skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking about the systemically brutal consequences of people who have blind allegiance to the rule of law is not equivalent to inferring that humanitarian law (e.g. Bill of Rights) shouldn't exist. It's not equivalent to saying law isn't useful. You're conflating or projecting these sentiments. Unfortunately, conflation like that is a common consequence of nationalism. People who find faults are often derided or willfully misinterpreted. I'm not accusing you of this. It's just a point.

> "I seem to recall these sorts of things being strongly correlated with secret police, etc, and not being in a society with stable laws that it adheres to."

Those societies didn't have "secret" police. They had police who operated (sometimes in secret) legally. Every nation is as fueled by law as the next group seeking legitimacy. This shouldn't be a point of contention. No one's conflating "secret law" with "law." In a land where "secret law" becomes increasingly legitimate, it becomes a fool's errand to stress over shallow semantics, as dire reality takes shape (e.g. a prison, surveillance, military economy legitimately escalating).

> "Similarly, rule of law has nothing inherently nationalistic about it."

Allegiance to "rule of law" is entirely nationalistic in this context of nations. I'm not talking about the 'laws' of physics. The violence that inherently serves as the foundation of all national laws isn't magic. Zeus and his jack-booted thugs aren't appearing out of the sky to magically enforce words written on paper. Maybe you're trying to say that one person's interpretation of a nation will vary from another person's interpretation and, therefore, this means that one particular nationalist is not the same as another particular nationalist in the same nation. That's true. Yet, it doesn't mean much. It's usually a source of delusion ultimately.
This looks nice but there are a ton of issues around pyobjc. I've never been able to successfully install it on 10.9.
You know that experiment had some serious flaws making the results highly suspect?
His website design is a shameless rip-off of Paul Graham's website. It's incredibly lame.
Utilities will fight back. To help this transition in the US municipalities should not be allowed to require residences to be connected to utilities.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/12/18/texas-state-t...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-10/off-the-grid...
A lot of downsides to this. High maintenance cost, conditioning children to live in a militarized environment, more bureaucratic overhead for management and administrative decisions (the administrative officials may see this as job security).
I have been looking for a fix and the current grid system is the best I could do. Instead of `pure-u-1-3` from Pure or `col-md-4` from Bootstrap I went for a clearer naming from my point of view: `third` to mean a third. There's no inherent grid system in html since grids are a presentation structure. To make it semantic you should use your own elements/classes and then give them the style, plus the responsive bit.

About the nav, you could make it completely semantic by using some JS or not making it responsive, however I thought the benefits of having a responsive <nav> would compensate for those 2 extra lines of code.
Proving once again that the purpose of war/fear is to transfer public wealth into private hands.
Perfect answer.

A free GitHub site with some Open Source projects is also a nice inexpensive option for a portfolio.

But these days portfolios for programmers seems like a "must have." I'm surprised more colleges aren't helping students put them together.
Coding Education Video Game Rocking It on Kickstarter – 80K+ Funding
I don't recognize your traditional supply chain. It doesn't seem to account for the realities of independent distribution companies, freelancers, stringers, syndication, .....
It's not that he doesn't have revenue, I doubt it even has persistent users.

Users are generally 30-day active (trailing average). Here we're talking about a spike in traffic that the project got after some public exposure on news sites, I doubt we could predict at this point if everything will drop into the Trough of sorrow [1] or stick. Personally I tried the game and it seems to be at the first iteration in terms of usability for the masses, so I assume there will be little (if any) retention and more usability work to be done.

[1] http://andrewchen.co/2012/09/10/after-the-techcrunch-bump-li...

Some improvement feedback:

(1) develop more game-ability before explaining concepts on 5+ pages of text. Try to have a full-blown gaming engine with as few clicks as possible, and add concepts on top of it when the user levels-up.

(2) watch your page loading speed. If it's not as fast as browsing a magazine, it's too slow for a game.

(3) work to simplify the interface. Consider showing part of the vertical tabs only when the user levels-up. This should go hand-in-hand with (1).

(4) try to move at least partially some content before the login screen. Give people a reason to sign-up.

A perfect example to guide progress on those items:
http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
VS dominates for Unity development too, at least in my little circle of the world.

The developers I work with all love their Macs, but they hop onto Windows for serious Unity work, just so they can use Visual Studio with ReSharper instead of MonoDevelop.
The Lebesgue integral can be explained as intuitively as the Riemann integral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue_integration#mediaview...). One can certainly have the intuition for both without too much knowledge of real analysis. And in general, I believe that analogies are very useful.

