skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind when you live in states who have incredibly harsh laws for gun control, this is pretty common.

Remember Plaxico Burress? The NFL Wide Receiver? He spent two years in federal prison for shooting HIMSELF in the leg with a firearm that wasn't licensed in NY or NJ:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4493887

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau insisted that the former New York Giants wide receiver serve at least two years in prison for violating the city's strict gun laws. Mayor Michael Bloomberg had also publicly called for Burress to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

On July 29, Burress took the rare and risky step of testifying before the grand jury, hoping to convince the panel that the gun was not used in the commission of a crime and that he was the lone victim. But days later, Burress was indicted on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment. He faced a minimum sentence of 3½ years if convicted at trial.

I'm pretty sure in a state like Texas, they wouldn't even bother him once they knew his connection to the gang was minimal.
>>> yes, intuitively, hot water vapor rises

Temperature is just an expression of mean kinetic energy of particles. If gases (especially light gases) are hot enough, their kinetic energy can correspond to a velocity that actually exceeds the escape velocity of Earth's gravitational well. This is how hot gases can be removed completely from the Earth's atmosphere (and then solar wind & radiation take care of removing it from there). Even at today's atmospheric temperatures, helium gas (molecular weight of 4 atomic mass units, much lighter than molecular oxygen, nitrogen, etc.) can escape from Earth's atmosphere.
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>> by leaving people for decades in a condemned and depopulating environment

This isn't really happening--people have choices of where to live, and they can move if they want to. It isn't as easy as say living in Stockholm to relocate, but it's not like they're stuck. And the it's not depopulating, either, they're just moving a coupla kilometers down the road.

>> painfully slow

Ha! I sometimes feel that way too, but it doesn't really need to move faster because of the location of the iron ore under the city, and I think it makes sense to move slowly in this sort of situation. It would be a good reaction to a slow rise in sea level, too. If you give people early warning, and a long time-horizon, property values will slowly go down by the coast, and people will slowly move.
The writes we are measuring are individual keys, modified atomically in transactions of 20 keys at a time. So this test is doing 14 million writes per second as 720 thousand transactions per second.
Sorry but Google's ranking algorithm for me is far from brilliant.

To give you an example, search for "webhcat primary key" (without quotes) and note how the top three search results do not actually contain the term webhcat. Google constantly does this. It randomly ignores search terms unless you explicitly quote them.

I believe that there is still a market for a technical/advanced search engine.
Thanks for the interesting comment. It looks like propofol is pretty commonly used for colonoscopy sedation in the United States, not without controversy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15990942

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/778967_8

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15768182

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-propofol-colonoscopies-...
In 2006, the next computer was the iPhone with 1GB of memory and the iPhone 6 still has 1GB today. I wouldn't count on everything being a 16GB+ monster rig just to bring a browser up.
Learn about a new concept that has always interested you. I just finished finals and am now on winter break. I will be learning about compilers.
> On a more serious note, it's kinda scary to what lengths people will go to continue doing what they've always done, even if it destroys their very homes.

The thing is, in this case, not continuing to do what they've always done would effectively also destroy their homes. The mine is the town, and ceasing production to save the existing town site would just result in a lot of empty buildings once ~60% of the population has to move elsewhere for work, and the remainder follow because they were only there to support the miner population.
I agree with the comments here. Join the startup if you believe in the 'team' and the problem they are solving.

Look at the teams track record, is this their first startup? What experience do they have?
How committed are they?
What do they require from you?
Do they have a clear way to acquire customers?
Are you dealing with a chicken egg problem?
Do they have a clear goal to monetize their site?
How long have they spent on validation?
Have they found customers that would pay for their service before launching it?
What's the time frame, as in, how long do they expect you to be working on this project?

I read an article, I think it might of been on Sam Altman's site, that said, you need a leader, a manager and a techie. Each having very distinctively roles to play.

Having a reputable investor is a good sign, but doesn't mean it's going to work. It all comes down to the team executing it. Focus on skill set of the team, rather than the investors big name.

Do some background checks on the Founders, if anything seems fishy, get out of there. On the other hand, if it looks like you have found an awesome team - sign yourself up.

I'm on my second startup now, it's a side project. I'm interviewing people for my team. I got hustler from Rutgers, who went out and got the sign ups for a social network, she has connections to TechStars and Y Combinator. Her previously startup, she was working with a growth hacker (which is what I do). So we are a good match. Have 5 interviews with programmers over the next two weeks, and I've found people that will help out with marketing and programming for free. I focussed on 'specific sets of skills' I want my team to have.

Best of luck!
Fyi, San Francisco just sued Uber.

The interests of a business community don't necessarily reflect that of a local government.
"Unfortunately Buttercoin is not accessible from your location" [0]

Europe/Spain

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.buttercoin.com/location-not-...
"Like a rhin like a rhino! I'm not easily offended." Actually "Like a riot, like a riot, oh!"

