skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The position was given without any argument other than authority (of Heritage Foundation). It such cases questioning the authority you just invoked is very natural and good thing for the discussion. If you want discussion about specific arguments, give the arguments (which original poster hasn't provided). You can't expect to just claim something basing it on authority and having other side investigate every point in reasoning that authority gives (and even have them explore and find points themselves) as it puts discussion in imbalance: you do nothing, but invoke authority, the other side is expected to dig deep into every point that authority makes. On the other hand if it's shown that the authority is very biased then either you show specific arguments (which the other side is not allowed to dismiss on bias of the source) or you admit defeat.

That's the way to deal with arguments from authority but some posters were very charitable anyway and gave more analysis than original claim deserved.

Ad-hominem refers to dismissing specific points/arguments based on who made them. Dismissing an argument from authority this way is actually correct way to handle it. The difference I hope is obvious.
The other poster is wrong, misuses common terms and to top it is arrogant about it that's why he is downvoted.
MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, is made by the creator of MySQL (after he left Oracle post-Sun acquisition), has more features and is now generally considered the upstream of MySQL. I also bet Monty is more receptive to working directly with your teams to scale the product or make changes as necessary.
Sundance Vacations goes from bad to worse
So the other Tesla dealerships would have to make minimal profit same as Musk's dealership.

How is this different than Dell disrupting PC sales 20 years ago?
Just curious - what influenced your decision to roll with Ember instead of Angular, and what particularly makes you doubt your decision - i.e. what did you find more appealing in this article about Angular?
Sometimes all you can do is treat the symptoms until a disease has run its course.

Government corruption is not going to disappear any time soon, but we can still work to mitigate its effects in some areas.
Computer Science Majors, Your Degree May Not Be as Valuable as You Think
I recently gave up on sleep tracking after doing it for over 2 years( neo, up band ect). It became one more thing to worry about. Just exercise, don't worry too much, read/learn, try to eat healthy and go to bed and don't worry too much about sleep quality/length etc, your body knows how to take care of itself.
I'm a fairly new OSX user, been on Windows for most of my life and on Linux for a bit. Do you have any suggestions on guides for increasing security?
2014 Watch Map – World Monuments Fund
I had similar problems with battery life. Take a look at TLP [1] - my battery life improved dramatically after installing it (mostly on default settings).

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XXVnP0Y...
Sorry for the late reply S4M.

I think there is a confusion between "leaving your job on your own" and leaving in a consensual way with your employer.

Most of the time, when you decide to leave, you make a departure plan with your employer. If your employer agree with your decision, you generally leave after 3 month or so (depending on the terms of the contract).

You can then ask for you unemployment benefits.
> No. Tracking is about allowing advertisers to better target people that they want to advertise to. A side-effect is providing you with 'better' services.

Those two are NOT exclusive. Targetted advertising only works because you the user find it more useful.

And, no, it's not about better ads, it's about better services. The vast, VAST majority of tracking is never used in targetted ads. Targetted advertising is a very wide net, not hyper-focused.
Personally, it would depend on why they want me to move. If it's so they can build something of huge public benefit and have sound reasoning for why it needs to go through my house, and I'm compensated suitably, then yes of course I would leave. Doing otherwise would be selfish.

But if they don't fulfill all of those requirements, I would probably still move if they increased the compensation offering enough.
This is exactly what happened though. A BitCoin address was posted, and the leaker was taking "donations" with the promise of delivering more pictures, showing proof that he had more by showing partial screenshots of them.
Logitech specifies them, just scroll down

Height 20 mm (0.79 inches)
Width 299 mm (11.77 inches)
Depth 195 mm (7.68 inches)
Weight 820 g (1.81 pounds)

The K810 requires a touch more to track down, but:
Width	287 mm (11.30 inch)
Depth/Length	127 mm (5.0 inch)
Height	5 - 10 mm (0.20 - 0.39 inch)
Weight	337 g (11.89 ounce)
DataFart lets you easily graph data from the command line
Service objects in Rails will help you design clean and maintainable code
> Inertia explains the current MySQL position reasonably well, a better question is how did it climb to its current position during its years of technical incompetence.

Existing, and having an better install story and windows support than PostgreSQL. When it established its dominance, it wasn't because it was the best open-source multi-user relational database in terms of spec sheet features, it was because it was the one people trying to start something could easily setup and get something running with, which quickly led to it being widely supported on shared hosts and having a large base of people with at least some experience, which then created a nice positive feedback loop to maintain its popularity.
> pointing to your new law as precedent and tradition to uphold

"It's the second oldest profession"..."this is what countries do, they spy on each other".