The author explains in the article how to understand the behaviour of light. It turns out quantum particles behave in exactly the same way. Feynman (building on Dirac's observations) built up the theory for quantum particles. With regards to light, this understanding comes from a couple of centuries ago (Ref: [Huygens principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens%E2%80%93Fresnel_princi...) and [relations to quantum mechanics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens%E2%80%93Fresnel_princi...)
> $6m is not a lot of money

It's a shit load of money that tons of companies would kill for.

You are living in a fantasy land.
It may be awful from a professional point of view, but it's one of the few popular media graphs where I (a non-professional) can immediately see interesting changes.

I think the decreased period of the x on the right is useful, because we're probably more interested in details in the near past than in 1970. And I don't think it's necessary to expect high fidelity in a popular article meant to summarize a lot of data for lay people.

The numbers, and the relative size of blocks, mitigate your point about trends being difficult to see. For example, it's easy for me to see that both types of marrieds were about 70% in 1970, and about 50% in 2012.

It's also easy to see that, in percent:

- Marrieds with children show a major decline.

- Marrieds without children are steady (and I really wonder why that would be, if it's not coincidental).

- Total marrieds show a major decline.

- Households with children show major decline (married with plus other families).

- All other categories, which are single oriented, increase.

Looking at the graph makes me wonder what part of the men and women living alone, and other non-family, were formerly part of a marriage or other family setting (not counting their childhood).
Deadmau5 Taking UberX Fares in His $300,000 Mclaren 650S
Absolutely. I have taken the same list of meds as the post above yours, and thankfully as he did I have found the right medicine for me. I perceive the tone of the post above yours to be condescending, as if my experience is trumped by his life experience (which, I assure you, isn't unique to his bipolar).

I described my experience with lithium, and while there were sedatives and antipsychotics that I was prescribed which had a far greater numbing effects, I was not speaking to them.

All of the medications I tried had different consequences, Lithium's were not the worst (Lamictals were the most interesting musically).
Twitch malware spends users' money
This is because you don't need to. Especially for this particular script.

If you're using the natively included python, pyobjc comes free.

As soon as I saw that mentioned in the documentation, I knew this project was going to have issues.
I'm not going to vote for more school funding when money will be spent to maintain armored vehicles.
I think there is a huge opportunity for VCs and everyone else here. Invest directly in solar and wind installations. Small enterprises (startups) do home installations and the customer pays the company with interest like a micro-utility. I've heard that this is very much how many installers operate in the United States. The show stopper for many people is the initial investment in solar and wind, so if VCs have the money to invest this is a win for everyone involved. It's maybe not the same as investing in shares of a tech. company, but I think that it is a much safer investment.

http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#energy
Ask HN: Product/Market Fit (Customer Dev) as a Service?
"What if everything you think you know about taking products to market is wrong? What would you
do differently if you realized that only 1 out of 10 new product introductions result in a profitable
business? Would you continue to operate the same way, week after week, year after year?"

- Steve Blank, Four Steps to Epiphany

Like most startups, I have struggled through the pains of product market fit, multiple pivots and struggling to find customers.

What if there was a way to quickly and accurately determine not only if your idea is on the right track but to iterate through product/market fit and even pivots before you endure the sweat and heartbreak of building a few MVP's?

Obviously there are lots of challenges to creating such a service, but I think it is a discussion worth having. In the spirit of CD, let's start the ball rolling with some questions:

1. Does your resume include a failed startup?
2. With hindsight being 20/20, should you have done more Customer Development?
3. Would you now consider a service to improve and expedite that process?
> Currents in these materials, being neutral, might not waste much of their energy as heat, as occurs in conventional semiconductors — potentially making the new materials a more efficient basis for computer chips.

This part is probably only hype, but the sideway movement looks very interesting, at least from a theoretical point of view.
The laws of shitty dashboards
So here's one of their sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2g2e44/is_c...

I think it was posted by this user:

https://www.reddit.com/user/theliberare/
Quite impressive how they managed to get .15 drag coefficient in 1939 without modern materials and wind tunnels. I wonder whether modern materials and construction techniques wouldn't allow this again while still maintaining a road legal and practical design. The fact that the Tesla S has pretty much beaten all cars in their class shows that there must be quite some room for improvement in that area. Not requiring a certain brand shape for image reasons seems to be pretty helpful.
Cup Size Isn’t Everything
San Diego is coated in Navy bases...so the extent to which you could argue that there is a plausible scenario where this thing would be useful is completely obviated by the existing huge military presence. Furthermore, even if it were useful for civilians, why is it in the hands of a school district rather than the police? Who is going to pay for the maintenance? This is completely insane. People are putting their own desire for a "cool" piece of hardware ahead of any rational justification for it relative to its costs.
TFA talks about a neutral zone. I assume there is a flow of equal number of (+) and (-) particles there.

