skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean "parliamentary democracy" (which is a subtype of representative democracy), not "parliamentary republic". "Republic" specifically means the absence of a monarch, which, as you note, is not a feature of many of the systems at issue.

As far as I know, both are true; most European countries nowadays are republics. There are only 12 monarchies in Europe, and three (Andorra, Monaco and the Vatican) are micronations.
Spotify is bracing itself for an almighty battle with Apple
The announcement I would love to hear from Heroku: "We found out about Moore's law and are passing some of that on to you."

As far as I know, their dyno specs have never improved or decreased in cost.

This is coming from someone who loves Heroku, but wish the dynos were better.
Agreed that it can be a headache, but wanted to offer an alternative perspective.

Personally, I feel that inclusion in Google constitutes public access to the data. As long as I'm not logged into an account on their system, I feel ethically justified about scraping their data.

In other words, I do not feel compelled to respect robots.txt if that file does not also block googlebot.

Legally it may be another issue, but ethically I consider inclusion in Google as an announcement that this information is public.
I once posted a scraping gig on getafreelancer and got a terrifying private message from a detective in Kentucky, which in turn got my account banned.

Turns out the site owners brother was a Supreme Court Judge in Kentucky.

Legal or Not...Be prepared to piss off some people, and some of those people might even have political klout.

I guess you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Good Luck.
> Police officers are trained to be aggressive, assertive, controlling, and correct in all situations.

Well maybe this should change.

I am a night owl and sometimes take walks at night. I don't drink, I'm completely sober. Nevertheless I've been stopped and patted down a few times. Once I was illegally searched because the officer "smelled weed" (I favor legalization, but I haven't smoked since college--I don't like how it makes me feel). And I'm a white guy in my late 20s who dresses like a businessy nerd--if I weren't who knows whether I'd be in jail for some made-up charge by now.

Cops in the US have a combative relationship with the people they serve and that has to change. They work for us--we need to get them under control.

Stopping medical professionals from doing their jobs puts the lives of civilians in danger. Cops should be required to defer to medical professionals unequivocally.
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“having a bad cofounder is significantly worse than having no cofounder at all”

^^^ This is so true.

For anyone thinking of bringing on a business partner, I highly recommend the book “The Partnership Charter” — it does an excellent job of taking you through the things you really need to address before you just jump in and get to work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009IU4YWI?tag=13r-20
What about the bit about, UV & higher is too destructive to organic molecules for photosynthesis, while IR & lower is a very weak source of energy?

That statement isn't just about the particular chlorophyll molecules that evolved on earth.
I agree that the name seems misleadingly specific: it's named after a type of construct which it subsumes.

In cases like this I think it is better to call it by a more generic name rather than a specific name which it really subsumes (like Haskell using the `data` keyword for algebraic data type definitions).
I think it's naive to trust that the USA is using the NSA's surveillance capabilities for just security and not economic gain:

From http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-hacked-email-a...

"In the space of a single year, according to the internal documents, this operation produced 260 classified reports that allowed US politicians to conduct successful talks on political issues and to plan international investments."
Just a note that Mark Twain is smoking a Peterson Pipe in that photo, he used to smoke corncobs only until introduced to Peterson's. Their pipes are still made today.
http://www.peterson.ie/
I love the following comment 'Musk won’t rule out GMOs permanently, but he feels that currently they are used in a way that encourages the use of pesticides and other chemicals'. I wish more people had this common sense view of GMO's. Genetically modifying things is not itself bad, but modifying things so we can spray crap tons of chemicals on them is probably not a very swift idea.
> Hotels must be realizing that hosts are starting to offer places that are essentially like hotels...

Hotels realized that very early on in AirBnB's operations, which is why they complained about the conflict between what AirBnB and its users do and the laws governing hotel-like operations.
This one absolutely does.
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On that point, both sites require javascript in order to see anything.
Oh, this is aimed at Google AdWords advertisers. It's not for negative keywords in queries.
"socialists" ... at that point if you vote PS you're a usefull idiot.
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Admins: Please decorate title with year for posts dredged up from the archives.

This post is from 2005.
So that's a deal killer. Damn.
Groupon is still the fastest company to reach a billion-dollar valuation
Those two jobs are not mutually exclusive. Programming is mentally demanding, farm work physically (with some sleep deprivation). I think it is manageable with good planning.
Perhaps it's the Dunning-Kruger effect?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Comparing the "urban area" numbers is a bit misleading because the structure of cities is so different in different places (even in the US, where for example Chicago officially annexed various suburbs over time while Boston did not).

