skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
As quoted in Liberation Theologies in North America and Europe‎ (1979) by Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky, p. 281; this is sometimes misattributed to the more modern revolutionary, Che Guevara, and to "La Pasionaria" Dolores Ibárruri, especially in Spain, where she popularized it in her famous speeches during the Spanish Civil War, to José Martí, and to Aeschylus who is credited with a similar declaration in Prometheus Bound: "For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life." The phrase "better that we should die on our feet rather than live on our knees" was spoken by François-Noël Gracchus Babeuf in his defence of the Conspiracy of Equals in April 1797. In French it read, 'Ne vaut-il pas mieux emporter la glorie de n'avoir pas survecu a la servitude?' but transliterated this bears no resemblance whatever to the quote under discussion. see: The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome (1967), edited and translated by John Anthony Scott, p. 88 and p. 90, n. 12.
Spanish variants:
¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!
I'd prefer to die standing, than to live always on my knees.
As quoted in Operación Cobra : historia de una gesta romántica (1988) by Alvaro Pablo Ortiz and Oscar Lara, p. 29
Variant translations:
Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
With an extension, as quoted in Timeless Mexico (1944) by Hudson Strode, p. 259
I would rather die standing than live on my knees!
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
I prefer to die standing than to live forever kneeling.
Prefer death on your feet to living on your knees.
La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos.
The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.
Quoted as a slogan of the revolutionaries in Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat (1947) Vol. 5, p. 199, by Josephus Daniels, and specifically attributed to Zapata by Ángel Zúñiga in 1998, as quoted in Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy (2005), by John Stolle-McAllister
Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
Remarks in regard to Pancho Villa, as quoted in The Unknown Lore of Amexem's Indigenous People : An Aboriginal Treatise (2008) by Noble Timothy Myers-El, p. 158
Huh, I was a summer student with DEAP back in probably 2006. Exciting that they are now on the verge of what they've been working towards all these years.
tl;dr: labels I assign to people I don't like
The impedance of free space is (unfortunately) a few hundred ohms. On top of this, the minimum signal voltage of analog integrated circuits is set by unsystematic (random) offsets, which get worse as transistor sizes shrink. It's possible to mitigate these offsets by circuit techniques, but they cannot be eliminated.

Near-field radio can break free of the impedance constraint (which applies only to far-field TEM waves), but antenna area sets signal level, as in flux=intensity*area. Why make a tiny chip when the antenna needs to be the size of a quarter?

It's not easy to design radio chips for either of these scenarios. Pushing the radio burden onto the DSP consumes power on the digital side, so no easy way out.

[Aside: Referring to a recent thread on measurement of the Planck constant, the ratio of the impedance of free space to the Hall resistance turns out to be the dimensionless fine structure constant, alpha. This alpha sets the coupling strength of an electron and photon in the quantum theory of electrodynamics, and the 'Taylor series' for the self-energy of an electron converges because alpha is much less than unity. Feynman diagrams are a way to keep track of terms in that Taylor series, to ensure that the Schrodinger equation is kept consistent with special relativity, etc.]
Thanks Robert! We appreciate the kind words.
* THIS STORY APPEARS TO BE ACTIVELY ASTROTURFED ON HACKER NEWS *

Of the 6 top-level comments posted at this time, all 6 are from brand new accounts with exactly one comment total. All the comments are suspiciously over-positive for a charity which isn't doing anything terribly new or unique.

The following 6 accounts appear to have been registered solely to comment and upvote this post:

cfrank: I love seeing how technology puts a face on the need. Makes it more personal and like I'm actually giving to a real person, not just a huge black hole. The people that need help around the world are individual, not media photos and over-your-head stories

nhpeterson818: Wow - really awesome. They use video to show donors the families in their new home. So you see exactly who you're helping. It'd be an insanely great UX to scroll through and see pictures of the family before and a video of them after!

bab07f: Having people start their own campaigns is very smart and scaleable in my opinion. It's like having people be your salesforce. See how they set it up http://newstorycharity.org/create-campaign

robertbrett: Basically like kickstarter for homeless kids/women in life-threatening danger. Really cool, check out their funded families -->http://newstorycharity.org/families-page#funded-families

pbhatia96: Sounds like Watsi but for a different problem

harrisonapowell: How do they do the 100% model? It sounds awesome, but how do they actually make that happen?

If you're going to astroturf, please do a better job of it.
The first comment in the thread uses "on principle". The next one uses "in principle", but I think it is used there to describe a belief.

I could very well misunderstand, I don't know (or the usage above could be loose).

I guess part of my problem is that I have trouble with a construction like "In principle, I believe in the sanctity of human life. In practice, sometimes you have to execute bad people."