I don't really understand half of the things in Phoenix songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so

I also somehow thought "Baby you're a firework!" was "Baby you're a ferris wheel!" for a while. No idea how my brain did that.
Boca Grande near the mall is okay. MIT has a cafe near Mass. Ave. with slightly better burritos. Best pizza is at Emma's near Draper Labs. Downtown, Central, and Harvard are close enough for a lunch break.

I got a season pass for kayak rentals a few years back. Kind of fun to eat a sandwich on the river. I also like to take a lunch to the ice rink for the Berklee summer concerts.

The local IEEE and ACM chapters sponsor a fair number of talks. I saw Bruce Schneier after work earlier this year.

Welcome to the neighborhood.
Or if you miss your connection while in New Jersey, and you have a gun in checked luggage: http://volokh.com/2010/03/30/unexpected-flight-delay-hotel-s...
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Despite what everyone on Tumblr thinks, "public domain" is, for various reasons, not a viable strategy for sharing images.

If you want unlimited sharing with no attribution requirements, use Creative Commons Zero.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Unfortunately Flickr doesn't allow that as an option.

Now, I know every hacker reading this is going to try to prove how clever they are, and insist that you can make a public domain declaration that works in all jurisdictions, or you can just hack it by using "No known copyright restrictions"... but... no. You can't.
I thought this was going to be about regulations imposed on banks after the 2008 fiasco. If you can nearly destroy the world with your carelessness, and regulations get tightened so that you feel like you can't breathe, well, that's not necessarily bad. I want you to have very little wiggle room, because you have very recently demonstrated that you can't be trusted to exercise good judgment.

Turns out the article is actually about a bank in South Africa that wants to ignore US sanctions against Iran. If you want to be able to move money for a regime that is despotic, supports terrorism, regularly encourages its people to chant "Death to America", and seems to be trying to acquire nuclear weapons, well, I don't have a lot of sympathy for you. If you want to be able to ignore the rules against doing so without consequences, well, I still don't have much sympathy for you.

I have sympathy for the guy in New York, but not for the bank.
you tell me about politics

this that

you speak of rats.

---

geese. a world of peace

you stumble stammer

pound your fist

an’ i tell you there are no politics

you swear

tell me how much you care

---

you cheat the lunch counter man

out of a pack of cigarettes

an’ i tell you there are no politics

you tell me of goons’

graves. ginks an’ finks

an’ of what you’ve read

---

an’ how things should be

an’ what you’d do if . . .

an i say someone’s been

tamperin’ with your head

you jump

raise your voice

---

an’ gyrate yourself

t’ the tone of principles

your arm is raised

an’ i tell you there are no politics

in the afternoon you run

t’ keep appointments

---

with false lovers

an’ this leaves you

drained by nightfall

you ask me questions

an’ i say that every question

if it’s a truthful question

---

can be answered by askin’ it

you stomp

get mad

i say it’s got nothin’ t’ do with

gertrude stein

you turn your eyes

---

t’ the radio

an’ tell me what a

wasteland exists in television

you rant an’ rave

of poverty

your fingers crawl the walls

---

the screen door leaves black marks

across your nose

your breath remains on

window glass

bullfight posters hang crooked above your head

an’ the phone rings constantly

---

you tell me how much i’ve changed

as if that is all there is t’ say

out of the side of your mouth

while talkin’ on the wires

in a completely different

tone of voice

---

than you had a minute ago

when speakin’ t’ me about something else

i say what’s this about changes?

you say "let’s go get drunk"

light a cigarette

"an’ throw up on the world"

---

you go t’ your closet

mumblin’ about the phoniness of churches

an’ spastic national leaders

i say groovy but

also holy hollowness too

yes hollow holiness

---

an’ that some of my best friends

know people that go t’ church

you blow up

slam doors

say "can’t no one say nothin’ t’ you"

i say "what do You think?"

---

your face laughs

you say "oh yeeeeeaah?"

i’m gonna break up i say

an’ reach for your coat

‘neath piles of paper slogans

i say your house is dirty

---

you say you should talk

your hallway stinks as

we walk through it

your stairs tilt drastically

your railing’s rotted

an’ there’s blood at the

---

bottom of your steps

you say t’ meet bricks with bricks

i say t’ meet bricks with chalk

you tell me monster floor plans

an’ i tell you about a bookie shop

in boston givin’ odds on the presidential

---

race

i’m not gonna bet for a while i say

little children

shoot craps

in the alley garbage pot

you say "nothin’s perfect"

---

an’ i tell you again

there are no

politics

----

Bob Dylan - some other kinds of songs.
>> how

I own Silvertrek Systems, which is a technology-oriented bookkeeping business, basically. We've been remote for a while, with one employee in Alaska and one in Minneapolis, and the rest of us in "World Headquarters" in Battle Ground, WA, a suburb of Portland OR.