This is already the most commonly used defense for spying, even on HN, despite modern espionage being very different than even a decade or two ago.
Maybe investing in occulus rift style simulation would get around this barrier?
Im getting a 403 forbidden on the Verify URL:
https://nodegear.io/auth/verifyEmail
I disagree with Turing and Kahneman regarding the strength of statistical evidence
we see this clearly in the quality of food for sale in different neighborhoods. grocers in poorer neighborhoods don't have the quality of produce, whereas it's almost difficult (although many still do) to find non grass-fed/free-range/organic/whatever in an upper-class supermarket. so if i'm on food stamps, it doesn't matter what types of healthier foods i'm allowed to receive if they aren't edible. do we really expect people on gov't assistance to travel to rich neighborhoods just to buy groceries? i'm sure the locals would love that, too.
Well, there are two versions of MariaDB -- the 5.x tree (which lags behind the 5.x tree of MySQL and merges changes from MySQL as they are released), and then the 10.x tree which is where MariaDB introduces new features that are not yet in MySQL, and MySQL has merged some of those changes into their project. So, both projects sort of merge each other at times...

I'm no DBA, but I'd think Monty (the creator of MySQL) and his smaller crew at his consulting firm (SkySQL and MariaDB Consulting) which makes MariaDB would be more open and flexible to working directly with Github's teams and needs than through the bureaucracy at Oracle.
The documentation also has an aura of "Isn't this all very clever?"

This attitude needs to die. Forever. Why the fuck should I need know about contravariance and parser combinators to write a basic web app? I hope this Scala forking will kill it in Typesafe. It has no place in actually building products.

I notice a lot of difference in quality between libraries released by enterprises and those by users. It's the difference between https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2014/02/13/hello-newman-a... and Dispatch. We need way more of the former.
I always wondered why unwind-protect required a progn for multiple forms for the first argument when in most cases, you would end up with a single form for the handler and nearly always need a progn for the first argument.

Maybe it's just me?
I tried to make the move from Sleep Cycle to Pillow and found myself going back to SC. Pillow may be prettier but it doesn't seem as usable as SC.
Went temporary offline, try now :)
Very interesting. Have you looked at substance.io? They have a editor who's data editor backend is a json store.
In addition to the acknowledged limits, this also seems to gloss over what I see as the big problem with pollution controls based on property rights, which is many-to-many pollution. A massive coal power plant that poisons the surrounding air is easy enough to sue, but how do you handle something like the LA smog of old, with millions of individually-owned cars each contributing a tiny bit to the problem, but no one entity playing any major role?

I think he sort of touches on that when he talks about how the approach doesn't work on a global scale. It's fundamentally similar: when it's one coal plant, you can deal with it, but how do you sue a million coal plants all over the planet each one contributing a small part? But I think it falls apart even at the local level when pollution from individuals becomes significant, as easily happens now.
I've got K760 (Mac one) and it's simply amazing. I think it's died on me once (when it didn't get enough indoor lighting) in like 1.5 years.
People should also look into the full disk encryption feature provided, FileVault, because it's turned off by default. It's a little beyond your average security measures but it helps me sleep a little better.
Both frameworks have their strength and weaknesses. I think Ember is a heavier and more verbose,but it's easy to integrate third party widgets without having to rewrite them.
While I was coding something to learn AngularJS https://github.com/Mparaiso/markme-silex , I spent most of my time fixing race conditions between the digest cycle and the third party widgets , and sometimes it was reaslly hard to figure out why the model wasnt updating,or why the view was when the model didnt change in appearance. ( I had to integrate masonry,bootstrap modal,tags.input,autocomplete and a few others).

But again,since AngularJS takes care of everything else,that's a tradeoff.Angular solves the architecture problem with dependency injection.
Pluralization is really old, gnu gettext solve this long time ago (1995).

http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html

But you are right, many projects not support this, many don't know it or they are not interessted in other languages.
You probably mean useful. And known.
Thanks josh, just in case you want to stick to the Backbone that, there is a tutorial for that ;)
http://blog.stamplay.com/how-to-build-an-about-me-clone-with...
For those confused (like I was at first); judging by the post, this is I18n pluralization in Ruby on Rails.
The K750[1], which I've been using for a month now, works in very low light, and on a full charge the internal batteries should last without light for "up to 2 months". It's impressive. And a really nice keyboard to boot!

[1]http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/k750-keyboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve

"In mathematical physics, a closed timelike curve (CTC) is a world line in a Lorentzian manifold, of a material particle in spacetime that is "closed", returning to its starting point."

Now, go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle#Vacuums
and look at the picture "One-loop diagram with fermion propagator"

It seems to me that virtual particle pairs satisfy the CTC criterium.
4 Early Indicators Your Startup Idea Can Succeed
The old youtube analytics page was using Highcharts I suppose and it was styled well. Currently they switched Google Charts to visualize data. I'm not sure because all the js code is obfuscated but when I look some values are not obfuscated the functions remind me the variables in these libraries.

