenber...
Not you with this idiotic crap again.
Nice work. Lyft has official Android Wear support which is pretty cool. Telling your watch to call you a car gets me every time.
That makes sense. Now, the general point I think would be that at a smaller scale we're hearing accounts of local police (or perhaps state police) riding around in tanks shooting tear gas into groups of citizens.

Where are the accounts of organized groups of citizens riding around in tanks firing tear gas at who they believe to be oppressive police force? Are those available in the free market?

I guess I'm trying to figure out where the line is supposed to be drawn in terms of who gets what kinds of arms? I'm sure alot of folks would argue that as soon as a local police force is given particular types of weapons, it's perhaps assumed that citizens will have same or similar weapons available to them to organize to protect themselves from oppressive government.

EDIT: Or more precisely, as soon as certain types of weapons are turned against its own citizens, is it right that those citizens don't have the same or similar weapons at their disposal to protect themselves?
Huh, I think you are right! Just removed these screenshots. Thank you for your suggestion. :)
This question is going to give you skewed results because only the people who do need it would bother to reply. Personally, no, I have no use for it.
> What would you do at night if there wasn't technology enabling you to keep yourself preoccupied?

I can't imagine boredom to be a major evolutionary force back in the day.

There's lots you can do in the dark. And the night isn't all dark, either. There's the moon and stars. We have other senses, too. Just keeping watch and defending against lions seems like a good use of time already.
There's no license as of now but I'm in the process of adding one. Do you have any suggestions?
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Node-red, a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things
I, for one, welcome our LiteScriptified UglyJS overlords.
god this place is full of morons: https://github.com/mephux/komanda/commits/master
>They both have experience in law enforcement

You realize that police don't think that, right? And other than those attorneys working for Dept of Justice and other agencies with a law enforcement mandate, I don't think many attorneys consider themselves "law enforcement" either.

The local ambulance chaser or deed auditor hardly goes around calling himself "law enforcement".
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Since a lot of people are saying it shouldn't have taken that long for your VP to set up an irc server (which I agree with), I'd like to argue a case I haven't seen made here. What were your specific needs? Was he setting the server up for just those needs, or what "might be needed"? Both a IRC server and ZNC do not take much to configure for basic needs.

When you start adding features you don't need but think are cool or may one day get used, setting up these things becomes a whole other thing. A IRC server with simple nick auth and chanserv I'm sure would've been enough. What else did your VP implement? A egg drop not? Some other features? There has to be more to this story then you've said.
Is nice that you can open the JavaScript console (F12) and it shows the name of the notes (along the musical octave).

Is a shame there are some chords that you can't play (chord: pressing notes at the same time), such as "yup". But I think is a hardware limitation rather than a bug in the JavaScript.
I suspect that http://humdi.net/vnstat/ or something similar could do the trick.
> With Go you need a directory structure to store your templates, CSS, etc.

Is there anything stopping one from appending a zip archive to the go binary, and having the binary open the executable as a zip file to get at the static assets ?
Ridiculous. Go's lack of verbose classes and lack of inheritance, pass everything by value, the existence of pointers, first class concurrency primitives, compile to binary / no interpretation/JIT, lack of a VM, built in unit testing/benching, fast compile times, memory usage, easy C integration, etc etc all make it very different from Java.

I've been writing Go full-time for over 2 years and used to write mostly Java/C#, so I should know. When I started with Go and ported many of my personal Java applications, they all were much more maintainable and straight forward in Go.

Of course C had always been favorite language, and all I ever really wanted was a "modern" C, so I am probably biased.
"Wood or other biomass-fueled fires are CO2-neutral"

Okay, I'll bite. How does burning wood not result in a net increase in CO2? Are you assuming that for every cord of wood burnt, that someone is simultaneously planing and growing a cord's worth of tree (which, of course, pulls carbon out of the air?)

That's a pretty big assumption.
Could QT be made to look as pretty? QT based apps are notoriously hard to work with on OSX, they never quite manage to fit in at all. That said I can't get this one to function at all, so it's a moot point as far as usability goes.
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I'd rather die prematurely from pollution, than die immediately from exposure or lack of clean drinking water.

Pollution really is way, way down on the list of concerns for people in impoverished nations. Water, Shelter, Food are much more pressing concerns.
Andrew Tridgell has several posts about reverse engineering the SMB protocol to implement Samba [1]

Additionally the Wireshark docs [2] would be a fruitful place to go looking and learning about setting up a protocol analyzer.