If that is utilized, heat savings might prove to be true.
so, if i understand it correctly you're saying create AV signatures (the link you point to is how to create ClamAV signatures). to do so in a worthwhile, comprehensive way would required the maintainer to basically become an AV company. possible, but requires a lot of effort to scale. by calling out to various services, the creator of this tool is essentially outsourcing maintaining a file reputation blacklist.

MD5s are, despite their limitations, the lingua franca of the security industry. nearly everyone who provides a file reputation query service supports them (as opposed to SHA1s or other hashes like ssdeep).

so, i think i get what you're saying, but i don't think it's a relevant suggestion here.
I'm guessing that stripping it for parts, transport, and coordination would cost about as much or maybe even more than whatever value you could extract that way.
Here is a link to the 230+ hacks submitted: http://pennappsx.challengepost.com/submissions
Interesting. That sounds less like "being one dose away from having too much iodine" and more like "having no tolerance for iodine, such that even one dose is too much."

I guess another way to think about environmental chemicals is by analogy to poisons: if they were common in the environment, you'd have a tolerance to them, but since they aren't, you don't. You can build up a tolerance by parts, at which point the poison stops being one and just becomes another chemical the body handles.
The Guardian API
Then just drop the thing in the fucking ocean and call it "a reef". Why even pay to have this sort of shit shipped back to the states?
Clearly, we must lobby San Diego School District to start a Sensha-Do program, since they've already got a tank...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_und_Panzer
Imagine the uproar that would ensue if Germany were to be found spying on U.S. citizens.
Depends on the connector, to be honest. My laptop from a couple years back has an esata port that's shared with a USB port. Similar could be done with a full-size Displayport or USB C connector, for example. Also, one of the big problems I have with thunderbolt as a technology at all is that you have to play mother-may-I with Intel in order to even get a look at the chip datasheets so you can think about creating a thunderbolt device.

Though you hit the nail on the head with the last paragraph. Thunderbolt creates more problems than it solves. USB 3.1, with the new type C connector, gives a reversible cable, a lot of bandwidth, and a low price, while Thunderbolt's stuck with its needlessly expensive active cable which further discourages people from looking at the technology. Were Intel to revamp the spec and get more people involved, Thunderbolt could have had a chance, but as it stands, it's a dead protocol walking.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998)
This is to be expected as more men realise that marriage is a raw deal for them.
I'm guessing they've done at least some A/B testing on this...so yes, I imagine that despite what users think they want, FB has found that their imperfect "Top Stories" algorithm is more engaging than just the raw feed by "Most Recent".

As a user's FB usage grows over time, it's likely that their network of friends will grow, sometimes exponentially. What does not grow is the screen-space for the newsfeed, nor the user's ability to scroll through the increased number of updates. While it's true that some newsfeed updates get tracking because of advertising play...such as "Jon Smith Likes Candy Crush!"...that's still less annoying than, "Jon Smith scored 54304 points in Candy Crush and earned Legendary Candy Cane +1!"...which could feasibly dominate your newsfeed depending on the gameplaying habits of your friend.

Now, of course you could manually filter these things out, e.g. "Ignore all Candy Crush posts by Jon Smith" or even "Defriend Jon Smith"...but this requires manual work by the user...and if it becomes more work than leisure to enjoy one's news feed...then it's likely that FB's A/B tests have found users preferring the filtering to be automatically done, even if it lets some shit through.

Keep in mind that FB has long had the ability to create custom groups...so that you could, for example, see your feed according to people you've put in the "My university friends" group. There is even a "Close friends" group that you can manually curate, or that FB automatically fills for you. FB has basically buried the group filters...probably because users weren't actively filtering things themselves...and in terms of the "Close Friends" group...FB considered manual filtering to be redundant...after all, FB can detect how often you message/chat with another user, how long you wistfully page through their photo albums, etc. etc...if those metrics aren't key factors of the people whom you really care about...well, it's pretty damn close.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in this service?
After spending last few years working with major cloud providers, I'm thinking of building a startup that will automate cloud deployment and operations with 1 click.
Here's what I'm thinking:

1. Users will see a list of available tasks similar to this: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials?primary_filter=trending

(Example: Deploy a self-healing ruby stack, Deploy memcached, Deploy sharded mongodb, Deploy postgresql cluster, Run a script on all servers daily)

2. User will be able to pick any of the tasks from list and select target servers (or create new servers). All required changes, updates will be done automatically, and follow best practices.

Tasks will cover deployment, orchestration, stack building, optimizations, security and monitoring. New tasks will be added often, so users can try new technologies with 1 click.

Users will be charged per month by number of servers they have in the account, but will be able to perform as many tasks on servers as they need.

This way, instead of spending time with trial-and-error, finding tutorials and mixed results, users will benefit from tested automation that is secure and follows best practice.

Would you be interested in (and pay for) such service?