We have a fairly strict meeting once a week, (one hour, same time every week, all hands on deck) but other than that people work when they want to, with the requirement that there's at least a 4 hour overlap with the people they work with. I work M-Th from 1pm to midnight to make this happen.

Skype, Google Hangouts, Basecamp, AWS Windows Server, Freshdesk, T-mobile's awesome international service, and a few other tools make it possible.

>> Why

Quite simply, we wanted to experience living abroad. My mom was born in Sweden, and my wife is a double citizen, (although born and raised in the US). We've always spoken Swedish to our children, and we wanted to get a good base for them. It's so much easier for them to get a grasp of a second language when they're young. My wife's sister lives in Kiruna, so that's where we landed, in Artic, with Northern Lights dancing overhead during the months that we aren't listening to birds chirping under the midnight sun.
Show HN: DesktopDrummer- An animated avatar that can drum along to any song
AFAIK, Windows 8, Gnome, Unity and others offer desktop html+javascript compositing with support for webservice calls. Some may be more powerful/limited, but it's something already being done.

Even in a thread earlier today there was a post about the state of desktop web apps... node-webkit and atom-shell aren't bad options either.

I always wanted to like XUL, but a shell mode for HTML+JS that can have more control over iframes than is allowed in the browser... it would definitely be interesting. It would be more interesting if it followed node's API (at least for JS-level modules).
Don't forget about the sinking of the I-90 floating bridge!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7XOaXK_kDc

...and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Wasn't our sun a product of a bigger star? Which is why we have the planets now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_nucleosynthesis.

Nucleosynthesis says that at the end of the life of a star, heavier elemnts are formed as a byproduct.
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The current planed end of life for 2.7.x is 2020, so this release doesn't change things. A previous HN discussion on this from earlier this year was at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7581434 .
Thanks for making Buttercoin! It looks great and I'll certainly be using it the next time I exchange bitcoins.
That's correct, it's only the "Centrum" that is moving, and it is moving to another part of the city. The place that it is moving to is currently an lightly used industrial zone, with a few random residences.

However, the Centrum includes a large part of the city's population. The town is not a sprawling suburb town. Many of the workers at LKAB live in multi-level apartment buildings owned by the city/county, and most of those are in the affected area.
I'm surprised there isn't more healthcare based startups (with underlying tech) in Houston. My understanding is that Houston is mostly Oil&Gas + Healthcare.
Very annoying that they break the browser back button... (it just reloads the page)
Oh absolutely, I consider any time you take to stop yourself from needing more time off to be 'needed'. The goal is to stop long-term accumulation of stress, not to remedy it when it gets too bad.
I just experienced this early this week. Very frustrating. I also posted to AWS forums and got zero assistance; am currently not paying for AWS support plan. This article came at an opportune moment -- it makes sense and removes the shroud of mystery around why it "works sometimes" which leaves me with an uneasy feeling for a production setup.
It's in a predicament, but I don't know if I agree that it is unfortunate. It actually gives the entire town a goal, and I think it's going to revitalize the town and the people that live in it.
That's the spirit of FirefoxOS – any other prior concept still used "native" stuff while in FirefoxOS, "native" is the Web!
There are lots of ways around this, including just forming your own company and then exclusively working for another.
Ask HN: Intro to Android development, 15 minutes at a time?
There's a website (I don't recall) that gives you small math or coding problems to solve every day to spin your mind on. I'd like something like that to get my feet wet with Eclipse, Gradle, Android Studio, components of the Android SDK, etc. I have trouble setting goals about things I'm not exposed to, which makes it hard to stay focused.
It does vary from person to person, and from job to job. For me, it's less than 25 days, on average. Others might need much more. I won't judge anyone for taking more vacation time, and I'll respect it as best I can. I just like having the option of not taking time if I don't want it :)
A&U for Web Developers #14
Before Accusations, Uber Was a Boon for Indian Women
> The boot on the face usually ends up being local

Reminds me of a quotation I saw earlier today; “When the axe came into the woods, the trees said ‘at least the handle’s one of us’”
It might be rundown compared to some places, but I disagree with the assessment that town is rundown as a whole. The mine is slowly buying up the properties that are going to be affected, and are tearing down the buildings.
You should look into atom-shell and node-webkit... both are nice options if you want a cross-platform UI app with html+css+js.
Completely agree. Not only these subtle changes but also the Evan's resistance to include common typeclasses and generally anti-intellectual attitude and rudeness have turned me off completely. Evan also plays favorites a lot and has a rather naive view of social justice (which he views himself as some kind of champion for).

