skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting analysis, but it would be more interesting to look at the generalization of the trends, rather than the cherry-picked examples of "interesting" policies.

Specifically, take all US Supreme Court decisions that resulted in the invalidation of state legislature, and track what the trend looked like in terms of historical trends of states that conformed to the decision before the decision was made.

Is anyone aware of any data sources that would have this information in some form? The complexity seems to be that if a law was struck down by a state in 1956, and the Supreme Court made a decision relative to that law in 1960, determining whether the law would have been struck down could be more subtle than a binary yes/no. But even having this data in a basic form, measuring state legislature activity leading up to a relevant federal court decision, could at least give an indication of how long issues take to gain some momentum.

This ignores the other axes; like state judicial decisions being overridden or validated by the federal level, or other variants, but still would be very interesting.
In the really long run, why would you need anything other than Alphas?
Have you considered flagging the article because of this? dang may (or may not :->) agree with you.
To answer in short: No one knows.

All sorts of theories in the article, none with any real evidence, except "this makes sense to me".
Personally, I look forward to using this instead of Redis and RabbitMQ as the message broker for Celery. Celery is a background tasks framework for Python. You write code that defines tasks, then certain things trigger tasks. Classic example: user uploads a video, then in the background the video is re-encoded in some standard format. So after the upload is done, the web application triggers a task by sending a message to the message broker (RabbitMQ, Redis, or now Disque).

Why not just use RabbitMQ or Redis? Well, RabbitMQ is, in my experience, complex and fragile. It's got a ton of different features, which means you have to configure it to do anything beyond just the basics, and its management tools are somewhat lacking (why rabbitmqctl and rabbitmqadmin?). I recently started switching to Redis, because Redis is pretty much plug and play. It just works, and even minimal configuration that is necessary for this use case is very clear and simple. Moreover, it's got a very simple API for examining what's going on, no complex permissions management, vhosts, etc. It's only downside? It's not a message broker; it just has some of the right primitives to act like one.

This is not to say that RabbitMQ or Redis are bad. They are great for what they do. I simply don't want to use them as the backend for Celery for the reasons stated above.
seriously, he throws around terms that bring up video games on google but no "planting bots" from 1970.
This is a really interesting argument, I had it in my head to disprove your thesis. But the more I thought about it the more I agree with you.

I feel somehow though that the line between functional and non-functional requirements are not as well defined when dealing with user data. There is an expectation (even if unrealistic) that the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of the user data will be preserved. Twitter though can serve as a counterpoint to part of this argument (availability).

Are there examples of a successful MVPs that dealt with user data and failed the confidentiality or integrity requirements?
An open API for company SEC filings
Reminds off the stories of unattended luggage getting shot by security personnel at airports [1].

Aparrently, shooting is the preferred way to disarm potential explosives in such scenarios.

[1] http://lilyasussman.com/2009/11/30/im-sorry-but-we-blew-up-y...
Have you taken any vacations? Are you maintaining work/life balance day-to-day?

Your job can be tough, it can be discouraging, and it can make you feel responsible both for and to a ton of people on a ton of different levels. But you need to make sure you're taking care of yourself along the way.

If you're like most founders, you're probably overworking yourself and burning out. Of course you're not going to see the path to success once you've done that. Take a few days off and do something interesting and self-fulfilling. Then come back and take a fresh look. You may be surprised at how much more optimistic and ready you are.
Great visualization (as the rest from http://setosa.io , go have a look)!!

I wonder, though: I learnt OLS as standard math / symbolic logic; but, if kids and students learnt from these visualization, would they be better off, or worse off?

Because, at least for me, it is difficult to reason about this and other visual math examples (whereas there are others that are great as demonstrations, as the integer proof in http://www.catonmat.net/blog/visual-math-friday/ , this one, regarding OLS, confuses me).

It probably depends a lot on each person. Out of curiosity, does this particular example give you insights? Which ones? How?
Oh but then you'll donate the diapers. And since your score will be determined by what others think of you, pretty soon there will form feedback rings pushing their scores higher and higher.
Thanks, Joel! Just ordered a hard copy.
Our public servants are not fine people. They kill unarmed civilians in their custody, they kill Americans without cause nor due process, they torture innocents, admit they torture innocents, and then do nothing. Our public officials state on record that financial institutions are too big to jail then proceed to use the law to terrify and ruin the lives of those who dare defy their agenda.
It's really frustrating when I paid $50k/yr at a top 5 univ for CS deg, and some of the CS courses (including a junior year core) were taught by PhD students with incomprehensible English accents. I have no issue with non-english speakers getting their PhDs...they're obviously very intelligent and I respect them greatly...however, they are not suited at all for instruction by lecture... in those courses i learned nothing during class, and learned everything myself later on.

i once had a PhD student as lecturer in an advanced track course -- we bumped into him at a bar one saturday...this guy was jumping all over the tables, drunk and wasted out of his damn mind...

now i did have some amazing profs but those were all tenured.
Great idea. However, from an implementation perspective, it's a little hard to tell what's going on with all the flashing images. Maybe show the first image by default, then wait for a mouseover or something to activate the animated gif.
The problem with that theory is I don't know of any women who are actually able to miscarry at will.