Thanks!
Some speculation: Because stripping the thing, and selling parts, would probably mean more work for the military organization who wants to get rid of it. And if you'd let a company dismantle the vehicles, and sell it in parts: The customer would again be some part of the military. And they usually require a lot of certification and paperwork to go with all the stuff they sell, after doing all the work to have these used parts tested and re-certified, not much profit might be left, and all money be sunk in the military-spare-parts industry.

Much easier to just give them away for free, be no longer responsible for anything related to these vehicles, and claim to have supported the homeland in the fight against terrorism equivalent to $$NEW_PRICE.

(apparently the $5000 the school district had paid was only for transportation)
Not if the communication with the DNS server is encrypted, for example with this service: http://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn/features/vyprdns
Probably the best CSS framework in the world
http://morecss.org/
neat! i use bootstrap as a "go to" CSS for new web apps i develop, this is a welcome alternative. thanks!

i'm not a web dev (i'm a backend guy), i need to make some front end PoCs sometime, so i don't stay up on CSS packages and kits.
TLDR from reddit: "For the first time ever, a patient's own skin cells were reverted to induced pluripotent stem cells, differentiated into retinal cells, and transplanted back into the patient as an experimental therapy for macular degeneration."
And that, folks, is why we don't do chained expressions. Variables increase readability and also offer one the opportunity to check a condition that should be true.

This, KeyError, NoneType exceptions and its Java friend NullPointerException drive me batty. They are so simple to defend against, if the author just took the time.
If you're willing to leave the cisco/Arista/etc cocoon, NIC costs are actually the big ticket items.

http://whiteboxswitch.com/collections/10-gigabit-ethernet-sw...

$5595 for the switch, $699 for the software. You can split the 4 40G ports into 16 10G ports using splitter cables, giving a total of 64 10G ports:
(5595+699)/64 = $98.34 per 10G port.

A 1M cable is $30 from here:
http://www.fiberyes.com/sfp-cable-cab-10gsfp-p1m-30

So $122.34 for switch and cable.

I've never seen a 10G NIC that cheap per port.

(disclosure: I co-founded Cumulus, who is behind the software in this price comparison)
Wow, the comment section under the BW article is filled with really pathetic, misogynistic comments. It's no wonder why so many of them commenting there are single.
Hate to be the type that pulls this one out, but when I became a parent I learned of levels of tiredness I never knew existed, and became aware of a whole segment of society (the parents) who go through most activities in their life at near crippling levels of tiredness. I agree it gets dangerous but it's not feasible to keep them off the road.
The price of dogecoin has more than doubled this weekend
Critical Thinking Matrices
Finding work as a web developer
I have been looking for a web developer job in my area for a few months. Been getting calls from recruiters after posting my resume on monster. However, most of the openings would require me to move. I cannot move right now. The idea of relocating for a contract job that is only going to last for six to twelve months does not sit right with me. My ideal job would be working remotely or within a 30-minute drive (mayby an hour). I am located in a small town that is about a 30 minutes from Carlsbad and Temecula, CA. I do not have anyone in my network that can help me find a job right now, so been looking online on sites like monster and indeed. I have gone to a few meetups. If anyone here can give me some advise or knows of an opening in my area that would be great. My linkedin is in my profile. I like programming but having a hard time making money with it.
> Germany is doing very nicely when it comes to GDP, balance of trade, making progress on renewables and plenty of other metrics. The USA? Don't they just print money?

The United States owns the tech industry. There's nowhere in the world comparable to Silicon Valley. I'm not familiar with other industries so YMMV there.

> In terms of innovation, I don't see American goods as anywhere near as polished as their German counterparts.

What about Boeing? Apple? Intel? AMD? NVIDIA? Tesla? SpaceX? From my perspective as a Canadian, the United States makes some of the best stuff in the world.

> I would take the lowest spec. German car over any American car in current production without hesitation. The same applies to white goods and even cakes!

I'd take a Tesla over any car in production period.
Like many school districts across the nation, the school district has it's own police force: "San Diego Unified School District Police Department". Of course many now want their own SWAT teams. For the children!
This wasn't the only Soviet weapon in space. The space station Salyut 3 had an 23mm autocannon strapped to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_3#On-board_gun
Well that's not elitist or anything.
this watch is an add-on to a phone when people are extending their contracts (you know "extend your contract with a new iphone and you get an apple watch for free" kind of deal) to get some of android base back, other than that it's useless.

I would not wear one even if it was given to me for free in every configuration possible.
I think if a startup has spent a bunch of time building a product without considering who should use it and how they should reach those people then they're pretty fundamentally isolated from the industry they wish to service.

Steve Blank's not saying the other 90% were good ideas.
I must have completely missed that, thanks! Luckily my first point still stands.