If you look at the metro area numbers, Shijiazhuang is 26th in China according to your first link, with about 4M in its metro area (assuming "Built-Up area" is the metro area, of course; it's hard to tell from this Wikipedia page). Tehre are 12 more cities with 3M+ in the built-up area.

For the US there seem to be 10 urban areas that are at 4M or more (see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_ar...). Obviously fewer than 26, but not an order of magnitude less. There are 14 urban areas with 3M or more people.

More interesting would be to just flat-out compare list positions. #26 on the list of US cities by actual city population is Baltimore. On the urban area list it's San Antonio. Neither one is what one would consider small (nor large, of course).
The post says they raised "$250,000 from friends & family". That seems like a strong incentive to make sure your investors (read: loved ones) can recover their investments.
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That doesn't make sense. Banks don't make unsecured loans of that size.
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#BanKetchapp – Proof that an iOS publisher steals developer game submissions
Zoning was invented as a reaction to the Equitable Building in NYC, which was built with no setbacks, effectively bricking over all of its neighbors' windows.

That was the camel's nose under the tent, and organizations influenced by the Ku Klux Klan used zoning laws as a tool for enforcing segregation at a municipal level.

Zoning has been leaving its dirty mark since the 1920s.

Nowadays, you can probably just mentally substitute "colored" wherever you see "multi-family" or "high density", to get a sense of the original wording of the laws. The zoning map for my municipality actually uses the color brown for multi-family residential zones, and a light peach color for single-family & detached residential!

That may be an unfortunate coincidence. Zoning is probably much more about class boundaries than race now. Rich people don't want poor people walking past their houses. Or driving past them. Or seeing them. Or knowing they exist.
Rogue restaurant sites raise questions about YC-backed delivery service
Unaligned access isn't cache—optimal; if you go over the line boundary you need to fetch two.
More links:

https://twitter.com/gwern/status/595641266664275968

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/34mw6c/comp...

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/34vohm/psaa...

About a month ago gwern and some others got their reddit accounts subpoenaed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/30tudk/psa_...
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That's a good question, but realize that the OP is returning the money to angels, the $250k they got from "friends and family". So, even more than being a standup guy, he's ensuring congeniality with the in-laws. :)
I think the reason why kids and co don't like X is probably because of isolation effects. If you can independently travel to wherever you want with little hassle and have a rich social life, then you'll like where you live. If you have helicopter parents in the suburbs or city centre that insist to drive you on their schedule to wherever, then you'll hate it.
People need to wake up to the fact that many of these so-called terrorist attacks are in fact being done by the intelligence services, which is to say they are false flag operations, the sole purpose of them being to push through a far right wing agenda that involves surveillance, unending war and eventually Mass incarceration.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/state-sponsored-terrorism-who-w...

PS: this comment will likely be censored
"Having previously raised $250,000 from friends & family"

I cant imagine any of my friends or family being able to give me a quarter million.
> If I dereference a Box<CanineTrait> and call "bark," how is the correct implementation found at runtime? Is there a vtable or something analogous?

I think a vtable. It's my understanding that "trait objects" (boxed traits) are how you implement dynamic dispatch in rust. If instead you were talking about a `fn foo<T: CanineTrait>(x: T) { ... }` trait bound (the more common case), there will be monomorphization and static dispatch.

Source: http://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0-beta/book/static-and-dynamic-...
Encryption is not Authentication, a Primer
Following the instruction for "heroku plugins:install heroku-docker" and got

Installing heroku-docker... failed
! Could not install heroku-docker. Please check the URL and try again.

I've already upgraded to the latest Toolbelt. Thoughts?
My experience with downvotes here is that all sorts of rational thought is unpopular with HN readers. They want you to be young, clueless, passive-aggressive and false-modest like them, and they are threatened when you are not displaying these traits. Take the downvotes as a badge of honor and don't get too caught up.
Agreed. I am incredibly dubious that "bootcamps" have any value whatsoever in any case, except maybe for introducing practicing developers to new technologies. I know tech is the hot place to be any more, but man it's amazing the number of charlatans that have started to show up surrounding "hot technology."
Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking of examples in the US with languages other than Spanish, but I wasn't thinking about the substantial populations of francophone immigrants to France.
ok, then let's go back on topic: terrorism. Most of the terrorism in France happens in Corsica. This island is the single biggest budget of anti-terrorism in France. It's where the majority of special police forces are working (in number of deployed people, they are trained west of Paris and sent by plane).

in Corsica alone:
there were 78 terror attacks in 2012, 21 in 2013, 12 in 2014.