A garbled version of that theory got some politicians in hot water with the whole "during rape, their body can shut it down" comment.
Yeah I don't get it either. Splunk is still losing money after many years. Their model seems to be "spend $2 to make $1". Compared with how arrogant the sales people are - one told me they really just don't care as there's so much demand for the product - something doesn't make sense.

It was cool software, a bit slow (this was several years back). But with things like Elasticsearch catching up release over release (even if you don't use it directly, other platforms will build on it), Splunk is no longer the totally unique thing they used to be. I can't figure out their $8bn+ market cap with revenue under 500M and costs increasing as they grow.
I'd say you've hit the nail squarely on the head here.

As an (amusingly directly relevant to the side-discussion) example, in a college English course I took we had a group project and presentation in which we had to take a position on an issue. Despite it being dangerous territory, my group dove directly into the vaccine debate. After beginning our research (note that this was prior to the major cited paper(s) on the issue being retracted) we decided that we would work very carefully, within the guidelines of the project, to advocate that any and all possible links should be researched farther. Technically this position was not a great fit for the directions we had been given, but we wanted to be very careful to say "this might be an issue and should be investigated in more detail" rather than "this is a problem and we fix it with [x]."

TL;DR: Taking the hard line is often a bad call, but calling for something to be looked into (with cause) is often wise. If you read the newsgroup post to the end, this is exactly what the author does, albeit with some important context to the issue omitted.
Yes, but who are you going to get to prosecute it?
After I'm finished firing my professors, do I still get my degree?
> To non-native speakers: apostrophes are for possession, not plural.

It's not so easy.

it's = contraction of it is or it has

its = possessive form of it
Google wants to buy your patents before the trolls get to them
well I can root my phone .. but that revokes the warranty .. which is like saying that I'm allowed to learn but cannot apply that learning

the only reasonable option is to disable them
> Ethos is first of all about programming, the central phenomenon of computer science.

> Ethos is

Ethos is the name. Not Etho. So technically, it should be Ethos's
All university credits are relevant to that job, even those humanities courses and whatever. Credits directly relevant to the job skills are more like vocational training; whereas university is supposed to be about education.

Also, one reason some jobs prefer applicants with degrees is because university completion shows that you have some ambition and willingness to work hard toward a goal that is several years away, in the face of deadlines and stress, and possibly financial risk also. They know you've pulled a few all-nighters to get through.

In other words, you're gone through a pretty tough four year (or more) project: to produce a degreed version of yourself.

That degree shows that you can work, even if you don't have employment experience.
PowerShell 4 for Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4085...
I love JQ. I use it along with Ansible's AWS dynamic inventory script to manage my instances.
Apple expected to announce sales in China exceed US for the first time
I think Tor is great, but I just can't trust the people operating the exit nodes.
Ask HN: How have you burned bridges with people?
If you have burned bridges with people, either intentionally or not, what was the outcome? This question is in regards to a work or professional setting, but personal stories are welcome.
"s'" is acceptable as a possessive form of a noun ending in "s".
> It's one of the most common mistakes in written English

Holy crap, really? I just figured it was because people were learning English on the internet. Also a peeve: "Loose" when the writer means "lose."

Not that I want to derail the board or anything...
Listen to some podcasts while doing some manual labor.

Cut weeds in the yard. Move some dirt. Dig a ditch.
Wait ... where is there a $2 burger?
I'd like to get a watch.

Not an apple watch - just a watch. Extra credit if it's the kind I'd have to wind by turning a little knob.

My ex gave me a really nice one the day we were wed. I still have it but the wristband broke, it wound up in storage back in Canada. I'll get it back eventually and have it repaired, but for now I'd like to get a less-expensive watch.

Maybe something from a pawnshop.

Perhaps I'll wear it to the Portland Apple Store. To make a statement, you know.
Corinthian Announces Cessation of Effectively All Operations
Codenvy Introduces Meter-Based IDE
Pen + paper, photographed and saved into Evernote.
My gut reaction ( being an anglo, American, redneck, privileged, don't tread on me kind of person ) is that this is horrible.