1. http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/myths_about_samba.html

2. https://www.wireshark.org/docs/
A patriotic tune

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agree. i prefer to write anything (code, markdown, etc) in my own text editor - sublime

for live preview, i used Marked.app which also supports GitHub flavored markdown
Python is not faster than Node.
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Currently some aspects of prototype inheritance are implemented. One day Cupertino.js should support an ECMA standard http://www.ecmascript.org - the Javascript spec that most web browsers implement. Once this is finished it would have "full" support of the language, minus any vendor added functionality.

I think porting apps might require some refactoring around the UI layer or adding functionality that is only exposed by native frameworks. It may be interesting to look into supporting hybrid web frameworks in the future :)
Honestly, we're (collectively) never going to adopt this on a large scale. Everything I read in this article is just horribly complicated. I don't have a solution, but none of these are the right one. There's so much complexity going on that no developer will get it right without devoting a massive amount of time and effort just to load the "right" image at the "right" time.

Honestly, I need to support retina screens for mobile and desktop. For non-retina screens getting a larger image doesn't really matter. Non retina mobile devices are rapidly disappearing. So therefore I'm comfortable delivering higher resolution images to all devices.

I optimize our images by making them as small as possible and using lazy loading. These two techniques are more than adequate to suit out needs right now.

I am (loosely) of the opinion right now that this is an answer in search of a problem.
Song Of Storms from Zelda: Ocarina Of Time sounds awesome on here: 347 347 J8J8JYT T34FT T34FD
pandoc will do pretty much exactly that.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html
Replicating web-style prettified UIs seems to be one of the major goals of QML. In any case, if your alternative is an HTML/CSS/JS/Node application, I don't think replicating native look and feel is really that likely to be a sticking point.
I don't know if I agree that it's a necessary conclusion that if "not 100X", then "not 1X". The reason for the inquiry was to probe the boundaries of the issue that's being argued. If the boundaries are defined by the stated interpretation of 2nd amendment, perhaps folks come to different conclusion of what kinds of weapons local police forces should be allowed to utilize.
As a long time DP contributor, I'd say the models could not be more different. DP is elaborately and deeply organized around the model of a great many people doing a great many small units of work (stop by once a day and proofread just one page for very specific things). This minimizes the responsibility any one person needs to feel for a book. And like the citizen science projects at zooniverse, individual mistakes are corrected in a multi-pass process where multiple people (5 or 6) see every page.

The new project follows the Github programming model, which means if a person wants to contribute to a book she has to clone the book, make local changes, push, issue a pull request. This is far, far more complex than stopping by pgdp for a ten-minute proofing session. Very few of the drive-by proofers at DP could manage that technically, or would want to be that involved.

Most important it lacks the QC inherent in the DP model of having multiple later reviewers catching earlier errors. Who will do line-by-line vetting of the accuracy of pull requests? Besides the inevitable detail mistakes, there are potential problems similar to those faced by Wikipedia: who will even notice if some local zealot decides to insert editorial comments in, or to bowdlerize the language of, some classic?

It's true that DP's work ends when the book is posted to PG, and that PG has only a feeble update method (email to their errata contact). I could certainly see something like this project as an adjunct to PG, dedicated to continually refreshing the library, but with editorial control over which books go into it.
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go.rice (https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice) does things like this.
There are some 3rd party build tools to help with that. Below are a couple I found.

https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice

https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata

EDIT: to add, the Go team is looking to add a generate command in go1.4 to help with this. See: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-dev/ZTD1qtp...
65C sounds like plenty enough heat over an hour.

Such temperatures are common in sous-vide (see e.g. http://www.douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html - interesting headings to grep include "Pasteurized in Shell Egg" and "Computing the Destruction of Pathogens")
> Books are clearly worse in virtually every context than one on one dialog with the author.

This is what Feynman himself wrote in the preface to the books under discussion.
Someone should make a keyboard that assigns nice sounding intervals to the most common digrams/trigrams so that typing normal text produces better music.
A quick heads-up: I left the page open to play with it later and about an hour and a half afterwards, it apparently started blaring quite alarming noise out of nowhere. Didn't hear it myself but it freaked out the unlucky person in the room.
Feynman actually found that the lectures kind of flopped as a semesters courses. It was too intense, IIRC.
Sigh. The authors have taken a PDF and generated HTML out of it. I can understand the desire to maintain copyright, but this is ridiculous.