And I can tell you that also there is a strong immigration community in Corsica (among mostly racist and weaponized natives, it must be "interesting"), most of that was done by traditional Corsicans.

Let's go to our other favorite terrorists: the Basques, basically there was a tacit agreement that they don't spill blood in France and they wouldn't be chased (it's over), so they were bombing and killing in Spain and taking refuge in France.

There were bomb attacks in Brittany too, but they are stopped.

A common interesting theme between those 3 terroristy regions: they just love speaking and "defending" a local language ... that is not French.
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WordPress XSS to RCE Exploit ( not a wp core vuln )
Oh wow, I really disagree. The engineer shortage gets a tremendous amount of press.
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It seems unlikely at best.

Extraordinary claims like this require extraordinary evidence. You haven't provided anything like that, merely a much more complex explanation than the obvious one.
You may have failed, Wattage, but you certainly left the place in better shape than you found it!

In a time where a good portion of the industry is helping us click on ads that we would rather not see, you attempted something difficult, different, and with less money than most VC backed start-ups spend on their espresso machine.

I am looking forward to your next venture.
Cisterns under San Francisco's brick circles
I am politically on the right wing (in the French way), but Sarkozy is no better, honestly - amongst other things, he tried to push his then 19 years old son to become head of the administration managing the business area of La Defense (dealing with several billion of euros). I have no doubt he would have done the same as the PS is doing now would he be in power.
I hated it even more, which is why I now live in the crawlspace of a supermarket.
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F-Secure Releases Crowdsourced 'Digital Freedoms Manifesto'
I've never understood how Spotify managed to strike deals with the record labels that allowed it to pursue a successful all-you-can-eat model. I know that Microsoft had tried similar models in the past but they never came close to offering the vast library that iTunes has, whereas Spotify seems comparable to iTunes. Does anyone know?
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This reminds me of what Stephen Wolfram was going on about in this blog post:

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2014/08/computational-knowled...
This is probably too extreme of a life change for most people to implement, but there are ways to gain some of the benefits without an entire lifestyle upheaval.

Recently I've begun camping on business trips instead of using my hotel budget. I'll fly in with a tent, sleeping bag, laptop, and cooler bag, rent a car, and set up camp in whichever campground is closest to the city. Most of these places are meant for local families, and are equipped with water, power (for trailers), and showers.

In the morning I drive into the city for business, then head back out to the campsite to hike, sit and think, and code. I haven't taken a smartphone with me, so those after-city hours are devoid of the usual notification hail.

It's done wonders for my focus, motivation, and sense of purpose. Waking up to sunlight, birds chirping, and the scent of pine is an invigorating start to a day, and those twilight hours are great for going over designs and pre-planning coding time.

A lot of that low-level building buzz of dissatisfaction vanishes after a few days of this. I think we need nature. We need freshness and quiet and the white noise of wind, birds, and streams.

I would love a community/place where this was always possible, but for now, travel-business-camping has worked wonders. (And the look on my colleague's faces when I tell them about my "hotel"... priceless.)
When in doubt: delete
They do a good job avoiding freeloaders in the first place with rules like, for examples, You have to be circumcised and we meet daily for prayers. Gaming the welfare system is one thing, but surgery and dozens of hours a week of time would be a bit much for a mooch.
The real trend seen here is that data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence are driving the returns of these funds. The next trillion-dollar startup is going to be a hedge fund based on these approaches.

Another interesting article: Rise Of The Quants — Again
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/02/rise-of-the-quants
I like how the internet immediately knows that a blacklisted address is related to spying.

(For example, perhaps Coinbase chooses to stop doing business with people that make transfers to a list of addresses that is provided by some third party...)
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They probably stopped spending their remaining funds once the next round didn't come through.
I needed to write a small AST in Java, and I actually had to write the definition in ML on a sheet of paper to see how to do it. It's so weird that so many languages don't have sum types.
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You can't pretend to have a high standard of evidence and yet never even consider any evidence that contradicts what you want to believe.

Furthermore just because two masked men kills innocent people that does not imply anything about who commit the crime. Your "obvious" belief is only obvious because it's what you want to believe.

All you have to do is look at what independent investigators like Chossudovsky have found and it immediately becomes clear it was a false flag.
Mirror for the pitch deck? Looks like Dropbox is 429'ing it.
Can you (or someone else) provide a mirror? The public Dropbox links are no longer functional due to generating too much traffic...
the difference in size of the country might also be a factor: we're just the size of California, there is not enough "space" (a mix of population and area), to create pockets of people dense enough to self-sustain in a different langage, in an immigration community that would not be the most populous one.
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It's not for everyone (including me), but there is a certain serenity to a nice suburb with no traffic, small streets, kempt housing, kids wandering around, and faces you recognize. Corporate retail is the antithesis of that vision. A small gas station or tiny corner store is pushing it.
I read somewhere, that at some point long in the past, the cosmic background radiation was at a point where all points in the universe were 70 degrees (F). And this is when life would have had the most likely chance to get started.