But thinking deeper on it I wonder if this is what Chinese Democracy looks like. The goal being maximal harmony, rather than maximal personal freedom. The method being a constant polling of all participants by all participants rather than occasional polling of those who can be bothered to vote.

It looks alien to us because it is alien to us.
Agree: apostrophes are also for contraction. I should have taken a breath.
OSDC Nordic Conference in Oslo, May 8th-10th
OSDC Nordic is an upcoming open-source friendly community-oriented event.
It will be held May 8th-10th in Oslo.

It will be keynoted by Patric Michaud and Simon Phipps.

Patrick Michaud, the author of the parrot/Perl6 Grammar engine and named
Perl 6 compiler pumpking.

Simon Phipps, the President of the Open Source Initiative and open source
allstar.

Alongside a main-track, there will be tracks for Civic Hacking, Perl and
Qt.

Sounds fun? Join us at http://osdc.no/
Android itself doesn't require the use of Google plus.
Look at cyanogenmod or a phone setup for you:

https://oneplus.net/
How Tesla's Site, App and Twitter Feeds Were Attacked via AT&T
I'm wondering how PowerShell's object model compares to other scripting languages. What's a good introduction to PowerShell's object model?
Measure Your Bufferbloat - New Browser-Based Tool from DSLReports
Read the part "Concurrency and integrity" in the Rails documentation: http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMetho...

You need to enforce the uniqueness in the DB.
This is why I have started to integrate a screenshot step at the end of my build processes.
This is what happens when people "know stuff about computers." I know IT costs money, but we exist for a reason. If they were willing to pay over 4k in overages they could have afforded some properly trained IT.
Perhaps it's a sampling bias - a slow change that started recently may not yet have been detected to be included on the graph (or may not have enough reliable data to support inclusion).
Computer Criminals Brought to Justice – Austin Alcala
That's great if you have only one server, not so much if you want to search across many apps and servers at once. We use ELK, works fairly nicely.
The machine that does it, not the end result. Im pretty comfortable imagining what a forest looks like, thanks. The Poster made comments that implied reforestation is a solved problem. Though my experience is anecdotal, i have to call bullshit. As someone else posted, flat places like each of his examples can be seeded relatively easy. But what about jungles, mountains, etc.? Hence my desire to see the device that can magically fix all the forests but for some unexplained reason is not being used in Africa, the Philippines, our Central America.

The truth is that if you can drive a big tree planting tank there, you can also walk there. RPV delivered seeds seem like they would be useful for places that are not so easy to get to.

Also, and you may know this, forests are not trees; forests are biomes that rely on trees to support complex webs of interrelated life forms from a micro- to macroscopic scale. A giant, soviet era thing that plants saplings in bally great blocks sounds good on paper, but i wonder how well it actually works.

I probably should have worded my original query more specifically and in a manner that the HN pedants are more comfortable with. My apologies.
Great, thanks! If you monitor hardware using powertop, do all devices enter into sleep modes when appropriate? Does the Pixel overheat?
> the EU parliament is a fairly powerless institution

This is certainly not true. Thanks to the EU parliament the IT freelancers in the EU don't need to suffer software patents.

The Eurocrats did everything to invent it some years ago, even with dirty tricks (like pushing it through immediately before summer vacation). We IT freelancers contacted politicians of the EU parliament, told them about our concerns, and they actually supported us.

I remember the victory celebration at heise.de (a leading IT newsticker in Germany). Usually there are about some hundred comments per hot thread but in this case it was more than eleven thousands.
I was actually interested in going the college in the US at one point so I researched it a lot (and even spent two weeks visiting a few). If I remember right international students pay out of state tuition and the places I looked (UW campus') went from around $20,000 to $35,000. Not sure about in-state prices but they would have been much cheaper and quite comparable to the UK. Is it more a problem of students wanting to leave their state to study? If they stayed in state it seems like a college fund wouldn't be necessary (of course with exceptions such as the one you mentioned).
How is this different than beanstalkd?
Running Suave.io and F# with FAKE in Azure Web Apps with Git
Some hopefully helpful feedback:

* I clicked Help, and then clicked again to dismiss the notification, which unexpectedly spawned another identical help dialog.

* While writing a note, I get "Alert
Generic unhandled error. Try again later. Error: Title/content cannot be blank.
Autosave paused until successful manual save." I had not titled the document yet. Why is a title necessary? If you do need to keep that field and it can't be empty, can this error be more silent? I didn't initiate a save - the app decided it wanted to.

* While writing a note, I clicked "New" and got a notification "New document created!" but nothing about the current view changed. and I don't see any evidence of a new document.

In general, I am wondering what problem you are trying to solve with this app? There are a lot of note taking apps, and that's fine, but I wasn't sure what was different about your version.
How weird - I just started using this for some simple scripting against a rest interface. Its a great tool.
> Deliberately depriving people of information is not ethical.