(I think) That's better expressed as a preference that people not be killed. It's a silly extreme example, but I'm having trouble seeing how else it would be used, in a mechanistic sense.
Honestly, the fact that she's a political appointee is what makes your petition moot. They'll just appoint someone else. She was following directives from the DOJ based on the law. The petition should have called for end to the acadmic papers paywall racket. If you call for a rule that any research receiving government (or at least NIH or NSF) funding must be made freely available upon publish, that is within the purview of the executive and would solve the root problem once and for all.
> fairly visible behind-the-ear units

I've had hearing aids like that for almost a year, and "fairly visible" is a stretch; they're pretty blasé and don't stand out.
I agree. This is clearly not a double blind experiment [1]. And self reporting studies are more prone to produce false results, because the people are optimistic and want to recover and want to feel better. Also people want to be kind and make the doctors happy, so they unconsciously ignore some of the bad side effects.

And also people confuse normal variations with treatment consequences, so perhaps the persons in the treatment group classify that as an improvement and the persons in the control group classify that as normal. [2]

In this case, perhaps the comparison is worse because fasting has some side effects and you can get answers like: "I fell a little dizzy, but not as dizzy as the previous week while I was fasting." Should you classify that as an improvement?

[1] Is it possible to do a double blind experiment for this?

[2] Do they have control group?
What would a pro-innovation political platform look like?
2014 Best apps/tools/sites for you?
I wonder if the current generations of people who have been gamers since birth will naturally reduce age related cognition losses.
Freedom of Speech versus Cyberbullying
The coding standard is one of six parts of Dr. Holzmann's formula for building robust software.

You can read more about Dr. Holzmann and the other 5 parts at "Making robust software" http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/making_robust_software, my notes on Dr. Holzmann's "Mars Code" talk at USENIX HotDep '12 mini-conf (full video of talk: https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/workshop-program/...)
Indeed. With things like these there is limited value in trying to find the core reasons it was a success while so many other similar things failed. Even if you do find the reasons, it's not really possible to know that you did. You can't use the same formula again to verify its success potential.
Bambi Meets Godzilla
Use JavaScript of the future in current browsers and environments
FARC hostages had no room to act when there was fighting nearby; I read Betancourt's book about her captivity and the first thing the FARC would do is to put a gun to their heads (literally or figuratively, can't remember) with orders to execute them if the army came close.
Cisco makes the product that does the detection, too. So does Aruba, Motorola, and probably Meru.

The first main use case for the deauth packets is when someone is broadcasting your SSID but they're not actually part of your network. The second use case is when a client that you actually own (corporate laptop) connects to an access point it's not supposed to. And nobody will really mind if you do those.

This anti-competitive use case is another matter.
One hour deliveries of most things in Stockholm, Sweden http://urb-it.com/

An easy thing to export to other cities
Totally agree on this point.

My feeling is that Rule 9 roughly maps to following the Law of Demeter in that you shouldn't chase properties down more than one level, e.g.

Good:

var something = obj.property;

Bad:

var something = obj.property1.property2.property3;
Europeans destroyed them. It's a crime against history that can hardly be expressed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices
> other constraints (like having to work continuously)

I'd vote that next to no delay is a stronger constraint. With skype, you're already delayed, so adding a little processing isn't an issue. With a hearing aid, if there is too strong a delay it because off putting and, at times, dangerous.

But yeah, CPU and Power constraints in something about the size of the first joint of my pinky (including battery) are tight and very limiting.
Filter stack trace noise in Node: require('hide-stack-frames-from')('cucumber')
Its new website looks really slick.
Whenever somebody does an analysis of coding standards like this (see also the JSF coding standards) they always lock in on how these rules are written to enforce "correctness", but they frequently gloss over an extremely important part of what it means to be correct in a complex control system like a jet fighter or a space craft, and that is deterministic execution.

"Correct" execution doesn't just mean error free, but it also means that code needs to execute deterministically both in terms of near-complete referential transparency as well as execution time. This is what is referred to as "real time computing" in CS, a term that has recently been made homonymous by UI/UX/front-end designers to describe responsiveness in high-latency systems like the web.

All of the inferences about how these rules aid static analyzers are good and correct, but a lot of these rules are also important to achieving deterministic execution time; memory management being the big one due to its complete lack of determinism both in computation result and computation time. Sticking code in a real-time OS doesn't really matter unless the code itself is also real-time kosher.