What do you guys think of this idea?

Edit: I meant to post this as a response to tehchromic's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9493736 (sorry)
Right? I see this a lot and it's often an investors first response when asking for small seed rounds: "Well have you considered raising money internally? Ask around your friends and family".

If I had friends and family that could just toss me a $250k I don't think I'd be in this position.
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What's very annoying about consulting, even at the MBBs is that the total compensation is not higher than in big tech when you include equity, at least for the first 3-4 years. Yet the lifestyle is significantly worse. After you hit Associate Principal (at McKinsey) or Manager (at Bain), then it really leaves big tech behind in terms of compensation.
"blue part of the Midwest"

I'm in a red part of the Midwest and the cops I know (many friends from HS or cycling in as security at the local workplaces) know when an EMT says "transport", thats it. It helps that some of the EMT's are former cops, but they know the story.
> I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating

I wouldn't be so sure, as France and Russia have a long, special history of diplomatic ties, dating as far back as when both were among the most influential countries of the Old World.
Agreed. I used it just for the decompile to project.
Different people have different learning styles. And many people do not have an effective or appropriate learning environment where they can learn new tech through free resources. So I think direct-mentorship can be very helpful to some people; even it can help wade through what's out there to understand what's important to learn, how long you should spend learning x, etc.

But until this article, I had never thought much about bootcamps requiring accreditation, or the dangers of this type of training. Yikes!!

Thanks very much to the author for sharing this experience.
Same link but with section hrefs: http://www.rfcreader.com/#rfc7525
Ask HN: How and when do you check your code for security vulnerabilities?
Is D Slim Yet?
My wife and I have been in the US for 2.5 years and we had a surreal experience while taking a walk at night once. I must say, we were walking around late at night because we love being in a safe area were we can finally do that - back in our home country, we simply couldn't do that because of the absurd crime rate.

So we're walking around downtown just enjoying a nice summer night, when a police car shows up in a corner. No big deal, it's actually nice to see them around. We walk a block and there's the police car again... and it was like that for basically every block we walked until we got home. Fortunately we were not stopped, but we were definitely being followed and watched.

We come from Latin America but we're both white (German ancestry). I can't help but think the experience would likely have been a little worse if we had more typical Latino looks.
The internet is a perfect surveillance machine. It is irresistible to those in power. I believe it shifts the balance of power towards the center more than it empowers distributed forces. For example, protesters have more tools to organize but governments have more tools to know what protesters are up to, they know where protesters will show up, how many and who they are. So there are no surprises. Overall advantage goes to the government. The Hong Kong protests probably would have sparked a revolution 20 years ago, but today they got nothing. As governments get better at this the internet will be a huge stabilizing force for power.
Manufacturing hub starts work on first zero-labor factory
First of all, don't scrape, and don't call what you're doing scraping. Scraping immediately connotes theft in the sense of taking something which is not meant to be taken.

Instead, index. Indexing, on the other hand, connotes supplementation in the sense of adding value to that which is already there. Have the thumbnails, excerpts of the descriptions, and whatever secret sauce you've not mentioned add value to the owners' data. Provide traffic or some other measurable benefit to them.

Don't rely merely on Fair Use (or weak interpretations of the doctrine). Provide value to the data owners, and be ready to respect their wishes if they chose not to accept the value proposition you offer.
ouch, the title immediately throws this guy in Elon Musk's shadow.
@synchronized calls objc_sync_enter and objc_sync_exit. Source code is available[0]. Best case, the thread already has the object locked and only needs to increment a lock count. Worst case, it spin locks, searches through a linked list of existing locks, then needs to malloc a new entry and create a new mutex for it.

0: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-646/runti...
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They have new pricing coming soon that includes new dynos but they're not getting any cheaper - and ditching 24/7 free dynos.

http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
Start with scraped data, then when they start blocking you (legally or otherwise) create a predictive market.

Then, you're a platform for other people's scrapers and you'll provide perfect(ish) data.
fixed - it's on Google Drive now
After the beta landed, I re-did the TOC for the book, and so this information will be at http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/book/trait-objects.html in the future. (where nightly = 1.0.0, of course)
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