Misleading people is unethical. Providing incomplete information is misleading.

80% of Americans say they want labels on food warning if they contain DNA[0]. Not because people fear DNA, but because when you ask, that signals that DNA is potentially bad. Actually providing such a label is also a signal that DNA is bad.

Labeling food with "Warning: contains DNA" is unethical because it misleads people into thinking that's bad.

Adding a label saying "DNA-free" is unethical because it's false, unless you're selling salt. (And probably also misleading: https://xkcd.com/641/ )

But failing to provide such a label? Not misleading, and not unethical.

If someone asks "does X phone home, does Y contain DNA", you should answer honestly, but you should probably also provide explain the pros/cons. Granted, unless you planted the idea in their heads, that's not your responsibility, but if you publish an article saying "Food X contains DNA!" or "Plugin Y phones home!" you _are_ responsible for the resulting fear, and should qualify the information with an honest evaluation of what that means.

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015...
> "It is recommended that users install ..." OpenBSD?

The EU isn't serious if that's what they mean. It's not really an option for end users. My impression is that even technical users who are new to *nix should start with something more accessible.

Does the OpenBSD community even want to deal with a flood of nubes?
Agree. I've seen ability to orgasm linked to selectivity for fertilization, as the speculation (I don't follow it enough to know if it is a theory or not in any allowable sense of the word) is that (female) orgasm during intercourse helps the sperm reach the egg.
This is how you can use social media for good
Recent changes to popular Web APIs
No, OP is right. It's a collective "we". http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014

Most people trust USgov; apparently just last year we were only 2 points behind Japan. My impression of Japan is that most people there are very trusting of their society/rules/system/etc, so for USA to be just 2 points behind Japan is a significant(and disappointing) bit of info.
Greg Egan's "Disapora"[1] (where most of us literally live in computers) and "Permutation City"[2] (living in a cellular automata).

Similar themes in Roger William's "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect"[3] (an AI accidentally takes over the universe).

1: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DIASPORA/DIASPORA.h...

2: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/Permuta...

3: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/
Apple [NOT] now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support
Cloud == Elasticity + Multi tenancy + Meter based pricing ==> Codenvy == The Cloud Development Environment !
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Hi everyone. I am founder of Codenvy. We are introducing pay-as-you-go metering and pricing construct. This effectively unlocks all limits in the system and lets users create as many projects, workspaces, and machines as they'd like. IDE time is free. We count time used for machines to perform builds and runs, and then measure that consumption for billable elements. All users have a free monthly allotment, and then a credit card can be added for any other consumption. Pre-paid bulk purchases can also be made. All users optionally have always-on machines if they'd like, or to use machines that are only active for the duration of a build / run event. We hope the community provides feedback on the new system and gets value out of it.
Or if the leaker was a traitor or a patriot before issuing ad hominem attacks against him in order to bolster popular opinion when he or she is whisked away to Gitmo in the name of "national security."
You should understand that "my mom" and "my grandmother" are commonly used to denote technical illiteracy/incompetence and inability to keep up with the latest technological advances. This usage remans an unchallenged bastion of both sexism AND ageism -- a double whammy!

Proper usage:

* This app is so easy, my mom could use it!

* This article is easy to follow and avoids too much jargon -- my grandma would even understand most of it!

... you get the picture.
Google and Apple are in very different markets, for the purposes of this sort of investigation.

We often think of Apple and Google as direct competitors because they are the ultimate owners of their software platforms. But the structures of their mobile businesses are largely mirror opposites:

Google sells software to companys that make phone hardware. They are a supplier.

Apple makes software and buys phone hardware from other companies. They are a purchaser.
Tech Expansion Overruns Cities in California’s Silicon Valley
I'm trying to help.

Your current posting style didn't work for your last account. It doesn't seem to be working for this account.

> and I'm sometimes an asshole.

Do you think this is working for you?
"it's got a very simple API for examining what's going on"

which api are you referring to specifically?
Tech Companies Need to Create a Culture of Growth
Not really. Have you heard of lead paint and gasoline ?
The Ancient Greeks knew lead was poisonous - didn't stop american companies from using it since it improved profit.

Source : Cosmos by NDTyson
I don't recall HN being about starting a technology business...
Ah "change"... yes...

http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/

"Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."

I am surprised the page is still up!

disclaimer: I am not American but like a lot of Americans I know I am disappointed with Obama too, mind you the politicians here in Ireland are also lying and power-grabbing scumbags :(

like the saying goes
“democ­racy is the worst form of gov­ern­ment, except for all the oth­ers”
Why are you posting this on HN? Crawl back to your cave.