I don't bring this up to gripe, but only bring it up because it wasn't something I was familiar with until I started working on torque controlled walking robots a few years ago where the feedback loop has a real-time constraint, and it has since taken over my life and I find it to be a very fascinating aspect of computer science that almost nobody ever talks about. Achieving real-time deadlines in a program can be quite challenging and very often making something "faster" than its deadline is not even close to the same thing as making sure it always makes its deadline. It really changes the way you think about performance, execution time, program optimization, etc.
Cross-tab Communication with JavaScript
It's much harder than you would think for beginners
Hi John! I'm new to HN as well. I think the reason the comments are positive is because the concept is pretty cool - showing donor with video the impact they are having. No other charity does that.
Super-insulated clothing could eliminate need for indoor heating
Je Suis Charlie – I Am Charlie
As a developer community, I think we should express our support for freedom of speech and extend our thoughts to the friends and families of the people who have been murdered yesterday and this morning in Paris, France.

I Am Charlie. Je Suis Charlie.

For more background:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/opinion/the-charlie-hebdo-massacre-in-paris.html

Twitter: #jesuischarlie
The Smalltalk Revolution
Wasted? Seriously? If you live in the Americas it's a part of the history of your home. If you think all history is a waste, then sure, but to focus on just the history of the people who lived on a landmass for most of its populated history is a bit inconsistent.
I disagree, this is a sure fire way to keep going down the wrong path. I feel that the problem is that Americans for the most part only participate in democracy 1 day every 4 years. To make a difference people need to care and get involved on a constant basis. We get the government that we ask for.
> Consistent with the terms we laid out when we began We the People, we will not address agency personnel matters in a petition response, because we do not believe this is the appropriate forum in which to do so.

If that's the case, why not launch a petition to, e.g. require an investigation when somebody under investigation commits suicide? (not an idea I've thought through, btw, but my point is there's ways to address this within the terms)
Technically it's not really jamming. It's not shutting down the frequency, it's just resetting every connection. It's a denial of service attack.
so bad.
Reasonable post up until the point where you claimed eating right cures cancer
>Stop voting.

Being "apolitical" actually turns out to be a pretty naïve stance on politics. There's a great David Foster Wallace quote about "protest by non-participation" like this:

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”

DFW wrote that 15 years ago at this point. Non-voting isn't some radical new way of showing your disapproval in politics. The fact that you're not voting means they don't have to give a shit about what you think.
It should actually be "For Our Convenience".
Astounding - this small feature dramatically improves my results with google.

This is the first time I've even heard of this mode. As with the original article, I think this speaks to the massive power of the "default". Once upon a time Google's "default" was excellent for my use case, but it's slowly degraded over the years, and rather than dig through all of its options trying to make Google useful again, I just whined about it and started looking at competing services.

Changes in default behavior should be embarked upon with extreme caution. This is especially true when considering the way google does this (with many incremental changes that are totally invisible individually). I feel like if they more prominently highlighted 1) what they were changing and 2) how to work around it they could avoid much backlash from "power" users.

Firefox, in contrast, makes it very clear what they're doing when they change the default search engine, and it's pretty easy to switch back to google. But clearly for a large number of users, that "default" will be good enough.
Mass publications.
On cursory glance I haven´t found a single comment, still I think the code is pretty readable, good job.
We're going to teach a free remote Python programming course
Yep. The power button on my Nexus 5 just went up and I had the choice of throwing money at a 14-month-old phone (which is a bit sooner than I had hoped to replace it but old enough that I had to think twice about paying for maintenance) or buying a new phone. Nexus 6 at $650 and in a larger form factor than I would like got me to buy a Moto X instead. $200 cheaper and in a more reasonable size made it the closest thing to a Nexus 5 replacement I ran across.

I would have gladly considered something from Amazon if it had been along the lines of an updated Nexus 5 (under $400, stock or virtually stock like the Moto X) even if, like the Nexus line, it sacrificed a bit of that premium "Cadillac" polish like the wooden back and metal edged frame. Only reason I even bothered with that is because there wasn't a cheaper Nexus that wasn't the year+ old N5.

Hell...don't even bundle gapps if you want to include the Amazon store...just as long as someone can build AOSP for it and I can install it myself.

When the Nexus 7 came out it was roughly equivalent to the Kindle Fire in terms of price and specs but other than fellow Android fans and tech site readers, I didn't know anyone else who bought a Nexus 7. Everyone I knew who wanted an affordable (read: cheaper than an iPad) but functional small tablet bought Kindle Fires so clearly their brand awareness and marketing is worth something if people were willing to buy an slightly inferior device for $50 more.
I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not aware of any type inference difficulties with IORefs or STRefs. Polymorphic recursion, on the other hand, does often (or maybe always) require an explicit type signature.
Proof is the wrong term here, I understand you put it in quotations but the correct term would be 'evidence'.