Edit: Yes, currently it is definitely Google charts now but I think it was Highcharts in the past.
>A reputation for quality and a good warranty should be able to overcome that with time

I'm not so sure about that. Regardless of the reputation of a brand, people have different tastes when it comes to cars. It's hard to know whether you'll feel comfortable driving a car, like the way it handles, and so on just because it has a good reputation, because different people have different tastes (which they may not understand well). I think taste is the main reason people test drive a few cars before buying, even if they know the reputation of chevy/toyota/tesla going in.
Yes we now, but modern frameworks work with modern browsers. It's a good opportunity to give Chrome a try ;)
Why Founders Should Know How to Code
I think the difference is a browser extension would be portable (and work on locked-down thin clients such as chromebooks where "native" clients are "browser based").

Relatedly, I really, really, wish ChromeOS would support smartcards but reading the frustration of the government/military types that have been begging for this feature for years with no real interest by Google is very disappointing. I really like the form factor of YubiKey Neo that simply hangs on your keychain and just sticks into a USB port to become a smartcard. We're also never going to have gpg-agent on ChromeOS so smartcards is pretty much the only way to keep the private keys off the machine.
Exactly - that's precisely what I was thinking.
Would this work for non-visual content as well?
I believe 'levers of power' arise by entities exploiting simple liberties which are given and assumed in a free economy. Once those liberties are hedged and protected from use by others, we scramble around trying to figure out how to get the lever away from the entity who holds it.

Monkeys with sticks and rocks, if you will.
The excitement I feel every time HeathKit is mentioned dies away when I realize it's not about HeathKit but about HealthKit.
4 years ago I had to make a small webapp that displayed sensor data with up to 20000 points. At the time this was the only graph library I found that could handle so many points in a reasonable time, the library has some nice options for quickly summarizing large dataset to a smaller subset for visualizing.

Possibly there are better alternatives today for such datasets, I haven´t looked into it recently.
Matter v1.2 – Awesome UI Kit for Photoshop and Sketch
Maybe time travel needs some kind of tracks, like a railroad. That would also explain why we don't see any time travelers - they can't visit us as there are no tracks that lead back to 2014.
The dealers chose to enact legislation rather than quit a business model that was being squeezed by their supplier. Find me a business that doesn't squeeze suppliers and vendors to increase their bottom line. The worst enemy of the free market isn't itself, its the crony capitalism that takes place when government gets involved. Its rare (if ever) that the intentions become the outcomes.
They should just sell through an app, Uber-style. Then no local laws would apply to them because internet. Rename the store the "showroom" and the dealers into "comfort consultants."
It's quite possible that the problem with paradoxes stems not from them being 'impossible', but from our limited cognitive tools failing to equip us to think about them.

Sort of like people in ancient times believing you can't predict the motion of the planets because they didn't have calculus yet.
History of Ebola Research
The problem is the state is for sale to the mega-corporations at the top of each industry. Laws and protection rackets are instated as you can see in the car dealer industry which is heavily regulated.

This isn't free markets eating itself, it's the dangerous hazards of mixing free markets with an over-bearing state, that modern economies have chosen as the primary operating model. Aka Neoliberalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

It ultimately results in: you can have a free market, but after you get to a certain size you have to have friends within the state.
Wirth also created successors to Pascal and co-created an operating system and the hardware it ran/runs on.
I still have mine from high school statistics class. The best part was being able to side-load apps and play that spaceship game (phoenix something?) in class while looking like you were mad calculating some P Value.
You misunderstand that sentence. The "that" which is overcome with a good warranty and a reputation for quality is the need to test drive the exact unit you're going to buy. Tesla's test-drive-then-order-online approach takes care of trying out the model of car, seeing how it drives, etc. What it doesn't take care of is finding out that the specific unit you actually purchased has an annoying squeak somewhere or explodes when you hit 45MPH.
Video recipes aren't really recipes, they're instructional guides. They instruct how to cook and provide lots of detail in a compressed form. A recipe is just the design parameters. You won't be able to write the app with just design parameters; you have to know how to program first.
Not yet - I'm really more interested in getting FreeBSD working with it :).
I'd suspect most people get angry at things they can't control fairly frequently.
BuzzFeed is spending part of its $50M funding round to … build casual games?
Speaking of calculators, I have one of those HP stack-based (48 ?) things from 20+ years ago sitting around. Is there a market for those at all?
What if you're not on your computer and you want to check something on gmail, or facebook, or airbnb, etc...
This is a repost (from 18 hours ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8260038
The political benefit politicians get out of buying something is much lower than creating their own program.
They could presumably enforce on a franchise level salaries instead of commission and fixed pricing, though. That'd address most of the problems in dealerships.
Multi-user collaborative whiteboard with HTML5 and JS
Lumoid (YC S13) is hiring full-stack engineers in SF and Seattle
Lumoid (lumoid.com) is opening an office in Seattle, WA and hiring developers to join our team. Lumoid is currently based in San Francisco, CA.