Purescript has now become my alternative but I will take a look at Haste (ghcjs may be another possibility to look into).
Enjoy life !!! You might not get a second chance !!
That sounds like a fun weekend hack.
Wow. Totally crazy. My takeaways:

1) Don't be born a poor urban youth

2) If #1 is unavoidable, don't have friends (and don't go anywhere because you might get jumped because you don't have friends)

3) Never be in any photos, even by accident

4) Never sign up for facebook/twitter/etc

5) Never talk to the police

6) Plea deals are mostly bullshit (these last two I knew already)

I'm not a lawyer, so maybe someone more well-versed can help me, but:

> But the district attorney convinced a judge that most of the time Jelani spent in jail shouldn’t count towards that release. She argued that days spent gathering more evidence, delays in testimony by a police officer who was on vacation, or instances where she was unprepared to make her case did not figure into the six-month period

Would this not be a slam-dunk lawsuit for the Henrys that his sixth amendment rights were violated? Obviously not going to bring back lost time, but still, that seems insane.
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Harvard professor apologizes for e-mail rant over a $4 overcharge
Don't worry about it, they were people that were briefed on the relevant issues...
Also I am not sure how this[1] fits in. I remember Paul Bohm being the founder or co-founder of Buttercoin, but his name is absent.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLoVikMXBeA
If true and successful, this would be huge for Detroit.

I once looked into the suitability of Detroit for a start-up. It seemed that professional services were generally not as interested in working with young companies as in the bay area. The availability of deferred legal, accounting, or other services was non-existent. Being in the bay area, my company has benefited greatly from having deferred legal work. I also worried about finding good advisers.

With Techstars there, it would definitely solve these problems for their awardees.

While there aren't a wealth of affluent, urban customers in the city, there would be great opportunities for consumer or educational startups that address problems for the base of the pyramid. Whole Foods opened a store in Detroit, and talked more about it in their last quarterly conference call than any other topic. Ostensibly, figuring out how to be successful in markets like Detroit is a huge opportunity for growth for them. Finally, the city of Detroit has neighborhoods that are young and affluent. Inventory is very limited, and rents in the highest profile areas are as high as most big cities -- think Lake Merritt in Oakland.

I really hope TechStars is successful there. Detroit is a place dear in my heart and not as scary as many think. I lived in SF's SOMA 10-ish years ago, and can say that I had way crazier stories and more dangerous moments than my mom, who has been working in Detroit Public Schools since her retirement.
On the same alley, but in a different level, is bad lip reading. My favorite is Russian Unicorn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjaZNYSt7o0
This particular problem would not crop up on Google Compute Engine. See this cryptic snippet from /sbin/ifconfig on a production GCE VM:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 42:01:0a:f0:40:dd
inet addr:10.240.64.221 Bcast:10.240.64.221 Mask:255.255.255.255

This isn't an intentional feature, it's just a property of how our Andromeda SDN[0] is wired up. In particular, we lift the business end of figuring out where the other hosts on your LAN are up into the SDN rather than relying on the guest to cache ARP entries (hence the /32 netmask).

[0]: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/04/enter-androm...
Exactly. In fact, a similar thing happened to Kiruna some years ago, when the iron price stayed low for some years. The mine slowed production, and house prices and rent prices followed accordingly. It was a hard time for the residents here.

The iron price recently dropped, but for many years it's been high, and it is currently quite hard to find somewhere to live, especially because of the price controls on rent.
Wow. On top of everything, this should definitely violate speedy trial requirements:

But the district attorney convinced a judge that most of the time Jelani spent in jail shouldn’t count towards that release. She argued that days spent gathering more evidence, delays in testimony by a police officer who was on vacation, or instances where she was unprepared to make her case did not figure into the six-month period. The judge agreed. In a bit of Kafka-esque arithmetic, 19 months became 83 days. Instead of finishing trade school, Jelani celebrated his 20th and 21st birthdays in a cell.
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Why businesses that embrace change win
The problem, of course, is that there's always a resource that's limited. There's not unlimited funds to build ideal utilities etc in a small town...
What is the significance of studying this problem? I mean, say they prove the twin primes conjecture. What does that mean? Do we benefit like we would if the travelling salesman problem was solved?
Well, both San Antonio (Cloud) and Austin have TechStars programs. San Antonio's exist largely because of Rackspace, and Austin because the city is mature for a startup city. So, Houston either needs that large sponsor or organic growth, of which the former doesn't seem far fetched in the somewhat near term.
“POODLE” attack extends to newer versions of SSL/TLS encryption
+1 for SA! Thanks for your comments :)
> Would this not be a slam-dunk lawsuit for the Henrys that his sixth amendment rights were violated?

That's not how it works in New York...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/law-3
Decorist launches affordable virtual office design for start-ups
Answered parallel to you in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8732356
It is a nice city. I'm glad to live here, and it is nothing like some of the cities I've visited in Alaska or Wyoming. It's well planned and a very livable city.