In studies like this, there is no proof, there is only evidence for different arguments.

In terms of your intermittent fasting diet. Meal timing won't really affect weight loss, what will affect weight loss is your overall energy balance (deficit or surplus), and to a lesser extent macronutrient intake (possible slight fat burn from thermic effect of feeding with higher protein).
Building a cross-platform interpreter for older point-and-click adventure games
In sales, sincerity is everything. Once you can fake that, you're golden.

If you want to recruit me, actually be sincere and deliver something of value. Look at my LinkedIn or my resume' or my web site/portfolio and tell me about a company that is relevant to my interests. I have worked with good recruiters who do this so I know it is possible.
You are of course assuming that this is something the writer wanted which might not be the case.
I agree that if we apply rule 9 to JS we would end up with something extremely different.

However don't use first-class functions in my opinion it would means to not pass function around, in anything.

So no callback and no a lot of nice "trick" that JS use (and I really enjoy.)

I don't think that JS can live with rule 9.
Chrome Macros: A tool for front-end developers
I see Amazon is getting into a similar space.
This amounts to abandoning the system to those that are messing it up, and will only result in things getting worse and worse until revolution is the only possible fix. I can't believe that's the only fix.

I think your attitude is what's causing the problem. Many politicians realized, decades ago, that fear and social issues could be used to redirect people's attention (abortion, gay marriage, flag burning, threat of terrorism). They also realized that frustration is an effective weapon to disarm the people--a frustrated population is much more likely to turn away from the process, like you have, and disengage. Once you disengage, you have no voice and no power.
I recently opened an Outlook account because I'm finding Google's business model creepy and so far it's been pretty nice. It integrates well with my BlackBerry Passport (switched from Android) and two-factor auth was pretty straightforward to set up. I've moved my entire calendar to outlook.com and I'm forwarding my GMail there for now and hopefully will migrate completely over the next year.

When I started to think about how Google was privy to just about all of my online and some of my real-life activity, it occurred to me they could build a disturbingly accurate profile on me, and while I'm just a boring 30-something middle-class white guy, I still found that creepy. Now I spread my data out between Google, BlackBerry, Outlook, and Yahoo and it's not really any less convenient than having it all integrated (the phone does integrate it all I suppose, but BlackBerry is not trying to use that data to show me ads).
Let me just say that Tobii seems like a pretty awesome company. They're a Swedish start-up (maybe they're past that now) that has, if I recall correctly now released their first consumer product. Previously they were mostly into doing usability studies and such in pretty closed environments (which is probably why their other equipment and dev-kits are so heavily priced).

I've had the chance to talk to a few Tobii-engineers in Stockholm at a few general gatherings and like I previously said, Tobii seems to be a pretty interesting company.

I've heard that Tobii Technologies is going to launch an Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Stock Exchange sometime under 2015, although official time plans are not available.

Investor AB owns about 20% and Intel owns about 10% of Tobii Technologies.
You can't just arrest someone for having a wifi hotspot. You'd have to prove that they're doing something illegal with it, which is much harder to do.
I understand that it's simpler to say just "Europeans" instead of "European colonial powers", but before you know it you may cast an unjust collective accuse over an entire continent full of people, many of which had nothing to do with the sins of America's colonization.
the misconception is that they _need_ Chrome in order to use Google _anything_. Chrome is use for Google, and nothing else.

Misconception?
Your website sucks, but this sounds like something a talent-driven company outside of The Valley would eat up like potato chips.
How about an organisation you can join where you donate your blood when you're young and receive blood when you're older?

Of course there can be problems in the long run (just like the German pension scheme has some), and it is necessary to create trust, but it's fairer than the outlook you present.
Done, thanks. Please, let me know if there are more typos / stylistic issues.
Almost everything you say in this post is completely wrong.

The body is not immune to the law of conservation of energy. If you think you can eat a caloric surplus of any food type and lose weight then you've resigned yourself to not think rationally.
This argument could be extended to literally any people, at any time in history who explored, conquered, annexed or founded a colony/country on a parcel of land that had been explored or lived on before. Franks, Gauls, Nordic vikings, Indo-Europeans, Phoenecians, Romans. They're all in the same club of explorers, navigators, warriors, tradesman, etc. It's also a major logical fallacy to assign current moral/ethical mores to a totally different time and place in history. "But it was bad that the Aztecs ripped hearts out of innocent virgins." Yeah, it was insanely horrible, but at the time that act kept the earth spinning and the gods happy (in their belief system). Want to go back in time and make the argument against that?