What is Lumoid?
Lumoid provides an efficient and affordable way to try consumer electronics before deciding to buy them. We partner with hotels and other destinations to ship gear directly to where you are or where you're staying, and you get to rent and buy amazing gear for a lot less. We started with photography gear and are now entering wearables, as well as items like quadcopters. There are endless possibilities on what Lumoid's model can be applied to, and many different ways to use the data we collect.

Lumoid is well funded by seed investors and is on a great revenue trajectory. See some of our PR here - http://www.wired.com/2014/04/lumoid-says-rent-your-gadgets/ and http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/lumoid-wants-to-rent-you-a-camera-now-and-everything-later/

What is Lumoid's website built on?

We kept it simple and built the site on Ruby on Rails with MySQL backend + HTML/JS front-end. We've built our own admin dashboard + use various 3rd party software for fraud prevention, logistics etc.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a full-stack engineer who will be able to build and scale Lumoid as we quickly grow in different markets. We are starting an office in Seattle, so this candidate will be establishing our presence there and eventually building a team in Seattle.

We are looking for someone with:
1. 2+ years of experience working with Ruby on Rails
2. Experience with the rest of our stack: Ruby, Javascript, MySQL, HTML/CSS, deployed on AWS
3. Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science preferred
4. Excellent communicator & team player
5. Experience working in an agile environment

Questions? Contact aarthi@lumoid.com
I read most of Scalia's dissent, and I found it interesting: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-11311.pdf

It starts on page 31. He gets to the amicus briefs on page 35.

In this instance, the other justices did appeal to the amicus briefs to establish what constitutes a "violent" crime. (Well, Scalia claimed they did, and I admit I'm taking his word for it - I don't want to go through the other opinions, and I doubt he would misrepresent such an important point.) His claim is that the law and precedent are vague when it comes to defining a "violent crime". The prosecution, as I understand it, are making a statistical claim that crimes which tend to cause serious injury should be called "violent". They have amicus briefs with statistics on injury related to particular crimes. His point is that it is dangerous for them to rely on such statistics, as they have not been vetted.

It's an interesting point, and certainly has me thinking.
How do you cope with this problem? How many accounts do you follow? Can you recommend any solution to filter out the noise?
Just so we're clear, the podcast isn't about 99%ers. It's about design, and it just happens to have "99%" in its name.
Oh the one hand, TI calcs were a wonderful tool and toy for the yound math needs -- i lusted for the 81 and 85. Maybe the 84+ is perfect for its job. On the other hand, it must have less than $15 wholesale unit cost now, and has no right to enforce a proprietary OS/software lockdown.
PFsense and some old hardware with 2 nics... instant DIY home router.
Rotary knobs are much more rugged than almost any other common switch type if they are well made. They are commonly specified on military and industrial gear for this reason (and a few others).

Also honestly given the location and the likelihood of multitasking (say typing something on an HDTV, switching to a phone to type out a lengthy text message, and then back to a tv) I can't see an automated solution working well. You could do some NFC so that the slot would recognize a new thing being placed, but you'd still need an a way to switch away from it.

Charging would be a useful feature though.
Me too.. I'm a native Indonesian. With so small percentage of credit card ownership in Indonesia, and most transaction are done via wire transfer, I think their biggest challenge would be to market and educate Bitcoin to this 4th-largest-population in the world. Good luck..
Breakthrough for Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells
This mirrors my experience pretty closely and I think is really good advice, especially the comment regarding RF performance. Dedicated APs (especially the Ubiquiti devices) seem to have far superior performance than anything I've ever built myself.

I ended up buying an APU1C to play with, but in the end that's all I'm doing with it.
You'd be better with an Open Pandora running R to do any kind of Science work at school in a portable format. These calculators are completely ancient.
APPLE may be good at design, but its technology sukx. Which hacker in his right mind will prefer APPLE to Google, Facebook or a startup?
My pet theory:

Quantum mechanics is a statistically based science because we have yet to discover the constants that would unify it with general relativity, making this entire thought experiment irrelevant.

Imagine if you are watching 10 parallel strings ripple up and down at various frequencies. Viewed from the side, it would at first glance appear chaotic, but by observing the behavior long enough and recording where the activity occurred over time, you could statistically predict where the strings would be at any given time.

However, if you were aware of the number of strings you were viewing and the frequencies at which they were moving, you could formulate a precise theory of exactly what you were viewing and what you would view at every point in the future.

That is the current state of physics. Quantum mechanics is seeing without understanding the rules governing the system, so predictions and observations are made using statistics instead of constants. Once we discover the constants, the current theories will be entirely obsolete and articles like this will become relics.
They have a mobile version that syncs your passwords across devices. I use the iOS app frequently.